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Evangelical sacrifices In xix. sermons. I. Thankful commemorations for Gods mercy in our great…Evangelicall sacrifices In xix. sermons. I. Thankfull commemorations for Gods mercy in our great…
Evangelical sacrifices In xix. sermons. I. Thankful commemorations for Gods mercy in our great deliverance from the papists powder-plot. 2. The successful seeker. 3. Faith triumphant. 4. Special preparations to fit us for our latter end in four funeral sermons. 5. The faithful covenanter. 6. The demand of a good conscience. 7. The sword of the wicked. By the late learned and reverend divine, Rich. Sibbs. Doctor in Divinity, Mr. of Katherine Hall in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher to the honourable society of Gray's-Inn. The third tome. Published and perused by D. Sibbs own appointment, subscribed with his hand to prevent imperfect copies after his decease.Evangelicall sacrifices In xix. sermons. I. Thankfull commemorations for Gods mercy in our great deliverance from the papists powder-plot. 2. The successefull seeker. 3. Faith triumphant. 4. Speciall preparations to fit us for our latter end in foure funerall sermons. 5. The faithfull covenanter. 6. The demand of a good conscience. 7. The sword of the wicked. By the late learned and reverend divine, Rich. Sibbs. Doctor in Divinity, Mr. of Katherine Hall in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher to the honourable society of Grayes-Inne. The third tome. Published and perused by D. Sibbs owne appointment, subscribed with his hand to prevent imperfect copies after his decease.
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If this body shall be glorious, how base soever it be in this world, then again let us honour poor Christians, though we see them vile ⟨p. 53⟩and base; and honour aged Christians, and deformed: alas, look not on them as they are, but as they shall be, as they are in the decree of Christ, and as they shall be ere long by the power of Christ, he will make them like his glorious body. Let us not despise weak, or old, or deformed persons, these vile bodies shall be glorious: those that died in martyrdom, whose bodies were cast into the fire, and cast to wild beasts, &c. they shall be glorious bodies. The Emperor Constantine would kiss the very holes of the eyes of those that had their eyes pulled out, that had bin martyred: So even our vile bodies, when they are used in the service of God, in suffering, they shall be glorious bodies, let us honour our bodies, or theirs that suffer for Christ. S. Paul made it his plea, and a ground of his confidence, because his body was vile for Christ. I Paul a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and I carry in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. The dying of Christ, that the life of Christ might be manifest. He carried Christs marks in his body: making this an argument of respect, that he was a prisoner: so when any are abased for Christs sake, let us think these are such as shall have glorious bodies, how ere they are esteemed of the world. But to enlarge the point a little further, these bodies shall be made like the body of Christ.
If this body shall be glorious, how base soever it be in this world, then againe let us honour poore Christians, though we see them vile ⟨p. 53⟩and base; and honour aged Christians, and deformed: alas, looke not on them as they are, but as they shall be, as they are in the decree of Christ, and as they shall bee ere long by the power of Christ, hee will make them like his glorious body. Let us not despise weake, or old, or deformed persons, these vile bodies shall be glorious: those that died in martyrdome, whose bodies were cast into the fire, and cast to wild beasts, &c. they shall be glorious bodyes. The Emperour Constantine wold kisse the very holes of the eyes of those that had their eyes pulled out, that had bin martyrd: So even our vile bodyes, when they are used in the service of God, in suffering, they shall bee glorious bodyes, let us honour our bodyes, or theirs that suffer for Christ. S. Paul made it his plea, and a ground of his confidence, because his body was vile for Christ. I Paul a prisoner of Iesus Christ, and I carry in my body the marks of the Lord Iesus. The dying of Christ, that the life of Christ might bee manifest. He carried Christs marks in his body: making this an argument of respect, that he was a prisoner: so when any are abased for Christs sake, let us think these are such as shall have glorious bodies, how ere they are esteemed of the world. But to enlarge the point a little further, these bodyes shall be made like the body of Christ.