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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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To confirm this, there is an excellent place in Ro. 8. 10: If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. If Christ be in you the body is ⟨p. 64⟩dead, &c. It is a vile body, it as good as dead, it hath the sentence of death already, it is dead, in regard it is sentenced to death for sin, as a malefactor that hath his sentence: But the Spirit is life in regard of righteousness. What then? if the sanctifying Spirit of Christ dwell in you, He that raised Jesus from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies. The same Spirit that sanctifies these souls of ours, our bodies, and quickens them to holy duties, the same Spirit shall raise our bodies. As the same Spirit that sanctified the blessed mass of the body of Christ, that he carried, and raised his body, the same Spirit that sanctifies our souls, shall raise our bodies. The Spirit of God when he hath begun to sanctify us, he never leaves us, he goes along in all changes, in life, in death, to the grave, (as God said to Jacob, I will be with thee there.) The Spirit of God, he will mould our dead bodies, and make them like the glorious body of Christ; the Spirit of God never leaves our souls or bodies. Therefore if we find the earnest of the Spirit, if we find the work of the Spirit, or the comfort of the Spirit, (which is the term the Scripture gives) Joy in the Holy-Ghost and peace of conscience; together with the Spirit sanctifying us, especially in the time of trouble, when God sees his Children have most need, they have the earnest of the Spirit, the beginnings of grace and joy, the beginnings of heaven upon earth; by this they ⟨p. 65⟩may know, as the first fruit is, so likewise is the harvest; as the earnest is, even so is the bargain; as we have it now in our souls, so we shall also have it in our bodies, and souls hereafter. These three grounds Saint Paul hath, why his hope of heaven was a good hope, we groan for it, and we are wrought for it; we are fitted for it. There is no man can hope to be glorious in his body, but his soul must be fitted for it, it must be a fit jewel for so glorious a casket, a fit inhabitant for so glorious a Temple, as the body shall be, the body shall be fitted for the soul, and the soul for the body, they are wrought for it. And then he hath given us the earnest of the Spirit.
To confirme this, there is an excellent place in Ro. 8. 10: If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. If Christ bee in you the body is