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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.
London: printed by Thomas for N. Bourne, 1640
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What can be grievous? what can be over burdensome to that soul that knows it hath the pledge, and earnest of glory hereafter? How doth it quicken the soul to any endeavour, when once we know, that how soever we abase our selves here, yet we shall have glorious bodies hereafter. It will quicken us to any endeavour, to any thing for Christ: therefore let us oft think of our estate to come, let us set our thoughts forward to the time to come: Let faith make the times to come present, ⟨p. 65⟩and that will make us heavenly minded. What made Saint Paul converse as if he were in heaven? faith made the estate to come present, and hope, which is grounded on faith, it looks to Christs coming, to change our vile bodies, so faith and hope, they make the soul look upward, they make it heavenly minded.
What can be grievous? what can be over burdensome to that soule that knowes it hath the pledge, and earnest of glory hereafter? How doth it quicken the soule to any indeavour, when once we know, that how soever we abase our selves here, yet we shall have glorious bodies hereafter. It will quicken us to any indeavour, to any thing for Christ: therefore let us oft thinke of our estate to come, let us set our thoughts foreward to the time to come: Let faith make the times to come present, ⟨p. 65⟩and that will make us heavenly minded. What made Saint Paul converse as if he were in heaven? faith made the estate to come present, and hope, which is grounded on faith, it lookes to Christs comming, to change our vile bodies, so faith and hope, they make the soule looke upward, they make it heavenly minded.
Our souls are dull, and our bodies are dull in this world; but as Iron if it be touched with a Load stone, up it will; so if we get faith, and hope to look forward, what shall be done to us for the time to come? the spirit of faith and hope if it touch the soul, will carry our dull bodies, and our dead souls upward.