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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
For Christ in his first coming came not to redeem our bodies from death, but our souls from damnation, his second coming shall be to redeem our bodies from corruption, into a glorious liberty. Therefore wise men dye as well as fools: those whose eyes and hands have been lift up to God in prayer, and whose feet have carried them to the holy place, as well as ⟨p. 75⟩those whose eyes are full of adultery, and whose hands are full of blood, they dye all alike, in manner alike; ofttimes it is the same in the eye of the world; Death comes upon good and bad, but to the good for their greater glory, for the shell must be broken, before they come to the pearl; death it fits them for the blessed life after, the body lying a while in the grave, the soul being in the hands of God: and death now it makes an end of sin that brought in death: and it makes us conformable to the son of God, our elder brother that dyed for us. The point is pregnant, and full of gracious and serious meditations.
For Christ in his first comming came not to redeeme our bodies from death, but our soules from damnation, his second comming shall be to redeeme our bodyes from corruption, into a glorious liberty. Therefore wise men dye as well as fooles: those whose eyes and hands have beene lift up to God in prayer, and whose feet have carried them to the holy place, as well as ⟨p. 75⟩