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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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Let us know which is our best part, namely the soul, that hath a being after death, that we do not employ it to base uses, for which it ⟨p. 78⟩was not made nor given us: do we think that these souls of ours were made, and given us to scrape wealth? to travel in our affections to base things worse then our souls? are they not capable of supernatural and excellent things? are they not capable of grace and glory? of communion with God, of the blessed stamp of the Image of God? Let us use them therefore, to the end that God gave them. And let us not deserve so ill of our souls, as to betray them, to cast them in the dirt, to lay our Crown in the dust. This is our excellency, what can keep our bodies from being a deformed loathsome thing, if the soul be taken away? yet so we abase this excellent part; oft times we abase it to serve the base lusts of the body, which is condemned to rottenness. What is the life of most men, but a purveying and prowling for the body? The lusts of the body set the wit, and affections on work to prowl for it self, what a base thing is this? Were our souls given us for this end? and especially considering this, that our souls are immortal, that they shall never die, but be for ever: let us not altogether spend this precious time that is given us to save our souls, and to get the Image of God stamped upon them, I say, let us not spend this precious time in things that will leave us when our souls shall live still: let us not carry the matter so, that our souls shall out-live our happiness. All worldlings, 1and base creatures, they out-live their ⟨p. 79⟩happiness; for where do they plant it? in the base things of this life: all their life long they are prowling for those things that they must leave when they die: whereas their souls shall not die, but everlastingly subsist.
Let us know which is our best part, namely the soule, that hath a being after death, that we doe not imploy it to base uses, for which it ⟨p. 78⟩was not made nor given us: doe we thinke that these soules of ours were made, and given us to scrape wealth? to travell in our affections to base things worse then our soules? are they not capable of supernaturall and excellent things? are they not capable of grace and glory? of communion with God, of the blessed stampe of the Image of God? Let us use them therefore, to the end that God gave them. And let us not deserve so ill of our soules, as to betray them, to cast them in the dirt, to lay our Crowne in the dust. This is our excellency, what can keepe our bodies from being a deformed loathsome thing, if the soule be taken away? yet so we abase this excellent part; oft times we abase it to serve the base lusts of the body, which is condemned to rottenesse. What is the life of most men, but a purveying and prouling for the body? The lusts of the body set the wit, and affections on worke to proule for it selfe, what a base thing is this? Were our soules given us for this end? and especially considering this, that our soules are immortall, that they shall never die, but be for ever: let us not altogether spend this precious time that is given us to save our soules, and to get the Image of God stamped upon them, I say, let us not spend this precious time in things that will leave us when our soules shall live still: let us not carry the matter so, that our soules shall out-live our happinesse. All worldlings,