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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.
There are three degrees of life.1
- 1Three degrees of life.
The life in the womb. this world. heaven.
The life in the wombe. this world. heaven.
The life in the womb is a kind of imprisonment; there the child lives for a time. The life in this world, it is a kind of enlargement; but alas, it is as much inferior to the blessed, and glorious life in heaven, as the life in the womb is narrower, and straiter, and and more base then this life wherein we behold the blessed light, and enjoy all the sweet comforts of this life. They are happy after death, then the Image of God is perfect in the soul, all graces are perfected, all wants supplied, all corruptions wrought out, all enemies subdued, all promises accomplished, waiting their time for the resurrection of the body, and then body and soul shall sit as Judges, upon the wretches that have judged them on earth, and they shall be both together for ever with the Lord. I might enlarge the point much; it is a comfortable meditation. And before I pass it, let us make some use of it.
The life in the wombe is a kind of imprisonment; there the child lives for a time. The life in this world, it is a kind of inlargement; but alas, it is as much inferiour to the blessed, and glorious life in heaven, as the life in the wombe is narrower, and straiter, and and more base then this life wherein wee behold the blessed light, and enjoy all the sweet comforts of this life. They are happy after death, then the Image of God is perfect in the soule, all graces are perfected, all wants supplied, all corruptions wrought out, all enemies subdued, all promises accomplished, waiting their time for the resurrection of the body, and then body and soule shall sit as Judges, upon the wretches that have judged them on earth, and they shall be both together for ever with the Lord. I might enlarge the point much; it is a comfortable meditation. And before I passe it, let us make some use of it.