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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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Again, for another end, God reveals to 1them the excellent estate of his children sometimes, to keep them in better order, to awe them, that they be not open enemies to the Church, but may do good service; for conceiting that there is such a happiness, and that perhaps they may partake of it, they will not carry themselves malignantly against those that are true professors.
Againe, for another end, God reveales to 1them the excellent estate of his children sometimes, to keepe them in better order, to awe them, that they be not open enemies to the Church, but may doe good service; for conceiting that there is such a happinesse, and that perhaps they may partake of it, they will not carry themselves malignantly against those that are true professors.
- 1Reason 2. To restrain their malice.Reason 2. To restraine their malice.
There are several degrees of wicked men, 1some are well-willers to good things, though they never come far enough. Some are open malicious persecutors. Some again are better then so, they have a hatred to goodness, but they do not openly show themselves as hypocrites, &c. God reveals these good things to wicked men, to keep them in awe. The net draws bad fish as well as good: so the net of the Word, it draws wicked men, it keeps them from violence, and open malice: ⟨p. 87⟩besides, even the Majesty of the word, and the conjunction of that excellent state that belongs to Gods Children, it keeps them from open malice and persecution. This is another end that God aims at: what may we learn hence?