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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.
These desires first of all, they were but flashes: for we never read that he had them long, they 1were mere flashes; as a sudden light, that rather blinds a man then shows him the way: so these enlightenings they are not constant. Wicked men oft times have sudden motions, and flashes, and desires, oh! that I might die the death of the righteous, oh! that I were in such mans estate: but it is but a sudden flash, and lightning. They are like a torrent, a strong sudden stream, that comes suddenly and makes a noise, but it hath no spring to feed it. The desires of Gods Children they are fed with a spring, they are constant; they are streams, and not flashes.
These desires first of all, they were but flashes: for we never read that he had them long, they 1were meere flashes; as a sudden light, that rather blinds a man then shewes him the way: so these enlightnings they are not constant. Wicked men oft times haue sudden motions, and flashes, and desires, oh! that I might die the death of the righteous, oh! that I were in such mans estate: but it is but a sudden flash, and lightning. They are like a torrent, a strong sudden streame, that comes suddenly and makes a noyse, but it hath no spring to feed it. The desires of Gods Children they are fed with a spring, they are constant; they are streames, and not flashes.
- 11 They are not• constant.
Again this desire of this wretched man, it 1was not from an inward principle, an inward taste that he had of the good estate of Gods Children: but from an objective delight, and admiration of somewhat that was offered to his conceit by the holy-ghost at this time. It was not from any inward taste, and relish in himself that he speaks, but from somewhat outward, as a man that saw, and heard excellent things, that ravished him with admiration, though he had not interest in them himself.