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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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That we may have holy, and gracious, and 1constant desires, let us take notice and make trial continually of the state and frame of our souls, which way for the present they are carried, in what current our desires run. If they run the right way, to heavenly things, it is well, if not, take notice what draws, and diverts, and turns the streams of our desires the false way: let us think what the things be, and the condition of those things that draws our desires down, and ⟨p. 89⟩make us earthly and worldly, whether the pleasures, or profits or honours of this life. The way to have better desires is, to wean our selves from these things, by a constant, holy meditation of the vanity of these things, that the soul is carried after. Solomon to wean his heart from these desires, from placing too much happiness in these things, he sets them before him, and saith, they were vanity, and vexation of spirit. Let us set them before us, as nothing, as they will be ere long, Heaven and earth will pass away, the world will pass away, and the concupiscence, and lust of it. Let us consider the baseness, fickleness and uncertainty of things that our souls are carried after, and this will be a means to wean them from them. And the soul being weaned from earthly things, it will run amain another way. Let us study therefore to mortify our base affections, and study it to purpose, to cut off the right hand, and to pull out the right eye, spare nothing, that God may spare all; that God may have mercy upon us, and spare us, let us spare nothing. These lusts they fight against our souls.
That we may have holy, and gracious, and 1constant desires, let us take notice and make tryall continually of the state and frame of our soules, which way for the present they are carryed, in what current our desires run. If they runne the right way, to heavenly things, it is well, if not, take notice what drawes, and diverts, and turnes the streames of our desires the false way: let us thinke what the things be, and the condition of those things that drawes our desires downe, and ⟨p. 89⟩make us earthly and worldly, whether the pleasures, or profits or honours of this life. The way to have better desires is, to weane our selves from these things, by a constant, holy meditation of the vanity of these things, that the soule is carryed after. Salomon to weane his heart from these desires, from placing too much happinesse in these things, he sets them before him, and saith, they were vanity, and vexation of spirit. Let us set them before us, as nothing, as they will be ere long, Heaven and earth will passe away, the world will passe away, and the concupiscence, and lust of it. Let us consider the basenesse, ficklenes and uncertainety of things that our soules are carryed after, and this will be a meanes to weane them from them. And the soule being weaned from earthly things, it will run amaine another way. Let us study therefore to mortifie our base affections, and study it to purpose, to cut off the right hand, and to pull out the right eye, spare nothing, that God may spare all; that God may have mercy upon us, and spare us, let us spare nothing. These lusts they fight against our soules.