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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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And as I said before, feed our souls, minister unto them better thoughts continually. Those that are governors of those that are young, season them while they be young with good things; for while the soul is not filled with the world, and while covetousness and ill lusts have not wrought themselves into the ⟨p. 99⟩soul, good things, and good desires, are easily rooted, and planted, and grow up in the soul. As letters graven in the body of a tree, they grow up with the tree; and the fruit of the tree grows up with the tree, and therefore the twigs break not with the greatness of the weight of it, because they grow up together: so plant good things in those that are young, inure them to know good things, to hate ill ways; plant in them blessed desires, and inure them to holy exercises and good duties, that good exercises may grow up with them, as the fruit wth the tree. We see what […] hard matter it is to convert an old man, to draw the desires of a carnal worldly man to heaven: when we speak of good things to him, his soul is full of the world: what is in his brain? the world: what is in his heart? the world. So he is dry and exhausted of all good things, and that that is in him, is eaten up with the world. It is a great improvidence in those that govern youth, that they labour not, that their desires may be strong to the best things.
And as I said before, feed our soules, minister unto them better thoughts continually. Those that are governours of those that are yong, season them while they be yong with good things; for while the soule is not filled with the world, and while covetousnesse and ill lusts have not wrought themselves into the ⟨p. 99⟩soule, good things, and good desires, are easily rooted, and planted, and grow up in the soule. As letters graven in the body of a tree, they grow up with the tree; and the fruit of the tree growes up with the tree, and therefore the twigs breake not with the greatnesse of the weight of it, because they grow up together: so plant good things in those that are yong, inure them to know good things, to hate ill wayes; plant in them blessed desires, and inure them to holy exercises and good duties, that good exercises may grow up with them, as the fruit wth the tree. We see what 〈…〉 hard matter it is to convert an old man, to draw the desires of a carnall worldly man to heaven: when we speak of good things to him, his soule is full of the world: what is in his brain? the world: what is in his heart? the world. So he is dry and exhausted of all good things, and that that is in him, is eaten up with the world. It is a great improvidence in those that governe youth, that they labour not, that their desires may be strong to the best things.