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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.
Remember (I say) that the Covenant of grace is distinct in the whole kind, from the Covenant of works, yet this; They are both in the Church, and both taught one subordinate to the other: As thus. The Covenant of works is taught to show us our failing, that seeing our own disability to perform what the Law requireth we may be forced to the new Covenant of grace: And therefore saith 1Paul, By the Law I am dead to the Law. It is an excellent speech, by the Law I am dead to the Law, by the Covenant of works I am dead to the Covenant of works: that is by the Laws •acting of me exact and perpetual obedience, in thought word and deed, I come to see that I cannot fulfil it, and therefore am dead to the Law, that is, I look for no salvation, for no title to heaven by that, and therefore he saith, the Law was added for transgression: why was the Law added to the promise of salvation by Christ made here to Abraham, why was the Covenant of works added in the wilderness afterwards? it was for transgression, to increase the sense of transgression: that we by the Law might see what we should do, and what we have not done, and that we are by that come under a curse, and so might fly to the promise ⟨p. 114⟩of grace in Christ. I have stood the longer in the clearing of this, because it is a main point.
Remember (I say) that the Covenant of grace is distinct in the whole kind, from the Covenant of workes, yet this; They are both in the Church, and both taught one subordinate to the other: As thus. The Covenant of workes is taught to shew us our failing, that seeing our owne disability to performe what the Law requireth we may be forced to the new Covenant of grace: And therefore saith 1Paul, By the Law I am dead to the Law. It is an excellent speech, by the Law I am dead to the Law, by the Covenant of workes I am dead to the Covenant of workes: that is by the Lawes •acting of me exact and perpetuall obedience, in thought word and deed, I come to see that I cannot fulfill it, and therefore am dead to the Law, that is, I looke for no salvation, for no title to heaven by that, and therefore he saith, the Law was added for transgression: why was the Law added to the promise of salvation by Christ made here to Abraham, why was the Covenant of workes added in the wildernes afterwards? it was for transgression, to increase the sense of transgression: that wee by the Law might see what we should doe, and what we have not done, and that we are by that come under a curse, and so might flie to the promise