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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.
Though these words, I will be a God to thee, and to thy seed, be the last words of the Text, yet being the substance of the Covenant, I think it shall be best to speak of that before I speak of the qualities of the Covenant, or any thing else. I will be thy God.
Though these words, I will be a God to thee, and to thy seed, be the last words of the Text, yet being the substance of the Covenant, I thinke it shall be best to speake of that before I speake of the qualities of the Covenant, or any thing else. I will be thy God.
This is the Covenant in the Messiah: but first, what is it to be a God?
I answer: To be a God, take it in the general, is to give being to the creature that had no being of it self, and to protect and preserve the creature in its being, in a word, to be a Creator; for providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation; this is to be a God. The office of God, as God, is a most glorious function: to be a King is a great ⟨p. 118⟩matter, but to be a God, to give being to the creature, to support it when it hath a being, to do all that God should do, this is a most glorious work: but this is but creation, this is not intended especially here, for thus he is the God of all his works; thus by creation and preservation, he is the God of all the men in the world out of the Church.
I answer: To be a God, take it in the generall, is to give being to the creature that had no being of it selfe, and to protect and preserve the creature in its being, in a word, to be a Creatour; for providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation; this is to be a God. The office of God, as God, is a most glorious function: to be a King is a great