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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.
What is then to be thy God? I will be thy God.
I Answer, to be a God in a more peculiar manner, is to be a God in Covenant, that is, not only to be a God to preserve and continue this being of ours in a civill life, but it is to be a God in a higher relation to us, to be a God in a reference to an eternal, supernatural estate in heaven, to be a God here in grace, and hereafter in glory: and thus God is a God in a gracious covenant only by Jesus Christ, and to those that believe in him. I will be thy God: that is, I will be thy God in Christ, to give thee a better being then this world can afford, to free thee from the cursed estate thou art in by nature, to deliver thee from all ill, spiritually and eternally, especially to bestow on thee all good, spiritually, and eternally, especially as we have it in the words of the Covenant Gen. 15. 1. I will be thy shield and thy 1exceeding great reward, a shield to keep off all ill, and a reward for all good. So in the 84. God will be a Sun and a shield, &c. a Sun Psal. 2for all sweet comfort and good, and a shield, ⟨p. 119⟩in regard of defence from ill; a Sun and a shield, till we come to the possession of eternal happiness. This is to be a God in a peculiar manner, to give all things necessary for grace and life too, for this life and for a better; to do all things requisite to bring us to heaven and happiness through Christ, in whom all the promises are, yea and Amen, to be all in all, to direct the protections and provisions of this life, of our estate here to a supernatural happiness hereafter, to a state beyond nature: for God directs the favours of this life, so that he takes them away or he giveth them, as he seeth them advantageous or hinderances to a better estate. So is God a God to those that are in covenant with him, to do all this, and to do all this in opposition of all enemies whatsoever, to do all this in weakness and in the impotency of the creature, to do all this when all second causes are contrary as it were, to bring a man to heaven in spite of the Devil, & of our own corruptions, or all oppositions whatsoever. This is to be a God indeed.