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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.
This is the first and fundamental promise of all other, indeed it is the life and soul of all the promises, and it is the life and soul of all comfort whatsoever: for all other relations spoken of God tend to this, that he is our God, this is before to be a Father, before to be any thing. God first is a God, and then a Father, and then all in all to us. As he is first, the God of Christ, and then the Father of Christ, as you have it usually in the beginnings of the Epistles, God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, first the God, and then the Father: to be a God then, is the fundamental and principal favour, from thence cometh our Election, his choosing of us to eternal salvation before all time, his protection and preservation of us in time, unto heaven.
This is the first and fundamentall promise of all other, indeed it is the life and soule of all the promises, and it is the life and soule of all comfort whatsoever: for all other relations spoken of God tend to this, that hee is our God, this is before to be a Father, before to be any thing. God first is a God, and then a Father, and then all in all to us. As he is first, the God of Christ, and then the Father of Christ, as you have it usually in the beginnings of the Epistles, God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, first the God, and then the Father: to be a God then, is the fundamentall and principall favour, from thence commeth our Election, his chusing of us to eternall salvation before all time, his protection and preservation of us in time, unto heaven.
I shall not need to speak more of this, having unfolded it before.
I shall not need to speake more of this, having unfolded it before.
But you will say, how shall we know, that this Covenant belongeth to us, that we are such as we may say, God is our God?