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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.
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?
But you will say, how shall we know, that this Covenant belongeth to us, that wee are such as we may say, God is our God?
I answer, first, to lay this for a ground, you must know, that to be a God, is a relation: whosoever God is a God to, he persuadeth them by his Spirit, that he is a God to: the ⟨p. 122⟩same Spirit that persuadeth them, that there is a God, that Spirit telleth them that, God is their God, and works a qualification and disposition in them, as that they may know, that they are in covenant with such a gracious God, the Spirit as it revealeth to them the love of God, and that he is theirs, so the Spirit enableth them to claim him for their God, to give up themselves to him, as to their God.
I answer, first, to lay this for a ground, you must know, that to be a God, is a relation: whosoever God is a God to, he perswadeth them by his Spirit, that hee is a God to: the ⟨p. 122⟩same Spirit that perswadeth them, that there is a God, that Spirit telleth them that, God is their God, and works a qualification and disposition in them, as that they may know, that they are in covenant with such a gracious God, the Spirit as it revealeth to them the love of God, and that he is theirs, so the Spirit enableth them to claime him for their God, to give up themselves to him, as to their God.