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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
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It is a sign we have made God our God, when we ⟨p. 125⟩prize him and value him above all the world, and when with Saint Paul, Phil. 3. we count all things dung and dross, in comparison of Jesus Christ our Lord: what we will do most for, that is our God; if we will do most for God, he is our God; if we do most for pleasures, they are our God, if we do most for riches, break o•r rests and crack our consciences for them, that is our God. In a word, whatsoever we value highest, that is our God.
It is a signe we have made God our God, when wee ⟨p. 125⟩prize him and value him above all the world, and when with Saint Paul, Phil. 3. wee count all things dung and drosse, in comparison of Jesus Christ our Lord: what we will doe most for, that is our God; if wee will doe most for God, he is our God; if we doe most for pleasures, they are our God, if wee doe most for riches, breake o•r rests and cracke our consciences for them, that is our God. In a word, whatsoever we value highest, that is our God.
Examine what affections we have to God: (for it is affection, that makes a Christian) single out some few that we are most offending in. As first, for fear, it may shame us all, (indeed a Christian upon his best resolutions is better) but the ordinary carriage of men is, they fear men more then God, they fear every thing more then him that they should fear above all. For instance, is the retired carriage of men to God, such as their carriage is to the eye of the world? will not they do that in secret ofttimes, that they will not do openly? in secret they will commit this or that sin, and think, who seeth? there are secret abominations in the closet of their hearts, they will not fear to do that in the eye of God, that they fear to do in the eye of a child of six years old, that is of any discretion: Is this to make God our God, when we fear the eye of a silly mortal creature more then the eye of God, that is ten thousand times brighter then the Sun, that