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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.
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And so for joy and delight, we make God our God, when we joy in him above all things in the world, when we make him our boast all the day long, as it is, Psalm. 44. 8. when we make him our glory, as he is called our Glory in Jerem. 2. 11. They changed their glory: God is our glory if he be our God, we count it our chiefest glory, that we are his, & that he is ours: whatsoever our estates be, we glory in God, and not in our selves: a Christian when he would joy and glory, he goeth out of himself to God, He is his joy. But do not men joy in the creature and delight in it ofttimes more then in God? It is a great shame for us, and that for which even the best of us all may be abased, to consider what a deal of delight and comfort we take in the creature more then in God. We see Jonah, a good man, when his Gourd was taken from him that God raised up to be a shelter for him; a poor simple defence it was, and yet we see how pettish the good man was, all the comfort he had, could not keep him from anger and fretting when the Gourd was gone, and yet God was his God. So many men, whereas they should joy in God above all things, yet if God take outward comforts from them, they are as if there were no God in heaven, no comfort there, as if there were no providence to rule the world, as if they •ad no Father in covenant with them. I say this is a great shame for us.
And so for joy and delight, wee make God our God, when we joy in him above all things in the world, when wee make him our boast all the day long, as it is, Psalm. 44. 8. when we make him our glory, as he is called our Glory in Ierem. 2. 11. They changed their glory: God is our glory if hee be our God, wee count it our chiefest glory, that we are his, & that he is ours: whatsoever our estates be, we glory in God, and not in our selves: a Christian when he would joy and glory, hee goeth out of himselfe to God, He is his joy. But doe not men joy in the creature and delight in it ofttimes more then in God? It is a great shame for us, and that for which even the best of us all may be abased, to consider what a deale of delight and comfort wee take in the creature more then in God. We see Ionah, a good man, when his Gourd was taken from him that God raised up to be a shelter for him; a poore simple defence it was, and yet we see how pettish the good man was, all the comfort he had, could not keepe him from anger and fretting when the Gourd was gone, and yet God was his God. So many men, whereas they should joy in God above all things, yet if God take outward comforts from them, they are as if there were no God in heaven, no comfort there, as if there were no providence to rule theworld, as if they ad no Father in covenant with them. I say this is a great shame for us.