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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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Thus by our affections, by the trial of them, we may know whether God be our ⟨p. 133⟩God; if we give him the affections of the heart, which Religion most stands in, when we make the whole inward man stoop and bow, and bend unto him, when we make him our King, and give him the supremacy, when we set the Crown upon his head, when he hath our fear, our joy and delight, our love, our trust, I mean, when he hath the supreme of all, for we may love man, as God deriveth good to us by him, and so for the rest, but God must be supreme, others must be loved and feared, &c. in him and for him, but he chiefly, when we depend upon him for all deliverance out of ill and for all good, and show our dependence on him, by our subjection to him in all his ways, by our yielding to him obedience answerable to all this, and especially when we shall show it by performing inward worship to him, when we walk before him perfectly & sincerely, as it is in the beginning of this Chapter, I am God All-sufficient, walk before me and be perfect: By this we may know, that God is our God. I need not enlarge it, the practise of the first Commandment will teach us what is our God, whatsoever we give the supremacy of the inward man to, whatsoever we love most, whatsoever we trust most, whatsoever we fear most, whatsoever we joy and delight most, whatsoever we obey most, that is our God. I am the Lord thy God, (in the first Commandment) there is the ground, what follows? Thou shalt have no ⟨p. 134⟩other Gods but me, that is, thou shalt love nothing in the world, nor fear nothing, nor trust in nothing, nor joy in nothing more then me, no, nor with me, but all things else thou shalt trust them, and fear them, &c. in me and for me: otherwise what is our love is our God, what is our trust is our God, what is our greatest fear is our God: if we fear man, fear him to do ill, man is our God; if we love the creature, or sin, that is our God; if we crack our consciences for wealth, the covetous mans wealth is his God; if we crack our consciences for pleasures, or for our bellies, our pleasures and our bellies, and our lusts are our God: we make not God our God except we give him the supremacy of the inward man.
Thus by our affections, by the tryall of them, wee may know whether God be our ⟨p. 133⟩