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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.
But to proceed, and to come to some few familiar signs more that will try us, though these may try us, in the intercourse that is between God and us.
But to proceed, and to come to some few familiar signes more that will try us, though these may try us, in the intercourse that is betweene God and us.
Whosoever hath God for their God, they have the spirit of supplication & prayer, to cry unto God, to run unto him, specially in extremity, all Gods children have the spirit of adoption to cry, Abba Father; they have the spirit to give them boldness to God, when otherwise their nature, and likewise trouble joining with nature, and tentations would make them run from God, yet the Spirit of God in them makes them bold to go to God in Jesus Christ; Gods children that are in Covenant ⟨p. 135⟩with him, can at all times pray to God; if they cannot pray, they can chatter and sigh to God: there is somewhat they can do, there is a spirit in them that groaneth and sigheth, as Rom. 8. and God heareth the voice of his own Spirit, they are cries in his ears: My groans and sighs are not hid from thee, saith the Psalmist. The spirit of supplication vvill show God to be our God, because if he were not ours, we could not be bold to go to him, in the time of extremity especially; this sign you have in the 13. Zach. last, They shall call upon my name, and I will hear them; they shall be my people, and I will be their God: Invocation & prayer is a sign that God is our God, when we go to God presently in all our wants and necessities by prayer. Pharaoh and reprobate spirits, say to Moses, pray you for me; but as for a spirit of supplication in themselves they have not; they may speak of prayer, but they cannot pray, whosoever is Gods, he can cry to God; a child we know the first voice it uttereth as soon as it is borne, it cries, so Gods new borne children they can cry unto God. Paul in the 9. Acts, you shall find him praying as soon as ever he was converted; and certainly those that use not to pray morning and evening, and upon all occasions, that acquaint not themselves with God, God is not their God; if he were their God, they would seek to him, and be acquainted with him, the Spirit will teach