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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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Lastly, if by these comfortable signs we find God to be our God, then here is a spring of comfort opened to a Christian: if God be mine, then all that he hath is mine, he is my Father, he is my husband, he is my rock, his goodness, his wisdom, his providence, his mercy, whatsoever he hath is mine: If we had ⟨p. 146⟩any man in the world that had all wisdom in him, and all the strength of the world, and all goodness, and all love in him, and all this for us, what an excellent creature were this? God hath all this, and a Christian that hath God for his God hath all this and much more, for whatsoever is in the creator, is much more in him. Hereupon cometh all those styles, and sweet names, that God hath taken upon him in the scripture, because he would have us to know that all comforts are together in him, the names of all the creatures that are comfortable, God hath bin pleased to take upon him, to show us what a God he is, he is water to refresh us, a sun to comfort us, a shield to keep evil from us, a rock to support us, chambers to cover us in the time of danger, and such like, and in every creature God hath left foot steps and beams of himself, that man being an understanding creature, might find out God in them: In water there is a beam of his refreshing power, in the sun, a beam of his cherishing power, and the like, and when we receive comfort from the creature, which hath but a drop, a beam of his goodness, we should consider how good God himself is, if this be so comfortable, what is God that is my God, here we use the creatures to refresh us, and God deriveth his goodness usually to us by them, what will he be to us in heaven, when he will be all in all: and whatsoever comfort God hath, Christ hath, because God and Christ join together for our ⟨p. 247⟩good, for God is in Christ reconciling the world to himself, and if God be ours, Christ is ours, and if God and Christ be ours, all things are ours, because all things are Gods, Angels are ours, Cherubins are ours, because God is ours. It is a point of wondrous comfort, a poor christian when he hath nothing to trust to, he may perhaps say sometime, that he hath no friend in the world, and he hath many enemies:
Lastly, if by these comfortable signes wee finde God to be our God, then here is a spring of comfort opened to a Christian: if God be mine, then all that he hath is mine, hee is my Father, hee is my husband, hee is my rocke, his goodnesse, his wisedome, his providence, his mercy, whatsoever hee hath is mine: If wee had