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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.
I come now to the qualities of this covenant, ⟨p. 249⟩and before I speak in particular of them, I beseech you observe one thing (which I will but touch, to make an entrance to that which follows) from the manner of setting down the Covenant: it is not here set down as it is in other places of Scripture, I will be thy God, and thou shalt be my people, but here is only the first part, the main of the covenant of grace recited, I will be thy God, why doth he not say too, thou shalt take me for thy God, because where the first is, he ever works the second, our part depends upon his: all our grace that we have to answer the Covenant is by reflection from God, he chooseth us, and then we choose him: he knoweth us, and therefore we come to know him, he loveth us first, and then we love him, he singleth us out to be a peculiar people, and we single out him above all things to be our portion, whom have I in heaven but thee?
I come now to the qualities of this covenant, ⟨p. 249⟩and before I speak in particular of them, I beseech you observe one thing (which I will but touch, to make an entrance to that which followes) from the manner of setting downe the Covenant: it is not here set downe as it is in other places of Scripture, I will bee thy God, and thou shalt bee my people, but here is only the first part, the maine of the covenant of grace recyted, I will be thy God, why doth he not say too, thou shalt take me for thy God, because where the first is, he ever works the second, our part depends upon his: all our grace that wee have to answer the Covenant is by reflexion from God, hee chuseth us, and then we chuse him: he knoweth us, and therefore wee come to know him, he loveth us first, and then we love him, he singleth us out to be a peculiar people, and we single out him above all things to be our portion, whom have I in heaven but thee?
It is therefore (to come to the first quality) called a free Covenant, it cometh from God, merely of grace, it is of grace, that he would enter into any terms of agreement with us; it is of grace that he would send Christ to dye, to be the foundation of the covenant; it is of grace that he giveth us hearts to take him for our God, to depend upon him, to love him, to serve him, &c. All is of grace, and all cometh from him.