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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 you see the qualities of this Covenant, it is a free Covenant, a sure Covenant stablished in the blessed seed, the Messiah, it is an Everlasting Covenant, and it is a peculiar Covenant. To make some use of this in a word.
Thus you see the qualities of this Covenant, it is a free Covenant, a sure Covenant stablished in the blessed seed, the Messiah, it is an Everlasting Covenant, and it is a peculiar Covenant. To make some vse of this in a word.
Here then you see is another Spring of blessed comfort opened to a Christian. If he findeth God (though this assurance be little) to be his God in regard of peculiar favours, let him remember it is an everlasting favour, his love is everlasting, the foundation is everlasting, the graces of the spirit are an everlasting spring, always issuing from Christ our head, grace is never drawn dry in him. God is our God to death, and in death, and for ever: all things in the world will fail us, friends will fail us, all comforts will fail us, life will fail us ere long, but this is an everlasting covenant which will not fail.
Heere then you see is another Spring of blessed comfort opened to a Christian. If hee findeth God (though this assurance bee little) to be his God in regard of peculiar favours, let him remember it is an everlasting favour, his love is everlasting, the foundation is everlasting, the graces of the spirit are an everlasting spring, alwayes issuing from Christ our head, grace is never drawne dry in him. God is our God to death, and in death, and for ever: all things in the world will faile us, friends will faile us, all comforts will faile us, life will faile us ere long, but this is an everlasting covenant which will not faile.
It is a point of comfort in the loss of friends, in the loss of estate in this world: If I lose friends, yet I cannot lose God, if he be mine, he is mine for ever, a friend now, and a friend