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An exposition of the third chapter of the Epistle of St. Paul to the…
An exposition of the third chapter of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians also two sermons of Christian watchfulness. The first upon Luke 12 37. The second upon Revel. 16.15. An exposition of part of the second chapter of the Epistle to the Philip. A sermon upon Mal. 4. 2.3. By the late reverend divine Richard Sibbes, D.D. master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher at Gray's-Inn.An exposition of the third chapter of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians also two sermons of Christian watchfulnesse. The first upon Luke 12 37. The second upon Revel. 16.15. An exposition of part of the second chapter of the Epistle to the Philipp. A sermon upon Mal. 4. 2.3. By the late reverend divine Richard Sibbes, D.D. master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher at Grayes-Inne.
London: printed by T. Cotes and John Dawson for Peter Cole, 1639
AN EXPOSITION OF THE THIRD Chapter of the Epistle of St. Paul to th… › VERS. 8. My Lord.
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VERS. 8. My Lord.
This is the end of all our knowledge, to know Christ to be our Lord, for else the Devils knew Christ Paul I know, and Christ I know, said he to those Conjurers, but he could not know Christ to be his Lord. My Lord. Not only for his title that he hath in me, but My Lord, for the title I have in him: My Beloved is mine, and I am his. Mine he is, for he made himself mine, by redeeming me and paying the price for me. My head, from whom I receive force and vigour, my husband, my head of eminency: briefly, my Lord, making me his, and stirring up in me, a love and desire to make him mine, and to rest upon him by faith. In the Covenant of grace therefore, there is a mutual consent between God and us: he is ours, we are his by faith to trust on him, and by love to embrace him, which stirs up the whole man to obedience; we may not think that this proceeded from a spiritual pride in the Apostle, as though he thought himself the only darling of Christ; no, they are the words of a particular faith, and love, in the Apostle; not excluding others from the like, for every Christian must labour for this faith, that we may know Christ to be our Jesus, our Saviour which we shall be assured of; for if he makes us his, he will make us to love him, and to say from our hearts, my ⟨p. 90⟩Lord, and my head: his love of us, is the cause of our love to him; we love him, because he loved us first, hi• knowledge is the cause of ours, he chose us, and therefore we choose him, and if he loved me when I hated him, surely now I love him, he must needs love me. Again, we shall know that we are Christs: for then there will be a likeness of Christ wrought in our hearts. For that spirit that stirs us up to own Christ, doth ever work the Image of Christ in our souls, as a seal it imprints on our soul the image of Christ, in all graces, of love, meekness, heavenly mindedness, and goodness: if we be the spouse of Christ, we shall represent and show forth his glory, for the woman is the glory of the man. Else what ere we boast, we are therein but hypocrites: we must forsake all in regard of Christ.