A12184:314
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
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I answer,1 because our bodies and souls are partakers of misery and sin here, and therefore cannot partake of fullness of happiness, before they be united together again. God will have us to stay while all his family of blessed Saints shall meet together, as well us that are now alive, as our seed and posterity after us.
I answer,1 because our bodies and soules are partakers of miserie and sinne here, and therefore cannot partake of fulnesse of happinesse, before they be united together again. God will have us to stay while all his familie of blessed Saints shall meet together, as well us that are now alive, as our seed and posteritie after us.
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In the third place observe, that the Apostle §3makes resurrection of the dead the last thing: ⟨p. 118⟩establishing thereby an order, that there must be means to the resurrection, and then the resurrection it self. Ought not Christ to suffer these things, and so to enter into his glory: Math. 28. And if we suffer with him, we shall also reign with him: the second resurrection must begin with the first, we are sons and Saints hereafter, but so we must also be here, only a difference there will be in degree of holiness: this resurrection doth not follow every manner of life, although men ordinarily expect a crown without crosses, and never look for justification and sanctification, but think they shall be in heaven at an instant without them. But we must suffer with Christ in Mount Calvary, before we come with him to the Mount Olivet.