A12184:501
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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Fifthly, we must labour to have soft hearts, §5sanctified with grace and mollified, for a stony hard heart will receive no impression, and to this end are we to use the means, to embrace the word, to receive the Sacraments, and to pray that God would open our eyes, and soften our stony hearts.
Fifthly, wee must labour to have soft hearts, §5sanctified with grace and molified, for a stonie hard heart will receive no impression, and to this end are wee to use the meanes, to imbrace the word, to receive the Sacraments, and to pray that God would open our eyes, and soften our stonie hearts.
Sixthly, we are to look to every one that §6hath any good thing worthy of imitation: as those that delight in gardens, where they hear of any choice flowers, they will have a slip for their own garden: thus it should be with us, where we see any flower of any grace, get that and place it in our own gardens; in every Christian there is something imitable, and something that may further us: and therefore this Apostle longed to see the Romans, that he might be comforted by their faith, 1 Rom. 12. It is with the Church as with the firmament, ever some are rising and some are fitting, let us ⟨p. 184⟩look to the stars of our time, and walk by their light. Its not enough that we can commend the Martyrs, for that is ordinary, as it was with the Jews in Matth. 23.29. though they builded the sepulchres of the Prophets, if they had been alive, together with them, they would have persecuted them, and therefore Christ saith, they killed the Prophets. And the ground of it is, because its a dishonour to God, not to take notice of his goodness and glorious graces in others, and therefore if the stars do praise him, surely these stars must much more set forth his glory, that being of themselves sinful wretched men, by his power are made glorious lights for others to walk by.