A12184:680
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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The words are plain, and shall need no exposition: therefore we will briefly come to the doctrines.
THe words are plaine, and shall need no exposition: therefore wee will briefly come to the doctrines.
And first, we may observe hence That our bodies are base: and thus are the bodies not only of wicked profane men,1 but of the servants and dearest children of God, all are vile, and that in these respects.
And first, we may observe hence That our bodies are base: and thus are the bodies not onely of wicked prophane men,1 but of the servants and dearest children of God, all are vile, and that in these respects.
- 1Doctr. 1.
First, in life our original is base, we are dust, and to dust we must return, and our continuance is full of change, subject to diversity of estates, sickness, health, pain, ease, hunger, fullness. And base we are, because we are upheld by inferior creatures. We enter into the world by one way, but go out by divers deaths, some violent, some more natural, and by divers sicknesses loathsome to the eyes, to the nostrils, and especially when we are nearest our end, when as our countenance is pale, our members tremble, all our beauty is gone. But after we are departed, so loathsome is this our carcass, it must be had out of sight: yea though it be the body of the Patriarch Abraham,