A12184:712
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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Secondly, if we hope for this change, and so hope that we are stirred up thereby to fit our selves for it, to cleanse our selves.
Secondly, if wee hope for this change, and so hope that we are stirred up thereby to fit our selves for it, to cleanse our selves.
Thirdly, if we grow in grace, 2 Pet. 1.11. ⟨p. 244⟩it is a si•ne that we have an entrance into Christs kingdom, for God doth ever honour growth, with assurance of a blessed estate.
Thirdly, if wee grow in grace, 2 Pet. 1.11. ⟨p. 244⟩it is a si•ne that wee have an entrance into Christs kingdome, for God doth ever honour growth, with assurance of a blessed estate.
Fourthly, this should comfort us in time of death, considering we lose nothing but baseness, and our bodies are but sown in the earth, and this depositum which God committeth to the fire, air, earth, and the water, they must render up again pure and changed by Christ, and therefore it was a foolish conceit of the heathen, to burn the Martyrs bodies, and to cast their ashes into the water, thereby to put them out of hope of their resurrection, not knowing God is as able to raise them out of fire and water, as out of earth.