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The riches of mercy In two treatisesThe riches of mercie In two treatises
The riches of mercy In two treatises: 1 Lydia's conversion. 2. A rescue from death. By the late learned, and reverend divine, Richard Sibbs, Doctor in Divinity. Published by the authors own appointment, and subscribed with his own hand to prevent imperfect copies.The riches of mercie In two treatises: 1 Lydia's conversion. 2. A rescue from death. By the late learned, and reverend divine, Richard Sibbs, Doctor in Divinitie. Published by the authors own appointment, and subscribed with his owne hand to prevent imperfect copies.
London: printed by John for Francis Eglesfeild, 1638London: printed by Iohn for Francis Eglesfeild, 1638
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Gods children in extremity they cry to him.1
- 1Gods children cry to him in affliction.
Extremity of afflictions doth force prayers, In their affliction, they will seek me early: When all second causes fail then we go to God, nature therefore is against atheism (as one observes) that naturally men run to God in extremity;1 Lord help me, Lord succour me, so especially in the ⟨p. 58⟩Church in extremity, Gods people cry to God, and as afflictions, so particularly this of sickness of body, drives men to God. God should not hear of us (many times) unless he should come near us by afflictions, and deep afflictions: Out of the deep have I cried, 2God brings us to the deep, and then we cry. Our nature is so naught, that God should not hear of us, (as I said) unless he send some messenger after us, some affliction to bring us home as Absalom dealt by Joab, when he fired his corn. In the Gospel, Christ had never heard of many people, ⟨p. 59⟩had it not been for some infirmity: but blessed are those sicknesses, and infirmities that occasion us to go to God, that makes us cry to God. It was the speech of a Heathen, we are best when we are weakest, why? as he saith very well, who is ambitious, voluptuous, or covetous for the world when he is sick, when he sees the vanity of these things?
EXtremity of afflictions doth force prayers, In their affliction, they will seeke me early: When all second causes faile then we goe to God, nature therfore is against atheisme (as one observes) that naturally men run to God in extremity;