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Two sermons upon the first words of Christs last sermon John XIIII. I. Being…Tvvo sermons vpon the first words of Christs last sermon Iohn XIIII. I. Being…
Two sermons upon the first words of Christs last sermon John XIIII. I. Being also the last sermons of Richard Sibbs D.D. Preached to the honourable society of Gray's Inn, June the 21. and 28. 1635. Who the next Lords day following, died, and rested from all his laboursTvvo sermons vpon the first words of Christs last sermon Iohn XIIII. I. Being also the last sermons of Richard Sibbs D.D. Preached to the honourable society of Grayes Inne, Iune the 21. and 28. 1635. Who the next Lords day follwing, died, and rested from all his labours
London: printed by Thomas Harper for Lawrence Chapman, 1636
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.
Labour to have these things fresh in memory, together with the privileges belonging to Christians. Think what is it to be a child of God, and an heir of heaven.
Labour to have these things fresh in memory, together with the priviledges belonging to Christians. Thinke what is it to be a childe of God, and an heire of heaven.
We must not look only to the blind ⟨p. 62⟩and dark side of our condition. Christians have two sides, one to heaven ward, and God-ward; and that is full of glory, certain, and immovable. Another towards the world, and that is oftentimes full of abasement, full of disgrace, and dejection. That is moveable, sometimes better, sometimes worse, as God pleaseth to dispense his government in the Church. Let us look to the grace, to the comforts that belong to that grace, to the promises, the best side, and not to be carried away with the darkness of the other.
We must not looke onely to the blinde ⟨p. 62⟩and darke side of our condition. Christians have two sides, one to heaven ward, and God-ward; and that is full of glory, certaine, and immoveable. Another towards the world, and that is oftentimes full of abasement, full of disgrace, and dejection. That is moveable, sometimes better, sometimes worse, as God pleaseth to dispense his government in the Church. Let us looke to the grace, to the comforts that belong to that grace, to the promises, the best side, and not to be carried away with the darknesse of the other.
It is a terrible sight to look upon sin, and misery, and hell, and judgement to come; but what are these to a Christian that is in Christ, that seeth them all subdued, and overcome to him? The afflictions of the world, and the crosses of the world, what are they to a soul, that is already in heaven by faith, and seeth them all overcome in his head Christ? Be of good comfort, I have overcome the world. And