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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.
lOHN 14. chap. 1 verse. Let not your hearts be troubled, ye believe in God, believe also in me.
lOHN 14. chap. 1 verse. Let not your hearts be troubled, ye beleeve in God, beleeve also in me.
Holy men as they be trees of righteousness, and desire to be fruitful at all times, so most especially towards their end, having but a short time to live in the world, they be willing to leave the world with a good savour; so it was with Jacob; so with Moses, as appears in his excellent Song made before his death; you may see it in King Solomon and David before their deaths, but especially ⟨p. 2⟩in our Saviour. The nearer to heaven, the more heavenly minded, when grace and glory are ready to join, the one to be swallowed up of the other, then grace is most glorious. All the passages of Christ are comfortable, but none more comfortable then those Sermons of his, that were delivered a little before his death; of all words that come from loving men to those they love, such are most remarkable as be spoken when they be ready to die, because then men are most serious, they being about the most serious business: then they be wisest, and best able to judge: for the consideration of their end makes them wise. And therefore saith God, 1Oh that my people were wise to consider their latter end. And, Teach me to number my days, that I may apply my heart to wisdom, saith Moses. And indeed there is no wisdom to that: for it teacheth men to pass a right judgement upon all things in the world: they be no longer drunk with the prosperity of the world, they be no longer swayed ⟨p. 3⟩with opinion, but they pass an estimation of things as they are.
HOly men as they be trees os righteousnesse, and desire to be fruitfull at all times, so most especially towards their end, having but a short time to live in the world, they be willing to leave the world with a good savour; so it was with Iacob; so with Moses, as appeares in his excellent Song made before his death; you may see it in King Salomon and David before their deaths, but especially