PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes — Volume 2
Richard Sibbes · 364,886 words · 367 reading sections
Section 361
To enlarge this point a little. As there is a time of waiting, so there will be a time when God's people shall say, ' Lo, this is the Lord, we have waited for him.' Why ? Reason 1. God is Jehovah. A full and pregnant word! A word of comfort and stay for the soul is this word Jehovah ! He is a God that giveth a being t…
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And when that day is come, you see how their hearts are enlarged, they will say, ' This is the Lord, we have waited for him.' When' God meaneth to perform his promise, either in this world or in the world to come, the world to come specially, when there shall be con- summation of all promises, God shall enlarge the he…
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' We have waited for him ; he will save us.' Experience of God's per- formance stirs them up still to wait for him, and rejoice in his salvation. Experience stirs up hope. The beginning of a Christian, and midst, is to hope for the end ; and surely our jjeginning should help the latter end ! All a Christian's life shou…
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The words are expressed with a kind of glorying, ' Lo, this is our God.' So that the joy of a Christian endeth in glory, and in the highest degree of glory, as you have it, Rom. v. 3, ' We glory also in tribulation, we glor}- in hope of glory,' nay, we glory in God as ours reconciled. And if we glory in him now as a Go…
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ISA. XXV. 9.J BETWEEN CHBIST AND HXS CHURCH. 515 him. And then maintain daily acquaintance with him, by seeing him with the eye of faith, by speaking to him, and hearing him speak to us by his Spirit, joining in his ordinances, and then he will own us, and be acquainted with us. In heaven we shall say, ' Lo, this is o…
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4. Neither rest in any measure of grace, or comfort. What is faith to sight ? We have hope, an anchor, and helmet, that keepeth up many a soul, as the cork keepeth from sinking. Wliat is this hope to the fruition of what we hope for ? Here we have love, many love tokens from God. Aye, but what is love to union ? Ours i…
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In all troubles let us know we have a God in covenant, that we may joy in him here, and rejoice with him in heaven for ever hereafter. NOTES. (a) P. 440. — ' Keep your book to yourself.' Thomas Brooks in his ' Epistle Dedi- catory ' to his 'Apples of Gold,' thus introduces the anecdote. 'I hope none of you, into whos…
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.