(f) P, 11. — ' Indeed, death is tlio death of itself; death is the death of death.' Dr John Owen has appropriated these words as the title of one of his most striking books, viz., ' Tlio Death of Death in the Death of Chi'ist ; or a Treatise of the Re- demption and Reconciliation that is in the Blood of Christ ' (1G42. 4to).
[ff) P. 16. — ' And then, all things were not common.' Sibbes is probably inaccu- rately reported here. The thought may be thus brought out. ' All' [did not make the] things (or property) [which they iiossessed] common. Witliout this caveat Sibbes would seem to contradict Acts ii. 44, than whom none would have shrunk with greater horror from so doing. Perhaps tlie following paraphrase renders the statement of the original : ' All that believed who were together, had all things common ;' i. e., the associated Christians as distinguished from the permanent resi- dents in Jerusalem.
(h) P. 16. — ' And St Austin saith well, " Surely he was no king that feared he should be a king.' " The words of St Augustine are, . . . ' Quid euim ? Non erat rex qui timebat fieri rex? Erat omnino' (Tract, xxv. in Joan vi.). Sibbes appears to have read the sentence without the note of interrogation.
(i) P. 17. — ' And therefore, as St Ambrose saith very well, " If thou hast not nourished one, howsoever in the law thou art not a murderer, yet before God thou art.'' ' This sentiment occurs again and again in the writings of St Ambrose, and is dwelt Tipon in his treatise on Ahab and Naboth's vineyard ; but the. actual ex- pression has not been found.
(y) P. 23. — ' As Bernard saith well, Donum Dei sine Deo, they have the gifts of God, without God ; without the love and favour of God.' The passage referred to is probably the following, ' Neque enim quae habemus ab eo, servare aut teneie pos- sumus sine eo.' — Bern, in Ps. xc, Serm. I.
{k) P. 23. — ' Licitis perimus omnes, it is an ordinary speech : we all perish by lawful things.' This is probably a recollection of Gregory's fuller statement : Solus in illicitis non cadit, qui se aliquando et a licitis caute restringit (Moral, lib. v. et Homil 35 in Evang.).
[I) P. 24. — ' Moses married a blackamore. He could not alter her disposi- tion,' &c. This, which is a common illustration in Sibbes's age, is surely unwar- ranted, at least if by 'blackamore' he intended what we understand thereby, viz., a thick-lipped negress. Shakespeare makes a similar mistake respecting Othello.
(m) P. 38. — ' As Bernard saith, I go willingly to a Mediator made bone of my bone, my brother.' The following are the words of Bernard : — Ut ex aequo partibus congruens mediator, neutri suspectus sit, Deus filius Dei fiat homo, fiat filius homi- nis ; et certum me reddit in hoc osculo oris sui. Securus suscipio mediatorem Dei filium quem agnosco et meum. Minime, plane, jam mihi suspectus erit. Frater enim et caro mea est. Puto enim, spernere me non potcrit os de ossibus meis, et caro de carne mea. — Bei-n. in Cant. Cant. Ser. II.
(n) P. 35. — ' The modestest and learnedest Jesuit of late times, speaking of this argument,' &c. A very similar passage from Bellarmine is quoted in Vol. I. p. 318.
G.
THE SPIRITUAL MAN'S AIM.
THE SPirJTUAL MAN'S AIM.
NOTE.
' The Spiritual Man's Aim' was originally piililishoil in a small volnmo (less than 18mo) in 1637. Its title-page is given below* Prefixed to it is Marshall's smaller portrait of Sibbcs, wliich is found in 'The Christian's Portion ' and else- where. A second edition, which is our text, appeared in quarto in 1G5G. Its titlc" pa^e is likewise given below.f The initials T. G. and P. N. represent the well- known Dr Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nye. Cf. "Vol. II. page 3, but for Ilanburg read llanbury. G.
t The Spirituall-Mans
AlME.
Guiding a Christian in his
Ajfeclions ^ Actions, through the
sundry passages of this Life. So that
God's glory and his Salvation may bo
the maine end of all.
By the faithfuU and Eeverend Divine, E. Sibbes, D. D. and some- time Preacher to the Honoiirable Society of Grates Inne. Published by T. G. and P. N.
London,
Printed by E. G. for John Eothwell,
and are to be sold at the Sunne in
Paul's Church-yard, 1637
t THE
SPIEITUALL
MANS AIME.
GUIDING
A Christian in his Affections and
Actions through the sundry passages of
this Life. So that God's glory, and his own
Salvation may be the maine end of all.
BY
The faithfull and Eeverend Divine,
Richard Sibbs, D. D. and sometime
Preacher to the Honourable Society
of Grates Inne.
Published hy
T. G. and P. N.
LONDON,
Printed by W. TI. for John Rothwell, at the
Sign of the Beare and Fountaine in
Cheapside, 1656.
THE SPIRITUAL MAN'S AIM.
It remaineih, brethren, the time is short : let those that have ivives be as if they had none; and they that iveep, as though they ivept not; and they that rejoice, as thouyh they rejoiced not ; and they that buy, as though they pos- sessed not ; and they that use this world, as not abusing it : for the fashion of this icorld passeth amiy. — 1 CoE. VII. 29-31.