NICHOL'S SERIES OF STANDARD DIVINES.
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By JOHN C. MILLEE, D.D.,
LINCOLN COLLEGE ; BONOSABT CANON OF WOBCfcSTEB ; EECTOB Of 8T MAETIN'S, BIKMINGUAM.
THE
WORKS OF EICHAPiD SIBBES, D.D.
VOL. V.
COUNCIL OF PUBLICATION.
W. LINDSAY ALEXANDER, D.D., Professor of Theology, Congregational Union, Edinburgh.
JAMES BEGG, D.D., Minister of Newington Free Church, Edinburgh.
THOMAS J. CRAWEOED, D.D., S.T.P., Professor of Divinity, University, Edinburgh.
D. T. K. DRUMMOND, M.A., Minister of St Thomas's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh,
WILLIAM H. GOOLD, D.D., Professor of Biblical Literature and Church History, Reformed Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh.
ANDREW THOMSON, D.D., Minister of Broughton Place United Presby- terian Church, Edinburgh.
General ®&(tor. REV. THOMAS SMITH, M.A., Edinbukgh.
THE COMPLETE WORKS
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RICHARD 8IBBES, D.D.,
MASTER OF CATHERINE HALL, CAMBRIDGE ; PREACHER OF GRAY's INN,
LONDON.
BY THE REV. ALEXANDER BALLOCH GROSART,
(cor. MEMB. SOC. ANTIQ. of SCOTLAND)
KINROSS.
VOL. V.
CONTAINING
EXPOSITIONS Am TREATISES FROM PORTIOJ^S OF SEVERAL OF THE EPISTLES OF ST PAUL,
VIZ : —
THE CHRISTIAN WORK OP THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD
EXPOSITION OF PHILIPPIANS CHAP. Ill — TEE REDEMPTION OF BODIES
THE ART OF CONTENTMENT
THE POWER OF CHRIST' S RESURRECTION— THE HIDDEN LIFE
THE SPIRITUAL JUBILEE — TEE PRIVILEGES OF TEE FAITHFUL
TEE CBRISTIAN's END — CHRIST's EXALTATION FURCEA&ED EY EUMILIATIOK
THE LIFE OF FAITH SALVATION APPLIED A FOUNTAIN SEALED
THE FOUNTAIN OPENED.
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PREFATORY NOTE.
The present volume contains the whole of Sibbes's remaining Expositions and Treatises based upon portions of the Epistles of St Paul. The single sermons, from Pauline texts, not already included, will be given in Volume VII., along with those from other passages of Scripture, all of which it is proposed to place together therein. A. B. G.
CONTENTS.
Page
THE CHRISTIAN WOEK. .... 1-34
Epistles Dedicatoiy and Prefatory. . . . 3-5
Notes. ....... 34
OF THE PEOA^DENCE OF GOD. • • • ^5-54
Notes. ....... 54
EXPOSITION OF PHILIPPIANS III. . • • 65
Notes. ....... 162-154
THE EEDEMPTION OF BODIES. ... 155
Epistles Dedicatory and Prefatory. . . . 157-160 Note 173
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CONTENTS,
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THE AET OF CONTENTMENT, ... 175
1. God's children know what it is to want and to abound
by experience. ..... 178
2. God's children know how to carry themselves comfortably
in any condition. .... 178 A Christian can cither want or abound without tainting
himself with the sins of those conditions. . 179
3. A Christian is an able man. . . . 181
Right use of infirmities. . , . . 184 The case of a sin of infirmity lived in. " . . 184, 185
Christianity a busy trade. .... 185
The trial of a sincere Christian's estate is universality of
obedience. ..... 185
What it is to do things evangelically. . . 187
4. The original of a Christian's estate is in Christ. . 189
5. We have in Christ, not only a general ability that we
are able, but we have the very act itself, the deed itself. 190
The skill to fetch strength from Christ. . » . 192
Notes. ....... 193
THE POWER OF CHRIST'S RESURRECTION.
195-201
THE HTODEN LIFE.
203-218
THE SPIRITUAL JUBILEE. •
Epistles Dedicatory and Prefatory. Notes. . . . .
219-247
221-224
247, 248
THE PRIVILEaES OF THE FAITHFUL.
Notes .....
249-284
285
THE CHR[STIAN'S END.
Notes. .
287-322 822
CHRIST'S EXALTATION PURCHASED BY HUMILIATION. 323
The coherence of the text. ..... 325
CONTENTS.
The text divided.
Christ's death was voluntary. .
That Christ should die is admirable.
That Christ rose again as a public person.
What became of those that rose with him.
The Spirit in heaven will supply all wants.
Justice must be satisfied.
Why we are the Lord's.
Excellent inferences from Christ's resurrection.
What a Lord Christ is.
He is a Lord both of quick and dead. .
God doth all to some good ends.
Divine truths depend on one another. .
Christ's Lordship full of security and comfort.
In the Lord's Supper we have to deal with the Christ, the Lord
A Christian man's aim good.
Christ rose to be Lord of the living.
He died to be Lord of his church.
And to be Lord of his enemies.
And to make good what by death he got.
His lordship eternal both over the living and the dead
How great a happiness to be under the Lord Christ.
Comforts against the fear of death.
We must look to Christ in life and death.
When we live to Christ.
Directions for our aiming at Christ in all things
Helps to live to Christ.
Divers desire him as Jesus but not as Christ.
What it is to die to Christ.
Christ's dying implies duty in us.
Abilities to do duties part of the covenant.
A sign to know who is under Christ's government.
Christ's Lordship, assurance of our perseverance.
What will make us willing to die.
There is more than an exemplary good in Christ's death
The scope of Christ's humiliation and exaltation.
The study of this scope is good.
By what title Christ is Lord. .
Divers comforts from this title of Christ's Lordship
An honour to be under Christ's Lordship.
It is great secm-ity to be under it.
Christ's Lordship a spring of duties, and that,