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when all enemies shall be trodden under foot. Satan and all enemies whatsoever shall go to their place. The opposite church shall be no longer. When the last trump shall blow we shall all stand together at the right hand of Christ, and be for ever glorious with him.
NOTES.
(a) P. 464. — 'As that proud cardinal in Germany said, " I confess," ' &c. Tliis saying is imputed to the Cardinal Cajetan, but whether a good authority we do not know.
(6) P. 469. — ' As Lutlier saitli well, " He hates the quills of geese," ' &c. One of his ' Table Talk ' sayings. Cf. note uu, Vol. III. page 533.
(c) P. 471. — ' It was a worthy work, beseeming tliat grave and reverend person.' The following is no doubt the work referred to by Sibbes : — 'A ThankfuU Kemem- brance of God's Mercy, in an historical collection of the great and mercifull deliver- ances of the Church and State of England since the Gospel began here to flourish from the beginning of Queen Elizabeth.' 1627. 4to. The author was George Carleton, Bishop of Chichester.
(d) P. 473. — ' It was said to Luther when lie began'. A taunt often met with in the contemporary controversies, and one which, at times, flung a shadow of doubt over the great Pieformer himself, as witnessed in his ' Table Talk.' G.
THE DEMAND OF k GOOD CONSCIENCE.*
The like figure xvhereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away thefiJth of the flesh, hut the ansicer of a good conscience toward God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. — 1 Pet. III. 21.
The dependence of these words upon the former is this. The blessed apostle had spoken before of those that were before the flood, and of Noah's saving in the ark, whereupon he mentions baptism : ' The like figure whereunto is baptism, which also saveth us.' * Christ was yesterday, to-day, and the same for ever,' Heb. siii. 8. He was the same unto them before his incarnation, and the same unto them that lived in his time, and to us that shall be for ever. All were saved by Christ, and all had several sacrifices that were types of Christ. As there were two cities of the world from the beginning of the world figured out in Cain and Abel, the beginners of both, so God hath carried himself differently to the citizens of both. He always had a care to save his Noahs in the midst of destruction ; he had an ark alway for his Noahs. ' God knoweth how to deliver his,' saith the apostle Peter, 2 Pet. ii. 9. It is a work that he hath practised a long time, since the beginning of the world ; and for the other that are not his, that are of Cain's posterity, God carries himself in a contrary way to them ; he destroys them. But to come to the words, ' The like figure whereunto even baptism doth now save us,' &c. The saving of Noah in the ark was a correspondent answerable type to baptism ; for as baptism figures Christ, so did the saving of Noah in the ark. They are correspondent in many things. *" 1. As all that were without the ark j^erished, so all that are without Christ, that are not engrafted into Christ by faith, whereof baptism was a seal, they perish.
2. And as the same water in the flood preserved Noah in the ark, and destroyed all the old icorld, so the same blood and death of Christ, and his sufferings, it kills all our spiritual enemies. They are all drowned in the
* ' The Demand of a Good Conscience ' forms one of the ' Sermons ' which com- pose 'Evangelical Sacrifices' (4to, 1640). Its separate title-page is as follows: — ' The Demand of a Good Conscience. In one Sermon, upon 1 Pet. 3. 21, By The late learned and Eeverend Divine, Eich. Sibbs : Doctor in Divinity, Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge, and sometimes Preacher to the Honourable Society of Grayes-Inne. 2 Cor. 1. 12. For our reioycing is this, the testimony of our Con- science, &c. London, Printed by E. Purslow, for N. Bourne, at the Royall Exchange, and R. Harford, at the gilt Bible in Queenes head Alley, in Pater-Noster-Row. 1640
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Red Sea of Christ's blood, but [itj preserves bis children. There were three main waters and deluges, which did all typify out Christ : the flood, that drowned the old world ; the passing through the Red Sea ; and the waters of Jordan. In all these God's people were saved, and the enemies of God's church destroyed, whereunto Micah the prophet alludes when he saith, ' He shall drown our sins in the bottom of the sea,' chap. vii. 19. He alludes to Pharaoh and his host drowned in the bottom of the sea. They sunk as lead; so all our sins, which are our enemies, if we be in Christ, they sink as lead.
3. As Noah, when he went to make the ark and to get into it, ivas mocked of the uretched ivorld, so all that labour to get into Christ and to be saved, they are derided.