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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12177	The Christians end. Or, The sweet soveraignty of Christ, over his members in life and death VVherein is contained the whole scope of the godly mans life, with divers rules, motives and incouragements, to live and die to Iesus Christ. Being the substance of five sermons preached to the honorable society of Grayes Inne, by that learned and faithfull minister of Gods Word, Richard Sibbes, D.D. and sometimes preacher to that honorable societie.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1639 (1639)	STC 22485; ESTC S117259	45,936	138

THE CHRISTIANS END OR The sweet Soveraignty of CHRIST over his members in life and death VVherein is contained the whole scope of the godly MANS life with divers Rules Motives and Incouragements to live and die to IESUS CHRIST Being the substance of five SERMONS preached to the Honorable Society of Grayes Inne by that Learned and faithfull Minister of Gods Word RICHARD SIBBES D. D. and sometimes Preacher to that Honorable Societie 1. COR. 6. 20. Yee are bought with a price c. HEB. 11. 4. He being dead yet speaketh LONDON Printed by Thomas Harper for Lawrence Chapman and are to be sold at his shop at Chancery lane end next Holborne 1639. THE FIRST SERMON ROM 14. 7 8. None of us liveth to himself and none of us dyeth to himself for whether we live we live unto the Lord and whether we die we die unto the Lord Whether we live therefore or die we are the Lords THe sc●pe of the Chapter in ●he former part of it is to discover to the Romans and in them to us all how to carry our selves to others in matters of indifferency As there is difference of things in the world some good some ill and some of a middle nature so there are different affections in men about these things of a middle nature some are strong and they are prone to despise the weaker for they know their liberty Some more weak and they are prone to censure and complain of them that be strong as all weaknesse is full of impatience Thus it was with the Romans the strong despised the weaker as ignorant the weaker censured and in their hearts condemned the strong as too adventurous The Apostle sheweth here an excellent peaceable spirit hating contention as an evill thing in a Church In a Fa●ily when children fall together by the eares the father taketh up the quarrell by beating them both So in a Church while people fall a contending and breaking the bonds of love God taketh them in hand And therefore the Apostle taketh them off from this danger of despising one another and presseth it by a reason in the fourth Verse drawn First from their relations Who art thou that judgest another mans servant Secondly from their aimes They doe it both out of religious respects Hee that eateth eateth to the Lord he that eateth not eateth not to the Lord hee that regardeth not a day regardeth it not to the Lord he that doth it doth it to the Lord. And therfore if both have a Religious respect censure may be forborn There is that force in a good aime that in some actions of an indifferent nature they may be done or not be done God may beare with both though hee allow not of eithers carelesness in searching out the truth Till the ●ime of growth God beareth with them so their aimes be gracious their fault being simple ignorance not malicious pertinacy When S. Paul saw the hypocriticall aimes of the Galathians in things of indifferent natures he would not yield a whit to them But the defect of the Romans was in their knowledge not in their wils they did it with respect to the Lord. And therefore as in Acts 13. 18. God is said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an excellent word to beare with their manners in the VVildernesse dispencing with many things as putting away of wives c. not that hee liked that course but hee would set up a meek kinde of government not taking advantage to cast them off So he dealt with the Romans Now shall God be mercifull and indulgent and man severe In the text you have a generall reason why they that did it or did it not did or did it not to the Lord. For none liveth to himselfe or dieth to himselfe but whether we live or die we are the Lords In this reason here is first a generall negative None of us liveth to himselfe none of us dieth to himselfe a figurative speech and Rhetoricall expression beginning and ending alike Secondly there is a generall affirmative when hee hath taken them off from themselves hee assigneth them to a true Lord. Whether we live we live to the Lord whether wee die wee die to the Lord. And this is set downe with a disjunction wee neither live to our selves nor die to our selves And thirdly a generall ground that wrappeth ●p all Whether we live or die we are the Lords And therfore in reason wee should live to him and die to him Fourthly there is the ground of all in that that followeth For to this end Christ died and rose againe that bee might be Lord of life and death So here is reason upon reason and ground upon ground The summe of all is wee cannot certainly conclude of life or death For wee live but for a while and when wee have acted our part upon the Stage we die and go to another world Of life and death we can make no reckoning Assoone as wee begin to live we begin to die For some part of our life is taken away daily as it is with sum the more you take away the lesse remayneth But certaine it is living and dying we are the Lords VVee ought therfore to have a conjunctive consideration I now live yet that is not my comfort but sure I am Whether I live or die I am the Lords He riseth from a generall to a particular which may teach us this point of wisdome First that to have good generall truths is an excellent point of wisdome for they have affluence into all particulars A comprehension of principles is the ground of prudence for direction in particular cases There is no art but hath some generall maxims as in Law in Physick and in the Mathematicks There be canons or principles call them what you will that have influence into all particulars So Religion hath general rules which should be deposited in memory at all times that on all occasions wee may see how particulars spring from and agree to the generals Therefore wee should labour to treasure up in our memory good principles for men worke in all things according to their principles If they have good principles or general truths they work answerably And the reason of any errour in a Christians life is from false principles Men of a bad conscience whose synteresis being the part of the soul that preserveth principles is corrupt they think they do God good service in killing of men from an abominable principle As in Popery which is grounded upon false principles making mens traditions a rule of faith Therefore it is good to have generall true grounds Marke how the Scripture is frequent this way What an excellent generall rule is that of Christ Seeke the kingdome of God and his righteousnesse and all other things shall be cast upon you Carry that along and what a light doth it give into all our actions VVhat need wee by indirect courses seeke to bee great in the world if we take Christs