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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
THE ART OF CONTENTMENT.
1. God's children know what it is to want and to abound
by experience.
2. God's children know how to carry themselves comfortably
in any condition.
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A Christian can either want or abound without tainting
himself with the sins of those conditions.
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The trial of a sincere Christian's estate is universality of
obedience.
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What it is to do things evangelically.
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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
In the Lord's Supper we have to deal with the Christ, the Lord.
335
A Christian man's aim good.
Christ rose to be Lord of the living.
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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.
337
How great a happiness to be under the Lord Christ.
Comforts against the fear of death.
338
The scope of Christ's humiliation and exaltation.
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 study of this scope is good.
By what title Christ is Lord.
An honour to be under Christ's Lordship.
It is great security to be under it.
Christ's Lordship a spring of duties, and that,
1. One to another. 2. To those that are not Christians. 3. To Christ himself.
Christians must be always projecting for his glory.
Christ's Lordship comfortable in the hour of death.
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in justification, what it is and how known
in sanctification-trials of it.
in glorification-signs of it.
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in desertion appears his enemy.
Evidence of a man in the state of grace, notwithstanding God
How to live by faith-1. In our daily afflictions.
2. In sickness of body
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1. That Christ loves some with a superabundant, peculiar
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love.
3. That assurance of God's favour doth spring from this
particular faith.
2. True Faith doth answer this particular love and gift
of Christ by applying it to itself.
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One may be in the state of grace without this assur-
ance, especially in the new-birth pangs.
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Trial of sincerity herein.
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Why some want feeling and sense of mercy so long.
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4. This particular faith in obedience to Christ, with assurance
of his particular love, is that which carries us comfortably
along, even to the day of death.
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God's love to us inflames us with love to him again.
A trial of true grace when the reflect act of faith is
hindered.
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Trial of Christ's love to us.
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How to know that we have this particular assurance.
In some cases we must be censured by others, not our-
selves, concerning our condition.