Sibbes - Houston-Packer Collection BX9339.S5 B6 1641

-1 - - ---------- - - - ---- ·- -~- -·------1--- I 4 6 1am my Belo-veds, I lSEn.X!X.i TherefOre here we have JMother anfwer to 1 A.n.fw. / SHcan, If he comes to us and folic irem to finne, i An anjnm. u let the Chrifiians heart make this anfwer I am ' Sat4'l agmr/l:i . . ? · deJPaire ar fi~~~ not mtrte owne, what bath S:tcan a;,d h1s tnfiru. ! in temptation. meo ts to doe with me~ is my body l!lis to defile~ \ ismy ·tonguehistofweareat hi~pleafure ~ fhall ! I make the Temp!~ of God the member of an_, h1rlot~ (as the ApofHe reafons) flull I defile my l. 1 Cot,,6,I$. ve!feii with lirme ~What faith converted Ephra. i im 1 Hoft4 'i 4 8. What have I ilf!J'Y morettJd6ewtth l Ido's': for I b.ve.(een andobfrvedhim.? We ought I to have fuch refolmions ready in our hearcs : in. I deed when a Chrifl:ian is rdolute; the world cc.unts fuch robe loft, he is gone, we have lofi: him, fay your diffolute prophane perfons. Iris true they h1ve loll: him indeed, for he is not his 1 owne, much ]eife rheirs any longer, but he is found to God, -and himfelfe, and the Church. !"hus wee fe-e what [pringsf:om rhis,that ~brill ) 1s ours, and that we areChnfts backe agJUl. Let I us carry this with us even to dear h, and if times That it u our fhould come that God lhould honour us by fer– exreeli"g hap- \ vinghimfdte of us in our lives if Chrifi will p1ner i b :Jt now\ r. d bl d, r.l l . I we are nor. Qur . have us 1pen our ou ., comt·Jer t 11s~ amnor o.w,~;Je. mineowne in life nor dearh, and it is my happindferhat I arn not mine owne; for if Twere mine . owne, what {hould I doe with my fe:lfe':'l !h'Juld lofemy felfe as •..Ada-n did.Ids therefore my happindfeth:lt I am not mine owne, that I am not the.worl ds, that I am not the Devils, that. none eli~h_atb w doe with me, toclaime~myin. terefi in ·me, but I am Chdlls, ifI doe.any thirgt-. fo~l ,

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