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A12205	Tvvo sermons vpon the first words of Christs last sermon Iohn XIIII. I. Being also the last sermons of Richard Sibbs D.D. Preached to the honourable society of Grayes Inne, Iune the 21. and 28. 1635. Who the next Lords day follwing, died, and rested from all his labours	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Nye, Philip, 1596?-1672.	1636 (1636)	STC 22515; ESTC S102407	24,191	77

when it is purged and pacified then keep it cleane for a foule soule is alwayes a troubled soule and though it may be quiet yet it is sure to break out afterwards And because there can be no more comfort then there is care of duty therefore together with innocencie let us be carefull of all duties in all our severall relations let us consider in what relations we stand and what duties we owe and be carefull to satisfie them all Neglect of duty is a debt and debts are troublesome when the soule reflects upon the omission of a necessarie duty I owe such a duty to such a person I should have done such a thing in such a relation but I have omitted it it is a disquietment and that upon good grounds and if you have beene negligent there must be an actuall renewing of the Covenant and a setting upon the duty with fresh endeavours to make amends for former negligences or else the soule shall have no comfort nor will God suffer it to admit of comfort And therefore work out your salvation with feare and trembling The reason that men do still tremble and are troubled with this doubt and that feare is because their salvation is not wrought out something is left undone and their consciences tels them so But above all that we may receive comfort let us labour for a spirit of faith Therefore here it is said You beleeve in God beleeve also in me Christ brings them to faith for comfort And he sets downe a a double object of faith God that is the Father Sonne and holy Ghost and Christ considered as Mediator and Christ brings them to himselfe Beleeve also in me because he would fense them against the future scandal of his suffering As if he should say You will hereafter when you see me so handled and upon the Crosse doubt and call in question whether I am God and the Messiah of the world or no. But if you beleeve in God beleeve in me For howsoever in love to you and mankinde I tooke mans nature on me and am abased yet in my greatest abasement remember this that I am God And surely there is nothing can stay the soule more especially when it is deeply humbled then to consider God in the second person incarnate and abased and crucified and made a curse and sinne for us to see the great God of heaven and earth whose excellencies we cannot comprehend to take our nature and in our nature to suffer for us those things which he did endure This will establish the soule indeed Can the the soule thinke that this was done for any small or to little purpose Or can there be any griefe or sinne that should hinder comfort or perswasion of the possibilitie of pardon when the great God became man on purpose to dye for sinne We may set this against all discouragements whatsoever And therefore beleeve in God beleeve also in me Howsoever you see me abased yet you may have comfort in my abasement for it is for you And therefore saith Paul Irejoyce to know nothing but Iesus Christ and him crucified That which proud and Atheisticall Heathens tooke scandall at that he rejoyceth in God forbid that I should glory in anything but in the Crosse of Christ Peace of conscience joy in the holy Ghost reconciliation and title to happinesse is all founded upon Christ crucified And then againe you see he joynes both together Ye beleeve in God beleeve also in me to shew the distinction of persons in the Trinitie God the Father Sonne and holy Ghost all our faith is resolved at length into one God but yet withall into three persons in that Divine nature because as there is God the Father offended so there must be a God to satisfie that God and there must be a God to reveale and apply that satisfaction The soule is so full of doubtings that nothing can set it downe but that which is above the soule and above the devill And therefore for our salvation and to give us comfort there is a necessitie of three persons in the Godhead The Father is offended God in the second person must satisfie offended justice and God in the third person must reveale and apply the Sonne for comfort And therefore he names them distinctly Ye beleeve in God c. And because we cannot beleeve in God the Father but by beleeving in Christ therefore he joynes them together ye beleeve in God ye beleeve also in me No man comes to the Father but by the Sonne God the Father dwels in the light that no mortall eye can approach unto onely he hath manifested himselfe in his Sonne who is the ingraven Image of his person God shines in the face of Christ and as he comes down and makes himselfe knowne to us in his Sonne so we must go up to him in his Sonne as he saith afterwards I am the way the truth and the life There is no going to the Father but by me nothing is more terrible then to conceive of God out of Christ for so he is a consuming fire therefore thinke of God as ours in Christ carry Christ our elder Brother with us and desire God to looke upon us in his Sonne Now now doth faith in Christ ease the soule in trouble Many wayes I will name a few Faith in Christ banisheth troubles and bringeth in comfort Because it is an emptying grace it emptieth us of our selves and so makes us cleane to another and thereby becomes a grace of union It is such a grace as brings the soule and Christ together Now Christ being the fountaine of comfort God having treasured all comfort in him for the fulnesse of the Godhead dwels in Christ and faith causeth Christ to dwell in us brings the soule and Christ together and so must needs make way for comfort for it makes us one with the fountain of comfort And by its repeated acts derives fresh comfort Again faith establisheth the heart Now to establish the soule there must be a solid Basis as in building there must be a foundation and a planting upon that foundation Now here is a foundation God and Christ and there must be a grace to found and bottome the soule thereupon and that is faith and so the soule is established The chaine and connexion of causes herein is this God the Father in Christ and by the holy Ghost conveighs comforts through the word laid hold upon by faith It is not the word alone for that is but as the veins and atteries that conveigh the bloud and spirits So the Spirit being conveighed by the promises helpeth the soule to lay it selfe upon Christ by faith which is a grace of union by which union with him the foule is established And then againe faith stirreth up such graces as do comfort the soule as hope in all good things promised And therefore in the next Verse he addes to comfort them In my Fathers house are many mansions and

beene misdoubtings And yet if the holy Ghost sets not downe the heart and convinceth it throughly of the all-sufficiencie of that satisfaction it would never beleeve neither And therefore as ye beleeve in God beleeve also in me for I am God too We may know that Christ is God not onely by that which Christ hath done the Miracles which none could do but God but also by what is done to him And two things are done to him which shew that he is God that is Faith and Prayer we must beleeve onely in God and pray onely to God But Christ is the object of both these here he is set forth as the object of Faith and of Prayer in that of Saint Stephen Lord Iesus receive my spirit And therefore he is God for that is done unto him which is proper and peculiar onely to God That which I shall now touch upon is this we must remember what a strong foundation what bottome and basis our faith hath there is God the Father Sonne and holy Ghost and Christ the Mediator that our faith may be supported we have him to beleeve on who supports heaven and earth As in 1. Hebr. and Colos. 1. he created all things as well as the Father he is honoured of all as well as the Father he that supports the pillars of heaven and earth is able to support the pillars of thy soule But how doth faith in Christ ease the soule of trouble In a word as it carrieth the soule out of it selfe unto God in Christ and unto Christ uniting and making us one with him and so sets the soule above all trouble whatsoever for being one with Christ we are already with him in heaven And againe faith is a grace that presents things to come as present and so establisheth the soule It is the hypostasis of things it gives subsistance to them in the promise and it doth never leave to do it till the things subsist indeed It is grace that accompanieth the soule to heaven looking upon things in the word of him that is truth it selfe and so giving a kinde of being to them throughout all the way to heaven till they have a being indeed And then faith is out of office yeelding it up to sight and the full enjoyment of all But did not the Disciples beleeve already Yes they did but they had need to renew their faith as occasions were renewed and as troubles were to increase Beleeve in me it is as he should have said Now there is occasion for you to use your faith I must be taken out of your sight you must see me suffer and you had need of an extraordinarie measure of faith to see me in such abasement and yet to beleeve that I am God We must grow from faith to faith we may live by it continually and we must increase with the encrease of God that as our difficulties do encrease our strength to go through them may encrease also as they prayed Lord encrease our faith I gave some directions how we might not be troubled And first we must labour to have our part and portion in Christ else there is nothing belongs to us but trouble There are two sorts of men in the Church some that usurpe a peace and exemption from trouble as if joy and comfort were their portion Sathan is wise enough not to trouble them and they take an order with their consciences that they shall not trouble them till needs must till the houre of death or some dismall accident the onely way for such is to be troubled that their trouble may be a foundation of their comfort For to such as live in their sinnes against conscience apparantly so that every man may see it and yet are not troubled they have no interest in comfort nothing but wo and misery belongs to them Indeed Christ came to save sinners but it is broken-hearted sinners penitent sinners that are wearie and heavy laden under the burthen of sin And therefore though these speake peace to themselves yet we dare not speake any comfort to them from Christ As Iehu said to Ioram What hast thou to do with peace as long as the whoredomes of thy mother lezebel are so many Dost thou talke of peace as long as thou art a sweater a prophane liver a malitious person against all that are truly good what hast thou to do with peace Now in the visible Church there is another sort that Sathan laboureth to trouble since he cannot keepe them in the state of nature but they breake from him Christ pulling them out of Sathans kingdome by the power of his ordinances and holy Spirit he labours to trouble them in their peace all he can because they be in the world above the world he enjoyes their condition that they should enjoy that paradise which he left the comforts that he once had and therefore he labours to disturbe them in their comforts The estate of such is mixt here in this world they have that in them and without them which will alwayes be a cause and occasion of trouble They have corruption in them not altogether subdued and they have without them Sathan taking advantage against them and the world opposing them These although they have something in them that must be subdued yet something also that must be cherished and strengthened And therefore these are the persons to whom comfort properly belongs In heaven we shall have no need of being comforted for there our peace shall be to have no enemies at all our peace here is to have comfort in the midst of discomfort and an heart inlarged in troubles He speaks this to them here who were beleevers already Ye beleeve in God who he knew should not be troubled Let not your hearts be troubled So that to the end we may be subjects capable of comfort we must be such as by faith are one with Christ and so reconciled to God All motion ends in rest and all the rest of the soul ends in God the center of the soule And therefore before the soule can settle it selfe it must be brought to God through Christ that must be laid as a ground Now there is a threefold malady that troubleth us and there must be a threefold peace and ground of comfort against them First it is a trouble to the soule when once it is awakened that God and it should be in ill termes when the soule looks upon God as angry and is displeased with it Againe the soule is troubled when it looks upon it selfe and sees nothing but turmoiles and seditions there Thirdly when it looks upon the affaires of the world and accidents here below it is full of confusion for the present and it is full of feares for time to come that things will be worse and worse Thus the soule whilest it is in the world is troubled about its peace with God and with its selfe and about this evill world Now before the soule can