NICHOL'S SERIES OF STANDARD DIVINES. PURITAN PERIOD. With General Preface BY JOHN C. MILLER, D.D., LINCOLN COLLEGE; HONORARY CANON OF WORCESTER; RECTOR OF ST MARTIN'S, BIRMINGHAM. THE WORKS OF RICHARD SIBBES, D.D. VOL. V. COUNCIL OF PUBLICATION. W. LINDSAY ALEXANDER, D.D., Professor of Theology, Congregational Union, Edinburgh. JAMES BEGG, D.D., Minister of Newington Free Church, Edinburgh. THOMAS J. CRAWFORD, D.D., S.T.P., Professor of Divinity, University, Edinburgh. D. T. K. DRUMMOND, M.A., Minister of St Thomas's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh. WILLIAM H. GOOLD, D.D., Professor of Biblical Literature and Church History, Reformed Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh. ANDREW THOMSON, D.D., Minister of Broughton Place United Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh. General Editor. REV. THOMAS SMITH, M.A., EDINBURGH. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF RICHARD SIBBES, D.D., MASTER OF CATHERINE HALL, CAMBRIDGE; PREACHER OF GRAY'S INN, Edited, with Memoir, BY THE REV. ALEXANDER BALLOCH GROSART, (COR. MEMB. SOC. ANTIQ. OF SCOTLAND) KINROSS. VOL. V. CONTAINING EXPOSITIONS AND TREATISES FROM PORTIONS OF VIZ:- THE CHRISTIAN WORK-OF THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD- THE POWER OF CHRIST'S RESURRECTION-THE HIDDEN LIFE- EDINBURGH: JAMES NICHOL. LONDON: JAMES NISBET AND CO. DUBLIN: W. ROBERTSON. M.DCCC.LXIII. And to make good what by death he got. His lordship eternal both over the living and the dead. How great a happiness to be under the Lord Christ. Comforts against the fear of death. 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. Christ's Lordship a spring of duties, and that, 1. One to another. 2. To those that are not Christians. 849, seq. |