They Cryed to God in their trouble.
THIS is the carriage of man in extreame ills; if hee haue any feare of God in him, to pray and then prayers are cries
The riches of mercie In two treatises: 1 Lydia's conversion. 2. A rescue from death. By the late learned, and reverend divine, Richard Sibbs, Doctor in Divinitie. Published by the authors own appointment, and subscribed with his owne hand to prevent imperfect copies.
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- The riches of mercie In two treatises: 1 Lydia's conversion. 2. A rescue from death. By the late learned, and reverend divine, Richard Sibbs, Doctor in Divinitie. Published by the authors own appointment, and subscribed with his owne hand to prevent imperfect copies.
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- Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.
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- London :: Printed by I[ohn] D[awson] for Francis Eglesfeild, and are to be sold by him at the signe of the Marigold in Pauls Church-yard,
- 1638.
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"The riches of mercie In two treatises: 1 Lydia's conversion. 2. A rescue from death. By the late learned, and reverend divine, Richard Sibbs, Doctor in Divinitie. Published by the authors own appointment, and subscribed with his owne hand to prevent imperfect copies." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12191.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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sleight in thanksgiving? Usually the reason is they did not conceive that they were in such extreame danger as they were.
Likewise he suffers men to fall into extreame sick∣nesse that he may have all the glory, for it was his doing, there was no se∣cond cause to helpe here, for their soule abhorred all manner of meate, and they were even at the Gates of death, Now when all second causes fayle, then God is exalted therfore he suffers men to fall into ex∣treamity, the greater the maladie, the more is the glory of the Physitian.
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The second thing is this, as God brings his chil∣dren into extremity, So;
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Doct. God suf∣fers men to fall to great mise∣ry.
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Reas. 1.