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The glorious feast of the Gospel. Or, Christs gracious invitation and royal entertainment of…The glorious feast of the Gospel. Or, Christs gracious invitation and royall entertainment of…
The glorious feast of the Gospel. Or, Christs gracious invitation and royal entertainment of believers. Wherein amongst other things these comfortable doctrines are spiritually handled: Viz. 1. The marriage feast between Christ and his Church. 2. The veil of ignorance and unbelief removed. 3. Christs conquest over death. 4. The wiping away of tears from the faces of Gods people. 5. The taking away of their reproaches. 6. The precious promises of God, and their certain performance. 7. The divine authority of the holy scriptures. 8. The duty and comfort of waiting upon God. / Delivered in divers sermons upon Isai.25 chap.6,7,8,9 verses, by the late reverend, learned and faithful minister of the Gospel, Richard Sibbs, D.D. Master of Katharine-Hall in Cambridge, and preacher at Gray's-Inn, London. Perused by those that were instructed to revise his writings.The glorious feast of the Gospel. Or, Christs gracious invitation and royall entertainment of believers. Wherein amongst other things these comfortable doctrines are spiritually handled: Viz. 1. The marriage feast between Christ and his Church. 2. The vaile of ignorance and unbeliefe removed. 3. Christs conquest over death. 4. The wiping away of teares from the faces of Gods people. 5. The taking away of their reproaches. 6. The precious promises of God, and their certaine performance. 7. The divine authority of the holy scriptures. 8. The duty and comfort of waiting upon God. / Delivered in divers sermons upon Isai.25 chap.6,7,8,9 verses, by the late reverend, learned and faithfull minister of the Gospell, Richard Sibbs, D.D. Master of Katharine-Hall in Cambridge, and preacher at Grayes-Inne, London. Perused by those that were instructed to revise his writings.
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1650
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But the time will come, that the rebukes of his people shall be taken away. The good things as they are ⟨p. 34⟩best, so shall they be known to be so: And sin, and base courses, as they are bad, and as they are from Hell, so they shall be known to be; every thing shall appear in its own colours, things shall not go masked any longer. And what is the seal of all this? The seal of it is, The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it; truth it self hath spoken it, and therefore it must needs be, Jehovah that can give a being to all things, he hath said it.
But the time will come, that the rebukes of his people shall be taken away. The good things as they are ⟨p. 34⟩best, so shall they be knowne to bee so: And sinne, and base courses, as they are bad, and as they are from Hell, so they shall be knowne to be; every thing shall appear in its owne colours, things shall not goe masked any longer. And what is the seal of all this? The seal of it is, The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it; truth it selfe hath spoken it, and therefore it must needs be, Jehovah that can give a being to all things, he hath said it.
We have heard why the Church is called a Mountain. He will destroy, or swallow up, as the word may signify, the face of covering, or the covering of the face; the veil which is the covering of the face, and particularly expressed in that term, always, the veil that is spread over all Nations.
Wee have heard why the Church is called a Mountaine. He will destroy, or swallow up, as the word may signifie, the face of covering, or the covering of the face; the vaile which is the covering of the face, and particularly exprest in that terme, alwayes, the vaile that is spread over all Nations.