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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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First of all by nature there is a veil of covering over all mens spirits.1 To understand this better,2 let us unfold the terms of veil a little. There is a veil either upon the things themselves that are to be seen, or upon the soul which should behold them:3 The veil of things themselves is when they be hidden altogether, or in part, when we know part,4 and are ignorant of part. And this veil upon the things ariseth from the weak apprehension of them, when they are not represented in clear expressions but in obscurity of words, or in types. When we see them only in types, or obscure phrases, which hideth sometime the sight of the thing it self; The manner of Speech sometimes casteth a veil on things; for our Saviour Christ spake in Parables, which were like the cloud dark on the one side, light on the other, dark towards the Egyptians, light towards the Israelites: So some expressions of Scripture have a light side, that only the godly see, and a dark side, that other men good wit (as natural men) see not.
First of all by nature there is a vaile of covering over all mens spirits.1 To understand this better,2 let us unfold the termes of vaile a little. There is a vaile either upon the things themselves that are to bee seen, or upon the soule which should behold them:3 The vaile of things themselves is when they be hidden altogether, or in part, when we know part,4 and are ignorant of part. And this vaile upon the things ariseth from the weak apprehension of them, when they are not represented in cleare expressions but in obscurity of words, or in types. When we see them onely in types, or obscure phrases, which hideth sometime the sight of the thing it selfe; The manner of Speech sometimes casteth a vaile on things; for our Saviour Christ spake in Parables, which were like the cloud darke on the one side, light on the other, darke towards the Egyptians, light towards the Israelites: So some expressions of Scripture have a light side, that onely the godly see, and a darke side, that other men good wit (as naturall men) see not.