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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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When something is concealed,1 as in the Sacrament, they be mysteries: we see the bread, we see the wine, but under the bread and wine other things are intended; the breaking of the body of Christ, and the shedding of his blood, and in that the love and mercy of God in Christ, in giving him to death for us; and Christs love to give himself to satisfy Divine Justice: these be the things intended, which only the soul sees and apprehendeth. And so all things in the Church indeed are mysteries, the incarnation of Christ, the union of both natures, that Christ should save the world by such a way as he did, that he should bring us to glory by shame, to life, by death, to blessing and happiness, by being a curse for us; it is a mystery to bring contrary out of contrary: That so glorious a person as God, should be covered with our weak and sinful nature: it was a mystery, the Jews stumbled at it; light came, and the darkness could not comprehend the light. And as Christ was a mystery himself, so the Church is a mystery, that God should so much delight in a company of poor men, the off-scouring of the world, to make them temples of his holy Spirit, and heirs of heaven, men that were under the scorn of the world: this is a mystery, so all is mystical, the head, the members, the body, the Church, and every particular point of Religion; there is a mystery in repentance, no man knoweth what sorrow for sin is, but the true gracious person; no man knows what it is to believe, but he that hath an heart to believe; no man knoweth what peace of conscience and joy of the holy Ghost is, but those that feel it; so that is a mystery. And therefore great is the mystery ⟨p. 37⟩of godliness, saith the Apostle, not only in the points themselves, but even the practice of Religion is a mystery too. Repentance, and Faith, and new obedience, and love, and the comforts of Religion, are all mysteries; there is a veil upon them in all these points, that a carnal man cannot see them.
When something is concealed,1 as in the Sacrament, they be mysteries: we see the bread, we see the wine, but under the bread and wine other things are intended; the breaking of the body of Christ, and the shedding of his bloud, and in that the love and mercy of God in Christ, in giving him to death for us; and Christs love to give himself to satisfie Divine Justice: these be the things intended, which onely the soule sees and apprehendeth. And so all things in the Church indeed are mysteries, the incarnation of Christ, the union of both natures, that Christ should save the world by such a way as he did, that he should bring us to glory by shame, to life, by death, to blessing and happinesse, by being a curse for us; it is a mystery to bring contrary out of contrary: That so glorious a person as God, should be covered with our weake and sinnefull nature: it was a mystery, the Jewes stumbled at it; light came, and the darkenesse could not comprehend the light. And as Christ was a mystery himselfe, so the Church is a mystery, that God should so much delight in a company of poore men, the off-scowring of the world, to make them temples of his holy Spirit, and heires of heaven, men that were under the scorne of the world: this is a mystery, so all is mysticall, the head, the members, the body, the Church, and every particular point of Religion; there is a mystery in repentance, no man knoweth what sorrow for sin is, but the true gracious person; no man knowes what it is to believe, but he that hath an heart to believe; no man knoweth what peace of conscience and joy of the holy Ghost is, but those that feele it; so that is a mystery. And therefore great is the mystery