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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, of Ignorance. There is a veil of ignorance in many,1 and in all men naturally a veil of ignorance of spiritual things; for unless they be revealed, they can never be known to Angels themselves: The Angels themselves know not the Gospel till it be opened, and therefore they be students in it continually; and the best men in the world know nothing in the Gospel further then it is revealed; but there is a veil of ignorance upon them that know these things notionally,2 because they do not know them as they should know them; they do not know them in propria specie, spiritual and heavenly things as spiritual and heavenly things: they do not know spiritual things as spiritual things, they have a humane knowledge of spiritual things. Those that want grace, they know the Grammar ⟨p. 38⟩of the Scripture and Divinity, and they know how to discourse as Schoolmen do, from one thing to another, and to argue; they know the Logic and Rhetoric of the Scripture, but they stick in the stile, there is something they are ignorant of: That is, they have not an eye of knowledge, as we call it; they do not see the things themselves, but only they see things by another bodies spirit, and they have no light of their own: And so no man knoweth naturally but the children of God what original sin is, what corruption of nature is, nor knows sin in its own odious colours, to be filthy, and to be dangerous as it is; to draw the curse and vengeance of God upon it, this is not known, but by the spirit revealing the odiousness of sin, that the soul may apprehend it, as Christ did when he suffered for it, and as God doth. A gracious man seeth it as God seeth it, because by the spirit of God he seeth the filthiness and odiousness of it, and the danger it draweth after it.
First of all, of Ignorance. There is a vaile of ignorance in many,1 and in all men naturally a vaile of ignorance of spirituall things; for unlesse they be revealed, they can never be knowne to Angels themselves: The Angels themselves know not the Gospell till it be opened, and therefore they be students in it continually; and the best men in the world know nothing in the Gospell further then it is revealed; but there is a vaile of ignorance upon them that know these things notionally,