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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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And so in any points of Religion naturally, a man sees not them spiritually, as they are, and as God sees them, but he seeth them by a humane light; he seeth heavenly things by a humane light, notionally, and merely to discourse of them, he seeth not intuitively into the things themselves, he seeth them sub aliena specie, under another representation then their own; only a godly man seeth spiritual things as the spirit of God,1 and seeth them as they are, knows sin as it is, knoweth grace to be as it is, and knoweth faith; what it is to believe, what it is to have peace of conscience, and the pardon of sins: he knoweth these things in some sense intuitively, though not so as he shall do when he shall see these things in heaven, when he shall see face to face. There is a great difference in it, he sees them intuitively, in respect of the knowledge of other men, though he sees but in a glass, in regard of the knowledge he shall have in heaven: As Saint Paul saith, for we see but ⟨p. 39⟩as in a glass; but he that sees in a glass seeth more life, then he that sees the dead picture of a man: So though we see but in a glass heavenly things, yet we see them better then those that see them in a dead notion; though it be nothing to the knowledge we shall have in heaven, yet it is incomparable above the knowledge of any carnal natural man upon the earth.
And so in any points of Religion naturally, a man sees not them spiritually, as they are, and as God sees them, but he seeth them by a humane light; hee seeth heavenly things by a humane light, notionally, and meerely to discourse of them, he seeth not intritively into the things themselves, he seeth them sub aliena specie, under another representation then their owne; onely a godly man seeth spirituall things as the spirit of God,1 and seeth them as they are, knowes sinne as it is, knoweth grace to be as it is, and knoweth faith; what it is to believe, what it is to have peace of conscience, and the pardon of sinnes: he knoweth these things in some sense intritively, though not so as he shall doe when he shall see these things in heaven, when he shall see face to face. There is a great difference in it, hee sees them intritively, in respect of the knowledge of other men, though he sees but in a glasse, in regard of the knowledge hee shall have in heaven: As Saint Paul saith, for wee see but