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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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Again, naturally men have veils of ignorance upon the most divine things; of spiritual things, such as is union, and as is the communion between Christ and us, and the mystery of regeneration in the new creature, such as is the joy in the holy Ghost, the inward peace of conscience. I will not name the particulars to insist on them, but give you only an instance; though they know the notion of these things, yet they are altogether ignorant of them: their knowledge is a mere outward light, it is a light radicated in the soul; It is not as the light of the Moon, which receiveth light from the Sun, but it is a light radicated and incorporated into the soul, as the light of the Sun is by the spirit, it is in the soul; it is not only upon the soul, but in the soul; the heart sees and feeleth, and knoweth divine truths: there is a power and virtue in the sight and knowledge of a gracious man, there is none in the knowledge of a carnal man. The light of a candle hath a light in it, but no virtue at all goeth with it;1 but the light of the Sun, and the light of the stars, they have a special virtue, they have heat with them, and they have an influence in a special kind on inferior bodies working together with the light; So it is with heavenly apprehension and knowledge, it actually conveyeth light but with the light there is a blessed and gracious influence, there is heat and efficacy with that light. But though a carnal man know all the body of divinity, yet it is a mere light without heat,2 a light without influence: It is not experimental. As a blind man can talk of colours, if he be a Scholar, and describe them better then he that hath ⟨p. 40⟩his eyes, he being not a Scholar: but he that hath his eyes can can judge of colours a great deal better.3 Oftentimes by book a Scholar can tell you foreign countries, better than he that hath travelled, yet the traveller that hath bin there, can tell them more distinctly; So he that is experienced in that kind, though a stranger, can measure another mans ground better then himself, he can tell you here is so many Acres;4