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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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I but the poor Christian can taste, can feel them, can relish and improve them: his knowledge is a knowledge with interest, but other mens knowledge is a knowledge with no interest or experience at all: So that there is naturally a veil of ignorance on the heart of every natural man.
I but the poor Christian can taste, can feele them, can relish and improve them: his knowledge is a knowledge with interest, but other mens knowledge is a knowledge with no interest or experience at all: So that there is naturally a vaile of ignorance on the heart of every naturall man.
Christianity is a mystery; till conversion there is a mystery in every point of Religion: none know what repentance is, but a repentant sinner; all the books in the world cannot inform the heart what sin is, or what sorrow is. A sick man knoweth what a disease is better then all Physicians, for he feeleth it; no man knoweth what faith is but the true believer: there is a mystery also in love. Godliness is called a mystery, not only for the notional, but the practical part of it; why do not men more solace themselves in the transcendent things of Religion, which may ravish Angels. Alas, there is a veil over their soul, that they do not know them, or not experimentally they have no taste or feeling of them.
Christianity is a mystery; till conversion there is a mystery in every point of Religion: none know what repentance is, but a repentant sinner; all the bookes in the world cannot informe the heart what sin is, or what sorrow is. A sicke man knoweth what a disease is better then all Physicians, for he feeleth it; no man knoweth what faith is but the true believer: there is a mystery also in love. Godlinesse is called a mystery, not onely for the notionall, but the practicall part of it; why doe not men more solace themselves in the transcendent things of Religion, which may ravish Angels. Alas, there is a vaile over their soule, that they doe not know them, or not experimentally they have no taste or feeling of them.