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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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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.
And so there is a veil of unbelief;1 there is no man without grace, that believeth truly what he knoweth, but he believeth in the general only, he believeth things so far forth, as they cross not his lusts. But when particular truths are enforced on a carnal man, his lusts do overbear all his knowledge, and he hath a ⟨p. 41⟩secret scorn arising in his heart, whereby he derideth those truths, and goeth against them, and makes him think certainly these be not true, and therefore he believeth them not. If a man by nature believed the truths he saith he knoweth, he would not go directly against them: But the ground of this is, there is a mist of sinful lusts that are raised out of the soul, that darkens the soul, that at the present time the soul is atheistical, and full of unbelief; for there is no sin but ignorance and unbelief breatheth it into the soul, and maketh way for it; For if a man knew what he were about, and apprehended that God saw him, and the danger of it,