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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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Though we be never so unworthy, he will magnify ⟨p. 44⟩his grace to poor sinners, and without that the soul will never believe, there is such an infinite disproportion between the soul and the things, between the sinful soul and the spirit, so that God must over-power the soul to make it believe.
Though we be never so unworthy, he will magnifie ⟨p. 44⟩his grace to poore sinners, and without that the soule will never believe, there is such an infinite disproportion betweene the soule and the things, between the sinfull soule and the spirit, so that God must over-power the soule to make it believe.
The Scripture is full of this: As we are naturally ignorant, and full of unbelief: so God only can overpower the soul, and take away the veil of Ignorance.
The Scripture is full of this: As we are naturally ignorant, and full of unbeliefe: so God onely can overpower the soule, and take away the vaile of Ignorance.
All the Angels in heaven,1 and all the Creatures in the world,2 the most skilful men in the world cannot bring light into the soul, they cannot bring light into the heart; they can speak of divine things, but they understand them little, but to bring light into the heart, that the heart may taste of them, and yield obedience to believe, that they cannot do. And therefore all Gods children they be Theodidactoi, taught of God; God only hath the privilege to teach the heart, to bend and bow the heart to believe.