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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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Now that we may have true saving knowledge, first we must attend meekly upon Gods Ordinances, which be sanctified to this end to let in light to the soul.
Now that we may have true saving knowledge, first we must attend meekly upon Gods Ordinances, which be sanctified to this end to let in light to the soule.
Will we know sin and our state by nature,1 and how to come out of it,2 then together with this Revelation must come an heavenly strength into the soul, a heavenly taste, and relish, and therefore attend upon the Ordinances; And labour for an humble soul, empty of our selves; And do not think to break into heavenly things with strength of parts, God must reveal, God must take away the veil only by his holy Spirit in the Ordinance. The veil is taken away from the object, in opening of Truths; but the veil must be taken away from the object, and from the heart too, there must be knowledge of the object, as well as an object; the object must be sanctified, and fitted to the persons, else divine Truths will never be understood divinely, nor spiritual Truths spiritually: Labour to be emptied of your selves. In what measure we are emptied of our self-conceitedness, and understanding, we be filled in divine things: in what measure we are emptied of our selves, we are filled with the Spirit of God, and knowledge, and grace. As a vessel in what measure it is emptied,3 in that measure it is fit to be filled with more supervenient liquor: so in what measure we grow in self-denial, and humility, in that measure we are filled likewise with knowledge. He will teach an humble soul that stands not in its own light, what it is to repent, to believe, to love; what it is to be patient under the Cross, what it is to live holily, and dye comfortably. The Spirit of God will teach an humble self-denying soul all these things, and therefore labour for an humble empty soul, and not to cast our selves too much into the sins, and fashions of the times; As the Apostle