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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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A loving affection is the Casket of this jewel, if we entertain it not in love, it removes from us its Station, and being gone, God will remove us into darkness.
A loving affection is the Casket of this jewell, if we entertain it not in love, it removes from us its Station, and being gone, God will remove us into darknesse.
And remember it is God that taketh away the veil of ignorance and unbelief: And therefore make this ⟨p. 50⟩use of it,1 to make our Studies, and Closets, Oratories, not to come to Divine Truths,2 to out-wrestle the excellency of them with our own wits; but to pray to God, as you have Psal. 119. Open mine eyes, and reveal thy truth. And St. Paul prayeth for the Spirit of Revelation, 1 Ephes. 19. And so desire God to reveal, and take away the veil from us, that he will open divine Truths to our souls; that since he hath the Key of David, that opens, and no man shutteth, that he would open our understandings, to conceive things, and our hearts to believe. He hath the only Key of the soul, we can shut our souls,3 but cannot open them again: so we can shut our hearts to divine Truths, we can naturally do this, but open them without the help of the Spirit we cannot: He can open our understandings, as he did the Disciples: He can open our Hearts to believe, he can do it, and will do it. If we seek to him, he will not put back the humble desires of them that fear him; And therefore for heavenly light and heavenly revelation, all the teaching of the men of the world cannot do it. If we know no more than we can have by Books, and men that teach us, we shall never come to Heaven; but we must have God teach the heart, as well as the Brain, he must teach not only the Truths themselves, as they be discovered, but the love of them, the faith in them, the practice of them, and he only can do this, he only can teach the heart, he only can discover the bent of the heart, and Satan's wiles that cast a cloud upon the understanding, the Spirit only can do it; and therefore in all our endeavours labour to get knowledge, and join holiness and divine grace, and pray to God that he would reveal the mystery of salvation to us.