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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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WE have heretofore at large spoken of the spiritual and eternal favours of God, set out in the former Verse, In this Mountain will the Lord of Hosts make a Feast of fat things. While our soul is in the body it is much guided by our fancy: spiritual things are therefore presented by outward, and conveyed to the soul that way; only we must remember that there is a far greater excellency in the things themselves, than in their representation; for what is all Banquets, fatness with Marrow, Wine on the Lees, to the joy and sweetness of Religion, begun here, and accomplished in the world to come.
WE have heretofore at large spoken of the spirituall and eternall favors of God, set out in the former Verse, In this Mountain will the Lord of Hosts make a Feast of fat things. While our soule is in the body it is much guided by our fancy: spirituall things are therefore presented by outward, and conveyed to the soule that way; onely we must remember that there is a farre greater excellency in the things themselves, than in their representation; for what is all Banquets, fatnesse with Marrow, Wine on the Lees, to the joy and sweetnesse of Religion, begun here, and accomplished in the world to come.
In Christ there is nothing but all Marrow, and sweetness in Religion, that may refresh a man in the lowest ⟨p. 55⟩condition, if he can but have a taste of it.
In Christ there is nothing but all Marrow, and sweetnesse in Religion, that may refresh a man in the lowest ⟨p. 55⟩condition, if hee can but have a taste of it.