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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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If Christ in the days of his flesh did conquer,1 how glorious will his conquest be at the day of judgement. Now Christ hath conquered all in his own person, as our head, then he will conquer for us in his mystical body; what is now done in his person, shall be done in his members. In the mean time, faith is our victory, his conquest over death our victory, his victory over all our spiritual enemies, is our victory; every one that believeth, is a conqueror of death, though he die, because ⟨p. 59⟩he sees it conquered in Christ his head: and as it is truly conquered in him, so Christ will conquer it in all his members; For as Christ in his natural body is gone to heaven there to appear in our behalf, so shall mystical Christ be wholly in glory; he will not leave a finger, we shall all triumph over all our spiritual enemies; as Christs natural body is glorious in heaven as our head, so shall also his mystical body be.
If Christ in the daies of his flesh did conquer,1 how glorious will his conquest be at the day of judgement. Now Christ hath conquered all in his owne person, as our head, then he will conquer for us in his mysticall body; what is now done in his person, shall be done in his members. In the meane time, faith is our victory, his conquest over death our victory, his victory over all our spirituall enemies, is our victory; every one that believeth, is a conquerour of death, though he die, because ⟨p. 59⟩he sees it conquered in Christ his head: and as it is truly conquered in him, so Christ will conquer it in all his members; For as Christ in his naturall body is gone to heaven there to appeare in our behalfe, so shall mysticall Christ be wholly in glory; he will not leave a finger, we shall all triumph over all our spirituall enemies; as Christs naturall body is glorious in heaven as our head, so shall also his mysticall body be.
- 1Christ conquereth for us and in us.