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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 for comfortable use of it.1 First, let us consider that God oftentimes giveth a great deal of way to his greatest enemies:2 God useth a stratagem of retiring, he seems to retire and give liberty to his enemies, but it is to triumph and trample upon them with greater shame, he will tread them to dust afterward; Christ gave death a great deal of liberty, he was crucified and tormented, then had to the grave, and there he lay: And this was to raise a greater triumph over this great prevailer, over the world and death it self.
Now for comfortable use of it.1 First, let us consider that God oftentimes giveth a great deale of way to his greatest enemies:2 God useth a stratagem of retiring, he seemes to retire and give liberty to his enemies, but it is to triumph and trample upon them with greater shame, he will tread them to dust afterward; Christ gave death a great deale of liberty, he was crucified and tormented, then had to the grave, and there he lay: And this was to raise a greater triumph over this great prevailer, over the world and death it selfe.
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- 2First, we see God gives way to his enemies for a time, when he will give glorious victory.
It is continued so in the Church: Doth not he give way to the enemies of the Church, they may come to say aha, aha, so would we have it. Now the poor children of God are where we would have them, but then comes sudden destruction: God to make his victory more glorious, and more to discover their cruelty, comes upon them when they be in the top of pleasure, and the Church in the bottom of abasement; then God swalloweth up all in victory, as Christ did death when it seemed to have bin it self victorious.