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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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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.
It is continued so in the Church: Doth not he give way to the enemies of the Church, they may come to say ahah, ahah, so would we have it. Now the poore children of God are where we would have them, but then comes suddaine 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 bottome of abasement; then God swalloweth up all in victory, as Christ did death when it seemed to have bin it selfe victorious.
This is a very comfortable consideration, for if death be overcome when it seemed to overcome Christ, what need we fear any other enemy? Christ hath broken the net as an Eagle or great bird, and the rest escape by him.
This is a very comfortable consideration, for if death be overcome when it seem'd to overcome Christ, what need wee feare any other enemy? Christ hath broken the net as an Eagle or great bird, and the rest escape by him.
You may enlarge this in your own meditations: he will swallow up death in victory, this is said for the time to come,1 he will swallow up death; but Paul saith it is also past, and swallowed up already; faith saith it is done, and so it is in our head. Were it not comfortable now to all true hearted Christians, to hear that the Church fareth better, and that the enemies were swallowed up, for they be but the instruments of this inferior death; let