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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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Get a spirit of faith, and we shall never be much troubled with Babylon; for all the enemies of Christ, and adherents to that man of sin must down, and partake of the judgement threatened in the Revelations; Heaven hath concluded it, and all the policy of Rome and hell cannot disannul it: they be already swallowed up to faith, and Christ will rule till he hath put them all under his feet; which shall be done, not only to destroy them, but to raise himself higher, in giving them up to their confusion.
Get a spirit of faith, and wee shall never be much troubled with Babilon; for all the enemies of Christ, and adherents to that man of sinne must downe, and partake of the judgement threatned in the Revelations; Heaven hath concluded it, and all the policy of Rome and hell cannot disanull it: they be already swallowed up to faith, and Christ will rule till hee hath put them all under his feet; which shall be done, not only to destroy them, but to raise himselfe higher, in giving them up to their confusion.
Again, if death be swallowed up in victory, labour to be one with Christ crucified,1 for union with him; begin with union,2 with Christ crucified. The first union is with Christ abased, and then with Christ glorified: And therefore labour to see sin that brought in death, subdued by the power of Christs death in some measure, and then we shall have comfort in his death glorified. For in my holy mount death is swallowed up, that is, the true Church of Christ, labour to be members of Christ, otherwise death will come as a tyrant indeed, armed with a terrible sting, in his full force to assail you. It is the most terrible thing to see death come armed with the wrath and anger of God, and attended with hell and damnation. Labour therefore to be one with Christ crucified, to get our sins crucified, and our selves partakers of his death: and then no damnation, no fear of death to them that are in Christ: they may die, but they are freed from eternal death, and they shall rise again even as Christs body rose to glory.