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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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Again, if death be swallowed up in victory, let us be ashamed of the fear of death, because Christ saith he will swallow him up, as he hath already in his own person: ⟨p. 63⟩Shall we be afraid of an enemy that is swallowed up in our head, and shall be swallowed up in every one of us? If we cherish fear, we show we look not for an interest in this promise; for it is a promise, that in this holy mountain death shall be swallowed up in victory, and why should we fear a conquered enemy, none will fear an enemy that is conquered.
Againe, if death be swallowed up in victory, let us be ashamed of the feare of death, because Christ saith he will swallow him up, as he hath already in his own person: ⟨p. 63⟩Shall wee be afraid of an enemy that is swallowed up in our head, and shall be swallowed up in every one of us? If we cherish feare, we shew we looke not for an interest in this promise; for it is a promise, that in this holy mountaine death shall be swallowed up in victory, and why should we feare a conquered enemy, none will feare an enemy that is conquered.
Object. But how came Christ to fear death, and we not to fear?
Object. But how came Christ to feare death, and we not to fear?
Answ. Christ had to deal with death armed with a terrible sting, with sin, and the wrath of God for sin: And therefore when he was to die, Father let this cup pass from me. But death is disarmed to us: He had to encounter with sin and the wrath of God, and death in all its strength. But we are not so: we are to deal with death like the brazen Serpent, that hath the shape of death, but no sting at all; Its become a drone ever since it lost its sting in Christ. (Life took death, that death might take life) as he said. The meaning is, Christs life it self took death, that we that were so subject to death, that we were death it self, might take life. Oh blessed consideration, nothing comparable to the consideration of the death of Christ, it is the death of deaths.