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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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He that hath been our Saviour in life, will be so to death, and not exclusively, then to leave us but to death, and in death for ever, yea most ready to help us in our last conflict.1 Indeed to wicked men death is terrible, for he sendeth the devil to fetch them out of the world: but for these that be his, he sendeth his Angels to fetch them, and he helps them in their combat: we must not therefore fear overmuch. There is a natural fear of death, death wrought upon Christ himself God-man; not only death, but such a death, he was to be left of his Father, and lie under the sense of the wrath of God, the separation of that soul from the body he took upon him was terrible; and therefore he saith, If it be possible let this cup pass from me; that was nature, and without it he had not bin true man. But that I say, is, that grace may be above nature; death is a time of darkness, it strips us of earthly comforts, friends, callings, employments, but then comes the eye of faith to lay hold on the victory of Christ in time to come, when death shall be only swallowed up in victory, and then the glorious state to come, to which death bringeth us; so that here faith must be above sense, and grace above nature, and therefore I beseech you let us labour for it.
Hee that hath been our Saviour in life, will be so to death, and not exclusively, then to leave us but to death, and in death for ever, yea most ready to helpe us in our last conflict.1 Indeed to wicked men death is terrible, for he sendeth the devill to fetch them out of the world: but for these that be his, he sendeth his Angels to fetch them, and he helps them in their combat: we must not therefore feare overmuch. There is a naturall feare of death, death wrought upon Christ himselfe God-man; not only death, but such a death, he was to be left of his Father, and lie under the sense of the wrath of God, the seperation of that soule from the body he tooke upon him was terrible; and therefore he saith, If it be possible let this cup passe from me; that was nature, and without it he had not bin true man. But that I say, is, that grace may be above nature; death is a time of darknesse, it strips us of earthly comforts, friends, callings, imployments, but then comes the eye of faith to lay hold on the victory of Christ in time to come, when death shall be only swallowed up in victory, and then the glorious state to come, to which death bringeth us; so that here faith must be above sense, and grace above nature, and therefore I beseech you let us labour for it.