A93248:185
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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I wonder therefore that the wisdom of flesh and blood should take away mens wit, and faith, and grace, and all, so much as to slight death, and repentance, as if it were so easy. Now beloved, death is a terrible thing, it hath a sting, and thou shalt know it, if thou hast not grace to feel the sting of it whilst thou livest, when thou dyest the sting will revive, then thy Conscience shall awake in hell: Drunkenness and jollity takes away sense of sin; but sin will revive, and conscience will revive, God hath not put it into us for nought: death is terrible, if not disarmed before hand. And if thou go about to dye without disarming it before, it will not be out-faced. It is not an enemy to be scorned and slighted; and therefore be Christians in good earnest, else leave profession, and perish eternally; for we must all dye; and it is a greater matter than we take it: but if we be true Christians, it is the sweetest thing in the world, an end of all misery, a beginning of true happiness, an inlet to whatsoever is comfortable; blessed are they that are in the Lord by faith, and them that dye in the Lord, their death is better than the day of life: Our Birth-day brings us into misery; and therefore let me speak to true Christians, and bid them be ashamed of fearing death too much, which of an enemy is become a reconciled friend.
I wonder therefore that the wisedome of flesh and bloud should take away mens wit, and faith, and grace, and all, so much as to slight death, and repentance, as if it were so easie. Now beloved, death is a terrible thing, it hath a sting, and thou shalt know it, if thou hast not grace to feele the sting of it whilst thou livest, when thou dyest the sting will revive, then thy Conscience shall awake in hell: Drunkennesse and jollity takes away sense of sinne; but sinne will revive, and conscience will revive, God hath not put it into us for nought: death is terrible, if not disarmed before hand. And if thou goe about to dye without disarming it before, it will not be out-faced. It is not an enemy to be scorned and slighted; and therefore be Christians in good earnest, else leave profession, and perish eternally; for wee must all dye; and it is a greater matter than we take it: but if we be true Christians, it is the sweetest thing in the world, an end of all misery, a beginning of true happinesse, an inlet to whatsoever is comfortable; blessed are they that are in the Lord by faith, and them that dye in the Lord, their death is better than the day of life: Our Birth-day brings us into misery; and therefore let me speak to true Christians, and bid them be ashamed of fearing death too much, which of an enemy is become a reconciled friend.