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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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The worst the world can do,1 is to take away this Nature of ours, when they have done that they have done all they can; and when they have done that, they have done a pleasure. That is not to be feared, saith Tertullian, that frees us from all that is to be feared. What is to be feared in the world? every sickness, every disgrace; why▪ death frees us from all. We do see every day takes away a piece of ones life, and when death cometh it ⟨p. 68⟩overthroweth it self; for the soul goeth presently to the place of happiness, the body sleepeth awhile, and death hath no more power.
The worst the world can doe,1 is to take away this Nature of ours, when they have done that they have done all they can; and when they have done that, they have done a pleasure. That is not to be feared, saith Tertullian, that frees us from all that is to be feared. What is to be feared in the world? every sicknesse, every disgrace; why▪ death frees us from all. We doe see every day takes away a peece of ones life, and when death commeth it ⟨p. 68⟩overthroweth it selfe; for the soule goeth presently to the place of happinesse, the body sleepeth awhile, and death hath no more power.
- 1The worst the world can do is to take away life, and in that they do the godly a pleasure.The worst the world can doe is to take away life, and in that they doe the godly a pleasure.
He that believeth in me, saith Christ, he shall not see death, but is past from death to life. He shall not see spiritual death; but as he lives in Christ, shall dye in Christ, and rise again in Christ: He that hath the life of grace begun, shall have it consummate without interruption. Its a point of wonderful Comfort, that death is so overcome that we be in heaven already: And it is no hard speech, but stands with the truth of other points; for are not Christ, and we all one, his body is there, and is not he the head of his mystical body? he that carried his natural body, will not he carry his mystical body thither too? will he be in piece-meal in heaven? Therefore we are in heaven already the best part of us: We are represented in heaven, for Christ represents us there as the Husband doth the Wife. He hath taken up Heaven for us.