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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 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.
He that beleeveth in mee, saith Christ, hee shall not see death, but is past from death to life. He shall not see spirituall death; but as he lives in Christ, shall dye in Christ, and rise againe in Christ: He that hath the life of grace begun, shall have it consummate without interruption. Its a point of wonderfull Comfort, that death is so overcome that we bee 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 mysticall body? hee that carried his naturall body, will not hee carry his mysticall body thither too? will hee bee in piece-meale 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.
Christ cannot be divided,1 as Austin saith; we sit in heavenly places already with Christ. And what a comfort is this, that while we live we are in heaven, and that death cannot hinder us from our Resurrection, which is the restoring of all things. And therefore, as the Apostle saith, Comfort one another with these things. These things indeed have much comfort in them.