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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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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.
Christ cannot be divided,1 as Austine saith; we sit in heavenly places already with Christ. And what a comfort is this, that while wee 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.
- 1Christ will draw his mystical body to him into heaven.Christ will draw his mysticall body to him into heaven.
Let us labour then to be comfortable, (this use the Apostle makes of it,)1 and fruitful in our places, upon consideration of the victory we have by Christ, 1 Cor. 15. It is an excellent Chapter that largely proveth Christs victory, as the cause of our victory, because he is the first fruit that sanctifieth all the rest. Finally my brethren be constant, immovable, always abound in the works of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. He raiseth that exhortation of fruitfulness and constancy, from this very ground of the victory Christ hath gotten by death: O Death where is thy ⟨p. 69⟩