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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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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⟩Sting? O Grave where is thy Victory? thanks be to God through Jesus Christ. And therefore be constant, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour shall not be in vain in the Lord: Make that use the Apostle doth of fruitfulness to God for Christ, that we can think of death, and sin, the devil, and all his malice, and not be afraid, yea think of them all with comfort, that we be not only freed from their tyranny, but they be our friends.
Let us labour then to bee comfortable, (this use the Apostle makes of it,)1 and fruitfull 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 hee is the first fruit that sanctifieth all the rest. Finally my bretheren bee constant, immoveable, alwayes abound in the works of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vaine in the Lord. He raiseth that exhortation of fruitfulnesse and constancy, from this very ground of the victory Christ hath gotten by death: O Death where is thy ⟨p. 69⟩Sting? O Grave where is thy Victory? thanks bee to God through Jesus Christ. And therefore be constant, immovable, alwayes abounding in the worke of the Lord, knowing that your labour shall not be in vaine in the Lord: Make that use the Apostle doth of fruitfulnesse to God for Christ, that we can thinke of death, and sinne, the devill, and all his malice, and not be afraid, yea thinke of them all with comfort, that we be not onely freed from their tyranny, but they bee our friends.