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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 hath the Key of Hell and Death; a saying taken from the custom of Governors that carried the Key: he hath the Government and Command of Hell and Death. Now if Christ hath command of Death, he will not suffer Death to hurt his Members, or triumph always over them, he will keep them in the grave. Our bodies are safe in the grave, the dust is fitted for a heavenly, for another manner of body than we have now, and Christ that hath the Key will let them out again: Therefore trust awhile till times of restoring come, and then we shall have a glorious soul, and glorious body, as the Apostle saith. I beseech you think of these things, and get comfort against the evil day: And to that end, be sure to get into Christ, that we may be in Christ, living, and dying, and be found in Christ: For what saith the Scripture, Blessed are they that dye in the Lord. 1It is an argument of blessedness to dye for the Lord, but if it be not in the Lord, it is to no purpose. If there is granted this happiness of dying for the Lord, it is well: but blessed are they that dye in the Lord. Why? they rest from their labour. Death takes them off from their labours; All their good Works go to heaven with them: So saith the Spirit, whatsoever the Flesh saith; and there is no resting till that time, their life is full of troubles and cumbers, and therefore labour to get assurance that we are in Christ, that we be in Christ, and dye in ⟨p. 70⟩Christ, and then, there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ.
Christ hath the Key of Hell and Death; a saying taken from the custome of Governours that carryed the Key: he hath the Government and Command of Hell and Death. Now if Christ hath command of Death, he will not suffer Death to hurt his Members, or triumph alwayes over them, he will keep them in the grave. Our bodies are safe in the grave, the dust is fitted for a heavenly, for another manner of body than we have now, and Christ that hath the Key will let them out againe: Therefore trust awhile till times of restoring come, and then we shall have a glorious soule, and glorious body, as the Apostle saith. I beseech you think of these things, and get comfort against the evill day: And to that end, be sure to get into Christ, that wee may bee in Christ, living, and dying, and bee found in Christ: For what saith the Scripture, Blessed are they that dye in the Lord.