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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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We have cause therefore to mourn for the sins of others,1 and for the miseries of others; whether we respect God, or the Church, or our selves.
Wee have cause therefore to mourne for the sinnes of others,1 and for the miseries of others; whether we respect God, or the Church, or our selves.
- 1We have cause to weep for the sins of others.We have cause to weepe for the sinnes of others.
First, the love of God moveth us to weep when we see him dishonoured:1 If we love the Church, we should ⟨p. 74⟩mourn for any sins that may prejudice their salvation.2 Doth it not pity any man to see an Ox go to slaughter; to see a man of parts otherwise, by sinning against conscience, going to slaughter; to see an ordinary swearer, an unclean person, a profane wretch, covering himself with pride as a garment, scorning God, and the world, and all. Can a Christian look upon this, see flesh and blood, like himself, under the Gospel, under a cursed condition unavoidable, without serious repentance,3 and not be affected with it? Can a man see a poor Ass fall under a burden, and not help to take it up, and yet see man falling to hell, and not be affected with it? Thus we see we have cause enough of tears: And as there is cause, so we should be sensible; we ought to take to heart the afflictions of Joseph; he is a dead man that hath not sense in this kind. If we go to the body and state, or any thing about a man, there is cause of grief; hath not every member many diseases? and is not our lives a kind of hospital, some sick of one thing, some of another? But as there is cause we should be sensible of it, we are flesh and not stones, therefore it is a sottish opinion, to be stockish and brutish; as if to outface sorrow and grief were a glory.