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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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And then all tears that arise from consideration of sin, and misery following sin. Death is the accomplishment of all mortification. It is a comfort we shall not always lead this conflicting life, but the war between the flesh and spirit will be taken up; the sense will be removed,1 we shall be out of Satan's reach, and the worlds reach one day, which is a great comfort to consider: Whatsoever the cause is, the cause shall be removed ere long. If the cause be desertion, for that God leaveth us comfortless, we shall be for ever hereafter with the Lord: If the cause be separation from friends, why we shall all meet together ere long, and be for ever in heaven: If the cause be our own sins, we shall cease hereafter to offend God, and Christ will be all in all; Now sin is almost all in all, sin and corruption bear a great sway in us: If the matter of our grief be the sins of others, and the afflictions of others; there is no sin in heaven, no unclean thing shall enter there. The souls of perfect men are there, and all are of one mind, there is no opposition to goodness, there all shall go one way, there (howsoever they cannot agree here) all shall have mutual solace and contentment in one another; they in us and we in them, and that for ever; you cannot name them, or imagine a cause of tears, but it shall be removed there: Nay, the more ⟨p. 78⟩tears we have shed here,2 the more comfort we shall have. As our troubles are increased here, our consolation shall increase: That we suffer here, if for a good cause, will work our eternal and exceeding weight of glory: we say April showers, bring forth May flowers; It is a common speech from experience of common life. It is true in Religion, the more tears we shed in the April of our lives, the more sweet comfort we shall have hereafter: If no tears are to be shed here, no flowers are to be gathered there. And therefore besides deliverance from trouble, here is comfort, God will take away all cause of grief, and all kinds of grief whatsoever.
And then all teares that arise from consideration of sinne, and misery following sinne. Death is the accomplishment of all mortification. It is a comfort wee shall not alwaies leade this conflicting life, but the warre between the flesh and spirit will be taken up; the sense wil be removed,