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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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It is the condition of men since the fall,1 in Paradise, before there was no cause of tears, nothing was out of joint, all in frame; there was no sin, therefore no sorrow, therefore no apprehension of sorrow. And so in heaven there shall be no tears, because no cause of it▪ they shall be as far from heaven as the cause. This life is a valley of tears, a life of misery, and therefore we shed tears here: And we want no cause of it as long as sin is in the world, and sorrow, and misery that followeth sin. Our own sins, and the sins of others, our own miseries, and the miseries of others. And surely a child of God finds this the greatest cause of mourning in this world,2 that he hath a principle in him always molesting him in the service of God, he cannot serve God with that cheerfulness, his unfeelingness that he cannot be so sensible of God dishonoured by himself and others is his burden; he is grieved that he cannot grieve enough; he can find tears for other things, matter of this enough, as the heathen man could say. A man ⟨p. 86⟩loseth his estate, and hath tears for them, but forceth tears for other things, which are the true ground of grief; a child of God hath a remainder of corruptions which puts him on to offend against God, and hinders him in his service, in the liberty and cheerfulness of it: And this he complains of with Paul and others, Miserable man that I am,