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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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But how shall I know whether grief be right or no? There be tears God hath no bottle for:1 Thou puttest my tears into thy bottle, he makes much of them, they be Vinum Angelicum as he saith,2 God is an Angel to his people to wipe away their tears: but some tears God hath no bottle for, hypocritical tears, Delilahs tears, tears of revenge and anger, Esau's tears. And therefore the true tears that God will wipe away, are such as first of all follow our condition here, our misery, God will wipe them away.3 If we speak of tears from a judicial ground; the spring of true tears is the love of God, and of Christ, and of his Church, and the love of the state of Christianity. Tears spring from love, these tears specially.
But how shall I know whether griefe be right or no? There be teares God hath no bottle for:1 Thou puttest my teares into thy bottle, he makes much of them, they be Vinum Angelicum as he saith,2 God is an Angell to his people to wipe away their teares: but some teares God hath no bottle for, hypocriticall teares, Dalilahs teares, teares of revenge and anger, Esaus teares. And therefore the true teares that God will wipe away, are such as first of all follow our condition here, our misery, God will wipe them away.3 If wee speake of teares from a judiciall ground; the spring of true teares is the love of God, and of Christ, and of his Church, and the love of the state of Christianity. Teares spring from love, these teares specially.
- 1Psa. 56. 8.
- 2God hath no bottle for some tears.God hath no bottle for some teares.