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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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O a Christian takes to heart that God should be so ill used in the world, that Christ the Saviour of the world should find such entertainment, that he should have any thing in him that should offend such a Saviour: this unkindness stingeth him to the heart, he takes it grievously that God should be abused. Laetitia habet suas lachrimas, there is not only grief that is the immediate cause of tears, but another cause before hand, that is love. Joy likewise hath its tears, though they be not here meant specially.
O a Christian takes to heart that God should be so ill used in the world, that Christ the Saviour of the world should finde such entertainement, that he should have any thing in him that should offend such a Saviour: this unkindnesse stingeth him to the heart, he takes it grievously that God should be abused. Laetitia habet suas lachrimas, there is not onely griefe that is the immediate cause of teares, but another cause before hand, that is love. Joy likewise hath its teares, though they be not here meant specially.
Again tears are good and sound,1 when we weep for our own sins, as well as the sins and miseries of others? And I will add more, we must weep for the sins of others, as well as for our own; For it is a greater sign of the truth of grace to take to heart the sins of others,2 more then our own. You will say this is a kind of paradox, for often a man may take to heart his own sins, as matter of terror of conscience; not his sins, as contrary to God, having antipathy to him, being opposite to the state of the soul, not as sin is properly sin, but to be grieved and vexed for sin, as it hath vexation and terror of conscience. When a man can take to heart the sins of another, and that truly as it is an offence of his good God, and a crucifying again of his sweet Saviour, these be true tears indeed: It is more sign of grace, then to weep for a mans own sins.
Againe teares are good and sound,