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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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For the Church it self you see in the Book of Esther 3. There is a strange people that acknowledge no law, they be against the laws of the Prince; they pass under the imputation of rebels: the poor Church that had thoughts of peace, the meek Church of God, they counted as enemies of the state; as Christ the head was. And so the Church in Babylon, under what rebukes was it?1 they reproached them, By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when they said sing us one of the songs of Zion. The Church sitteth by the waters of Babylon all this life: The world is a kind of Babylon to Gods people, and then sing us one of your songs; where is now your God, say the hearts of wretched people? when they saw the people of God in disgrace. Tully could say of the nation of the Jews; It showeth how God regardeth it, it hath bin so often overcome. Thus the heathen man could scorn the state of Gods people. You see how the Psalmist complains in the name of particular Christians,2 where is his God, he trusted in him, let him save him. Oh this was daggers to Davids heart, Psal. 42. 10. It pierced to my heart, when they said where is thy God. To touch a Christian in his God, as if God had no care of him, it is more then his own grief and affliction. So when a child of God is rebuked and affronted, when religion must suffer by it. So that the head of the Church, the members of the Church, are under rebukes, as it may be proved, if I carry you through all stories.
For the Church it selfe you see in the Booke of Hester 3. There is a strange people that acknowledge no law, they be against the lawes of the Prince; they passe under the imputation of rebells: the poore Church that had thoughts of peace, the meek Church of God, they counted as enemies of the state; as Christ the head was. And so the Church in Babylon, under what rebukes was it?1 they reproached them, By the waters of Babylon we sat downe and wept, when they said sing us one of the songs of Syon. The Church sitteth by the waters of Babylon all this life: The world is a kind of Babylon to Gods people, and then sing us one of your songs; where is now your God, say the hearts of wretched people? when they saw the people of God in disgrace. Tully could say of the nation of the Jewes; It sheweth how God regardeth it, it hath bin so often overcome. Thus the heathen man could scorne the state of Gods people. You see how the Psalmist complaines in the name of particular Christians,