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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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At this day, the Church of the Jews you see what it is come to: the nation of the Jews under what reproach it is. And surely this Prophecy aimeth partly at the conversion of the Jews;1 it shall be accomplished at the resurrection, when all tears shall be perfectly wiped away: But it hath relation to the conversion of ⟨p. 91⟩the Jews. In what state are they now? are they not a word of reproach? Moses speech is verified of them; They shall be a hissing to all Nations, and is not it a proverb? Hated as a Jew.
At this day, the Church of the Jewes you see what it is come to: the nation of the Jewes under what reproach it is. And surely this Prophecy aimeth partly at the conversion of the Jewes;1 it shall be accomplished at the resurrection, when all teares shall be perfectly wiped away: But it hath relation to the conversion of ⟨p. 91⟩the Jewes. In what state are they now? are they not a word of reproach? Moses speech is verified of them; They shall be a hissing to all Nations, and is not it a proverbe? Hated as a Jew.
- 1This text points at the conversion of the Jews.This text points at the conversion of the Jewes.
But what is the reason of it?1 Not to stand long upon the point;2 you know there be two seeds in the world, the seed of the serpent, and the seed of the woman; and the enmity between them is the true ground, and the antipathy in the hearts of carnal men to goodness. There is a light shineth in the life of them that be good; and them that be ill hate the light, as discovering themselves to themselves, and to the world, not to be that they seem to be. There is a saltness in the truth; it is savoury, but it is tart, whether in the word preached, or howsoever truth layeth open,