A93248:249
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Use 2.1 We had need be wise, that we be not taken in this snare of Satan,2 to mistake error for truth, and good for evil; Satan and his agents make things pass under contrary representations: Superstition goeth for Religion, and Religion for superstition▪ Schism, and Heresy. It hath always bin so; therefore seek wisdom to discern aright.3 The devil hath two properties, he is a liar, and a murderer; the one makes way for the other, for he could not murder unless he did lie. The devil himself will not be an open murderer, if he can help it: The fraudulent persecution is worse than the violent. If he can bring to hell by fraud, and lying, he will never do it by violence. He is a liar, that he may be a murderer: for when he can raise an imputation upon the Church and children of God, that they be Rebels, enemies of state, then he may cum privilegio be a murderer: when he hath tainted Gods people in the conceit of the world, then they find that entertainment not which they deserve, but which they be apprehended to deserve, when the conceit of other men towards them is poisoned.4 Oh this Sect is spoken against every where, say they to Paul, Acts 28. 22. Therefore we had need be wise; for if the instruments of Satan▪ led with his spirit, had not hoped that slanders should take, they would never have bin so skilful in that trade. But they know they shall find some shallow fools, that will believe them without searching into the depth of them, ⟨p. 93⟩and take up persons and things under prejudice. It is enough for them, that this is said of them, they have neither wit nor judgement, nor so much patience, from following their lusts, as to examine them: And that makes them so mad as they are. Calumniare audacter aliquid haerebit, Slander stoutly, something will stick they are sure of it. That which hath raised, and ruined many a man, is that of Hamans casting of jealousy upon those that are better then themselves. That was Hamans trick, and so will be the practice of the wicked, as it hath bin from the beginning, so to the end of the world. Thou art not Caesars friend say they, and its enough to Pilate; thus it hath bin and will be to the end of the world. Therefore we had need to be wise, that we be not misled: Men will never leave to speak ill, till they have learned to speak better, till the spirit of God hath taught them.