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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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Now it is said that Christ will take away the rebukes of his people.1 That is the promise; as they are, they shall be known to be; he will set all in joint again. Harmony is a sweet thing, and order is a sweet thing: time will come when things that are now out of order to appearance, shall be all set in their due order again: Those that are basest, shall be lowest, and those that be excellent, shall be highest; this is a working and framing now. In this confusion we must look to the catastrophe, the conclusion of all; he will take away the rebukes of all. God is the Father of truth, and truth is the daughter of time; time will bring forth truth at last. And those that be honourable indeed, shall be honourable.2 It is as true as God is just; for goodness and holiness are beams of God;3 and will he suffer it always to pass under a false veil. There is not an attribute of God, but shall shine forth gloriously; even all his excellency and dignity: There is nothing shall be above him and his excellency; no, though he seems for a a while not to rule in the world, or have power, but ⟨p. 94⟩fers them to go away with it, that are his enemies; he is working another thing by suffering them, he is working the glory of his children, and confusion of his enemies. There is nothing in God but shall gloriously shine, and nothing in his children, no beams of God, but shall gloriously shine to the confusion of the world: They that are good, shall be known to be good, God will bring their righteousness to light. The Witnesses that vexed the world,4 and had base entertainment, they were slain and disgraced, but they rose again and were carried to heaven, as Elijah. So there will be a resurrection of name, a resurrection of reputation: That that is good shall be good, and that that is bad shall be bad; it shall be known to be as it is. This is for comfort.
Now it is said that Christ will take away the rebukes of his people.1