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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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This is a great promise,1 and I pray you be comforted with it.2 For of all grief that Gods people suffer in the world, there is none greater than reproach, disgrace, and contumely, Movemur contumeliis plus quam injuriis: We are more moved with reproaches than injuries. Injuries come from several causes, but disgrace from abundance of slighting. No man but thinks himself worthy of respect from some or other. Now slanders come from abundance of malice, or else abundance of contempt; and therefore nothing sticks so much as reproaches, specially by reason of opinion, and fancy that raiseth them over high.
THis is a great promise,1 and I pray you be comforted with it.2 For of all grief that Gods people suffer in the world, there is none greater than reproach, disgrace, and contumely, Movemur contumeliis plus quam injuriis: We are more moved with reproaches than injuries. Injuries come from severall causes, but disgrace from abundance of slighting. No man but thinks himselfe worthy of respect from some or other. Now slanders come from abundance of malice, or else abundance of contempt; and therefore nothing stickes so much as reproaches, specially by reason of opinion, and fancy that raiseth them over high.
- 1Use 2.Vse 2.
- 2For comfort to the godly, their rebukes shall be taken away.For comfort to the godly, their rebukes shall bee taken away.
Our Saviour Christ endured the Cross and despised the shame. That shame that vain people cast upon Religion,