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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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Ere long there will be no glory in heaven and earth, but the glory of Christ, and of his Spouse, for all the rest shall be in their own place: as it was said of Judas, that he went to his place. Their proper place is not to domineer, but to be in hell, and ere long they shall be there. Heaven is the proper element of the Saints, that is the place of Christ the head. And where should the body be, but with the head? where the Spouse, but with the Husband? I say this shall come to pass, that all the wicked shall be in their place, and all the godly in theirs, with Christ, and then shall the rebukes of Gods people be taken away. A great matter, and therefore it is sealed with a great confirmation, The Lord Jehovah hath spoken it; therefore it must, and will be so: The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. This is not in vain added, for the Lord knoweth well enough we need it, to believe so great things that there is such a Feast provided; And that there is such a victory over death our last enemy,1 and that there will be such glory, that all the glory shall be Christs, and his Spouses, that the wicked that are now so insolent, shall be cast into their proper place with the Devil, by whose Spirit they are led: They be great matters; and there is great disproportion between the present condition, and that condition in heaven, and infidelity being in the soul, its hard to fasten such things on the soul, that so great things should be done; but they are no greater than God hath said, and he is able to ⟨p. 99⟩make good his Word, The Lord hath said it; and when God hath said it heaven and earth cannot unsay it; when heaven hath concluded it, earth and hell cannot disannul it; The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it, That is▪ truth it self hath spoken it, that cannot lye. A man may lye, and be a man, and an honest man too, he may sometimes speak an untruth, it taketh not away his nature: But God who is pure truth, unchangeable truth, truth it self, cannot lye.
Ere long there will be no glory in heaven and earth, but the glory of Christ, and of his Spouse, for all the rest shall be in their owne place: as it was said of Judas, that he went to his place. Their proper place is not to domineere, but to be in hell, and ere long they shall bee there. Heaven is the proper element of the Saints, that is the place of Christ the head. And where should the body be, but with the head? where the Spouse, but with the Husband? I say this shall come to passe, that all the wicked shall be in their place, and all the godly in theirs, with Christ, and then shall the rebukes of Gods people be taken away. A great matter, and therefore it is sealed with a great confirmation, The Lord Jehovah hath spoken it; therfore it must, and will be so: The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. This is not in vaine added, for the Lord knoweth well enough we need it, to believe so great things that there is such a Feast provided; And that there is such a victory over death our last enemy,