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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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Yea it will change a man from a beastly or devilish temper,1 to a higher, and happier estate, as you have it Isaiah 11. 6, 7, 8, 9. It makes Lions Lambs, Leopards Kids; And what is the ground of all? In that very place, the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord. The knowledge of God reconciled, is such a powerful knowledge, that it hath a transforming virtue to alter mens dispositions. What was Paul before Conversion, and Zaccheus? Therefore it is the Word, because it hath divine operation,2 to heat the soul, and raise the soul, and change the soul, and cast down the soul, as low in a manner as hell, in sense of its own misery. It will make a Felix to tremble; a man that it doth not effectually work upon. The Truths of it are so moving, that it ⟨p. 102⟩will make a carnal man to quake. When Paul spake of judgement to come, of giving account of all that is done in the flesh, when a possibility of it was apprehended, it made Felix to quake; It makes mountains level, and it fills up the valleys: The Word can raise up the soul; when man is as low as hell, and looketh for nothing but damnation, the Spirit with the Word will fetch him from thence:3 as the Jailer, Acts 16. there was little between him and hell, What shall I do to be saved? Why believe in the Lord Jesus. And with these words there went out an efficacy▪ he believed, and he afterward was full of joy.
Yea it will change a man from a beastly or devillish temper,1 to a higher, and happier estate, as you have it Isaiah 11. 6, 7, 8, 9. It makes Lions Lambs, Leopards Kids; And what is the ground of all? In that very place, the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord. The knowledge of God reconciled, is such a powerfull knowledge, that it hath a transforming vertue to alter mens dispositions. What was Paul before Conversion, and Zaccheus? Therefore it is the Word, because it hath divine operation,