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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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The first Gospel ever preached in pardon was by God himself:1 never was any creature so near damnation as our first Father Adam, cast from the greatest happinesse; Miserrimum est fuisse faelicem; for he that enjoyed before communion with God and his Angels, having sinned, and having conscience of his sin, considering his great parts, and apprehension of the state he had been in, this must needs affect him deeply; and being in this condition, the promise of the seed of the Woman to break the Serpents head revived him.
The first Gospell ever preached in pardon was by God himselfe:1 never was any creature so neare damnation as our first Father Adam, cast from the greatest happinesse; Miserrimum est fuisse faelicem; for he that enjoyed before communion with God and his Angells, having sinn'd, and having conscience of his sinne, considering his great parts, and apprehension of the state he had beene in, this must needs affect him deeply; and being in this condition, the promise of the seed of the VVoman to breake the Serpents head revived him.
- 1Adam nearest damnation.
There is a strange efficacy in the Gospel: The Roman Empire was the greatest enemy that the Church ever had. The ten Persecutions you see what they were, and yet notwithstanding the Word grew upon them and never rested, the spreading of the Gospel, and the Spirit with it, till the Cross got above the Crown, as it did in the time of Constantine, and so it continueth.
There is a strange efficacy in the Gospell: The Roman Empire was the greatest enemy that the Church ever had. The ten Persecutions you see what they were, and yet notwithstanding the VVord grew upon them and never rested, the spreading of the Gospell, and the Spirit with it, till the Crosse got above the Crown, as it did in the time of Constantine, and so it continueth.