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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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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.
And must not this be a divine word which hath this efficacy, to revive, comfort, change, cast down, raise up again,1 search secrets, search the▪ heart to the bottom. A poor Idiot that comes to hear the word of God, when he hears the secrets of his heart laid open by the word, he concludes certainlyb God is in you, and you are Gods Ministers. The wordc divideth between the ⟨p. 103⟩marrow and the bone, it arraigneth the heart before Gods Tribunal Seat. Those that are saved, it hath these effects in them that I have named.4 And if you ask how they know whether the word be the Word? A man may answer, I have found it to be so, raising me up, comforting me▪ and strengthening me: I had perished in my affliction if the word had not raised me. Principles are proved, you know, from experience, for they have nothing above them. There is no other Principle to prove the word, but experience from the working of it. How know you the light to be the light but by it self? and that fire is hot, but by it self. Principles prove themselves only by experience. And this Principle is so proved by it self, that there is no child of God but can say by experience, that the word is the word.