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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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And therefore let us regard it as the word of God,1 hear it as the word of God,2 read it as the word of God. A company of profane wretches you shall have, the scums, and basest of the people, that will discourse, and to grace their Discourse, they must have Scripture phrases: but whose word is it? it is the word of the great God. Eglon was a Heathen King, and yet when a Message came from God, he arose up and made obeisance. We should never read the Word but with reverence, considering whose book it is, and that we must be judged by it another day.
And therefore let us regard it as the word of God,1 hear it as the word of God,2 read it as the word of God. A company of prophane wretches you shal have, the scums, and basest of the people, that will discourse, and to grace their Discourse, they must have Scripture phrases: but whose word is it? it is the word of the great God. Eglon was a Heathen King, and yet when a Message came from God, hee arose up and made obeysance. Wee should never read the Word but with reverence, considering whose book it is, and that we must be judged by it another day.
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- 2Let us regard, hear Scriptures as the word of God.Let us regard, heare Scriptures as the word of God.
If it be the word,1 I beseech you consider what we say, and know that God will make every part of it good,