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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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If it be the word,1 I beseech you consider what we say, and know that God will make every part of it good,2 there shall not a jot of it fail, nothing of it shall miscarry; God speaketh all these words: And therefore if you be blasphemers you shall not carry it away guiltless, God hath said it; if you continue not to obey you are under Gods curse, unless you repent you shall perish; every threat God will make good; you must repent and get into Christ, else perish eternally: God hath said it, and we may confirm it in the unfolding and reading of it, the time is coming for the execution of it, and then God is peremptory. Now God waiteth our leisure, and entreateth us, but if we will not repent, we shall have that Arrow in our sides that will never be gotten out till we dye in hell: whose sins are condemned in Scripture, they are condemned by God; and whom we shut heaven to, by opening the Scriptures, God will shut heaven to. The opening of the Scriptures is the opening of heaven: If the Scripture saith, a man that liveth in such a sin shall not be saved, heaven shall be shut to him, he is in a state of death, he is strucken, and remaineth in danger till he repenteth. How many live in sins against Conscience, that are under the guilt and danger ⟨p. 105⟩of their sins, they be wounded, they be struck by the word; there is a threat against their sins, although it be not executed; and they be as much in danger of eternal death as a condemned Traitor, only God suffers them to live, that they may make their peace, they have blessed times of visitation. O make use of it, it is the word of God, and know that God will make every part of his word good in threats, as well as in promises.
If it be the word,1 I beseech you consider what we say, and know that God will make every part of it good,2 there shall not a jot of it faile, nothing of it shall miscarry; God speaketh all these words: And therefore if you be blasphemers you shall not carry it away guiltlesse, God hath said it; if you continue not to obey you are under Gods curse, unlesse you repent you shall perish; every threat God will make good; you must repent and get into Christ, else perish eternally: God hath said it, and we may confirme it in the unfolding and reading of it, the time is comming for the execution of it, and then God is peremptory. Now God waiteth our leisure, and intreateth us, but if wee will not repent, wee shall have that Arrow in our sides that will never be gotten out till we dye in hell: whose sinnes are condemned in Scripture, they are condemned by God; and whom we shut heaven to, by opening the Scriptures, God will shut heaven to. The opening of the Scriptures is the opening of heaven: If the Scripture saith, a man that liveth in such a sinne shall not be saved, heaven shall be shut to him, he is in a state of death, he is strucken, and remaineth in danger till he repenteth. How many live in sins against Conscience, that are under the guilt and danger