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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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I will give one direction:1 Labour for the Spirit of God that writ the word,2 that indited the word. Beg of God to •eale to our souls that it is the word, and that he would sanctify our hearts to be suitable to the word, and never rest till we can find God by his Spirit seasoning our hearts, so that the relish of our souls may suit to the relish of divine truths, that when we hear them we may relish the truth in them, and may so feel the work of Gods Spirit, that we may be able to say, he is our God. And when we hear of any threatening, we may tremble at it, and any sin discovered, we may hate it: For unless we by the Spirit of God have something wrought in us suitable to the word, we shall never believe the word to be the word. And therefore pray the Lord by his Spirit to frame our hearts to be suitable to divine Truths, and so frame them in our affections, that we may find the word in our joy, in our love, in our patience, that all may be seasoned with the word of God. When there is a relish in the word,3 and in the soul suitable to it, then a man is a Christian indeed to purpose; till then men will Apostatize, turn Papist, turn Atheist, or any thing, because there is a distance between the soul and the word; the word is not engrafted into the soul, they do not know the word to be the word by arguments fetched from the word, and therefore they fall from the power of the word. But if we will not fall from divine truths get truth written in the heart, and our hearts so seasoned by it, and made so harmonious and suitable to it, that we may embrace it to death, that we may live and dye in it.
I will give one direction:1 Labour for the Spirit of God that writ the word,2 that indited the word. Beg of God to •eale to our soules that it is the word, and that he would sanctifie our hearts to be suitable to the word, and never rest till wee can finde God by his Spirit seasoning our hearts, so that the relish of our soules may suit to the relish of divine truths, that when wee heare them we may relish the truth in them, and may so feele the worke of Gods Spirit, that we may bee able to say, hee is our God. And when we heare of any threatning, we may tremble at it, and any sinne discovered, wee may hate it: For unlesse wee by the Spirit of God have something wrought in us suitable to the word, we shall never believe the word to bee the word. And therefore pray the Lord by his Spirit to frame our hearts to be suitable to divine Truths, and so frame them in our affections, that we may find the word in our joy, in our love, in our patience, that all may be seasoned with the word of God. When there is a relish in the word,