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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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Again, we shall rejoice in our salvation; we shall glory in our God. After they be a while exercised in waiting, then cometh performance, then they be enjoyed, and they be enjoyed with joy, in glorying in God. For that is the issue of a Christian, when he hath what he would enjoy, when he enjoyeth it with joy, when the fruit of it is, that God hath his glory, and therefore the heart can rejoice in his salvation.
Againe, wee shall rejoyce in our salvation; wee shall glory in our God. After they bee a while exercised in waiting, then commeth performance, then they bee enjoyed, and they bee enjoyed with joy, in glorying in God. For that is the issue of a Christian, when hee hath what hee would enjoy, when hee enjoyeth it with joy, when the fruit of it is, that God hath his glory, and therefore the heart can rejoyce in his salvation.
Then there is a day, as for the exercising of his people here by waiting: So there is a day of performing promises. In that day. That is, a day of all days: When that day cometh, then all Prophecies and Promises shall be accomplished to the uttermost.
Then there is a day, as for the exercising of his people here by waiting: So there is a day of performing promises. In that day. That is, a day of all dayes: When that day commeth, then all Prophecies and Promises shall be accomplished to the uttermost.
But before that great day, there is an intermediate performance of Promises assisted by waiting, to drop comfort to us by degrees: He reserveth not all to that day, there be lesser days before that great day. As at the first coming of Christ, So at the overthrow of Antichrist, the Conversion of the Jews, there will be much joy; but that is not that day, these days make way for that day. Whensoever Prophecies shall end in Performances, then shall be a day of joying and glorying in the God of our salvation for ever. And therefore in the Revelations where this Scripture is cited,