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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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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, Revelations 21. 4. is meant the Conversion of the Jews, and the glorious estate they shall enjoy before the end of the world: We have waited for our God, and now we enjoy him. I, but what saith the Church there? Come Lord Jesus come quickly: there is yet another come Lord, till we be in heaven. So that though intermediate, promises be performed here, yet there is another great day of the Lord to be performed, which is specially meant here.
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 dayes before that great day. As at the first comming of Christ, So at the overthrow of Antichrist, the Conversion of the Jewes, there will be much joy; but that is not that day, these dayes make way for that day. VVhensoever Prophecies shall end in Performances, then shall bee a day of joying and glorying in the God of our salvation for ever. And therefore in the Revelations where this Scripture is cited, Revelations 21. 4. is meant the Conversion of the Jewes, and the glorious estate they shall enjoy before the end of the world: We have waited for our God, and now we enjoy him. I, but what saith the Church there? Come Lord Iesus come quickly: there is yet another come Lord, till wee be in heaven. So that though intermediate, promises bee performed here, yet there is another great day of the Lord to be performed, which is specially meant here.