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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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Now the promises are of good things.1 They are for the spring of them, free, from Gods free goodness; for the measure of them, full; for the truth of them, constant, even as God himself that promiseth. And therefore we may well build upon them.
Now the promises are of good things.1 They are for the spring of them, free, from Gods free goodnesse; for the measure of them, full; for the truth of them, constant, even as God himselfe that promiseth. And therefore wee may well build upon them.
- 1Promises free and full.
Before I go any farther, I beseech you let us account the promises of the good we have to be our best treasure,1 our best portion,2 our best riches, for they be called precious promises; not only because they be precious in themselves, but because they are from the precious love ⟨p. 113⟩of God in Christ to us. They are likewise for precious things, they are laid hold of by precious faith, as the Scripture calleth them, and therefore they are precious promises. Let us not only account of our riches that we have; for what is that we have, to what we speak of, to that we have in promise. A Christian is rich in reversion, rich in bills, and obligations: Christ hath bound himself to him, and he can sue him out when he pleaseth. In all kinds of necessity, he can sue God for good; he can go to God and say, Remember thy promise Lord, wherein thou hast caused me thy servant to trust; and can bind God with his own word.