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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 I take this only in passage as the foundation of what I am to speak.
But I take this onely in passage as the foundation of what I am to speak.
From the mouth of God you see the great promises delivered: and now we have waited for them. That which answereth promises, is expectation and waiting.
The second thing therefore between the promises wherein God is a debtor,1 and the performance, is, that there is a long time, a long day: oftentimes God takes a long day for performing of his promise, as 400 years Abraham's posterity went to be in Egypt. And it was 4000 years from the beginning of the world, till the coming of Christ, which was the promise of promises; the promise of the seed, a great long day: And therefore Christ is said to come in the latter end of the world. Abraham had promise of a son, but it was not performed till he was an old man: Simeon had a promise to see Christ in the flesh, but he was an old man, ready to yield up the ghost before it was performed. God taketh a long day for his promises; long to us,2 not to him; for to him a 1000 years are but as one day.3
The second thing therefore between the promises wherein God is a debter,1 and the performance, is, that there is a long time, a long day: oftentimes God takes a long day for performing of his promise, as 400 yeares Abrahams posterity went to be in Egypt. And it was 4000 yeares from the beginning of the world, till the comming of Christ, which was the promise of promises; the promise of the seed, a great long day: And therefore Christ is said to come in the latter end of the world. Abraham had promise of a sonne, but it was not performed till he was an old man: Symeon had a promise to see Christ in the flesh, but hee was an old man, ready to yeeld up the ghost before it was performed. God taketh a long day for his promises; long to us,