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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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The promises of God are long in performing; for to exercise our faith,1 and our dependence to the full, to take us off from the creature,2 and to endear the things ⟨p. 114⟩promised to us,3 to set the greater price upon them when we have them.4 Many other reasons my be given, if I intended to enlarge my self in that point. A Christian hath a title to heaven, as soon as he is a Christian, he is an heir to heaven; perhaps he may live here twenty, or forty years more, before God takes him up to glory; why doth he defer it so long?
The promises of God are long in performing; for to exercise our faith,1 and our dependance to the full, to take us off from the creature,2 and to indeare the things ⟨p. 114⟩promised to us,3 to set the greater price upon them when we have them.4 Many other reasons my be given, if I intended to inlarge my selfe in that point. A Christian hath a title to heaven, as soon as he is a Christian, he is an heire to heaven; perhaps he may live here twenty, or fourty yeares more, before God takes him up to glory; why doth he defer it so long?
- 1Reas. 2.
- 2To wane from the creature.