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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 to go on. As there be gracious and rich promises, and they have long time of performance to us, and hope deferred makes the soul languish. 1So God vouchsafeth a spirit to fit that expectation of his, a spirit of hope and waiting: And this waiting hath something perfect in it, and something imperfect; it is a mixed condition. There is good, because there is a promise; for a promise is the declaration of Gods will concerning good: But because it is a promise of a thing not performed, there is an imperfection. So there is a mixture in the promise, and a mixture in the grace, hope, and expectation, and waiting, is an imperfect grace. That there be glorious things, it is perfection of good; that we have them not in possession, that is the imperfection. So that hope is something, but it is not possessed; a promise is something, but it is not the performance. A seed is something; but it is not the plant.
But to goe on. As there be gracious and rich promises, and they have long time of performance to us, and hope deferred makes the soule languish. 1So God vouchsafeth a spirit to fit that expectation of his, a spirit of hope and waiting: And this waiting hath something perfect in it, and something imperfect; it is a mixt condition. There is good, because there is a promise; for a promise is the declaration of Gods wil concerning good: But because it is a promise of a thing not performed, there is an imperfection. So there is a mixture in the promise, and a mixture in the grace, hope, and expectation, and waiting, is an imperfect grace. That there be glorious things, it is perfection of good; that we have them not in possession, that is the imperfection. So that hope is somthing, but it is not possessed; a promise is something, but it is not the performance. A seed is somthing; but it is not the plant.
- 1A condition of waiting, is a mixed condition of imperfection, and perfection.A condition of waiting, is a mixt condition of imperfection, and perfection.