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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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And therefore all is not kept for time to come: we have something beginning here, besides promises; there is some little degrees of performance; so that the state between us and heaven, is a state mixed of good, and imperfection.
And therefore all is not kept for time to come: we have somthing beginning here, besides promises; there is some little degrees of performance; so that the state between us and heaven, is a state mixt of good, and imperfection.
Now God hath fitted graces suitable to that condition,1 and that is expectation, or waiting, a fit grace, and a fit disposition of soul from imperfect condition, that is afterwards to be perfected; for fruition is the condition of perfect happiness, not of waiting: for waiting implieth imperfection.
Now God hath fitted graces suitable to that condition,1 and that is expectation, or waiting, a fit grace, and a fit disposition of soule from imperfect condition, that is afterwards to be perfected; for fruition is the condition of perfect happinesse, not of waiting: for waiting implieth imperfection.
- 1Waiting is a grace whereby God sits us for an imperfect condition.
This waiting carrieth with it almost all graces,1 waiting for better times in glory to come, it hath to support it. It is a carriage of soul that is supported with many graces. For first we wait for that we believe, we have a spirit of faith to lead to it: And then we hope, before we wait, and hope is the anchor of the soul that stayeth the soul in all the waves and miseries of the world; it is the helmet that keeps off all the blows: This hope issues from faith for what we believe, we hope for the accomplishment of it.