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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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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.
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 soule that is supported with many graces. For first we wait for that we believe, we have a spirit of faith to leade to it: And then we hope, before we waite, and hope is the anchor of the soule that stayeth the soule in all the waves and miseries of the world; it is the helmet that keeps off all the blowes: This hope issues from faith for what we believe, we hope for the accomplishment of it.
- 1Waiting carrieth with it all graces.
So that all graces make way for waiting,1 or accompany it. The graces that accompany the waiting for good things in time to come, are patience, to endure all griefs between us and the full possession of heaven.2 Then long suffering, which is nothing else but patience lengthened, because troubles are lengthened, and the time is lengthened: So there is patience, and patience lengthened, which we call long suffering; and then together with patience and long suffering, there is contentment without murmuring at the dispensation of God;