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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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God reserveth joy for the time to come, for our home, we should be content to have communion with God and the souls of perfect men; and not murmur though God exerciseth us with many crosses here. And therefore the Scripture calleth it a silence, 1In silence and in hope shall be your strength. The soul keepeth silence to God in this waiting condition, and this silence quells all risings in the soul presently: As David, my soul kept silence unto the Lord. It will still all risings of the heart, issuing from a resignation of the soul to God, to do as he will have us to do: So it implieth patience and long suffering, contentment, holy silence, without murmuring and repining.
God reserveth joy for the time to come, for our home, wee should be content to have communion with God and the soules of perfect men; and not murmure though God exerciseth us with many crosses here. And therefore the Scripture calleth it a silence, 1In silence and in hope shall be your strength. The soule keepeth silence to God in this waiting condition, and this silence quells all risings in the soule presently: As David, my soule kept silence unto the Lord. It will still all risings of the heart, issuing from a resignation of the soule to God, to doe as he will have us to doe: So it implieth patience and long suffering, contentment, holy silence, without murmuring and repining.
- 14. Silence from murmuring.
And then it implies watchfulness over our selves,1 (till we come to the full accomplishment of the promises) that we carry not our selves unworthily in the mean time: That we should not spend the time of our waiting in wickedness, to fetch sorrow from the devil, and the world to comfort us, or to be beholding to Satan. This is no waiting, but murmuring, and rebellion, when in crosses and discomforts we cannot be content, but must be beholding to the Devil: so there must be watchfulness;