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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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In God there is a mouth of truth, a heart of pity, and an hand of power; these three meeting together, make good whatsoever is promised: He will fulfil the desires of them that fear him. The desires that God hath put into his Children, they be kindled from heaven; and he will satisfy them all out of his bowels of pity and compassion: he will not suffer the creature to be always under the rack of desire, under the rack of expectation, but he will fulfil the desire of them that fear him. And therefore learn this for the time to come.
In God there is a mouth of truth, a heart of pitty, and an hand of power; these three meeting together, make good whatsoever is promised: Hee will fulfill the desires of them that feare him. The desires that God hath put into his Children, they be kindled from heaven; and he will satisfie them all out of his bowells of pitty and compassion: hee will not suffer the creature to be allwaies under the racke of desire, under the racke of expectation, but hee will fulfill the desire of them that feare him. And therefore learne this for the time to come.
Though we wait,1 God will perform whatsoever we wait for; And therefore, lo, we have waited for him. As there is a time of promising, so there is a time of performing; as there is a seed time, so there is a time of harvest. There is a succession in nature, and a succession in grace; as the day followeth the night, and the Sabbath the week, and the Jubilee such a term of years; and as the triumph followeth the war; and as the Consummation of Marriage followeth Contract; so it is a happy and glorious condition, above all conditions here on earth. Therefore in this text you have not only the seed time of the Christian; we may sow in tears, and an expectation, as in sowing: But here is likewise the harvest of a Christian; as there is time of sowing, so there is time of reaping; as time of waiting, so of enjoying. We have waited, and now lo, we have what we waited for.
Though wee waite,1