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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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There is a day,1 and it is a glorious day, a day of all days, a day that never will have night, a day that we should think of every day; That day, by way of excellency.2 And before that day there be particular days in this world, wherein God showeth himself, and fulfils the expectation of his children, to cherish the grand expectation of life everlasting. As in times of trouble they expect of God, and wait for deliverance in Gods time, and they must be able to say, Lo, we have waited Because it is a beginning and pledge of the great performance that shall be consummate at that great day, and of all the miseries that shall then be removed: So there is a day when the Jews shall be converted, and the fullness of the Gentiles brought in, and the man of sin discovered, and consumed by the breath of Christ. And when the Church of God seeth them, they may say, Lo, we have waited for the Lord, and lo, he is come, that we looked for is now fulfilled: So that God reserveth not the fulfilling of all the promises to the great day of all days, but even in this life he will have a that day.
There is a day,1 and it is a glorious day, a day of all dayes, a day that never will have night, a day that we should thinke of every day; That day, by way of excellency.2 And before that day there be particular dayes in this world, wherein God sheweth himselfe, and fulfills the expectation of his children, to cherish the grand expectation of life everlasting. As in times of trouble they expect of God, and wait for deliverance in Gods time, and they must be able to say, Loe, wee have waited Because it is a beginning and pledge of the great performance that shall be consummate at that great day, and of all the miseries that shall then be removed: So there is a day when the Jewes shall be converted, and the fulnesse of the Gentiles brought in, and the man of sinne discovered, and consumed by the breath of Christ. And when the Church of God seeth them, they may say, Loe, we have waited for the Lord, and loe, hee is come, that we looked for is now fulfilled: So that God reserveth not the fulfilling of all the promises to the great day of all dayes, but even in this life hee will have a that day.