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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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If we shall be ravished with the sight of God, surely if we see him here we may see him there: We see him with the eye of faith, we see him in the Ordinance, we have some sight of God that the world hath not, God discovereth himself to his children, more than to the world, And therefore they say, thou revealest thy self to us, not unto the world. A Christian wonders that God should reveal his love, and mercy, and goodness to him, more than to others. And therefore if we belong to God, and shall see him hereafter, we must see him now, as we may see him, we must have some knowledge of him: And if we see God any way, all things in the world will be thought of no request in comparison of the Communion of God in Christ. As Isaiah 14. We have seen the Lord, and what have we to do with Idols? The soul that hath seen Christ, grows in detestation of sin, and loatheth all things in comparison.
If we shall be ravished with the sight of God, surely if we see him here we may see him there: VVe see him with the eye of faith, we see him in the Ordinance, wee have some sight of God that the world hath not, God discovereth himselfe to his children, more than to the world, And therefore they say, thou revealest thy self to us, not unto the world. A Christian wonders that God should reveale his love, and mercy, and goodnesse to him, more than to others. And therefore if wee belong to God, and shall see him hereafter, wee must see him now, as we may see him, we must have some knowledge of him: And if wee see God any way, all things in the world will be thought of no request in comparison of the Communion of God in Christ. As Isaiah 14. We have seen the Lord, and what have wee to doe with Idols? The soule that hath seene Christ, growes in detestation of sinne, and loatheth all things in comparison.
And then again, if we shall ever see God in glory, in this glorious and triumphing manner, This is the Lord, This sight is a changing sight. There is no sight of God, but it changeth, and alters to the likeness of God. When he calls to look up to him, and he looks on us in favour and mercy. The best fruit of his favour is grace, of peace, and joy, for these be beams that issue from him, grace, as beams from the sun. But where-ever God looks