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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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Sermon 1: THE Marriage Feast, BETWEEN CHRIST and his CHURCH.
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In these words ye have set down a glorious and royal Feast; and the place where this Feast is to be kept is Mount Zion; the Feast-maker is the Lord of Hosts; the parties invited are all people; the issues of it, and the provision for the Feast, are fat things, and wine of the best; a Feast of the best of the best; a Feast of the fat, and of the Marrow, a Feast of wine on the Lees well refined.
In these words yee have set downe a glorious and royall Feast; and the place where this Feast is to be kept is Mount Syon; the Feast-maker is the Lord of Hosts; the parties invited are all people; the issues of it, and the provision for the Feast, are fat things, and wine of the best; a Feast of the best of the best; a Feast of the fat, and of the Marrow, a Feast of wine on the Lees well refined.
Here you may see that God doth veil heavenly things under earthly things, and condescends so low as to enter into the inward man by the outward man; for our apprehensions are so weak, and narrow, that we cannot be acquainted with spiritual things, but by the inward working of the Spirit of the Almighty.
Here you may see that God doth veile heavenly things under earthly things, and condiscends so low as to enter into the inward man by the outward man; for our apprehensions are so weak, and narrow, that we cannot bee acquainted with spirituall things, but by the inward working of the Spirit of the Almighty.
This mountain is the place where this Feast is made, even Mount Zion, which is a type and figure of the Church, called in Scripture, the holy Mountain; for as Mountains are raised high above the earth, so the Church of God is raised in excellency and dignity above all the sorts of man-kind;1