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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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I will add a little to this state of waiting before I go farther.1 God will not have our condition presently perfect, but have us continue in a state of waiting.
I will adde a little to this state of waiting before I goe farther.1 God will not have our condition presently perfect, but have us continue in a state of waiting.
- 1God will have us continue in a state of waiting.
First of all,1 it is his pleasure that we should live by faith, and not by sight. We have sense and feeling of many things, he reserveth not all for heaven; how many sweet refreshments have we in the way? but the tenor of our life is by faith, and not by sight. God will have us in such a condition.
First of all,1 it is his pleasure that we should live by faith, and not by sight. We have sence and feeling of many things, he reserveth not all for heaven; how many sweet refreshments have we in the way? but the tenor of our life is by faith, and not by sight. God will have us in such a condition.
- 1Reas 1. Its his pleasure we should live by faith, not by sight.