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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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God is so good to us that he would have us enjoy the best at the last;1 the sweeter is heaven, by how much the more difficult our way thither is: Heaven is heaven, and happiness is happiness, after a long time of waiting; For waiting enlargeth the capacity and desires of the soul to receive more, it commendeth the happiness afterwards. And therefore God keepeth the best for the last, because he will never interrupt the happiness of his children, when they be in heaven, there is a banishment of all cause of sorrow. He will have a distinction between the Church-militant and Triumphant: He will train up his children here, before he bringeth them to heaven; he will perfume his Spouse, and make her fit for an everlasting communion with him in heaven.
God is so good to us that he would have us enjoy the best at the last;1 the sweeter is heaven, by how much the more difficult our way thither is: Heaven is heaven, and happinesse is happinesse, after a long time of waiting; For waiting enlargeth the capacity and desires of the soule to receive more, it commendeth the happinesse afterwards. And therefore God keepeth the best for the last, because he will never interrupt the happinesse of his children, when they be in heaven, there is a banishment of all cause of sorrow. Hee will have a distinction between the Church-militant and Triumphant: He will traine up his children here, before he bringeth them to heaven; he will perfume his Spouse, and make her fit for an everlasting communion with him in heaven.
- 1Reas. 3. Because God would have us enjoy the best at last.
The third thing is,1 that as there be promises, and these promises are not presently fulfilled, which put us in a state of waiting: so God giveth grace to uphold in waiting. Waiting is not an empty time, to wait so long, and no grace in the mean time; but waiting is a fitting time for that we are to receive afterwards.