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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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For the nature of the thing it cannot be otherwise, every member of the body shall be fit to glorify God. What the Psalmist saith of his tongue, Awake my glory, he may say of every member, do thy office in glorifying the ⟨p. 155⟩Lord, and rejoicing in the Lord: Pectus facit disertos, The heart makes a man eloquent and full: so the performance of any promise fills the heart so full of affections, the affections are so enlarged, and therefore we must not have affections to a Court-kind of expressions, as they in old time, and the like Court-eloquence, when men might not speak fully. But when joy possesseth the heart to the full, there be full expressions. This is the Lord, this is the Lord, let us rejoice in him. And therefore there seemeth so many tautologies in the Psalms, though they be no tautologies, but mere exuberancies of a sanctified affection.
For the nature of the thing it cannot be otherwise, every member of the body shall be fit to glorifie God. What the Psalmist saith of his tongue, Awake my glory, he may say of every member, doe thy office in glorifying the ⟨p. 155⟩Lord, and rejoycing in the Lord: Pectus facit disertos, The heart makes a man eloquent and full: so the performance of any promise fils the heart so full of affections, the affections are so inlarged, and therefore we must not have affections to a Court-kind of expressions, as they in old time, and the like Court-eloquence, when men might not speake fully. But when joy possesseth the heart to the full, there be full expressions. This is the Lord, this is the Lord, let us rejoyce in him. And therefore there seemeth so many tautologies in the Psalmes, though they be no tautologies, but meere exuberancies of a sanctified affection.
Oh beloved what a blessed time will that be, when this large heart of ours shall have that that will fill it! When the best parts of us, our understanding, will and affections shall be carried to that which is better and larger then it self, and shall be as it were swallowed up in the fullness of God! And that is the reason of the repetition of the word, This is the Lord, this is the Lord.