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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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Again, 1we may here speak in some sort of the visibility of the Church; but here will arise a quarrel for the Papists, who when they hear of this Mount, they presently allude it to their Church. Their Church, say they, is a Mount, so saith the Scripture. I answer. 1. We confess in some sort their Church to be a Mount (though not this Mount) for Babylon is built on seven Hills; but if this prove her a Church, it is the Antichristian Church. Secondly, That the Catholic Protestantiall Church had always a being, though sometimes invisible. The Apostle writing to the Romans, exhorts them, not to be high-minded, but fear, for saith he, if God hath broken off the natural branches, perhaps he will break off you also. And indeed for their pride and haughtiness of mind they are at this day broken off. Christ that walks between the seven golden Candlesticks, did never say ⟨p. 5⟩that the Church of Smyrna or Ephesus should always remain a visible Church to the eyes of the world, neither were they; for to this very day, they lie under bondage and slavery to the Turk. The Mount hath bin always visible, though not always alike gloriously visible; for there will be a time when the Church shall fly into the wilderness, where then shall be the glorious visibility of the Church? there is a time when all shall follow the beast; the Papists themselves confess that in Antichrists time the Church shall scarce be visible. The essence of a thing, and the quality of a thing may differ: The Church is a Church, and visible, but not always equally, and alike gloriously visible; yet those that had spiritual eyes, and did look upon things with the spectacles of the Scripture, they could always declare the Church was visible; for from the beginning of the world the Church had always lustre enough sufficient to delight, and draw the elect, and so shall have to the end of the world, though sometimes the Church may have a mist before it, as Austin speaks; It is no wonder that thou canst not see a mountain, for thou hast no eyes. But the Papists have seen this mountain; as they have always bin bloody persecutors of the Church, they have seen enough to confound them: For we have nothing in our Church, but they have the same; only ours is refined, and freed from Idolatry; We have two Sacraments, they have seven;
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