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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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In the next,1 God is an inexhausted fountain, and when we have to deal with an infinite God, the more we take of him, the more we offer him. It is no good plea to say, you have done courtesies, therefore do them still. But we cannot honour God more, then from former experience to look for great things from the great God.
In the next,1 God is an inexhausted fountaine, and when we have to deale with an infinite God, the more we take of him, the more we offer him. It is no good plea to say, you have done courtesies, therefore do them still. But we cannot honour God more, then from former experience to looke for great things from the great God.
- 1God an inexhaust fountain.
We have have waited for him, he will save us, we have waited for him, and we will rejoice in his salvation. That which a child of God gives thanks for, & rejoices in, and labours for, is more & more experience of his salvation. We will rejoice in his salvation. There is not a stronger word in all the Scripture, nor in nature, he doth not say rejoicing in this or that benefit, but in his salvation, that is in deliverance from all evil; we will rejoice in his preservation, when he hath delivered us, we will rejoice in his advancement of us, and we will rejoice in his salvation. And therefore when the wisdom of heaven would include all in one word, he useth the word Jesus, all ⟨p. 158⟩happiness in that word, that pregnant full word, a Saviour.
We have have waited for him, he will save us, we have waited for him, and we will rejoyce in his salvation. That which a child of God gives thanks for, & rejoyces in, and labors for, is more & more experience of his salvation. We wil rejoyce in his salvation. There is not a stronger word in all the Scripture, nor in nature, he doth not say rejoycing in this or that benefit, but in his salvation, that is in deliverance from all evill; we will reioyce in his perservation, when he hath delivered us, we will reioyce in his advancement of us, and we will reioyce in his salvation. And therfore when the wisedome of heaven would include all in one word, hee useth the word Jesus, all