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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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And this showeth that the children of God rejoice more then in any thing else in salvation, because it is the salvation of God, and because God is salvation it self. Heaven were not heaven, if Jesus, and God in our nature were not there; And therefore the Apostle saith, I desire to depart, not to be dissolved, and to be with Christ, for that is better. 1The sight of God, specially in our nature, God the second person taking our nature, that we might be happy, will make us happy for ever. In loving God, and joying in God, and enjoying God, makes full happiness; but that is not the cause of joy in heaven, but the cause of all, is Gods influence into us. Here in the world happiness is mediate, in Gods revealing of himself to us, by his holy spirit in the use of means▪ in his dealings and deliverances, letting us see him by his grace, to see him, and joy and delight in him for ever. It is no good love that resteth in any blessings of God for themselves. It is an harlotry affection, to love the gift more then the giver: So the Saints of God they do all desire to see him as they may, and to joy in God, and enjoy God himself, and to see God in our nature, and to be with him for ⟨p. 159⟩ever. Before he spake of a feast, and if the Feast-maker be not there, what is all? In a Funeral feast there is much cheer, but the Feast-maker is gone. In heaven there is joy, but where is God, where is Christ, he that hath done so much, suffered so much for us, that hath taken possession of heaven, and keepeth a place for us there? What is heaven without him? salvation severed from him is nothing.
And this sheweth that the children of God rejoyce more then in any thing else in salvation, because it is the salvation of God, and because God is salvation it selfe. Heaven were not heaven, if Jesus, and God in our nature were not there; And therefore the Apostle saith, I desire to depart, not to be dissolved, and to be with Christ, for that is better. 1The sight of God, specially in our nature, God the second person taking our nature, that we might be happy, will make us happy for ever. In loving God, and joying in God, and enjoying God, makes full happinesse; but that is not the cause of joy in heaven, but the cause of all, is Gods influence into us. Here in the world happinesse is mediate, in Gods revealing of himselfe to us, by his holy spirit in the use of meanes in his dealings and deliverances, letting us see him by his grace, to see him, and joy and delight in him for ever. It is no good love that resteth in any blessings of God for themselves. It is an harlottry affection, to love the gift more then the giver: So the Saints of God they doe all desire to see him as they may, and to joy in God, and enjoy God himselfe, and to see God in our nature, and to be with him for