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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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The words are expressed with a kind of glorying,1 Lo, this is our God. So that the joy of a Christian endeth in glory, and in the highest degree of glory. As you have it, Rom. 5. We glory also in tribulation, we glory in hope of glory, nay we glory in God as ours reconciled. And if we glory in him now as a God reconciled, what shall we do in heaven? Can a worlding glory in his riches, his greatness, his favour from such a man, as Haman did? And shall not a Christian glory in his God? and make his boast in his God?2 And therefore in this world we should learn to glory, before we come to that glory in heaven, specially when we be set upon by any thing that is apt to discourage us, glory then in our head; perhaps a Christian hath no wealth, no great rents to glory in, I but he hath a God to glory in, let him glory in him. The world may take all else from him, but not his God. As the Church in Cant. 5. The virgins put the Church to describe her beloved, what is thy beloved more then another beloved? My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest of 10000. Then she goeth on in particulars, my beloved is thus and thus, and if you would know what my beloved is, this is my beloved. So a Christian that hath a spirit ⟨p. 150⟩of faith, should glory in God here, for heaven is begun here, and he should glory in Christ is Saviour, and should set Christ against all discouragements, and oppositions; if you will know what is my beloved, this is my beloved, the chief among ten thousands. Psal. 115. Our God is in heaven, and doth whatsoever he pleaseth in heaven, and earth, and the deeps, yea we make our boast of God saith the Psalmist, when there is occasion; this is the Lord, this is our God, we have waited for him; specially in times of afflictions, and what is the reason? This will hold out to eternity. This is our God. As in the Revelations, It is a plea, and a glory for ever; for God is our happiness. As the School-men say, he is our objective happiness, and our formal happiness, he is our happiness, as he is ours. And he is ours, in life, and death, and for ever, so there is always ground of glory, only God doth discover himself to be ours, by little and little, as we are able to bear him; he is ours in our worst times. My God my God why hast thou forsaken me? yet my God still.