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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 therefore we should learn to rejoice in God, and and then we shall never be ashamed.1 It is spoken here with a kind of exalting, a kind of triumphing over all oppositions, Lo, this is our God. Beloved, this, that God is our God, and Christs is ours, is the ground of rejoicing, and of all happiness.2 All joy, all comfort is founded upon this, our interest in God; and therefore we must make this good, while we live here, that God is our God, and that we may do so, observe this; Christ is called Emanuel, God with us.3 God in the second person, is Godman, ⟨p. 151⟩and so God with us, and the Father in Emanuel is God with us too. So we are God the Fathers, because we are his. All things are yours saith the Apostle, whether Paul, or Apollo, things present, things to come; why? because you are Christs. I but what if I be Christs, Christ is Gods. So we must be Christs, and then we shall be Gods; if Christ be ours, God is ours, for God is Emanuel in Christ, Emanuel, God is with us in Christ, who is with us. God is reconciled to us in God and man, in our nature. And therefore get by faith into Christ, and get union and get communion, by prayer open our souls to him, entertain his speeches to us by his word, and spirit, and blessed motions, and open our spirits to him, and so maintain a blessed intercourse. Make it good that God is our God,4 by daily acquaintance. These speeches at the latter end are founded upon acquaintance before. This is our God. Grace and glory are knit together indissolubly. If God be our God here, he will be ours also in glory, if not here, not in glory. There is a Communion with God here, before communion with him in glory, and therefore make it good that God be our God here, first by union with him. And then maintain daily acquaintance with him, by seeing him with the eye of faith, by speaking to him, and hearing him speak to us by his spirit, joining in his ordinances; And then he will own us, and be acquainted with us, in heaven we shall say, Lo, this is our God. We have had sweet acquaintance one with another, He by his spirit with me & I by my prayers with him. Our Saviour Christ will not be without us in heaven, we are part of his mystical body, and heaven were not heaven to Christ, without us. With reverence be it spoken, we are the fullness of Christ, as he is the fullness of his Church.