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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 if he should want us, in some sort, he were miserable, he having fixed upon us, as objects of his eternal love. In what case were he, if he should lose that object? And therefore as we glory in him, he glorieth in us. Who is this that cometh ⟨p. 162⟩out of the wilderness? who? his beloved. And, woman is this thy faith? he admires the graces of the Church, as the Church admires him, This is the Lord. The Church cannot be without him, nor he without the Church. These words are spoken with a kind of admiration.1 Lo, this is the Lord, we will rejoice in him. So I say, as there is thanks and joy, so their is admiration, lo, behold. This is a God worthy beholding, & so he wonders at the graces of his Children. Beloved there is nothing in the world worthy admiration. Sapientis non est admirare, It was a speech of the proud Philosopher, A wise man will not admire, for he knoweth the ground. But in heaven the parts are lifted up so high, that there is nothing but matter of admiration, things that eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath entered into the heart of man to conceive of. They be things beyond expression, and nothing is fit for them, but admiration at the great things vouchsafed to the Church.
And if he should want us, in some sort, he were miserable, he having fixed upon us, as objects of his eternall love. In what case were he, if he should lose that object? And therefore as we glory in him, he gloryeth in us. Who is this that cometh ⟨p. 162⟩out of the wildernesse? who? his beloved. And, woman is this thy faith? he admires the graces of the Church, as the Church admires him, This is the Lord. The Church cannot be without him, nor he without the Church. These words are spoken with a kind of admiration.1 Loe, this is the Lord, we will rejoyce in him. So I say, as there is thanks and joy, so their is admiration, loe, behold. This is a God worthy beholding, & so he wonders at the graces of his Children. Beloved there is nothing in the world worthy admiration. Sapientis non est admirare, It was a speech of the proud Philosopher, A wise man will not admire, for he knoweth the ground. But in heaven the parts are lifted up so high, that there is nothing but matter of admiration, things that eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath entred into the heart of man to conceive of. They be things beyond expression, and nothing is fit for them, but admiration at the great things vouchsafed to the Church.