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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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Sermon 1: THE Marriage Feast, BETWEEN CHRIST and his CHURCH.
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We have Scripture, they have traditions, which they equal with it; We have Scriptures pure, they corrupt. So that our Church was in the midst of theirs, as a sound and more uncorrupt part in a corrupt body.
Wee have Scripture, they have traditions, which they equall with it; Wee have Scriptures pure, they corrupt. So that our Church was in the midst of theirs, as a sound and more uncorrupt part in a corrupt body.
This mountain is the Church,1 Rev. 14. 1. The Lamb standeth upon Mount Zion, and with him a hundred forty and four thousand, having his Fathers name written in their foreheads. Christ standeth in the Church, and standing in Mount Zion, he is accompanied with those that his Father hath given to him, before ⟨p. 6⟩the world was;2 therefore those that belong to this holy Mountain they are Christs. And in this Mountain shall the Lord of hosts make a feast for all people. And this feast is a royal feast, a marriage feast, wherein the joy and comfort of Gods people are set down by that which is most comfortable among men.3 The founder of the feast is the Lord of hosts; It is only he that is able to prepare a table in the wilderness, that is mighty, and of ability to feast his Church with a spiritual, and holy banquet. We all live at his table for the feeding of our bodies, but much more in regard of our souls; He can make a feast for the whole man, for he is Lord of the conscience: and he is to spread a table for the whole world; nay more, (if there were so many) he can furnish a table for ten thousand worlds; he is the God of all spiritual comforts, and the God of all consolation; He is infinite, and can never be drawn dry, for he is the fountain of eternal life. All graces and comforts in the Scripture are called the comforts and graces of the holy Spirit, because God is the giver of them by his Spirit. Who can take away the wound of a guilty conscience, but he that hath set the conscience in the hearts of men? He (if he pleaseth) can take away the burden of a grieved conscience, and supply it, instead thereof, with new and solid comforts. He knoweth all the windings and turnings of the soul, where all the pain and grief lieth, and he cannot but know it because he only is above the soul: He is therefore the fittest to make the soul a feast, he only can do it, and he will do it.