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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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Again if time to come be so transcendently glorious,1 let us not be afraid to dye, let us not be over much cast down, for it shall end in glory. And let us be in expectation still of good times, wait for this blessed time to come, and never be content with any condition, so as to set up our rest here. We may write upon every thing, Hic non est requies vestra; Our rest is behind, these things are in passage. And therefore rest content with nothing here. Heaven is our centre, our element, our happiness, and every thing is contentedly happy, and thriveth in its Element; The birds in the air, the fish in in the sea, beasts on the earth, they rest there as in their centre: And that that is our place for ever, it is heaven, it is God. The immediate enjoying of God in heaven, that is our rest, our Element, and we shall never rest till we be there. And therefore he is befooled for it, in the Gospel, that setteth up his rest here; whosoever saith I have enough, and will now take contentment in them, he is a fool. There is a rest for Gods people, but it is not here.
Againe if time to come be so transcendently glorious,1 let us not be affraid to dye, let us not be over much cast downe, for it shall end in glory. And let us be in expectation still of good times, waite for this blessed time to come, and never be content with any condition, so as to set up our rest here. We may write upon every thing, Hic non est requies vestra; Our rest is behind, these things are in passage. And therefore rest content with nothing here. Heaven is our centre, our element, our happinesse, and every thing is contentedly happy, and thriveth in its Element; The birds in the aire, the fish in in the sea, beasts on the earth, they rest there as in their center: And that that is our place for ever, it is heaven, it is God. The immediat injoying of God in heaven, that is our rest, our Element, and we shall never rest till we be there. And therefore he is befooled for it, in the Gospell, that setteth up his rest here; whosoever saith I have enough, and will now take contentment in them, he is a foole. There is a rest for Gods people, but it is not here.
- 13 Be not afraid to dye, for heaven is our rest and centre.