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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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First,1 in regard of the choice of the things; In a feast all things are of the best, so are the things we have in Christ: whatsoever favours we have by Christ, they are choice ones, they are the best of every thing; pardon for sin, is a pardon of pardon; the title we have for heaven, through him, is a sure title; the joy we have by him, is the joy of all joys; the liberty and freedom from sin, which he purchased for us by his death, is perfect ⟨p. 9⟩freedom; the riches of grace we have by him, are the only lasting, and durable riches; take any thing that you can, if we have it by Christ it is of the best: All worldly excellencies and honours, are but mere shadows to the high excellencies, and honour we have in Christ. No joy, no comfort, no peace, no riches, no inheritance to be compared with the joy, peace, and inheritance which we have in Christ; whatsoever we have by him we have it in a glorious manner: And therefore he is compared to fat, to fat things full of marrow, to wine, to wine on the lees that preserveth the freshness of it; the best wine of all, that is not changed from vessel to vessel, but keepeth its strength; And indeed the strength and vigour of all floweth from Jesus Christ in covenant with us.
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