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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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There is a plant among the Indians called by the name of Coquus, 1the fruit thereof serveth for meat and drink, to comfort and refresh the body: It yieldeth that whereof the people make apparel to clothe themselves ⟨p. 10⟩withal; and also that which is physical, very good against the distempers of the body: And if God will infuse so much virtue into a poor plant, what virtue may we expect to be in Christ himself? He feedeth our souls to all eternity, puts upon us the robes of righteousness, heals the distempers of our souls; there is variety in him for all our wants whatsoever. He is food, physic, and apparel to clothe us; and when we are clothed with him, we may with boldness stand before the Majesty of God; He is all in all, He is variety, and all. There is something in Christ answerable to all the necessities of Gods people, and not only so, but to their full content in every thing.
There is a plant among the Indians called by the name of Coquus, 1the fruit thereof serveth for meat and drinke, to comfort and refresh the body: It yeeldeth that whereof the people make apparell to cloath themselves ⟨p. 10⟩withall; and also that which is phisicall, very good against the distempers of the body: And if God will infuse so much vertue into a poore plant, what vertue may we expect to be in Christ himself? He feedeth our soules to all eternity, puts upon us the roabes of righteousnesse, heales the distempers of our soules; there is variety in him for all our wants whatsoever. He is food, physicke, and apparell to cloath us; and when we are cloathed with him, we may with boldnesse stand before the Majesty of God; He is all in all, He is variety, and all. There is something in Christ answerable to all the necessities of Gods people, and not only so, but to their full content in every thing.
- 1Christ like the Indian plant Coquus, good for all things.