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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
All the former Feasts in times past were but types of this.1 The Feast of Tabernacles, the Feast of the Passover, the spiritual Manna, and all other holy Feasts, were but to signify and to show forth this Feast by Christ. But there is this difference between the type, and the thing signified; by the type, the Passover Lamb was quite eaten up, but this Passover Christ, that was slain for sin, can never be eaten up: We feed upon him with our souls, he cannot be consumed as the Passover Lamb, nor as Manna, which was gone when the Sun arose; yea that Manna that was laid up for a remembrance before the Ark, became nothing, but Christ is in heaven for evermore for the soul to feed upon. Though these were resemblances, yet these failed, as it is fit resemblances should fail; that is, come short of the body of the thing it self. Thus you see the spiritual comforts of a Christian, may well and fitly be compared to a Feast.
All the former Feasts in times past were but types of this.1 The Feast of Tabernacles, the Feast of the Passeover, the spirituall Manna, and all other holy Feasts, were but to signifie and to shew forth this Feast by Christ. But there is this difference between the type, and the thing signified; by the type, the Passeover Lambe was quite eaten up, but this Passeover Christ, that was slaine for sinne, can never be eaten up: We feed upon him with our soules, he cannot be consumed as the Passeover Lambe, nor as Manna, which was gone when the Sunne arose; yea that Manna that was laid up for a remembrance before the Arke, became nothing, but Christ is in heaven for evermore for the soule to feed upon. Though these were resemblances, yet these failed, as it is fit resemblances should faile; that is, come short of the body of the thing it selfe. Thus you see the spirituall comforts of a Christian, may well and fitly be compared to a Feast.
- 14. By all the Jewish festivals.4. By all the Jewish festivalls.