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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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ISAIAH 25. 6. In this Mountain shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all people a Feast of fat things, a Feast of Wines on the Lees, of fat things full of Marrow, of Wine on the Lees well refined.
ISAIAH 25. 6. In this Mountaine shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all people a Feast of fat things, a Feast of Wines on the Lees, of fat things full of Marrow, of Wine on the Lees well refined.
I Have showed that Christ and his benefits are compared to a Feast, and in what respects they are fitly resembled by a Feast, and have pressed that we should prepare for it, first by getting large hearts. Now in the second place that we may have comfort at this Feast, we must labour for spiritual appetite;1 for to what end and purpose is that man at a Feast, that hath no stomach? I shall therefore show what means we are to use, to get eager stomachs and holy appetites after this Feast.
I Have shewed that Christ and his benefits are compared to a Feast, and in what respects they are fitly resembled by a Feast, and have prest that we should prepare for it, first by getting large hearts. Now in the second place that we may have comfort at this Feast, we must labour for spirituall appetite;1 for to what end and purpose is that man at a Feast, that hath no stomack? I shall therefore shew what meanes we are to use, to get eager stomacks and holy appetites after this Feast.
- 1First means to get appetite sour herbs, sense of sin and misery.First means to get appetite soure herbes, sense of sin and misery.