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death_n	reign_v	sin_n	sin_v	4,155	5	9.6123	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93248	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.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1650 (1650)	Wing S3736; Thomason E599_13; ESTC R206386	119,357	167

Gods children over death Oh death where is thy sting oh grave where is thy victory death is the greatest swallower and yet it is swallowed up by Christ death hath swallowed up all and when it hath swallowed up it keepeth them It keeps the dust of Kings Subjects great and small to the generall day of judgement when death shall be swallowed up of it selfe It is therefore of the nature of those that Solomon speaks of that cry give give and yet is never satisfied like the grave yet this death is swallowed up in victory But how commeth death to be swallowed up Christ will swallow up death in victory for himselfe and his First of all because sin brought in death our Saviour Christ became sinne a sacrifice to his fathers justice for sinne he was made sinne for us he was made a curse for us to take away the curse due to us and sinne being taken away what hath death to doe with us and hell and damnation the attendants on death nothing at all Therefore Coll. 2. upon the crosse Christ did naile the law and sinne and the devill there he raigned over principalities and powers which were but executioners let loose by reason of our sinnes And God being satisfied for sinne the devill hath nothing to doe with us but to exercise us except it be for our good So that he hath swallowed up death because by his death he hath taken away sinne and so the power of Satan whose power is by sinne And therefore it is excellently set downe Heb. 2. 14. He also tooke part of flesh and blood that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death that is the devill So Christ by death overthrew Satan that had the power of death because by death he tooke away sinne the sinnes of all and bare our sinnes upon the crosse and was made sinne for us that knew no sinne he is ours if we believe For then Christ is given to a particular man when hee believes Beloved Christ upon the crosse did triumph over all our spirituall enemies sinne and death and all It was a kingdome of patience You know there is a double kingdome of Christ a kingdome of patience and a kingdome of power Christ on the crosse suffering punishment due to sinne overcame the law and the devill and sinne which is the kingdome of patience the kingdome of power he hath in heaven If Christ were so able in his kingdome of patience to conquer our greatest enemies what will he doe in his kingdome of power As Paul reasoneth Rom. 5. If by his death we are saved much more now he triumphs in heaven and appeares for us is he able to convey greater matters to us If Christ in the daies of his flesh did conquer how glorious will his conquest be at the day of judgement Now Christ hath conquered all in his owne person as our head then he will conquer for us in his mysticall body what is now done in his person shall be done in his members In the meane time faith is our victory his conquest over death our victory his victory over all our spirituall enemies is our victory every one that believeth is a conquerour of death though he die because he sees it conquered in Christ his head and as it is truly conquered in him so Christ will conquer it in all his members For as Christ in his naturall body is gone to heaven there to appeare in our behalfe so shall mysticall Christ be wholly in glory he will not leave a finger we shall all triumph over all our spirituall enemies as Christs naturall body is glorious in heaven as our head so shall also his mysticall body be You see then how death is swallowed up by Christ as our surety as the second Adam upon the crosse and truly swallowed up in him and by faith this victory is ours and time will come when in our owne persons it shall be swallowed up in victory This might be inlarged but I haste to make use of it Marke I beseech you how death is swallowed up by Christ in his owne person for our good he gave a great way to death for death seised on him upon the crosse death severeth soule from body death had him in his owne cabinet his grave for three daies nay this great King and tyrant death had a great conquest over Christ himselfe but here was the glory of this victory when death this great conquerour of the world had Christ upon the crosse and in his owne dominion in the grave where he rules and raignes consuming and swallowing up all death was faine to give up all and Satan thought to have had a great morsell when he devoured Christ but there was an hooke in his divine power that catched him that when he thought to have swallowed up Christ was swallowed up himselfe his head was then broken he never had such a blow as by Christ on the crosse when he was overcome being a scorne of the world visibly yet invisibly in Gods acceptation of that sacrifice and in a spirit of faith Christ triumpheth over Satan death was subdued even in his owne kingdome and that makes the victory great Death by seising on Christ without right Christ hath freed us from the evill of death when it had right to us Death hath lost all its right by fastening on Christ and so is become as a Drone without a sting so the great swallower of all is swallowed up it selfe at last by Christ Now for comfortable use of it First let us consider that God oftentimes giveth a great deale of way to his greatest enemies God useth a stratagem of retiring he seemes to retire and give liberty to his enemies but it is to triumph and trample upon them with greater shame he will tread them to dust afterward Christ gave death a great deale of liberty he was crucified and tormented then had to the grave and there he lay And this was to raise a greater triumph over this great prevailer over the world and death it selfe It is continued so in the Church Doth not he give way to the enemies of the Church they may come to say ahah ahah so would we have it Now the poore children of God are where we would have them but then comes suddaine destruction God to make his victory more glorious and more to discover their cruelty comes upon them when they be in the top of pleasure and the Church in the bottome of abasement then God swalloweth up all in victory as Christ did death when it seemed to have bin it selfe victorious This is a very comfortable consideration for if death be overcome when it seem'd to overcome Christ what need wee feare any other enemy Christ hath broken the net as an Eagle or great bird and the rest escape by him You may inlarge this in your owne meditations hee will swallow up death in victory