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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

shall then enjoy it 151 3. God will have us have the best at last 251 As there is a time of our waiting so there will be a time of Gods performance 152 The present grace wee have is an earnest of what wee shall have 152 Incouragements to wait upon God 153 1. Gods time is best and it is set 154 2. God will effect the thing promised though by contraries 154 VVhat we should doe when God hath performed promise 1. Be thankefull to the Lord. 156 2. Be joyfull in the Lord. 158 159 Interest in God is the cause of all our joy 160 161 162 THE Marriage Feast BETWEEN CHRIST and his CHURCH 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 IN the former Chapter the holy Prophet having spoken of the miseries and desolation of the Church in many heavy sad and dolefull expressions as the Vine languisheth the earth is defiled under the Inhabitants thereof because they have transgressed the Lawes changed the Ordinance and broken the everlasting Covenant therefore the earth shall be accursed and they that dwell therein shall not drink Wine with a Song c. Here you see all sweetnesse and rejoycing of heart is departed from them yet even in the middest of all these miseries God the God of comforts makes sweet and gracious promises to his Church to raise it out of its mournfull estate and condition And therefore the Prophet in the former part of this Chapter speakes of blessing God for the destruction of his Enemies and for his great love to his Church And when he had spoken of the ruine of the enemie hee presently breaks out with Thanksgiving breathing forth abundant praises to his God as it is the custome of holy men guided by the motion of the blessed Spirit of God upon all occasions but especially for benefits to his Church to praise his Name not out of ill affection at the destruction of the Adversaries but at the execution of Divine Justice for the fulfilling of the truth of his promise as in the first Verse of this Chapter O Lord thou art my God I will exalt thee I will praise thy name for thou hast done wonderfull things thy Counsels of old are faithfulnesse and truth When the things that were promised of old were brought to passe the Church was ever ready to give God the glory of his Truth Therefore rejoyce not when thine enemies fall but when the enemies of the Lord are brought to desolation then we may nay we ought to sing Hallelujah to him that liveth for ever and ever I will now fall upon the very words of my Text. In this mountaine shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all people a Feast of fat things c. These words they are Propheticall and cannot have a perfect performance all at once but they shall be performed gradually The promise of a new heaven and a new earth shall be performed The conversion of the Jewes and the bringing in of the fulnesse of the Gentiles shall gradually be brought to passe All the Promises that ever God hath made before the second comming of Christ to Judgement shall be accomplished God hath made his peace with us in the Gospell of peace and when all these Promises shall be fulfilled then all imperfection shall be done away and wee shall never be removed from our Rock but our joy shall then be full nay even in this life we have some degrees of perfection we have grace and the meanes of grace the Ordinances of Christ and a testimony of everlasting glory In this Mountaine will the Lord of Hosts make a Feast In these words yee have set downe a glorious and royall Feast and the place where this Feast is to be kept is Mount Syon the Feast-maker is the Lord of Hosts the parties invited are all people the issues of it and the provision for the Feast are fat things and wine of the best a Feast of the best of the best a Feast of the fat and of the Marrow a Feast of wine on the Lees well refined Here you may see that God doth veile heavenly things under earthly things and condiscends so low as to enter into the inward man by the outward man for our apprehensions are so weak and narrow that we cannot bee acquainted with spirituall things but by the inward working of the Spirit of the Almighty This mountaine is the place where this Feast is made even Mount Syon which is a type and figure of the Church called in Scripture the holy Mountaine for as Mountains are raised high above the earth so the Church of God is raised in excellency and dignity above all the sorts of man-kinde As much as men above Beasts so much is the Church raised above all men This Mountain is above all Mountaines the Mountaine of the Lord is above all other Mountaines whatsoever Thou O Mountaine shalt stand immoveable when all other Mountaines shall smoak if they are but touched this is the mountaine of Mountaines The Church of God is most excellent in glory and dignity as ye may see in the latter end of the former Chapter how the glory of the Church puts down all other glories whatsoever The Moon saith the Prophet shall be confounded and the Sunne ashamed when the Lord of Hosts shall reigne in Mount Sion and in Jerusalem and before his Ancients gloriously So that the brightnesse of the Church shall put downe the glory of the Sunne and of the Moon Thus you see the Church of God is a Mountaine Reas First Because God hath established it upon a stronger Foundation than all the world besides It is founded upon the goodnesse and power and truth of God Mountaines of Brasse and Iron are not so firme as this Mountaine For what sustains the Church but the Word of God And being built upon his Word and Truth it may very well be called a Mountaine for it shall bee as Mount Syon which shall never be removed it may be moved but never removed Thus in regard of the firmnesse and stability thereof it may rightly bee termed a Mountain Again we may here speak in some sort of the visibility of the Church but here will arise a quarrell for the Papists who when they hear of this Mount they presently allude it to their Church Their Church say they is a Mount so saith the Scripture I answer 1. Wee confesse in some sort their Church to be a Mount though not this Mount for Babylon is built on seven Hills but if this prove her a Church it is the Antichristian Church Secondly That the Catholick Protestantiall Church had alwayes a being though sometimes invisible The Apostle writing to the Romans exhorts them not to bee high-minded but feare for saith hee if God hath broken off the naturall branches perhaps

his Prince to Caesar I will not spend time in cleare truths For the Church it selfe you see in the Booke of Hester 3. There is a strange people that acknowledge no law they be against the lawes of the Prince they passe under the imputation of rebells the poore Church that had thoughts of peace the meek Church of God they counted as enemies of the state as Christ the head was And so the Church in Babylon under what rebukes was it they reproached them By the waters of Babylon we sat downe and wept when they said sing us one of the songs of Syon The Church sitteth by the waters of Babylon all this life The world is a kind of Babylon to Gods people and then sing us one of your songs where is now your God say the hearts of wretched people when they saw the people of God in disgrace Tully could say of the nation of the Jewes It sheweth how God regardeth it it hath bin so often overcome Thus the heathen man could scorne the state of Gods people You see how the Psalmist complaines in the name of particular Christians where is his God he trusted in him let him save him Oh this was daggers to Davids heart Psal 42. 10. It peirced to my heart when they said where is thy God To touch a Christian in his God as if God had no care of him it is more then his owne griefe and affliction So when a child of God is rebuked and affronted when religion must suffer by it So that the head of the Church the members of the Church are under rebukes as it may be proved if I carry you through all stories At this day the Church of the Jewes you see what it is come to the nation of the Jewes under what reproach it is And surely this Prophecy aimeth partly at the conversion of the Jewes it shall be accomplished at the resurrection when all teares shall be perfectly wiped away But it hath relation to the conversion of the Jewes In what state are they now are they not a word of reproach Moses speech is verified of them They shall be a hissing to all Nations and is not it a proverbe Hated as a Jew But what is the reason of it Not to stand long upon the point you know there be two seeds in the world the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman and the enmity between them is the true ground and the antipathy in the hearts of carnall men to goodnesse There is a light shineth in the life of them that be good and them that be ill hate the light as discovering themselves to themselves and to the world not to be that they seeme to be There is a saltnesse in the truth it is savory but it is tart whether in the word preached or howsoever truth layeth open what is crosse to corruption and hereupon pride and selfe-love in carnall men studyeth how to overcast all they can the names of those that be better then themselves with a cloud of disgrace It is the property of vile men to make all others vile that they may be alike men cannot abide distinctions of one from another The Scripture distinguisheth the righteous man more excellent then his neighbour but they will not have that The hatred of distinction is the cause they make all as bad as they can And hereupon it is that good things were never cloathed in the right habit nor ill things neither but doe passe under a vaile take away the true garment of grace and holinesse and goodnesse and put a false vaile upon it it passeth not under that that it is in this world because wicked men will not suffer it but will raise up the credit of other things of empty learning or empty things or vaine courses and cry up the credit of worldly things that they may seeme to be wise and not fooles that are carried to those things The best things had never the happinesse to passe under their owne names but they had other coverings Trueth goeth alwaies with a torne and scratched face it is a stranger in the world and hath strange entertainment If this be so wee ought to take heed of laying a scandall or reproach upon religion Salvian complaines in his time that wickednes had gotten that head that those that were good and honourable mali esse volunt ne a malis abhorreantur They that were good studied to be vile that they might not be villified of others Oh saith hee how much is Christ beholding to the world that those that owne him and owne goodnesse and owne his cause should be therefore base because they be his friends take heed of taking scandalls Use 2. Wee had need be wise that wee be not taken in this snare of Satan to mistake error for truth and good for evill Satan and his agents make things passe under contrary representations Superstition goeth for Religion and Religion for superstition Schisme and Heresie It hath alwaies bin so therefore seeke wisdome to discerne aright The devill hath two properties hee is a liar and a murtherer the one makes way for the other for he could not murther unlesse he did lie The devill himselfe will not be an open murtherer if he can helpe it The fraudulent persecution is worse than the violent If he can bring to hell by fraud and lying hee will never doe it by violence Hee is a lyar that hee may be a murtherer for when he can raise an imputation upon the Church and children of God that they be Rebels enemies of state then he may cum privilegio be a murtherer when he hath tainted Gods people in the conceit of the world then they finde that entertainment not which they deserve but which they be apprehended to deserve when the conceit of other men towards them is poyson'd Oh this Sect is spoken against every where say they to Paul Acts 28. 22. Therefore wee had need be wise for if the instruments of Satan led with his spirit had not hoped that slanders should take they would never have bin so skillfull in that trade But they know they shall finde some shallow fooles that will believe them without searching into the depth of them and take up persons and things under prejudice It is enough for them that this is said of them they have neither wit nor judgement nor so much patience from following their lusts as to examine them And that makes them so mad as they are Calumniare audacter aliquid haerebit Slander stoutly something will sticke they are sure of it That which hath raised and ruined many a man is that of Hamans casting of jealousie upon those that are better then themselves That was Hamans trick and so will be the practice of the wicked as it hath bin from the beginning so to the end of the world Thou art not Caesars friend say they and it s

midst of all their mirth of their mortality wich practise of the Heathens condemnes the ranting jollity of some loose professors in these times But here Christ serves in Deaths head as David the head of Goliah the head of a slaine and conquered death Our Sampson by his owne death hath destroied Death and hath thereby ransomed us from the hand of the grave and hath redeemed us from Death and the slavish feare of it All which is at large handled in these following Sermons for thy comfort and joy that thou maist triumph in his love through whom thou art more than Conqueror 4. Because it is a merry heart that makes a continuall feast and that this feast might be a Gaudy-day indeed unto thy soule Christ doth here promise to wipe away all tears from off the faces of his people The Gospel hath comforts enough to make glad the hearts of the Saints and people of God the light of Gods countenance will refresh them with joy unspeakable and glorious in the midst of the valley of the shadow of death A truely godly person can weep for his sinnes though the world smile never so much upon him and though hee be never so much afflicted in the world yet hee can and will rejoyce in the God of his salvation In these Sermons thou hast this Gospel-promise sweetly opened and applyed wherein thou shalt finde directions when and for what to mourne and weep and the blessednesse of all true mourners whose sorrow shall be turned into joy 5. In these Sermons you shall further finde that though Jesus Christ respect his people highly and entertaine them bountifully yet they have but course usage in the world who are wont to revile them as fooles and madmen as seditious Rebels troublers of Israel proud and hypocriticall persons But blessed are they that doe not stumble at this stone of offence that weare the reproaches of Christ as their Crowne and by well doing put to silence the ignorance of foolish men for let the world load them with all their revilings yet the spirit of glory rests upon them and in due time he will rowle away their reproach and bring forth their judgement as the light and their righteousnesse as the noon-day 6. And because a Christian here hath more in hope than in hand more in reversion than in possession walkes by faith rather than sense and lives by the Word of God and not by bread alone Thou shalt have here Christian Reader a sweet Discourse of the precious promises of Christ which hee hath left us here to stay the stomack of the soule till wee come to that feast of feasts in heaven that by this glimpse wee might in part know the greatnesse of that glory which shall be revealed that the first fruits might be a pawne of the Harvest and the earnest of the Spirit a pledge of that full reward wee shall have in heaven where we shall be brim-full of those pleasures that are at Gods right hand for ever Christ hath given us promises to uphold our faith and hope till faith be perfected in fruition and hope end in vision till Jesus Christ who is here the object of our faith be the reward of our faith for ever 7. Now because the comfort of the promises is grounded in the faithfulnesse of him that hath promised This godly and learned man hath strongly asserted the Divine Authority of the holy Scriptures proving that they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that they are the very Word of God that they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 worthy of all acceptation and beliefe for their owne sakes A truth very seasonable for these times to Antidote thee against the poysonfull errors of blasphemous Antiscripturists 8. Lastly because that God often takes a long day for performance of the promise thou shalt finde herein the Doctrine of waiting upon God excellently handled A duty which wee earnestly commend unto thy practice as suitable to these sad times Say Oh say with the Church In the way of thy judgements Oh Lord we have waited for thee and with the Prophet I will wait upon the Lord that hideth his face from the house of Iacob and I will look for him And rest assured that none of the seed of Iacob shall seeke him in vaine he will not disappoint their hope nor make their faces ashamed that waite for him Thus we have given you a short prospect of the whole a briefe summe of that treasure which these Sermons containe Wee need say nothing of the Author his former labours sufficiently speak for him in the gates his memory is highly honoured amongst the godly-learned He that enjoyes the glory of heaven needs not the prayses of men upon earth If any should doubt of these Sermons as if they should not be truely his whose Name they beare let him but observe the stile and the excellent and spirituall matter herein contained and he will wee hope be fully satisfied Besides there are many Eare-witnesses yet living who can cleare them from any shadow of imposture They come forth without any Alteration save onely some repetitions which the Pulpit did well beare are here omitted The Lord make these and all other the labors of his Servants profitable to his Church And the Lord so destroy the vaile from off thy heart that thou maiest believe and by faith come to this Feast the joy and comfort whereof may swallow up all the slavish feare of death dry up thy teares and rowle away all reproach and the Lord give thee a waiting heart to stay thy soule upon the name of the Lord to believe his Word and his faithfull promises that in due time thou maist rejoyce in the God of thy salvation This is the earnest Prayer of London Apr. 19. 1650. ARTHVR JACKSON JAMES NALTON WILL TAYLOR AN Analyticall Table of the Princicipall Contents in these Sermons upon ISAIAH 26. 7 8 9. The TEXT Page Vers 6. ANd in this Mountain shal 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 wines on the Lees well refined 1 V. 7. And he will destroy in this mountaine the face of the covering cast over all People and the vaile that is spread over all Nations 33 V. 8. He will swallow up death in victory and the Lord God will wipe away teares from off all faces and the rebuke of his people shall hee take away from off all the earth for the Lord hath spoken it 55 97. V. 9. And it shall be said in that day lo this is our God We have waited for him and he will save us This is the Lord we have waited for him we will be glad and rejoyce in his salvation 111 Coherence between the judgements threatned in the former Chapter and the comforts promised in this Chapter 1 2 The Text opened 3 The Church is an

glory that rested upon him and expressed himselfe to be the servant of God He that takes away from our good report if we be good he addeth to our reward Our Saviour Christ saith as much Blessed are you when you be ill spoken of for great is your reward THE Seventh Sermon ISAIAH 25. 8. And the rebukes of his people shall he take away from all the earth For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it THis is a great promise and I pray you be comforted with it For of all grief that Gods people suffer in the world there is none greater than reproach disgrace and contumely Movemur contumeliis plus quam injuriis We are more moved with reproaches than injuries Injuries come from severall causes but disgrace from abundance of slighting No man but thinks himselfe worthy of respect from some or other Now slanders come from abundance of malice or else abundance of contempt and therefore nothing stickes so much as reproaches specially by reason of opinion and fancy that raiseth them over high Our Saviour Christ endured the Crosse and despised the shame That shame that vaine people cast upon Religion and the best things they despise that and make that a matter of patience They knew the Crosse would not be shaken off Persecution and Troubles must be endured and therefore they endured the Crosse and despised the shame Now to bear Crosses take the counsell of the Holy Apostles look up to him consider Christ and whatsoever disgrace in words or carriage wee shall endure we are sure though wee shall never know it till wee feele it by experience The spirit of glory shall rest upon us and rebuke shall be taken away Ere long there will be no glory in heaven and earth but the glory of Christ and of his Spouse for all the rest shall be in their owne place as it was said of Judas that he went to his place Their proper place is not to domineere but to be in hell and ere long they shall bee there Heaven is the proper element of the Saints that is the place of Christ the head And where should the body be but with the head where the Spouse but with the Husband I say this shall come to passe that all the wicked shall be in their place and all the godly in theirs with Christ and then shall the rebukes of Gods people be taken away A great matter and therefore it is sealed with a great confirmation The Lord Jehovah hath spoken it therfore it must and will be so The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it This is not in vaine added for the Lord knoweth well enough we need it to believe so great things that there is such a Feast provided And that there is such a victory over death our last enemy and that there will be such glory that all the glory shall bee Christs and his Spouses that the wicked that are now so insolent shall be cast into their proper place with the Devill by whose Spirit they are led They bee great matters and there is great disproportion between the present condition and that condition in heaven and infidelity being in the soule its hard to fasten such things on the soule that so great things should be done but they are no greater than God hath said and hee is able to make good his Word The Lord hath said it and when God hath said it heaven and earth cannot unsay it when heaven hath concluded it earth and hell cannot disanull it The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it That is truth it selfe hath spoken it that cannot lye A man may lye and be a man and an honest man too he may sometimes speak an untruth it taketh not away his nature But God who is pure truth unchangable truth truth it selfe cannot lye When we heare of great matters as matters of Christianity be great matters they be as large as the capacity of the soule and larger too And yet the soule is large in the understanding and affection too When wee heare of such large matters wee need a great faith to believe them Great faith needeth great grounds and therefore its good to have all the helps we can When we heare of great things promised great deliverances great glory to strengthen our faith remember God hath spoken them He knoweth our weaknesse our infirmity and therefore helps us with this prop The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Let us therefore remember those great things are promised in the word of God in the word of Jehovah that can make them all good that gives a being to all his promises He is being it selfe and gives being to whatsoever he saith he is able to doe it Set God and his power against all opposition whatsoever from the creature and all doubts that may arise from our owne unbeleeving hearts The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it But yee will say the Prophet Esay saith it whose words they were I answer Isaiah was the Pen-man God the mouth the head dictateth the hand writeth Christ the head dictates and his servant writeth So that holy men write as they were inspired by the holy Ghost a better spirit than their owne Why doe yee look on me saith Isaiah thinke not it is I that say it I am but a man like your selves but the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it VVee should not regard men nor the Ministerie of men but consider who speaks by men who sendeth them with what commission doe they come Ambassadors are not regarded for themselves but for them that send them And therefore Cornelius said well We are here in the presence of God to heare what thou wilt speake in the name of God Acts 10. 33. And so people should come with that reverend expression VVee are come in the presence of God the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost in the presence of the blessed Angells to heare what thou shalt say in the Name of God by the Spirit of God VVe are not to deal with men but with God And therefore he saith The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Hence may this question be easily answered VVhence hath the Scripture authority VVhy from it selfe it is the Word it carryeth its owne Letters testimoniall with it Shall God borrow Authority from men No the Authority the Word hath is from it selfe It hath a supreame authority from its selfe And wee may answer that question about the Judge of all controversies What is the supreame Judge the Word the Spirit of God in the Scriptures And who is above God It is a shamelesse ridiculous impudency of men that will take upon them to be Judges of Scripture as if man would get upon the Throne and as a Judge there Judge The Scriptures must judge all ere long yea that great Antichrist Now an ignorant man a simple man that perhaps never read Scriptures must judge of

God read it as the word of God A company of prophane wretches you shal have the scums and basest of the people that will discourse and to grace their Discourse they must have Scripture phrases but whose word is it it is the word of the great God Eglon was a Heathen King and yet when a Message came from God hee arose up and made obeysance Wee should never read the Word but with reverence considering whose book it is and that we must be judged by it another day If it be the word I beseech you consider what we say and know that God will make every part of it good there shall not a jot of it faile nothing of it shall miscarry God speaketh all these words And therefore if you be blasphemers you shall not carry it away guiltlesse God hath said it if you continue not to obey you are under Gods curse unlesse you repent you shall perish every threat God will make good you must repent and get into Christ else perish eternally God hath said it and we may confirme it in the unfolding and reading of it the time is comming for the execution of it and then God is peremptory Now God waiteth our leisure and intreateth us but if wee will not repent wee shall have that Arrow in our sides that will never be gotten out till we dye in hell whose sinnes are condemned in Scripture they are condemned by God and whom we shut heaven to by opening the Scriptures God will shut heaven to The opening of the Scriptures is the opening of heaven If the Scripture saith a man that liveth in such a sinne shall not be saved heaven shall be shut to him he is in a state of death he is strucken and remaineth in danger till he repenteth How many live in sins against Conscience that are under the guilt and danger of their sinnes they be wounded they be struck by the word there is a threat against their sinnes although it be not executed and they be as much in danger of eternall death as a condemned Traytor onely God suffers them to live that they may make their peace they have blessed times of visitation O make use of it it is the word of God and know that God will make every part of his word good in threats as well as in promises Take occasion from hence likewise to shame our selves for our infidelity in the promises when wee are in any disconsolate estate we are in Jobs case being in trouble the consolation of the Almighty seemed light to him These be the comforts of God When we come to comfort some though the sweet promises of the Gospell be opened yet they doe not consider them as being the word the consolations of the Almighty and therefore they seem light to them But it should not be so Consider they be the comforts of the word and therefore we should heare them with faith labour to affect them and shame our selves Is this Gods word that giveth this direction that giveth this comfort and shall I not regard it Is it the consolation of the Almighty and shall not I embrace it Therefore we should be ashamed not to be more affected with the heavenly sweet things promised of God than we are A man that refuseth heavenly Comforts to imbrace comforts below how should hee reflect upon himselfe with shame Hath God promised such things God that cannot lye and shall I lose my hope of all these glorious things for the enjoying of the pleasures of sin for a season I professe my selfe to be a Christian where is my faith where is my hope A man must acknowledge either I have no faith for if I had faith believing God speaking these excellent things I would not venture my losse of them to get the enjoyment of poor temporary things here for the good things promised in another world Labour therefore to bring mens hearts to believe the word and desire God to seale it to our soules that it is so I will give one direction Labour for the Spirit of God that writ the word that indited the word Beg of God to ●eale to our soules that it is the word and that he would sanctifie our hearts to be suitable to the word and never rest till wee can finde God by his Spirit seasoning our hearts so that the relish of our soules may suit to the relish of divine truths that when wee heare them we may relish the truth in them and may so feele the worke of Gods Spirit that we may bee able to say hee is our God And when we heare of any threatning we may tremble at it and any sinne discovered wee may hate it For unlesse wee by the Spirit of God have something wrought in us suitable to the word we shall never believe the word to bee the word And therefore pray the Lord by his Spirit to frame our hearts to be suitable to divine Truths and so frame them in our affections that we may find the word in our joy in our love in our patience that all may be seasoned with the word of God When there is a relish in the word and in the soule suitable to it then a man is a Christian indeed to purpose till then men will Apostatize turne Papist turne Atheist or any thing because there is a distance betweene the soule and the word the word is not ingraffed into the soule they doe not know the word to bee the word by arguments fetched from the word and therefore they fall from the power of the word But if we will not fall from divine truths get truth written in the heart and our hearts so seasoned by it and made so harmonious and suitable to it that we may imbrace it to death that we may live and dye in it To goe on In that day shall it be said loe this is our God we have waited for him Here is a gracious promise that shutteth up all spoken before He spake of great things before And now here is a promise of a day wherein hee will make all things promised good to the soule of every believing Christian In that day it shall be said this is our God wee have waited for him he will save us It is an excellent portion of Scripture to shew the gracious disposition that the Spirit of God will worke in all those that imbrace the gracious promises of God The time shall come when they shall say Loe this is our God wee have waited for him and now wee enjoy him The points considerable are these First of all by supposition that there bee glorious excellent things promised to the people of God Rich and precious promises of Feasting of taking away the vaile of conquest over death by victory of wiping away teares and removing rebukes great things if vve goe no farther than my Text. Secondly these have ha● day vvhen they shall bee performed vvhich is not presently for