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A49589	The wedding-supper as it was handled out of the fourteen first verses of the 22. chapter of Matthew, in sundry exercises in Tavistock in Devon. Wherein the offer of salvation, both to Jews and Gentiles, is noted: and divers plain and pithy doctrines observed, and applied. Being the effect of twelve sermons preached by Thomas Larkham, the oppressed pastor of the despised Church of Christ there.	Larkham, Thomas, 1602-1669.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1652 (1652)	Wing L442; ESTC R222016	113,881	272

And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and another book was opened which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works Here are two Books Gods Book of Science or Prescience he knoweth all things long before The other is the book of conscience this is our own book this will stop every mans mouth that is out of Christ He was speechless saith the Text. The Commission or warrant for his execution which also includes the sentence of condemnation follows in the next verses in which we have the sentence ver 13. The ground or reason ver 14. In the Sentence we have Circumstances and the Substance The Circumstances are three 1. The party commissionating the King 2. The party commissionated the servants 3. The time Then For the better handling of these particulars I crave your prayers And so much for this time The end of the 12. verse The ninth Sermon Matth. 22. ver 13.14 Then the King said to the Servants Bind him hand and foot and take him away and cast him into outer darkness there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth for many are called but few are chosen I Have finished as you may remember the examination and conviction of this unworthy Guest and false-hearted Professour out of the foregoing verses I ended my last Sermon with the division of these two verses now again read unto you I will not repeat what hath been delivered but proceed to that which remains to be spoken out of these verses The party that gives the Commission for the execution of this faulty person is said to be the King that is Almighty God who had vouchsafed the means of Grace to the Gentiles But this poor wretch among others abusing it he gives a Commission of another nature There was a time when this King was all white but now he is all red I have shewed you out of the foregoing verses that God woes the world in the preaching of the Gospel Go tell them that were bidden I have prepared my dinner c. You have heard of Tamberlains colours he was wont to display and his behaviour and dealing with places upon refusall of his offer of mercy Friends the Lord holds out to you the white flag of mercy he hath bid me tell you that his Justice is satisfied his vvrath is appeased in Christ if you will not come in if you will not submit he hath you see in this Text other colours to display Xerxes wept over his Army in consideration of their Mortality O that I could compassionate these hundreds that sit here this day Sirs a thousand to one but some of you will be damned or else you will escape better then ever so many people met together did in this World consider seriously what I say But I come to observe some poins of Doctrine The first is Doct. As God hath power and will to bestow and afford the means of Grace so also to punish the abuse thereof any way Any way I say My meaning is whither by a Swinelike carelesness or which is worse by a doglike barking at the Gospel and biting the Messengers or an Hypocritical closing with the Church God will punish the abuse of the offers of Grace I say any way with severity Gen. 6.7 And the Lord said I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the Earth c. God did strive with the old World 120. years it will not be ruled the People were diobedient When the long suffering of God waited in the dayes of Noah 1 Pet. 3.20 Ye know they were drowned and are now Spirits in prison As the Lord had a time to offer Grace and Mercy by Noah so he had a time to plague the refusers of it The Lord suffered Lot to live a while among the Sodomites and surely he was not idle he was a righteous man they vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawfull deeds Then saith the Lord because the cry of Sodom and Gomorra is great 2 Pet. 2.8 Gen. 18.20.21 and because their sin is very grievous I will go down now and see whither they have done altogether according to the cry of it which is come unto me and if not I will know What 's the conclusion the Lord did destroy them He caused fire and brimstone to come down from Heaven and he overthrew those four Cities of the plain Gen. 19.24.25 Sodom Gomorra Admah and Zeboim So for Jerusalem you may read Luke 13. ver 34.35 Prophets were sent to them and Apostles and Christ himself was among them he would have gathered her children together as a Hen doth gather her brood under her wings they would not They killed the prophets and stoned them that were sent among them What followeth Behold your house is left unto you desolate c. And so cap. 19.43.44 Thine Enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and keep thee in on every side and shall lay thee even with the ground and thy children within thee and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another because thou knowest not the time of thy visitation He that may and will not when he will he shall not O that you would read sometime even this very day Prov. 1. from the 20. verse unto the 32. I am loth to spend so much time now in reading those verses The summ is Wisdom crieth woeth useth many arguments but cannot be heard is disregarded You shall find there what followeth O sad expression I will saith God laugh at your calamitie and mock when your fear cometh God is just as well as mercifull Vse 1 Is it so that God which said erewhile Go ye out and fetch in all go tell them my son is dead and risen again tell them that if they will come away while my white flag is abroad they shall have mercy is now become so severe upon the abuse of his mercy then foolish if not mad are they that do not consider this that do not believe it that do so set and settle themselves daily to abuse the means of Grace Some by taking no notice at all thereof Others by making profession a cloak for their knavery Others by undervaluing it Others by having the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ in respect of persons Others by biting at and devouring what in them lies the honourable Professors of Religion and Ministers of the Gospel O where shall I begin and when shall I make an end I have much to say it may be you will be angry t is no matter hear me howsoever Let me speak though ye strike me afterward I will labour to pluck you out by the ears from your miserable condition though ye be angry with me for it It is better fear and so also anger a knave then kill him You think God will go in

peace And especially to be often hammering on this that this rich vouchsafement will have its Errands end one way or th● other It is like strong Physick if it do not work t will kill If the word be not the savour of life unto life it will be the savour of death unto death Thus have I finished the second verse wholly Out of which I have spoken of the Subject matter of this Parable the Kingdom of Heaven and of two Branches of the praedicate viz. the Marriage-maker and the Bridegroom and in the latter of all three particulars viz. the fountain of Grace the Union between Christ and his Church and the way and means whereby this is wrought The third viz. the Guests is next to be handled So much for this time The Third Sermon Matthew 22.3 And send forth his Servants to call them that were bidden to the Wedding And they would not come THis verse begins the point of the Guests that are gratiously invited by the Lord to come to Christ The third particular in the praedicate Both Jews and Gentiles The double Call of the Jews Gods old acquaintaince is vers 3. to the 8. And then the Call of the Gentiles upon their refusal unto the end of the Parable We are now to make enterance and to speak of the first invitation of the Jews Gods old customers as it is set down in this verse now read unto you In which we have two parts First Gods favour in giving them the first offer of this Grace in these words And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the Wedding Secondly Their ingratitude shewed in their willfull refusing of it in these latter words of the Text And they would not come We will begin with the first and therein again we have many particulars to take notice of and speak upon As first a description of the Jews the parties invited 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by a word wherein their priviledge is gloriously held forth They were the bidden ones or the called ones as the word signifies Such as before the comming of Christ were entrusted which the Oracles of God and were Gods People Secondly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The instruments of their present invitation are said to be his Servants Gods Servants Thirdly The ground of these Servants proceeding in the work 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God sent them that had a Commission for what they did Of these in order They which were bidden to the marriage to wit anciently must first have the News when Supper is ready 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By these words saith Piscator are understood those which a little before the preparation of the Marriage feast Intelliguntur invitati qui paulo ante apparatum nuptialis convivii invitati ad illud fuerunt were invited to it The like Phrase we have 1 Sam. 9 13. And afterwards they eat that be bidden that is such as are invited Hence this Doctrine That the Lords bidden Guests are readiest to be called unto his sons Marriage Here they were the Jews Gods selected People Gods peculiar People and treasure above all People Exod. 19.5 And so Deut. 7.6 The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a speciall People unto himself above all People that are upon the face of the earth They were bidden in Abraham Gen. 17.7 And I saith God will establish my Covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their Generations for an everlasting Covenant to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee It was their priviledge and dignity to have Gods Oracles committed to them Rom. 3.1.2 They were Israelites to whom pertained the adoption and the Glory and the Covenants and the giving of the Law and the service of God and the promises Rom. 9.4 Reason And there is some reason or illustration of the truth of it For such are as it were registred in Gods note book for this very purpose It is an allusion saith Mr. Calvin to such men as write a Catalogue of their chief friends whom they intend to make their Guests when they make a Feast O say they we must needs bid such a one and we cannot leave out such a one c. So is it with the Lord so he is wont to deal Mat. 10.5 6. These twelve Jesus sent forth and commanded them saying Go into not the way of the Gentiles and into any City of the Samaritans enter ye not But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel And cap. 15 ver 24. saith Christ I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel To make this out more fully that it may be fitted for use to be made of it The Lord being about to reform his Church in all places of the word for the time is at hand of glorious things to be done for and in Christs Church looks upon England his old acquaintance for whom he hath done much often to whom of old he hath been many ways gracious England I say shall have a fair offer they shall be first bidden yea bidden again O England saith the Lord Thee have I known of old I rooted out Popery out of thee I delivered thee in 88 from the Spanish Invasion I discovered the hellish Gun-powder-Plot I have for thy sake poured contempt upon Princes and shattered Nobles Armies commanded by Royalty have been brought to nothing c. Now take me while I am offering my self to thee in this my reforming time And so to this very place may we apply it O Tavistock I have afforded that to thee which I have not to all Towns Hath not the Lord striven with you in former times Mr. G. H. in regard of that powerfull Ministry you enjoyed And hath he not as it were made you the first in Church-resurrection in these parts Doth not the Lord even beg you to accept of him Doth he not suffer many abuses in his Servants among you well what shall I say You are fairly offered you are first offered you have the Refuse as we use to say So much for the Explanation Vse 1 The first use shall be for information to store you with this one truth among others That it is a priviledge for a people to live in the visible Church and under Ordinances to be within sound of this Bow-bell of the Gospel For when times of discoveries of God and reformation come about these shall have the priviledge to be served first at least with offers And it shall be their fault as we say if they partake not of the richest effusions of the spirit that are going And doubtless then it must needs follow that To make light of Gospel priviledges is a fearfull sin as may be gathered out of the following verses of this Parable I wish from my heart that you would be convinced of this truth What a priviledge it is to enjoy the sound and saving Ministry of Christ And