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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

bring good out of it This consideration is of great use we will a little look into it All the creatuets both in heaven and earth act go and come at Gods command When we see men bold in their opposing the wayes of God we many times are troubled we do not consider that as in wisdom he made all things so in wisdom he ordereth all things excellently Gen 45. ver 5.7.8 saith Joseph there God did send me before you to preserve life c. And Gen. 50.20 but as for you ye thought evil against me but God meant it unto good to bring it to pass as it is this day to save much People alive And so for lusts and temptations God suffers them sometimes in his own children either to teach us to observe his rules better or to humble us that we may cleave closer to God and that graces may grow Humility saith one is the Nurse of graces or that we may know God and our selves better or that we may be the more thankfull when victory comes but yet all this while God is bringing good out of it and that Oracle worthy to be remembred that all things shall work together for good to them that fear God c. Rom. 8.28 will be found in the end to be gloriously true Vse 3 Therefore let us learn to take notice of the power wisdom and goodness of God that can and doth thus bring good out of evil good effects out of evil causes Mot. 1 This will confirm us in the truth of Gods goodness and other attributes And Secondly It will teach us in evill times instead of murmuring to bless God for his providences and goodness and power in thus converting of evil to good And Lastly It will make us to walk confidently and to lie down confidently and to put our trust in God and in nothing to be carefull Though we meet with afflictions yet we shall not be much troubled because we shall by taking notice perceive that these are to nurture us Deut. 8.2.5 that we may learn to know him better and to know our selves Therefore it is good I say to take notice of Gods dealing in this kind So much for this point From the word of command Go ye we may learn Doct. That Christians must do warrantable actions They must have a care to do what they have a word of command for at least what is neither directly nor indirectly forbidden in the word of God For there are some actions which are called indifferent as 1 Cor. 7.28.30 If thou marry thou hast not sinned c. and to weep as though we wept not and to rejoyce as though we rejoyced not Such things are not a transgression of a Law for so sin is 1 Jo. 3.4 they are indifferent in themselves Though every particular determined thought word or action be either good or bad a step either to heaven or to hell yet for the actions themselves there are some that are neither good nor bad But to the point I say Christians must do warrantable actions Reas 1 For first they are Gods Servants Servants must attend upon the commands of their Masters And Secondly We have all the ancient practices of the Saints to look upon As first of Noah Gen. 7.14 and cap. 8.1 〈…〉 In both which chapters he had a word 〈…〉 mand both for his making and also for 〈◊〉 entring into the ark and ver the 8. for his taking in accordingly clean and unclean beasts as he was commanded c. 8.12 and 16. he staied other seven dayes that is he would have a warrant for his comming out of the Ark. And Abraham Gen. 12.1 had a command to go out of his country from his kindred and from his fathers house c. And Jacob Gen. 31.3 must be bid to return unto the Land of his fathers and to his kindred And in his old age though he resolve to go to Egypt Gen. 25.28 yet he must have and had a warrant cap. 56. ver 1.2.3 and 4. And Numb 9.18 At the commandment of the Lord the children of Israel journeyed and at the commandment of the Lord they pitched c. Heb. 5.4 No man taketh this honour unto him to wit of the priesthood but he that is called of God as was Aaron Vse 1 Therefore such as do unwarrantable actions can have no comfort in their doings For they sin though they think not so Sin is not defined to be a thing against the Law only in regard of the actions of sin but even sinfull habits are forbidden in the Law therefore mans nature being out of tune is not so ready to do good nor so knowing what good is God therefore hath given rules to be observed which not to observe is a sin Mot. 1 And indeed well done will be pronounced only to those that have done what they have been bidden and warranted to do Neither will Conscience be so well satisfied with doing naked actions that are destitute of command and example and every thing that might be a ground of comfort to the conscience of the doer Neither will God have any glory from unwarrantable actions it is as if God were not wise enough to give rules or as if we had not a perfect rule to walk by Lastly It is an evil example to walk in this liberty of doing what is right in our own eyes as if we had no Law-giver this brings in boldness among men and makes them fearless But blessed is he that feareth allwayes I omit the School utrums upon this point as not being so usefull to this auditory Go ye therefore into the high wayes From the word of command we come to speak of the place where they they must go Luk. 14.23 hath it thus Go out into the high-wayes and hedges The mind of the spirit is to shew us Doct. That God in the offer of grace is altogether without respect of persons For all mankind are alike to him Reason Job 31.15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him and did not one fashion us in the womb cap. 34.19 He accepteth not the persons of Princes nor regardeth the rich more then the poor for they are all the work of his hands Therefore are the Commissions so large Mat. 28.19 and Mark 16.16 All Nations must be taught every creature must be preached unto Acts 10.34.35 Then Peter opened his mouth and said Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons but in every Nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him Read Acts 13.46.47 And mark the last words of the latter of those verses I have thee to be a light of the Gentiles that thou shouldst be for Salvation unto the ends of the Earth Mat. 11.25.26 At that time Jesus answered and said I thank thee O father Lord of Heaven and Earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them to babes Even so father for so it seemed

found it true enough what he said afterward You may see more to this purpose Jer. 18. ver 12. to the 18. their sin is they departed from the ancient path to walk in a way not cast up They made their will their Law And their punishment is to be made desolate and a perpetual hissing to be scattered as with a East wind before the Enemy And oh sad business tremble if there be any life in thee I will saith the Lord in the 17. ver of that chap. shew them the back and not the face in the day of their Cal●mity Mat. 23.37.38 ye may read there what the punishment of this sin is The sin is and ye would not the punishment your house is left unto you desolate Luk. 14.24 For I say unto you that none of those men that were bidden shall taste of my Supper So again had I time I might read unto you Luk. 19.42.43.44 A sad Prophesie of the destruction of Jerusalem which afterwards came to pass Heb. 10.28.29 He that despised Moses Law died without mercy under two or three witnesses Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who hath troden under foot the Son of God c. This great sin is in England yea in this very place Read therefore for it is yours Isaiah 30. ver 8. to the 15. Now go write it before them in a Table and note in a Book that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever that this is a rebellious People lying children children that will not hear the Law of the Lord c. Then at the 12. ver begins the sentence Wherefore thus saith the holy one of Israel because ye despise this word and trust in oppression and perversness and stay thereon therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall swelling out in a high wall whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters Vessel c. Vse 3 Lastly Let me perswade some of you sith there is little hope that I shall all or the most heed ye be not of the number of those that say Mot. 1 they will not come To move you to be the more wary of this sin know it is a sin we are naturally prone unto to pout and mogg Secondly We have many bad examples in this place I have hardly known the like in any place where I have been therefore we have the more cause to beware Thirdly Without fail as the Lord liveth they shall know sorrow that slight Christ offered in Gospel-Ordinances So much of the 3. ver containing the first offer of Christ to the Jews and their refusal and so much at this time The Fourth Sermon Matth. 22.4 5. Again he sent forth other servants saying Tell them which are bidden behold I have prepared my dinner mine oxen and my fatlings are killed and all things are ready come unto the Marriage But they made light of it and went their ways one to his Farm and another to his Merchandise WE are out of this verse and the following unto the eight to speak of the second invitation of the Jews to come to Christ We will take notice first of the invitation it self as it is set down in this fourth verse Secondly of the success of the Invitation or the manner of their entertainment that were sent ver 5 6. And Lastly we shall come unto the behaviour of the King upon the course and unworthy entertainment of his gracious Message and of his Messengers which is set down in the seventh verse We will begin with the first branch which is in the fourth verse And we finde it illustrated 1. By the circumstance of time when the Servants were sent in the word again 2. By the Instruments made use of for that purpose other Servants 3. By the manner of the Message which these other servants were to deliver it is full of grace and sweetness Tell them that were bidden I have prepared my dinner c. Bid them come to the Marriage Again This word sets out much of God in point of long-suffering and patience Notwithstanding the Jews had formerly rejected Gods grace and would not come in yet God will not give them over so but sends again Again he sent c. Doct. We may hence learn That God in the offer of Grace is wonderfull patient The truth is God is wonderfully excellent in all his makings forth but now we are to speak of the patience of God as it is shewed and exercised to mankinde But I will endeavour to make out to you what kinde of beam of God that is which we call patience I will not meddle with the patience of Christ that I mean which he shewed in our nature which he took but of that which is attributed to God and is handled among his divine perfections There is not such a patience in God as the word properly signifies which is versed in griefs or calamities but in injuries and wrongs As a King is said to be patient which moderatly beareth abuses and contains himself from revenge which he might easily take if he would Posse nolle nobile O this is a glorious vertue in man But in God it is a most glorious beam to wit when he acteth this way to suffer sinners and not to take vengeance upon them This infinitely excelleth the patience of the most patient men in the world because the abuses which are offered to God are infinitely greater then those which are offered to men and because he doth most distinctly see them all and doth most sharply resent them and hath in readiness wayes to take vengeance and yet he withholds He knows all that he hath done for us Simul in conspectu Dei sunt omnia beneficia quae ipse in nos omnes injuriae c. Lessius and on the other side our ingratitude He sees all the abominations committed in the world which did the most patient man in the world see but one hour he would certainly burn the world the next saith a late VVriter And although God be not capable of grief and sorrow yet he very bitterly takes his dishonour and is provoked to revenge He perceives the unworthiness of sin and that his own Majesty his unspeakable goodness shewed to the creature is vilepended He is armed with thousands of Plagues and yet forbears yea continues his former benefits expecting and stirring up to Repentance and to come to his sons Marriage Admirable patience So with the old World did God deal Gen. 6.3 1 Pet. 3.20 with others Gen. 18.24 Jerem. 31. cap 5. ver 1. Luke 13.34 Reason And the reason is rendred 2 Pet. 2.9 Because he is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to Repentance Ezek. 18.32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth saith the Lord God wherefore turn your selves and live ye and so cap.