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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25200	A sermon preached at sea, before the Honourable Sir Robert Robinson, Knight, principal commander of His Majestie's squadron of ships, now riding at Spitt-Head, November the 24th, 1678 before the administration of the Holy Sacrament, and oaths of allegiance and supremacy to the several commanders and officers of that squadron, in obedience to the King's command / by George Alsop ...	Alsop, George, b. 1638.	1679 (1679)	Wing A2903; ESTC R5430	14,734	38

A SERMON Preached at Sea Before the Honourable Sir ROBERT ROBINSON Knight Principal Commander of His MAJESTIE' 's Squadron of SHIPS now Riding at Spitt-Head November the 24 th 1678. Before the Administration of the Holy SACRAMENT and Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to the several Commanders and Officers of that SQUADRON in Obedience to the KING's Command By GEORGE ALSOP M. A. Chaplain to Sir Robert Robinson By His Majestie 's Special Order London Printed for Langley Curtis in Goat-Court upon Ludgate-Hill 1679. To the Honourable Sir ROBERT ROBINSON Knight Principal Commander of His Majestie 's Squadron of Ships now Riding at Spitt-Head SIR WHen I Consider what you are by Place and then Consider what you are by Grace it makes me stand Amaz'd To see a Man whose Education springs from Noise and Tumults Wounds and Slaughters Religious Upon Grounds of holy Circumstance To see A Man whose Dealing is in Blood and Waves becalm'd with Pious Thoughts for Churches good To see A Man that fears not Devils if he meets them in a Fleet at Sea To lay his Roughness by and meekly fall upon his Knees to Invocate his GOD for King and Kingdoms good Bespeaks Religion in the Soul of War This is a Lesson you have Learn'd and Practic'd long That none with Courage brave can serve his King without he first with Pious Care Obey his God Can he be fit to Fight and Die that knowes his wicked life is such that when he leaves this World he must to Hell The Christian Cause though e're so good must sink if Christians Lives be bad Can he be trusted to subdue a Foe that cannot subdue his Sin and quarrel strength that is a Slave and Captive to his Lust Sir Your Life proclaims you Christian and your Courage Man And where I see these meet in one I may be bold to dedicate a Piece for Churches good to such a Man without a Frown or Scorn It was your Pious Faithful Care this Sermon should be Preached and so it was your Zealous Care to Acquaint His Majestie with what was done that so it might be made Publick And now I hope your Wishes will succeed that Heaven may be Honour'd more and Christians Better'd still when e're it comes abroad shall be the Prayers of him who with his Soul doth Love the King and Churche's Peace Your most Obedient Servant and Chaplain Geo. Alsop A SERMON Preach'd at SEA Matth. Chap. XXII Vers 11. And when the King came in to see his Guests he saw there a man which had not on a Wedding Garment DEarly beloved in the Lord Jesus Christ these words that I have read unto you are part of the Parable that our Saviour delivered concerning a King who Marrying his Son invited divers Guests unto the Wedding The King who invited the Guests is the Infinite and Eternal God above King of all Kings Lord of all Lords who hath Power and Mightiness in himself to do what he pleaseth in Heaven in Earth and in Hell the bottomless Pit of Eternal Vengeance beneath He is a King in Heaven by his Grandeur and Majestie in the World by his Grace tender Love and Goodness in Hell among the Damned by his Justice and Severity Now the Bridegroom is his Blessed Son Jesus Christ by Eternal generation the Lord and Saviour of us all The Bride that he Marrieth his Son to is his Pure Spotless Holy Catholick Church The time of the Marriage was at Christ's Incarnation when the Divinity and the Humanity were United for as we observe the best way to reconcile two Disagreeing Families is to make some Marriage between them Even so the Word became Flesh and dwelt amongst us in the World that he might hereby make our Peace Reconciling God to Man and Man to God The Banquet the Guests were invited to was no Ordinary Entertainment but Wonderful the Precious Blood of the Lamb of God slain from the Beginning of the World preached in hi● Word and presented in his holy Sacraments the next was Remission of Sins Everlasting Life Peace of Conscience Joy in the Holy Ghost oh Admirable Oh Sacred oh Comfortable Feast for poor Miserable Sinners to be invited to The persons appointed to invite the Guests were the Holy Patriarchs and Prophets in old time The Blessed Evangelists and Apostles in Christ's time The Divine Pastors and Preachers in our time These are Messengers of the great God who have done and still invite poor distressed penitent Sinners that are in the high-way to destruction to Come and Sup with him The Persons more particular that are Invited are both Jews and Gentiles for although the Jews were specially called these glad Tydings coming first unto them as being the Select Peculiar People of God yet when they refused and rejected the same one going to see his Farm and another to try his Oxen a third having married a Wife and so could not come God upon their Rude and Dis-ingenuous refusal rejects them and sends and invites the Gentiles Aliens from the Common-Wealth of Israel Go into the High-wayes c. And when these who were invited were come there was one intruding Guest found at the Table without a Wedding Garment And when the King came in to see his Guests he saw there a man which had not on a Wedding Garment Now these words will allow us these two Parts First The Author of the man's discovery and that was the King When the King came in c. Secondly The Fault he is Charged with is want of a Wedding Garment First The Author of the man's discovery and that was the King We read but of one among so many that was without this Wedding Garment the Messengers let him pass for currant but when the King came in he makes a second Survey and Scrutiny and finds out this one who had not on his Wedding Garment he discovers this Unworthy Guest which the Messengers could find no fault with Friend how camest thou in hither Beloved so true it is that our Eternal God that dwelleth in Light that no man can approach sees not as man sees We read in the 1 st of the Revelation and 14 Verse that the Eyes of the Lord are like a flame of fire they search into the secret Apartments of the Heart not a Corner nor part but the Lord sees and discovers it But alas poor short-sighted man reacheth no further than the outward appearance if that be regular and smooth to the eye his search is at an end he hath discovered as much as he can but the Eyes of God go down deeper into the very Soul and fathom the Bottom of the Reins View and Discover how all stands there We read in 1 Sam. Chap. 16. Vers 7. that the Lord Commanded Samuel not to look on his Countenance nor on the height of his Stature for the Lord seeth not as man seeth for man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord looketh on the heart We may deceive men with our Countenance