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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45234	The Gospel-feast opened, or, The great supper of the parable by Joseph Hussey.	Hussey, Joseph, d. 1726.	1692 (1692)	Wing H3813; ESTC R27439	219,419	481

For instance the Grace of this Blessed Invitation should make us Gracious under it The Freeness of this call should make us ready of our own accord and not find or rather not leave us like those that are drag'd by others to every good word and work The Soveraignty of the call should dissolve our Stone and bring it unto Christ in Dust and Ashes The clearness of the Invitation should leave no dispute about it The Authority of the Call should meet with no Denial The openness of the Thing should make us less asham'd of Christ we should have more Boldness in our Profession when we are bid with such a Publick Invitation We need not be Timerous or Afraid of what we go about to come either by Night with a Nicodemus or by Day that no Eye should see us The Largeness of the Invitation should take hold of us The Earnestness of the offer requires us we do not trifle with it The Solemnity of the Call enjoins us not to Jest with it The Sincerity of it requires that we do not hear a little and pray a little and then go away and sin much for it In one word the Seasonableness of the Gospel-call requires us while it is yet Day to come If God calls us in the Day of Prosperity we should not stay till the Day of Adversity to consider it If in the Day of Health Peace Strength or Liberty we must not delay till Sickness Calamity Weakness and Restraint If in the Days of our Youth he makes the Invitation we must remember our Creator before the Evil Days come Eccl. 12.1 If he calls us in the Day of Life we must not loiter 'till the Night of Death To conclude whenever he calls us in the Day of Grace while the Spirit breaths and blows upon us we must come least we Quench the Spirit and provoke him to blow out our Light that the Things of our Peace shall be ever hid from us Doct. That the Gospel is a Feast or a Supper in which all its Provisions are Now ready In the handling of this Proposition there will be only these Three Things to do 1. To Open 2. To Prove and 3. To Apply it The First Thing will be to Open it I. and unfold this Present Readiness coucht under the word Now. There is a Twofold Readiness in the Marriage Supper of the Gospel the one is Absolute in the Provider as all its Provisions are now got I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do Joh. 17.4 lat pt This hath been largely discours'd already The other is a Respective Readiness being a reference unto Men as these Provisions are now ready to be had It is the latter kind of Gospel-Readiness which I must here speak of This may be opened under a Threefold Regard 1. To Place 2. To Time And 3. Opportunity 1. The Supper of the Gospel is now ready for the Place where the Gospel comes In every Nation Town Family where an Evangelical Message arrives God's Heralds may proclaim the Supper now ready Isa 65.1 I said behold me to a Nation that was not called my Name It is now ready for this Quarter of the World for these Nations for our own Native Countrey for the Inbitants of this Isle Isa 20.6 for the Town in which we are or the obscure Villages to which any of us may belong Act. 10.35 In every Nation he that feareth him and worketh Righteousness is accepted with him i. e. It doth not suppose there can be any Acceptable Fear of God or Works of Righteousness in any Nation where the Gospel was never Preacht for these must be the Fruits and Effects of the Gospel it self but the meaning is in every Nation where the Gospel comes and produceth this Fear and these works of Righteousness not finds them antecedently there the Gospel is now ready to instate them with all true Happiness in God's Acceptation The Supper is now ready for any Place whither the King sends forth a Message thô it be in the Hedges and the High-ways Luk. 14 23 where poor Sinners are cast out into the open Field Ezek. 16.5 2. The Supper of the Gospel is now ready for the Age or Particular Time of the World in which the Gospel comes It is Preached unto the Generation that now is and therefore ready for them that are now upon the Stage and do hear it from the House tops Luk. 12.3 or from the Pulpit-Top in our Gospel-Day The Generation that is come up and stands over the Graves of their Ancestors are acquainted with the Voice of Preaching and many Thousands in the World do now live when God doth this Behold Num. 24.23 the Mysteries of the Gospel are by Preaching now made known Dark Ages of Popery and the Brightest Ages of Judaism saw not what we see The Light shined thro' a Vail to the Church of old and as for our Pagan Ancestors their Lot was cast in such a Midnight-Darkness that neither Sun Act. 27.20 nor Moon nor Stars nor any Light appeared But in our Age the People that sate in darkness have seen great Light Math. 4.16 There were in the Apostle's Days as he takes Notice Eph. 2.7 The Ages to come that God would look after that he might shew them the Exceeding Riches of his Grace in his Kindness towards us through Christ Jesus Ages to come (p) Chrysostomus Anbrosius Hieronymus ea ad futurum seculum referunt Bodius in loc The Ancients do interpret these Ages of which the Apostle speaketh of that Eternity of Ages in the Future State which is to follow after the Dissolution of the World but others reser the Scope of the Apostle's meaning unto the after-ages of this World Dr. Goodwyn thinks (q) Dr. Goodwyn's Works Vol. 2. pt 2d see him from p. 236. to p 248. the Apostle had both Senses in his Eye and therefore professeth the Reasons for both being so cogent that if one Stream of these Interpretations should be exclusive of the other he should hardly know which to prefer However it be it doth not exclude a shewing forth the Riches of his Grace to us that live so many Ages since the Apostle's Days for We now thro' Mercy do find our own thô otherwise miserable enough to be one of those happy Golden Ages Our Gospel now tho' Hid to them that are lost is the Revelation of the Mystery 2 Cor. 4.3 which was kept secret since the World began but now is made manifest Rom. 16.25 26. The Apostle also speaks of it to the same purpose elsewhere Col. 1.26 Even the Mystery which bath been hid from Ages and from Generations but now is made manifest to his Saints Alas how many Ages before Christ were filled up with Generations of Men from whom the Mystery in Christ was hid (r) Dr. Burthogg Causa Dei p. 195. All the Light before Christ was but Moon or Star-light designed only for