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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

best spent time When once you come to know the terrors of the Lord you will not think any labour too great to get news of a crucified Christ Galeacius nor all the wealth in the world to be compared to one Minutes Society with Jesus Christ O my mouth is opened my heart is enlarged O what would a damned Soul in Hell give to come out of his condition I am the more earnest upon mine indignation at the abominable boldness of earthly-minded People T is well t was Christ himself spake and that it was to Martha If we should say but half so much to Christs pretended Disciples now we should hear of it again hot and wholy as our country folks phrase it and they would tell us that if all should be of our minde we should all quickly go a begging and our hair would grow through our hood We should have as good as we bring Such is the boldness of covetous persons Such is the conceit that People have of the harmlesness yea or rather of the commendableness of worldliness whereas indeed it is a vice full of deadly poyson full of ignorance of God of Atheisme of Idolatry Injustjce Oppression and indeed of all iniquity as will be more at large shewed in the uses of the Point which now I come unto Vse 1 And first It serveth for information that there is great danger in affecting worldly things It is saith the Doctine a great occasion to make People set light by the means of Grace holy religious employments and therefore it must needs be a very dangerous thing for a man or woman to let his or her affections to run out after the world 1 Tim. 6.9.10 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtfull lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition For the love of money is the root of all evil which while some coveted after they have erred from the faith and peirced themselves thorrow with many sorows It is the ready way to restrain and keep back our affections from God and good excercises and a sign that men do not savor of religion to let them runn out after the things of the World Now the things of the World are as John saith 1 John 2.16 the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life that is Voluptuousness Covetousness Ambition Let me single out this Goliah to encounter it and draw out the sword of the spirit out of that sheath Prov. 11.4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath And Ezekiel 7.19 They shall cast their silver in the streets and their gold shall be removed their Silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the Lords wrath they shall not satisfie their Souls neither fill their bowels because it is the stumbling block of their iniquity And so we might say of all the pomp of this World Psal 49 6.17 When men die they shall carry nothing away their glory shall not descend after them And the forenamed Ezekiel 7. ver 10.11 Behold the day behold it is come the morning is gone forth the rod hath blossomed Pride hath budded Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness none of them shall remain nor of their multitude nor of any of theirs neither shall there be wailing for them You have seen the danger both of Soul and body too Vse 2 Come we to a second information of the sinfullness of their sin the greatness of their abomination that let their spirits run out after the world They go quite contrary to God that neglect his Sabbaths and Sanctuary Exod. 31 15. Six dayes may work be done but in the seventh is the Sabbath of rest holy to the Lord whosoever doth any work in the Sabbath day he shall surely be put to death And so Jer. 17.27 But God threatens to kindle a fire not to be quenched to devour the places of such as will not hearken to hallow the Sabbath day If men will not hallow Gods Sabbaths nor reverence his Sanctuaries but will be cross to God God will be cross to them They that cannot allow him his own day because they are so drownd in the world that they cannot remember it before it comes much less observ it when it is come God will lay great sin to their charge because it proceeds from undervaluing of him through ignorance this hath much sinfullness in it Therefore Mat. 6.33 Christ wils to seek first the kingdom of God because it is a very sinfull thing to prefer the world before God the things of his Kingdom God and the very quintessence of the world stand in opposition ex diametro The very wisdom of the flesh is enmity to God Rom. 8.7 And thence is it that there is so much sinfulness in the love of the World because the spirit and the soul do runn out excessively after the World and do take great delight in these carnal things And when the Soul and affection runs out to take pleasure and delight in any thing more then in God there is there much sinfullness There is in sin three thing considerable The baseness of it the viciousness of it and the sinfullness of it Now t is true there is not so much baseness in this sin as there is in some others As to instance in Adultery it is a sin that hath much baseness in it it carrieth with it a stain and a blot that shal never be blotted out Yet this sin of worldliness is a far greater sin though it be not majoris infamiae of greater infamie yet it is Majoris culpae of greater fault there is far more irregularity in it Quest Why then is it not so esteemed among men Answ I answer Men do not use to judge of sin according to the rules of the Word but according to the customes of men And among men it is meet that sometimes sins though of lesser fault in themselves yet of more mischievous consequence and more destructive to the peace and comfort of humane society should be more severely punished and so consequently the committers of it more hooted at and had in dishonour And this is the cause that Covetousness passeth so orderly and quietly through the judgements of men untill it come to break out into Robberies and violencies which are prejudicial to the peace of men living together in humane Society Secondly There is in some sins more vitiousness then in othersome Sins that are against Moral Vertues and Natural Conscience do stare more Gastly someties then greater sins against God do Because a man that hath no Grace hath yet a Conscience which is a true rule according to its proportion but is too short to measure sins by that are more immediately committed against God So Paul when he was Saul lived in all good Conscience Acts 23.1 He saw not the greatness of the sin of persecuting the Saints He thought

another and tender hearted forgiving one another even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you Eph. 4 31 32. Mot. 1 And indeed God is our Father and should not children imitate their Father Secondly the contrary practice is a grief to his Spirit by which we are sealed to the day of Redemption This is forbidden Eph. 4.30 Besides it is a snare to sinners and hinders the working of our Physick Vse 3 But thirdly for a third Use If the Lord be courteous to his enemies surely much more to his faithfull Servants yea though there be much weakness and frailty in them So we see in Jonah chap. 4. ver 9.10 11. Jonah is desperatly pettish very much out of frame yet God speaks kindly to him reasons fairly with him He knoweth our frame and considers our infirmities he is God and not man So much of the unworthy guests examination Now follows his conviction And he was speechless 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he was haltered At ille obmutuit vel ad verbum at ille capistratus erat He was dumb'd muzled he had a bit in his jaws he was tongue-tied he could not speak Let this be the Doctrine Doct. A wicked man when God shall have to do with him shall not be able to say a word in his own defence How weak will thy hand and thy heart be when God shall have to do with thee O sinner Reason And the Reason is because conscience will take Gods part and tell him that he is guilty For indeed it is the office of conscience to deal plainly Rom. 2.15 It will bear witness and either accuse or excuse Conscience is always good so far forth as it is conscience We use to say such a man hath little conscience and thou hast no conscience at all Whereby we mean they whom we so accuse have little or none their conscience is as it were laid asleep or made drunk But I say that which is of it left is always good and the judgement which God will give to men shall be upon the testimony of their own conscience a Condēnatio ex propria conscientia Muscul But will some say No man can make defence for himself in Gods presence be he never so good how then do you say wicked men shall not be able as if others could Doth not Job say cap. 9. v. 2 3. But how should man be just with God if he will contend with him he cannot answer him one of a thousand And in Eccles 7.20 For there is not a just man upon earth that doth good and sinneth not And Isa 64.6 But we are all an unclean thing and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags and we do all fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the winde have taken us away Rom. 3.9 10. Jews and Gentiles are all under sin as it is written there is none righteous no not one The refore not only wicked men shall be speechless before God I answer Although no man can justify himself in regard of any perfect obedience of his own because indeed all a mans perfection is to bewail his imperfection and to cleave close to the imputed righteousness of Christ by Faith yet the sincerity of a mans heart in a carefull endeavour to honour God is accepted of God an evidence of Faith whereby he may have comfortable access to God So Hezekiah 2 Kin. 20.3 appeals to the Lord. But a wicked man hath an accusing Conscience but no Christ at all to bear him up Again such as are sincere do cleave to the Lord with full purpose of heart though they are full of failings and therefore they shall not be so convicted and made speechless as wicked men shall Object 2 But may no body at the last day have a word to say Is it not said Matth. 7.22 many shall say unto me in that day c. and cap. 25.44 They that set on the left hand are brought in excusing themselves c. Sol. I answer that place is to be understood of the continuance of the hardness and deceit of some mens hearts even unto death I remember a good note of Mr. Perkins upon that place Matth. 7.22 to this purpose A man may live and die with a conceit of his happy condition c. and that 's the scope of both those places to shew the hardness of of some mens hearts even unto the very last And Secondly If any should be so impudent they will quickly be answered It will be to no purpose for them to plead in their own defence Christ will quickly cut their combs as ver 23. of the seventh chap. and ver 45. of the 25. chap. you may see they are sentenced notwithstanding and are executed accordingly So much for the explanation of the Doctrine The Uses follow Vse 1 And first for Information Wicked men that live in opposition to God and goodnes will one day be as mute as fishes though here they vapour it in their ungodly courses or colour over their wickedness by denying the Fact or else wrest Gods word in the defence of their sinfull courses They are never the clearer of their sins O saith the drunkard who dare say I was drunk I will make thee Sirrah answer it before thy Betters I will make thee answer it in the highest Court in England But Sirrah sith thou art good at that I mean to swagger and vapour let me tell thee for all thy big words thou shalt not have a word to say before God when he shal come to deal with thee Although men think to outface them that shall seek their Reformation yea be ready to take their remedy as in a matter of false accusation especially if they can get some great man to back them yet when the Lord takes them in hand they will be speechless I will tell you a dream of one of quality related to my self by the dreamer himself Said he I dreamd the day of judgement was come and all men appeared before Christ Some were white others spotted Me thought said he I was all white saving that I had one black spot upon my breast which I covered with my hand Upon the separation of these two sorts I got among the white on the right hand glad was I. But at last a narrower search was made and one came and pluckt away my hand from my breast then appeared my spot and I was thrust away among the spotted ones I pray consider what this Gentleman dreamed all of us shall finde one day to be true when such as are now bold sinners have words at will shal be speechless Would ye then not be speechless in that day under a condemning conscience Vse 2 Labour to get and keep a good conscience here 1 Joh. 4.7 Herein is our love made perfect that we may have boldness in the day of judgement c. Let us labour for the Wedding-garment for if our conscience condemn us condemnation will follow that conviction Rev. 20.12