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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

be damned though he were a man of wax in the eyes of the World Thirdly Methinks we might say something of the blessed and Gracious opportunities God hath given unto you to move you to ply God day and night and to cry Christ Christ Bread bread for the Lords sake bread Object But I said but now Prayers must proceed from the spirit and that is that I need make it plain will some say Sol. Brethren our work is to bid you ask Gods work is to enable you to ask The work of Christs mouth to Lazarus was to bid him to come forth of the Grave It was the secret work of his Allmighty Power to make him alive that he might hear and obey that command Quest How should a man seek Grace at Gods hands aright Answ I answer He must be willing to take all that God hath promised to give to them that ask upon Gods own terms and conditions and limitations too in regard of desired temporal blessings Ye that say ye believe ye must repent c. Acts 2 38. Nay ye shall Rom. 6.1 2 3. What shall we say then shall we continue in sin that Grace may abound God forbid how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death And so for outward things we are taught by Christs example in his Agony to say not my will but thy will be done In a word to take pleasure in the lovely wayes of holiness and to referr our selves to Gods Love Care Wisdom Power Truth and Faithfulness for outward things But the main thing in hand is to stir you up to keep begging of this Grace that is of the discovery of Gods love to thy poor Soul and that God would lift up upon thee the light of his Countenance So much of the first particular We come to the second to wit to shew you what is meant by the Marriage of the Kings Son Even no other thing no less priviledge then a most neer Union between Christ and the Elect. For even as a man and a woman by the bond of Marriage become one Gen. 2.24 Therefore shall a man leave his Father and his Mother and shall cleave unto his Wife and they twain shall be one flesh and so Mat. 19.4 5 6. it is confirmed by Christ and said to be a Union and a joyning together by God So is it between Christ and his Church Ephes 5. ver 23. and 31. And therefore it is said in my text The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a man that was a King that made a Marriage for his Son Where first God is signified with his free Grace as before And secondly This thing that I have now in hand viz. That it was his pleasure that his Son so fitted to be a husband to lost mankind by his incarnation as it is said A body hast thou given me and by his Death and Passion and glorious Resurrection and Ascension should be offered to all the world of the Jews and Gentiles and that there should be a General invitation to the end that as many as come should be not only Guests but the very Spouse and be married to Christ and assured thereof by the spirit of faith and sanctification So That the Doctrine shall be Doct. That there is a Marriage made and agreed upon for the Son of God by God the King of Kings with every gracious Soul T is ended as we use to say between them This is that which is here called the Kingdom of Heaven the work of Grace and it is therefore compared to a Marriage because there is such a neer union between all the Children of the Kingdom and Christ as there is between the Husband and the Wife I will for your better profiting by this so admirable point go upon some Particulars some Analogies and Resemblances between Marriages among men and this work of Union and Conjunction with Christ And first you know men use to go a woing as we call it they do either by themselves or their spokesmen make motions of Marriage and declare their love to the yong women they are willing to make their wives And this you know is first before there is an actual possessing and uniting Even so we read 2 Cor. 5.20 Now then we are Ambassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you by us we pray you in Christs steed that ye be reconciled to God Now when Christ was in the flesh he went a woing himself in his own person John 3.19 Light is come into the world end men love darkness c. But ver 29. of that chap. he hath a spokesman he goes a woing by his friend He that hath the Bride is the Bridegroom as you shall find there but the friend of the Bridegroom which standeth and heareth him rejoyceth greatly because of the Bridegrooms voice That spokesman there meant was John Baptist And the Bridegroom there meant is Christ now incarnate though the son of God from everlasting He was afterward crucified dead and buried and rose again the third day this is the Husband of the Church this is the yong man that is to be married as we use to say Cursed be they that destroy the History under a pretence of embracing the Mystery as some absurd men have in my hearing whom I therefore questioned but it was not in a time succesfull But I say this Christ went a woing himself but now by his messengers he doth it in Gospel-Preaching Secondly There is a mutual consent after the time of woing This is called a receiving 1 John 12. Vnio animarum est essentia matrimonii But as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his name And indeed this is the very union and essence of the Marriage For such are regenerated as it followeth ver 13. Which are born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God T is a match My beloved is mine and I am his saith the Spouse Canticles 2.16 Thirdly There is an enjoying each other in the Married condition Can. 1. ver 2.3.4 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth for thy love is better then Wine Because of the savour of thy good Ointment thy name is as Ointment poured forth therefore the Virgines love thee Draw me we will run after thee the King hath brought me into his chambers We will be glad and rejoyce in thee we will remember thy love more then Wine the upright love thee O who can imagine what this secret enjoying of Christ is that hath not felt it There is a kind of spiritual copulation between Christ and every true believer Yea also between Christ and Congregations which are so many Mothers to bring forth And this puts me upon a fourth likeness Wives blessed of God are like

And this was implicitely foretold Matth 10.28 And fear not them which kill the body And we see their spirit Acts 22.22 Away with them cried those Jews of Paul for it is not fit that he should live I shall out of this verse from all these particulars handle but one Point of Doctrine Doct. That the grace of God offered unto men in the preaching of the Gospel hath not only such enemies as contemn it but also such as carry themselves with all possible baseness and cruelty against the Messengers thereof This appears out of the 21 of Matth ver 35 to the 39. likewise cap. 23. ver 34. to the 38. cap. 26 4. Acts 7.52 to the 59. It is very evident that such was the usage of the Servants of Christ in the time of the Jewish Church and Common wealth Peter and the other Apostles whipt Acts 5. Steven stoned Acts 7. James slain with the sword Acts 12. John banished into Patmos Rev. 1. And the stories of the Church do shew what usage they have had since But what may be the reason hereof Christ who sends is the Prince of peace the Gospel is the Gospel of Peace and the end eternal peace What therefore should be the reason Christ should have no better entertainment in the world The son of man came not to destroy but to save t is true but yet men do either think that such as pretend to be Messengers sent of God are not but are wicked men as the Jews did not stick to say of Christ himself Joh 8.48 and they thought they said well and ver 52. they are very confident that he had a Divel And Joh. 10.53 they pretend they did not find fault with him for any thing but blasphemy or else they think that they are their enemies because in declaring the grace of God they declare their duties or rather their properties that are partakers of it Tit. 2.11.12 For the grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared unto all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present evil world But this wicked men cannot abide to be told because they cannot choose but know that they are not such as they are to whom Christ appeareth in power And because their sins and they are one like Hippocrates Twins born together live together and die together he that toucheth their sin toucheth the apple of their eye They and their sins do mean to run their fortunes together Now we tell you as the truth is that they that take Christ to be their Priest must and shall take him to be their King to rule them and their Prophet to instruct them Now men think we are too strict unreasonable that we abuse them and they will not be so used by us But Friends we must tell you the truth and we have the best Preacher that ever was for our example John 8.44 Ye are of your Father the Devil c. VVe must be plain if you will not love the children of God if you will not make much of them that fear the Lord if vile persons in your eyes be not contemned if you do not hate the congregation of the wicked if you love to sit with vain persons if you set not up God in your families if you be cozeners oppressors prophane if you neglect the Kingdom of God and the ways of the Lord Jesus and the Ordinances which are prescribed by the Lord to wit Sacraments and the ways of worship c. you must know that it is not we that make the breach but your selves because ye are in the Gall of bitterness and in the bonds of iniquity as Peter told Simon Magus Acts 8.23 Vse 1 And therefore for the first Vse they are deceived that think otherwise John Baptist was a famous Preacher he spake plainly he calls them a generation of vipers he plainly rebukes Herod Mark 6.16 to the 20 verse Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him and would have killed him as after she prevailed to have it done Yet mans deceitfull heart makes himself stark blind it is deceitfull above all things O if the Jews had lived when their Fathers did they would have been loth to have killed the Prophets but yet they thought it no sin to put Christ to death Ye cannot think what hearts ye have if God do but leave you to your selves You have all of you the seeds of all sin even of the vilest abominations Christ only hath this priviledge that the Prince of this World coming found nought in him both because of his freedom from Original corruption and that special supportation that he had from God But secondly It sheweth the greatness of their sin that are come to this height to abuse them that intreat them to be reconciled unto God This is our work 2 Cor. 5.19 20. And what your work hath been the Sun can witness But yet it is though to you a sign of perdition to us a token that we are right and do our duty because we finde such entertainment from ungodly men among us as I profess I know not one man that hath the least testimony or signe of grace that hath opposed us But these dirty ways you make us to trot through though they be somewhat irksom to us as we are men yet are they comfortable because we know by the dirtiness of them that we are in our way for all that will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution Vse 3 Yet God forbid that I should cease praying for you or give over advising you I will sow the precious seed of councell once more who can tell whether the Lord will leave a blessing behind O take heed ye be not in the number of them that deal cruelly with the Messengers of Gods grace that deal despightfully with those that bring the gospel of salvation For our parts we live in the upper region we are above ye we are upon such an high Tower as makes ye all look like crows in our eyes though ye were bigger then ye be For he that can make his calling and election sure if he have to do with the greatest Nimrods in the world he need not fear his strength shall be the munition of rocks c. But I advise you for your own sakes and your poor families whom you would be loth should be Vagabonds and beg their bread as I have known the children of some opposers and persecutors to do that had as big sooks one day as any of you as I say you would be loth the curse of God should light on you and yours take heed of touching these apples of Gods eye I say as Pilates wife said to her husband Matth. 27. Have nothing to do with these men Ye were better anger all the Witches in the World O take heed how ye force the Church to fall to their desperate prayers and to set God upon some notable Work for his great

the blood of the Lord Christ they do in effect shed it again that do refuse this crucified Christ offered in the Preaching of the Gospel Lastly Godmurther Such as oppose Gospel-Ordinances fight against God the Author of this rich vouchsafement and resist the life of God what in them lieth We have an expression from the mouth of Gamaliel recorded Acts 5.39 of fighters against God But I lay to the charge of all that do not readily and thankfully accept of Gods offer but oppose his Ordinaces no less crime then murthering of God Such as are strangers from the life of God as stifle the life of God which is his truth O that they would consider God speaketh to us yea intreateth us that we would besaved but we withstand God we resist the Holy Ghost Act. 7.51 Learn therefore Doct. That Cruelty yea though but neglect against or of the means of Grace is in Gods account and in Scripture language Murther Vse 1 And thereforefore great is their sin that are any way guilty hereof Murder is a haynous sin Surely there be many Murderers in all the sorementioned particulars that to the utmost of their power indeavour Minister murder Soul murder Self-murther Christ murder and God-murther Vse 2 And let such know that they have a fearfull account to make before God for Murther is a hainous sin Vse 3 Tak ye all heed how ye oppose or but slight preaching under any pretence whatsoever Ye are guilty of Murther if ye do and must dy for it The severity of the punishment it self is the last particular He destroyed those Murderers and burnt up their City This is the Doctrine Doct. 3 That the base usage of faithfull Preachers and despising Ordinances shall be severely punished I shall referr you to what hath been said and proved and especially to Luk. 19.43.44 also to Mat. 10 14.15 where the Lord Christ threatneth to such as shall refuse to hear the words of his Messengers that it shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorr●● in the day of judgement then for that City ●…nd also you may read Mat. 23.34.35.36 You have the practice of evil men ver 34. to kill scourge persecute those Prophets wise men and Scribes which God sends And after the threatned accusation or enditement forerunning the severity of Gods justice most certainly to be executed Reason It must needs be so for it is the very hight of rebellion the highest treason against God Vse 1 O how hath the Divel bewitched men to make them think that they shall not smart for this sin Woe to all those that are guilty the curse of God hangs over their heads the sentence of Gods judgement is gone out against them Lastly Would ye escape this severe vengeance of Allmighty God O take heed that ye be not cruel against the Ministers of the Gospel nor careless of the Means of grace Take a Motive Severe punishment from man is terrible what then think ye will the severity of God be when a fire shall be kindled in his anger and shall burn unto the lowest hell and shall consume the earth with her increase and set on fire the foundations of the Mountains I will conclude with Heb. 12.29 For our God is a consuming fire So much for the offer of Christ to the Jews And so much for this time Let us pray The seventh Sermon Matth. 22. ver 8. unto the 15. Then saith he to his servants The Wedding is ready but they which were hidden were not worthy Go ye therefore into the high wars and as many as ye shall finde bid to the Marriage So these servants went out c. HItherto of the Invitation of the Jews c. Now followeth to be considered the Calling of the Gentiles In which we may consider 1. The Kings Commission ver 8 9. 2. The servants diligence in the execution thereof v. 10. 3. The Trial Proof and Punishment of unworthy Guests ver 11 c. 1. As touching the Kings Commission we have 1. The occasion ver 8. 2. The matter of the Commission ver 9. The occasion was the readiness of that admirable Wedding Supper and the unworthiness of the invited Jews to taste thereof from bo●● which I collect this Doctrine Doct. Not any defect in God or his Son Christ but mans own unworthiness deprives him of good There is here no defect in God Christ is given to death the Fathers Justice is satisfied he hath by his one oblation of himself once offered made a full perfect and sufficient oblation and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world The Wedding truly is ready Though your sins be as crimson saith God I will make them as white as snow If there were ten thousand times more sins and wicked persons then there be yet the Wedding is ready nothing can hinder from mercy such as are willing to accept of it O Judas thou didst commit a very great sin in betraying thy Master but a far greater in running from him and hanging thy self The former was to make his Manhood cease to be the latter was as it were a nulling of his Godhead a very murder as it were of Christs Deity Mary Magdalen was a woman out of whom went seven Devils a sinner in the worst sense yet there was not a more holy woman living afterward She came to Christ much was forgiven her there 's enough in God enough in Christ Not any want of will in God As I live saith the Lord I do not desire the death of a sinner Not any want in Christ for he paid enough for a thousand worlds But they which were bidden were not worthy Mans unworthiness deprives him of good Why did the Apostle turn from the Jews to the Gentiles but because they did put the Gospel from them and did judge themselves unworthy of everlasting life Acts 13.46 they were wanting to themselves the Supper was ready they were sent for they would not come What was that which turned Adam out of Paradise His own unworthiness He had one easie Commandment given him but he hearkened to the Serpent and forgot God his Creator Gen. 3. What was that drowned the old world but sin disobedience they hearkened not to Noah sent for their good Gods long-suffering waited in his Ministry and preaching they were unworthy they are now prisoners in Hell for their labour Read 1 Pet. 3.19 20. This unworthiness made the earth to swallow up Corah Dathan and Abiram they rose up against Moses and Aaron which were Gods Servants they wanted for nothing as we use to say but they would not be ruled Numb 16. there you have their story This unworthiness in King Saul lost him his Kingdom Samuel was sent to him with a Message from God he did not punctually observe it See 1 Sam. 15.23 what is there said Rebellion is the sin of witchcraft and stubborness is as iniquity and idolatry Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord he hath also rejected