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grace_n	deny_v	live_v	ungodliness_n	2,449	5	11.2335	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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