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A35314 The parable of the great supper opened Wherein is set forth the fulness of Gospel-provision. The frank and free invitation of Jews and Gentiles to this Supper: the poor excuses of the recusant guests that were invited. The faithful returns which the messengers make unto the Lord of their refusal. God's displeasure against those who slight his favours: his bringing in of despicable creatures to fill his house: with the condemnation of those that were bidden. Methodically and succinctly handled by that judicious divine, Mr. John Crump, late of Maidstone in Kent. Crumpe, John, d. 1674. 1669 (1669) Wing C7431; ESTC R214975 153,869 393

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the high-ways and hedges HEre we have the place described where the Gentiles are to be called God sends his servant into the high-ways and hidges As the most despicable of the Iews before so here the out-casts of the Gentiles are made partakers of the Gospel-provision All Interpreters Gentes variis v●●s errantes Salmer G●utium agrestem populum Lyra. Pau●eres mondicos qui domibus carent Ravanel Loca 〈◊〉 ubi ambula●● homines ignoti Advenae Marlor Gentes perorhis terrarum dispersas Beza both Popish and Protestant do understand hereby the forlorn condition of the Gentiles till God look upon them in mercy they being like a company of Vagabonds wandring up and down by the high-ways side and hedges not housed and harboured in a spiritual sense but scattered about as beggars upon the face of the earth till God by the power of the Gospel brought them into the Church to enjoy the priviledges thereof wandring in their conversation through the vanity of their imaginations To dwell among the hedges is in the Scripture put for a mean kind of living 1 Chron. 4.23 and according to the general acception of the phrase to abide by the high-ways and hedges is put for a wandring kind of life Mark 10.46 Obser That God sends the messengers of the Gospel to them who are as vagabonds and out-casts upon the face of the earth Mat. 22.9 The Gentiles and all by nature are as vagabonds and out-casts I. They are such as lead an unwarrantable life as may thus appear 1. They move not from any good principle there is no true understanding with them no fear of God before them Rom. 3.11 18. Hence the Gentiles were so sottish as to account the very stones in the high-ways as Gods Ierem. 17.2 They anointed stones their bonds and marks of Territories accounted as sacred trivial statues Theophrastus in his sacred superstision remembers for a part the pouring of oil upon anointed stones or statues in the high-ways whereupon lapis unguine delilutus is reckoned by the Apuleius among his sacred objects Therefore the sending the Gospel into the high-ways may have special reference to the reclaiming of the Gentiles from their ignorant prophane and idolatrous course of life appearing by their image-worship in the high-ways 2. They walk not by any good rule they are all gone out of the way Rom. 3.12 Vagabonds are lawless creatures they will submit to no order Men naturally live contrary to the Law of God they love to lurk in the high-ways and by the hedges without the precinct of good discipline 3. They tend not to a good end Men by nature are altogether become unprofitable Rom. 3.12 like vagabonds neither minding the common-wealth nor their own families for the good of which they ought to live II. They are such as lead a miserable life as may thus appear 1. They are Aliens and Strangers to the people of God and their priviledges Eph. 2.11 12. Men that wander up and down in high-ways are not priviledged like those who have their setled abode in Towns and Cities Natural men have no acquaintance with God nor admittance into his presence they live beyond the line of communication as to fellowship with the Saints 2. Vagabonds are destitute of house and home void of necessary accommodations for a comfortable passage through this world Natural men are in no house as it were they live without the pale of the Church that Church that shall be saved As they have no enjoyment of communion with God now so neither have they any hope to enjoy communion with him hereafter Eph. 2.12 while they are void of grace they are without hope 3. They are exposed to wind and weather liable to continual danger Those who are in the high-ways are in the open air where storms and tempests do arise Those that lie in the hedges may soon catch their death by colds and surfets Thus natural men are in perpetual danger cast out into the wide world walking according to the Prince of the power of the air and according to the course of this world Eph. 2.2 There is lurking in hedges and robbing in high-ways Those that stand in the sinners way are never out of harms way CHAP. VI. THe ends why God sends the Gospel-messengers among these vagabonds and out-casts are these 1. To reclaim them from their vain course of life that they should no longer live to the lusts of men to do what they list 1 Pet. 4.1 2 3. God's word gives a check to mens consciences for those unlawful liberties wherein they allow themselves it startleth and affrighteth impudent sinners it stops them and bids them go no further 2. To recover them from the great danger wherin they are by nature to recover them out of the snare of the Devil The Gospel snatcheth them out of the hands of the Devil Col. 1.13 men naturally are under the power of Satan now the Gospel turns men from the power of Satan unto God Christ came to dissolve the works of the Devil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to undo what the Devil had done too loosen them and set them at liberty whom the Devil had bound This he doth by the ministry of his word 3. To reduce them to good order to bring them from the high-ways and hedges unto places of good discipline where they may observe the order of the Gospel as thus 1. In the partaking of the graces of God's spirit in some measure which are linkt together hand in hand 2 Pet. 1.4 5 6. as Virgins in a dance viz. faith accompanyed with vertue vertue accompanyed with knowledge or discretion knowledge accompanyed with temperance temperance accompanyed with patience patience accompanyed with godliness godliness accompanyed with botherly kindness and brotherly-kindness with charity or love to all men 2. In the Participating of ordinances Act. 2.42 Those that belong to such are endued with graces 3. In the performing of duties leading a well-ordered conversation Phil. 1.27 CHAP. VII Vse 1. Sine domo non sine Domino sine veste non sine fide sine cibo non sine Christo carabus expositus sed Angelorum socius Fulgent Epist 2. THis informs us that the preaching of the Gospel is not confined to any particular Countrey as once it was to the Land of Judea The sound is gone forth into all the earth Rom. 10.18 Here ye may take notice that those who are mean and despicable outwardly may be honourable and happy spiritually The high-ways and hedges may afford converts A certain beggar named Lazarus that lay without doors upon earth is now received into Abraham's bosom Luke 16.20 22. he was houseless saith Fulgentius not Lordless without cloths not without faith he wanted food but wanted not Christ to feed upon he was exposed to dogs while he lived but received into the society of Angels when he dyed A vast difference between temporal and spiritual estate Here see the difference between God's elect before their calling