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A45679	The best match, or, The believer's marriage with Christ a sermon on the parable of the marriage of the king's son, Mat. 22. 1, 2, &c. : preached at Potters Pury in Northamptonshire, September the 29th, 1690 / by Michael Harrison ... ; to which is added four hymns ...	Harrison, Michael, Minister at Potters-Pury.	1691 (1691)	Wing H901; ESTC R14002	28,276	66

daub and flatter and heal the Wound slightly Some preach up a few dead Ceremonies cry up the Church the Church but do not preach Jesus Christ Regeneration Sanctification and Salvation by the Blood Death and Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ God owns not such Preachers but mark those Ministers that preach Christ and free-Grace not free-Will such Preachers as go to the quick Acts 2.37 Keep close to the Duty of hearing the Word preached if you slight the Ministry you will never come to Christ When you are to change your Relation or Habitation be sure to chuse and prefer Ordinances for your Souls go live under a godly Ministry hear constantly now and then or on a Lord's Day is not enough but in the Morning sow your Seed in the Evening withhold not your Hand for who knows which shall prosper this or that Object What if Ministers will not preach twice a Day Answ Such as know the worth of their own and Peoples Souls will be instant in season and out of season O if that Scripture were but writ upon Ministers Hearts it would make them vigilant for God Ezech. 3.17 and tremble for fear they should be found guilty of the blood of Souls I promised you a Fifth Vse viz. of Consolation to shew you the sweet happy blessed State such are in who are in Christ but I have already exceeded the bounds of a Sermon and therefore all I shall say is that of the Apostle which gives you an account of that happy sweet blessed Condition every Man and Woman in the World are in that are come to Christ Rom. 8.1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus FINIS An Hymn of Praise to God the Father magnifying his Love for giving us a Saviour as Psal 148. 1. YE Holy Angels bright That wait about God's Throne Enjoying fullest sight Of that Eternal One God's Praises sing Who hath from Heaven a Saviour given Jesus our King 2. You blessed Souls Above Who see your Saviour's Face Praise God for his great Love And his redeeming Grace Whereby you are Set quite and clean from Sin and Fear By your Saviour 3. You blessed Saints him praise That yet below are found Let Sion's Sons always His Holy Praises sound Yea all the Earth To this Great King high Praises sing With sweetest Mirth 4. My thankful Soul adore This Glorious Majesty Triumph thou evermore In this great God most High To him draw nigh And evermore his Name adore Eternally An HYMN of Praise to Christ our Redeemer I. WHat Love profound in Christ is found To Adam's lapsed Race That God's dear Son should Man become O freest richest Grace Ye Angels blest and Souls at rest Wonder how this could be That God most High for Love should dye Upon a cursed Tree II. When Man for Sin was almost in Easeless and endless Woe And very near Eternal Fire God's flaming Wrath also He for our sake did undertake To bear God's fiercest Wrath And all the Sin that we were in To expiate by his Death III. Adore adore for evermore Thy Saviour's precious Blood Sing Songs of Praise to him always Who ever do's thee good Do thou still hate and ' bominate Sin which caus'd him to dye Your Voices raise in Songs of Praise To him Eternally An HYMN of Praise for the Gospel offering CHRIST I. OUr Souls with Joy do magnify Jehovah our Great King Because the Lord gives us his Word We praise him for this thing While thousands yet in Darkness sit Having no Gospel Light Our dearest Lord doth us afford Sweet Visions clear and bright II. Lord we will praise thy Name always For Gospel-Light now given And humbly pray that thy Word may Raise up our Hearts to Heaven In this same Hour some quickning Power In thy Word let us find O cause encrease of Light and Peace In our Sin-darkned Mind III. Our Hearts unvail our Eyes unscale To see our selves this Day What need we have of Christ to save A Christ to us display While in this Glass of Gospel-Grace God's Glory we do view Lord from above shed down thy Love Our Souls in Grace renue The Believers Groans for Sion's Deliverance As Psalm 148. I. O Blessed Jesus who Here once was crucifi'd Thy sacred Blood did flow Wherewith the Earth was dy'd And still each day Thy blessed Name doth suffer Shame Lord Come away II. Thy Gospel is abus'd By that licentious Train Thy Prophets are misus'd Thy Threats esteemed vain But Lord how long Will 't be e're Thou holy and true Avenge this Wrong III. Thy Saints and Servants here Accounted are as mad Their Hearts are fill'd with Fear While wicked Men are glad Save thine Elect That night and Day to Thee do pray To that Effect IV. The bloody Sword abroad Drinks Blood abundantly But when wilt thou O Lord Hear Sion's mournful Cry Hasten therefore That time of Peace when Wars shall cease For evermore V. Let Babel that proud Whore Sink into deep Distress That Sion never more She may at all oppress Charge her with Guilt And that because her bloody Laws Much Blood hath spilt VI. Thy Saints rebuke O Lord Be pleas'd to wipe away And speedily afford Thy Church that glorious Day When none shall more Hurt or destroy or her anoy For evermore VII The Wicked cloath with Shame Trample on that proud Race That will not know thy Name But still despise thy Grace But Lord display Here every-where thy holy Fear We humbly pray VIII Let that bright Morning spring Let Christ that Sun appear With Healing in his Wing On all that thy Name fear That all the Earth May sing with Joy continually In Sacred Mirth IX That Evening of the Day When Sion shall have Light For it we long and pray O let her Sun shine bright And those sweet Streams Of Truth 's Divine Lord let them shine With brightest Beams X. Let Christ ascend his Throne And reign for evermore Let him be King alone Let Nations him adore Bright Day appear When Christ shall reign and his sweet Name Be own'd each where XI That Covering Lord remove From Abram's sinful Race Look on them from above Grant them converting Grace Thy Spiritual Pow'r That so they may mourn look and pray To their Saviour XII A time is drawing near When Earth's most utmost Coasts The Lord's great Name shall fear And in him make their Boasts Lord come away Begin thy Work on Pope and Turk Why dost thou stay XIII Let Satan that proud Foe Be bound by thy strong Arm Confin'd in Hell below Thy Church no more to harm That every Nation May own thy Name and all may claim Thy sweet Salvation XIV Reclaim Mens Lusts and Wrath Make Earth a holy place Let Gospel-Light break forth Lord shew thy pleased Face Thy Sion-Hill Each day increase her Light and Peace Her Joys fulfil XV. Let Ordinances be Refin'd from Dross and Tin Let All Salvation see O let that Day begin When evermore That Sun shall shine and all combine Christ to adore FINIS THE POSTSCRIPT TO THE READER NEver did God shew greater Love to the Sons of Men than when he gave the Son of his Love to die for the Sins of Men yet too many give away their Souls for nothing and tho they will not now fear for Love in the Day of Grace shall hereafter tremble for fear in the Day of Wrath and know when too late how much Prevention is better than Confusion And thou that wilt not now come to Christ by saving Faith in the Day of his Love to receive him with his Merits and Mercies to thy eternal Consolation shalt hereafter be brought to him in the day of Anger to thy eternal Damnation Now to do the one and to avoid the other remember thou art but a Pilgrim and Stranger here and that the great and chief End of Man is to glorify God and save his own Soul That thou may'st do this be admonished carefully to pursue conscientiously to peruse and constantly to practise what is contained in this Enchiridion or Pocket-Companion The Author thereof thou mayst see at the beginning His Qualifications in the Sermon wherein are many sweet sacred and Soul-saving Truths contained delivered by the Author in the Parish-Church of Potters Pury in the County of Northampton May the Wisdom of Heaven be opened and distill down such heavenly refreshing Dews upon these sweet and sacred Truths that they may make a deep Impression upon our Hearts and be seated and setled in our Minds and become fruitful in our Lives to the Honour of God the Joy of the Author and to the present Comfort future and eternal Happiness of the Hearers To conclude That thou mayst hereby know how to put off the Old Man and to put on the New Man Christ Jesus and so be made partaker of the Divine Nature and at last come to have the full Fruition of him in Glory is the earnest Desire and Prayer of Thy Friend and Servant in the Lord J. N. Minister of the Gospel at Potters Pury aforesaid Perlege Vive Vale. ADVERTISEMENT NEwly printed the Midnight-Cry a Sermon on the Parable of the Ten Virgins by J. Mason Rector of W. in the County of Bucks The second Edition with Addition of two Poems for the Coming of Christ by the same Author

had not been accused there had been no need of an Advocate or Intercessor We were accused 1. By Satan Rev. 12.10 The Accuser of our Brethren is cast out he accused Job and Joshua the High Priest 2. We are accused by our own Consciences Heb. 2.14 3. The Word of God so far as we violate any of its Precepts accuseth us Joh. 5.45 46. Think not saith Christ I will accuse you to the Father there is one that accuseth you even Moses in whom ye trust i. e. The Scriptures that Moses writ 4. The wicked World they accuse the People of God cry out against them for their Holiness Strictness Heavenliness 1 Pet. 3.16 They speak evil of you as Evil-doers and falsly accuse your good Conversation in Christ Now Christian art thou sensible of these several Accusations O then a Christ to speak for thee will be exceeding welcome Well here he is tender'd to thee if thou hast felt the Cries and Accusations of Conscience against thee then the Tidings of an Advocate will be welcome 5. Jesus Christ is a King and Lord and as such he is offered to us Rev. 17.14 King of Kings but particularly he is King of his Church A King is to govern so Jesus Christ he gives Laws to his People and he will see that his Laws are executed Isa 33.22 The Lord is our Law-giver the Lord is our King he will save us And herein Christ has the Preheminence above all earthly Kings their Laws and Government reaches but to the outward Man but the Government of Jesus Christ is over Hearts he rules in the Souls of his People Psal 110.3 Thy People shall be a willing People in the day of thy Power Sirs are you willing to be Christ's Subjects to let him rule in your Hearts it is the sweetest Government in the World Mat. 11.28 29. Come unto me my Yoke is easy and my Burden is light But none will come to Christ in this respect but only they who are sensible of their own unruly Passions and Carnal Affections that they are in no-wise able to rule and govern themselves which was St. Paul's case Rom. 7.23 But I see another Law in my Members rebelling against the Law of my Mind and leading me into Captivity to the Law of Sin and Death And finding it thus with him he flies to Christ who by his Kingly Power was able to rule and subdue them ver 24 25. O wretched Man who shall deliver me from this Body of Sin and Death Ver. 25. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord Chap. 8.2 The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the Law of Sin and Death 6. Jesus Christ is a Priest and as such offered to us in the Gospel The High-Priest under the Law was a Type of Christ as likewise all those Offerings and Oblations were typical of Christ and his offering up himself to the Father Heb. 2.17 In all things it behoved him to be made like unto his Brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God that he might make Reconciliation for the Trangressors Now who amongst you are willing to have Jesus Christ as a Priest None but those who see their Sin and Misery for the Work of Christ as a Priest is to make Reconciliation O Sinner dost thou see Sin and that the Breach between God and thy Soul is so great that none but Christ can make God and thee Friends He must bear thy Sins Isa 53.5 6. 2 Cor. 5.21 He himself is both Altar Priest and Sacrifice if so then Christ will be welcome to thee 7. And lastly Jesus Christ is the Spiritual Husband and Bridegroom of his Church so he is held out in this Parable We are not only invited to the Marriage of the Son but we are invited to come and marry with the Son not as Bride-maids only to wait on the Son but to be the Spiritual Bride to come and marry with and lie in the Bosom of the Son Thus as the Churches Spiritual Husband the Lord Jesus Christ is often so spoken of as in the Parable of the ten Virgins Mat. 25.1 So Ezek. 16.8 Now when I passed by thee and looked upon thee behold thy time was a time of Love and I spread my Skirt over thee and covered thy Nakedness yea I swear unto thee and entered into a Covenant with thee and thou becamest mine So throughout the Book of Canticles Christ and Believers convene in this sweet Relation Christ owns the Church for his Spouse Cant. 2.16 My Beloved is mine and I am his these are the Churches words owning her Relation to Christ And Cant. 4.8 9 10 11. in these four Verses the Church is four times called Spouse tho the World disowns the Believer Jesus Christ owns him Here 's a sweet a heavenly Match Christ and the Believer are married And this is not a forced Match no Jesus Christ accepts of sincere Souls in this Relation with a glad Heart Cant. 3.11 Go forth O ye Daughters of Zion and behold King Solomon i. e. Christ of whom Solomon was a Type with the Crown wherewith his Mother i. e. the Church crowned him in the day of his Espousals to his Elect in a Holy Gracious Heavenly Union and in the day of the Gladness of his Heart Now my dear Friends here 's an offer for you an Heavenly Husband O be not so unkind and cruel to your selves as to deny Christ I am one of these Servants I have a Commission from Christ yea and from the Father also to assure you that if you are willing Christ is yours this is my business the Errand I come on to invite you to come to Christ Come all things are ready on Christ's part he has died made his Soul an Offering for Sin Will you not come will you be damn'd rather than part with your Sins O come Rev. 22.17 The Spirit saith Come and the Bride saith Come whoever will let him come But I shall speak further to this when I come to a Use of Exhortation Thirdly Wherein or by what means doth God offer Christ to lost Souls in the Gospel The Law requires perfect Obedience and curses every one that continueth not in all things Gal. 3.10 Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the Book of the Law to do them This is terrible News for where is the Person under Heaven that has continued in all things that hath fulfilled the Law and may expect Eternal Life upon Law-Terms Who ever kept one Commandment of God No we have all sinned and come short of the Glory of God So that by the works of the Law or by our Obedience to God's Law or keeping his Commandments shall no Flesh be justified in his sight Rom. 3.20 Therefore we are all by Nature under the Curse of the Law the Law speaks nothing to the Sinner but Wrath and Terrour it brings the Sinner to the Bar

and there pronounceth Sentence of Condemnation against him and there leaves him in the Hands of Justice to expect the Execution of that fearful Sentence Go ye cursed Matth. 25.41 The Law gives no ground of hope to a poor Sinner to expect Salvation But now the Gospel that brings the glad-tidings of a Saviour Luk. 2.10 Behold I bring you good tidings of great Joy which shall be unto all People For to you is born a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. As if the Angel had said Come you that are under the Curse and fiery Sentence of the Law do not despair the great God hath in infinite Mercy contrived a way to save you from your Sins and Fears there 's a Saviour born for you who is able and willing to save to the utmost all those that come unto God by him This blessed News of a Saviour was reserved for Gospel-Times in a great measure 2 Tim. 1.10 Life and Immortality is brought to light by the Gospel And therefore this is the very business of a Gospel-Ministry to preach Christ to Men and to invite Persons to come to Christ 2 Cor. 5.20 We are Ambassadors for Christ we pray you in Christ's stead be ye reconciled to God And that great Apostle Paul who had well considered what he was to preach sums up the whole of his Ministerial Office in a little compass 1 Cor. 2.2 I resolved to know nothing among you but Christ and him crucified i. e. I had no purpose to teach any other Doctrine than the most necessary and only saying Doctrine the way of Salvation by a crucified Christ For indeed this is the only saving Knowledg as in that Saying † Si Christum discis satis est si caetera nescis Si Christum nescis nihil est si caetera discis If thou knowest Jesus Christ well 't is enough tho thou art ignorant of all other things but if a Man know not Jesus Christ all other knowledg will do him no good Accursed then be that Platonical way of Preaching that cries up Vertues and puts People upon legal Performances but hides from People the Pearl Jesus Christ O bless God for the Gospel and for a Gospel-Ministry and hear those Ministers that preach Jesus Christ Were it not for the Gospel and a Gospel-Ministry wherein would England differ from America Q. To whom doth God freely offer Christ in the Gospel A. 1. Jesus Christ is not offered to faln Angels they are in a fearful State inevitably sentenc'd to Perdition God could have recovered them if he had pleased Jesus Christ might have been their Saviour and not ours They are a nobler Order of Creatures than we but it seemed good to the Wisdom of God to pass them by when they turned their backs on God he let them go Heb. 2.16 For verily he took not on him the Nature of Angels or he took not hold of Angels but the Seed of Abraham 2. The Jews who had the first offers of the Gospel but refused are by the alwise God for the present passed by he has withdrawn his Offers from them and left them at present to sit in Darkness and in the Regions of the shadow of Death There is indeed a time when the blindness shall be plucked from off their Hearts and they turned to the Lord they shall be converted Rom. 11. tot Zac. 12.10 O let us beg that God would hasten it 3. There 's abundance of the Gentile World yet sit in darkness and in the Regions of the shadow of Death that never yet had the Gospel preached to them O what vast Countries are there in the East and West Indies that never heard of a Saviour that never had any Books to read but the Creatures Sun Moon and Stars these we should pity and pray for their Conversion 'T is a dreadful case not to have the Gospel Lord send out thy Light and Truth Psal 43.3 There is a day when the fullness of the Gentiles shall come in as may be seen by well considering these Scriptures Isa 49.6 Isa 61. throughout This will be then a golden time when Jews and Gentiles shall be converted and the Earth filled with the Knowledg of the Lord as the Waters cover the Sea O beg and pray for such a time that Jesus Christ may be glorified upon Earth as he is in Heaven 4. There are abundance even in the Christian Church that are baptized and called Christians and make some kind of a profession of Religion that have so often and so long resisted the saving Offers of Christ in the Gospel and trampled on that sweet and blessed Blood of Jesus that Jesus Christ has done with them He has sworn in his Wrath that they shall never enter into his rest Heb. 3.11 O it 's dreadful for a Person to outstand his Day of Grace Be afraid Sinner lest it should be thy case if Jesus Christ should say I have done with that Swearer I 've done with this Drunkard with that Worldly Proud scoffing carnal Wretch I 've oft invited him warned him but to no purpose I have done with him he shall never be call'd more for me These indeed have Christ offered in the Word but the Spirit is gone God saith of these as once he did of Ephraim Ephraim is joined to Idols let him alone this is a dreadful case Of such as these the Apostle speaks Heb. 6.4 5 6. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightned and have tasted of the Heavenly Gift and were made Partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted the good Word of God and the Powers of the World to come If they fall away to renew them again unto Repentance seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame This is a hard Scripture and doth much stumble some weak but upright Christians therefore I 'le anatomize it to you * Locus perobscurus difficilis unus haud dubiè ex illis de quibus Petrus dixit quaedam esse in Epistolis Paulinis quae homines indocti instabiles Pervertant suo ipsorum exitio 1. Some as Novatus and his Followers from this Scripture broached his pernicious Opinion That those that sinned after Baptism could not be renewed to Repentance But this Opinion is long ago out of doors 2. Others would hence infer the falling away from Grace taking these Expressions to be once enlightned to taste the heavenly Gift to taste the good Word of God and the Powers of the World to come to intimate a sound Work of Conversion and Regeneration but that cannot be the sense because true Grace and the Seed of Regeneration can never be lost neither can a Person in Christ finally fall away from Christ as appears from that one Text which I shall now only name among many others to that purpose 1 Pet. 1.23 Being born again not of corruptible Seed but of incorruptible by the Word of God which liveth and abideth

a cordial closure with Christ tho some may quarrel the Author hath his End and God shall have the Glory The Believer's Marriage with Christ OR A SERMON On the Parable of the Marriage of the King's Son Mat. 22.2 The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a certain King which made a Marriage for his Son 3. And sent forth his Servants to call them that were bidden to the Wedding and they would not come 4. Again he sent forth other Servants saying Tell them which are bidden Behold I have prepared my Dinner my Oxen and my Fatlings are killed and all things are ready come unto the Marriage 5. But they made light of it and went their ways one to his Farm another to his Merchandise And so on to the 14th Verse HEre is a Parable spoken by our dear Lord Jesus Christ himself and therefore calls for an hearing Ear and an understanding Heart in every one here present And for our better understanding the Mind of Christ herein let us answer five or six Queries Query 1. What are we to understand by the Kingdom of Heaven Answ There is a threefold Kingdom of Heaven 1. That blessed everlasting Life the Saints shall live in the next World Matth. 5.3 Blessed are the poor in Spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven 2. There 's the Kingdom of Grace or the Divine Life in the Hearts of the Elect in whose Hearts Jesus Christ hath set up his Spiritual Kingdom Mat. 13.31 The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a Grain of Mustard-Seed See ver 32. This and the following Parable of the Leaven as a * Pareus in locum Learned Man observes signifies the Power and Divine Efficacy of the Gospel in and on the Hearts of the Elect in the day when they are inwardly renewed by the Spirit 3. The visible Church comprehending both good and bad is sometimes called the Kingdom of Heaven as in the Parable of the Draw-Net Mat. 13.47 The Kingdom of Heaven is like to a Net that was cast into the Sea and gathered of every kind i.e. The visible Church by the Ministry of the Word gathers into it not only such as are truly sanctified but all that visibly own Jesus Christ And in this sense I humbly conceive this Parable of the Marriage is to be understood The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a King c. i. e. The great God of Heaven in calling Men unto and directing them how to attain Eternal Life doth as Kings use to do at Marriage-Feasts who having prepared all things ready send out their Servants to invite the Guests so God hath provided a Gospel-Banquet and sends out the Ministers of his Word to invite Men to come to Christ Query 2. Who is this King Answ The great God of Heaven who did originally contrive the glorious Work of Salvation as appears in these Scriptures Isa 42.1 2 3 4 5 6 7. these are the Father's words to Christ calling him forth to undertake the great Work of Redemption Had not the Father contrived a way of Salvation for lost Sinners our Condition had been for ever hopeless Jesus Christ is the Father's Gift Joh. 3.16 God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son to die Query 3. Here is a Wedding but who is the Bridegroom the Son here spoken of Answ The Lord Jesus Christ the eternal Son of God who is the Churches Spiritual Bridegroom and as such often spoken of in Holy Scripture Psal 19.5 Which is as a Bridegroom coming out of his Chamber the ancient Fathers understood this of Christ the Rex ille est Deus Pater sponsus est Filius Dei Sponsa pauci electi Nuptiae disponsatio copulatio Ecclesiae cum Christo Pareus in loco Spiritual Bridegroom of the Church * Corpus suum assumptum ex Virgine ipse tanquam sponsus Ecclesiae toties promissus per Prophetas c. Psalterium Paraph. who assumed Human Nature in the Womb of the Virgin thence appeared as the Churches Heavenly Bridegroom in the World and so he is held out to us in the Parable of the ten Virgins Mat. 25.1 2 3 4. as a Heavenly Husband that comes to consummate a Spiritual Marriage with his Church Query 4. But who is the Bride Answ The Church of Christ and especially the Elect. Jer. 3.14 I am married unto you Rev. 19.7 The Marriage of the Lamb is come and his Wife the Church hath made her self ready O the Honour given to a Believer to be married to Jesus Christ Query 5. What is meant by the Feast Answ That glorious Provision God hath made for poor undone Sinners in Christ as Union and Communion with God and Christ all the Benefits purchased by the Death of Christ such as Pardon Justification Sanctification Adoption and the like these are the Heavenly Dishes served up at this Gospel-Feast for Believers to feed upon And it 's very usual in Scripture to represent Heavenly Things by Temporal and particularly by Feasting Isa 25.6 And in this Mountain i. e. Sion the Church and a Type of Heaven shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all People a Feast of fat things a Feast of Wines on the Lees of fat things full of Marrow of Wines on the Lees well refined i. e. In that day that an elect Soul is married to Jesus Christ there 's an Heavenly Banquet in that Heart Rev. 3.20 Behold I stand at the Door and knock if any Man hear my Voice and open to me I will come in and sup with him and he with me Query 6. Who are the Servants sent out to invite the Guests to the Wedding Answ The Servants * Primi Servi fuerunt Patriarchae posteriores Moses Prophetae Pareus in loco are God's Ministers both of the Old and New Testament the first were Patriarchs then Moses and the Prophets and last of all the Apostles and their Successors So I that am now preaching to you am one of these Servants come to invite you to come to Christ the Jews they refused now the Gospel is preached to the Gentiles whose Offspring we are Having thus explained the Parable we come now to the Observation and tho this pregnant Text might afford many yet I shall content my self one which comprehends the very Heart and Marrow of the Text. Doct. God in and by the Gospel freely offers Jesus Christ with all the Banefits of his Death to all that are willing to come to him and receive him upon Gospel-Terms In speaking to this Heavenly Truth I shall endeavour these five things First Shew who it is that makes this Offer to Sinners God the Father Secondly What is offered Jesus Christ Thirdly Wherein is Christ offered viz. in the Gospel Fourthly To whom doth God offer Christ viz. To all that are willing to come to him Fifthly What is it to come to and receive and accept of Christ Q. First Who it is that offers Christ and Salvation to Sinners Ans It is the