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A25200	A sermon preached at sea, before the Honourable Sir Robert Robinson, Knight, principal commander of His Majestie's squadron of ships, now riding at Spitt-Head, November the 24th, 1678 before the administration of the Holy Sacrament, and oaths of allegiance and supremacy to the several commanders and officers of that squadron, in obedience to the King's command / by George Alsop ...	Alsop, George, b. 1638.	1679 (1679)	Wing A2903; ESTC R5430	14,734	38

and our sins from God yet at length God will find us out as he did Adam in Eden Cain in the Field Zeeb behind the Wine-Press David's Adultery and Murder the Israelites Idolatry as he did the Powder-Traitors as he did the Horrid Popish Treason of late as he did this Unworthy Guest in my Text. It was good Counsel that one of the Rabins gave unto his Scholar Remember Three Things and thou shalt never do amiss 1. That there is about thee a seeing Eye 2. A hearing Ear. 3. A Book wherein all thy works words and thoughts are Registred Now did we really and weightily consider this That God saw us that God heard us and that God Registred all that we do and will one day bring us to an accompt for it Certainly there would not be so much private Murder so much private Adultery so much private Treason against the King so much Hypocricy so much self-Interest so much Deceit so much Couzenage acted as there is Did we believe that God heard all our Words saw all our Works and Doings we should not dare to Affront God so openly nor Commit those frequent Abominations in the Dark as we do No man will be so Impudent as to steal in the face of the Judge no man will be so Notorious as to be drunk or Commit Adultery in the Eye of his Prince and yet how often do men steal and are drunk and commit filthiness in the Eyes of the Judge of all Men and the King of the whole Earth A man that is truly persuaded God sees him he will take heed what he doth and that God hears him he will temper his Tongue with Discretion And that God searcheth every Corner of his heart he will be very mindful of what he meditates and thinks on A man who is persuaded that God beholds all his Dealings in the World he will take heed how he Borrowes how he Lends how he Buyes how he Sells how he Wrongs his Neighbour either in his Name or in his Goods or in his Life Be persuaded then to live as those that have alwayes God before them And now to stir you up yet further to this holy Duty of Sincere Holy and Honest Walking as in the Presence of the All-seeing God take these Two or Three Motives and Inducements following First Consider That that God that made thee that feeds thee cloathes thee preserves thee gives thee Health and Peace and by his Mercy has kept thee out of Hell This very God Commands thee to walk before him in all honesty and godliness of life We read in the 17. Gen. Vers 1. That the Lord Commanded Abraham to walk before him and be upright And in Abraham he Commands all the Children of the same Faith to walk before him and be upright Remember this if thou wouldest be a Saint in Glory as Abraham thou must obey the Command of thy Maker walking sincerely and holily upon Earth as Abraham did A good Subject will obey the Commands of his King and a good Christian the Commands of his God Secondly As it is the Command of God That thou should'st walk holily as in his presence so we have the Example of God's Servants who are Renowned for the Obedience of his Commandment Holy Enoch walked with God that is he looked upon God as who saw his Thoughts Cogitations Actions heard all his words and his life was answerable to such a prospect How Holy how Pious how Religious how Obedient was Abraham in Walking before God how Exact was holy David in this way for fear of doing ill he placed the Lord alwaies before him Psal 116.9 I will walk before the Lord in the Land of the Living Let the Command therefore of God and the Example of his holy Saints urge thee to keep God alwaies before thee Thirdly As we have the Command of God the Example of the Saints for our walking as in God's Presence so he that walks as in the presence of God it will certainly bring him to make a Conscienee of all Sin When Joseph was allured by his Impudent Mistress to commit filthiness he made her this answer How shall I commit this Great Wickedness and sin against God The bridle that restrain'd Joseph was the fear of God in whose presence he walked If men walked as in the presence of God when Lust when Covetousness when Pride when Drunkenness when Revenge when Treason doth tempt and allure them they would answer We dare not meddle with you for that God that 's in Heaven sees us that God that 's in Heaven hears us we dare not do this Wickedness and sin against God Had the man in my Text propounded this to himself he would never have Intruded as he did to his Eternal Damnation Many don't care how they appear before God so Man don't think amiss of them Alas what is it to seem good and honest before men but in God's Esteem be a Wicked Hypocritical Reprobate This Unworthy Guest in my Text made as fair as honest and as Religious a shew as the rest and yet you see he was Condemned as an Unworthy Guest and thrown into outer darkness Let this then be alwaies in thy thoughts That God sees thy Soul however outwardly fair thou do'st appear to Man The Second Part. THe Fault the man is here charged with is the want of a Wedding Garment where we may Note That it is not enough to present our Souls our Bodies before the All-seeing Eye of God unless we come prepared as we ought The man here in my Text not being prepared when he came to the Feast was Cast into Hell It is something indeed to come into the Congregation to hear the Word Preached to receive the Sacrament to bow our selves before Almighty God in Prayer But let me tell you these are not enough for if we rest here these will be but as fuel to add fire to our further Condemnation Judas Repaired into Christ's presence but being not prepared he was Condemn'd as the Son of Perdition he eat at the Lord's Table as well as the rest but as the Sop went down the Devil went after it which was a dear Sacrament to him To Eat and Drink his own Damnation for want of Inward Sincerity an honest an sound heart he was Eternally Damn'd All our Fathers saith St. Paul were under the Cloud that is they had the same Sacrament in effect with us though not in substance and yet how many of them did God overthrow in the Wilderness From whence we will Note That outward Privileges and Claims to God without Inward Sanctification and Holiness profit nothing The Foolish Virgins had oyl in their Lamps but none in their Vessels they had outward Profession but wanted inward Sincerity they wanted a supply from within they had not Inward Grace as well as outward Shew There were many that lived with Christ in the Flesh that did not eat and drink with him they Prophecy'd in his Name and in his Name did

the Money and taking up of the Ware The like way we may observe in our Spiritual buying 1. Before we buy a Commodity we see the want and need of it so before we can have this Wedding Garment of Christ's Merits and Satisfaction we must see know and feel that we want it we must know what a dangerous State it is to be without it 1. If we have it not we have no Peace of Conscience in this World nor Heaven nor Happiness in the next 2. If we are not covered with Christ as with a Garment this Judgment will lay hold on us we shall be Condemned and thrust out of doors with the Cursed Unworthy Guest in my Text and have our Portion with the Hypocrites in the Lake which Burneth with Fire and Brimstone Now till we are thoroughly persuaded of these things That without this Garment we shall be deprived of the Joys of Heaven and be made Eternally Miserable in Hell we shall never see the need that we have of this Holy Wedding Garment of Christ's Righteousness the Whole need not a Physician but the Sick tolle vulnera tolle opus Medici if there be no Disease what need is there of the Physician He that 's full despiseth the Honey Comb t is the hungry that sees and feels the want of Food that craves and seeks for it so till wee see our own Wretchedness Blindness Poverty dreadful State and Danger Sin hath brought us into we shall never be Cloathed with this Wedding Garment 2. When a man wants a Commodity he longs and desires after it he is never quiet till he is possessed of it so these that truly see the want of Christ's Righteousness they long and thirst after it and are ne're satisfied till they do possess it God gives this Garment to none but those that long and earnestly desire it God saith his Servants shall eat but first they shall be a thirst God pronounceth none blessed but those that hunger and thirst after Righteousness not he that cares not whether ever he hath Christ or no so he may be covered with his Lust or his Pride or his Drunkenness 3. He that wants a Commodity will resort to the place where 't is to be had as Jacob's Sons when they wanted Corn they came down to Egypt where 't was to be had so if we want this Spiritual Garment we must go where it is that is at Bethel the Church and House of God that is the Spiritual Wardrobe where all Heavenly Robes are laid up there is the very place where Christ will meet you in his Word and Sacraments Where two or three are met together in my Name I 'le be in the midst of them Do you think they deserve to be Clothed with the Righteousness of Christ that prefer Worldly Affairs Sleep Lust Walking abroad before the meeting with Christ in his Holy Church about their Eternal Happiness 4. He that wants a Commodity when he comes to the place where it is he prizes the same lays down his money and takes up the Ware and by laying down his Money he shews that he Esteems the Ware better than his Money even so must we resolve to throw off all the swelling Conceit of our own Righteousness our own Worth our own Merits our own Excellency Accounting all things dross and dung in comparison of Christ Jesus Now Beloved consider Is not this a gainful and blessed Change for us when we may lay down our own Unrighteousness and take up Christ's Righteousness our own Disobedience and take up Christ's Obedience our own Pride and take up Christ's Humility and till we do this we are no way Clothed with Christ as with a Garment Thus much of the Proportion which is held between the Material and Spiritual Buying And now I fear if most men should examin themselves by these Points there would be a great Defect in most men For Proof First Do you see the want of Christ the Great Necessity that you have of his Righteousness to Cloth your Naked Wretched Souls with You can see the want of Money the want of Friends the necessity of Preferment but how few are there who see the true Want and Necessity of Jesus Christ but rather like the Prophane Duke that said If he could have Paris he did not care whether ever he had Paradise Never reckon upon Christ then till thou truly seest the want more of Christ than Gold or Silver Preferment Health or what ever this World can afford Secondly Do you long thirst and hunger after Christ And can you be no way satisfied without him Doth all the Profit and Pleasure of this World look vain and empty without Christ Then thou art Happy It is observed that most men long and covet after the things of this life and are never satisfied until they enjoy and possess what they long covet and desire Now if thou Long'st more for Christ than for hidden Treasure more for Christ than for Health and Pleasure of this life it bespeaks thee in some measure to be worthy of Christ Thirdly Do you resort with love and holy sincerity to the place of Worship where Christ is And not out of a Compliance only to the Law of Man or for fear you should be suspended from your Imployment If you do not Conform have a care of Hypocritical Jugling You may deceive Men but you can't deceive God for where Man ends God begins The Unworthy Guest in my Text did Conform outwardly when he meant nothing so inwardly He came as plausibly to the Table as any when his Soul and Resolutions were found another way But for so doing he was Eternally Damn'd Fourthly Do you when you come before God cast off all Pride Meritorious Conceit of your own Excellencies and with the poor Publican hang down your Heads beat your Breasts saying Lord have Mercy upon us Unworthy Creatures 'T is observ'd That most men have a Mountebank-Opinion of their own worth Narcissus like we are very apt to dote upon our own shadows but let me tell you that none wears this wedding Garment of Christ's Righteousness but he that 's contrite humble in his own eyes Now by these you may know whether you are fit for the Table of the Lord or no do you see the want of Christ do you long for Christ do you come with Love and Zeal to meet with Christ can you willingly lay down your own Righteousness and take up Christ's then come in the name of God and eat of this bread and drink of this Cup or else it is as much as your Souls are worth to meddle with them Now having shewed you what this Garment is and how you may obtain it I will now in the last place shew how you must use it and wear it It is the Apostle's advice Rom. 13. To put on the Lord Jesus Christ for let me tell you if we don't put on Christ as a Garment Christ will one day put off you with a nonnovi