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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

Divine Nature as God Heb. 1.3 Being the brightness of his Father's Glory the express Image of his Person Beautiful as Man Psal 45.2 Thou art fairer than the Children of Men. Beautiful in his Offices of Prophet Priest and King Though a carnal Eye sees nothing yet Faith discovers Wonders in Christ Phil. 3.8 9. the Spouse discribes him Cappapè Cant. 5.10 to 15. Ver. 11. His Head viz. his Spiritual Headship over his Church Col. 1.18 Nothing in Christ but is beautiful his very Locks Eyes Cheeks Lips Hands Legs c. are all beautiful Ver. 11 12 13 14 15. Understand these Epithets Spiritually and Chirst will appear a glorious and excellent Person O Christians labour to see and know Jesus Christ if you did know him better you would desire him more Secondly To provoke you to look out after an Interest in Christ consider what you shall gain by coming to Christ 1. If you will heartily come to and believe in Christ you shall have Redemption and Deliverance from the power and guilt of Sin and the Tyranny of Satan Eph. 1.7 In Christ we have Redemption through his Blood even the forgiveness of Sins he will make you free of the new Jerusalem which is above Rom. 8.1 2. There is therefore now no Condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ hath made them free from the Law of Sin and Death 2. Come to Christ and all your Temporal Maladies shall be sanctified to you and all your Spiritual Maladies shall be cured your Temporal Maladies shall all be sanctified to you such as Sickness Poverty Disgrace Reproaches c. all shall work for your good Rom. 8.28 And your Spiritual Maladies shall be cured such as Infirmities Backsliding Ignorance Hardness of Heart Blindness of Mind c. Hosea 14.4 I will heal their Backslidings and love them freely Ezek. 36.25 26 27. I will pour clean Water upon you and you shall be clean from all your Filthiness and Abomination will I cleanse you a new Heart also will I give you and a new Spirit will I put within you I will put my fear into your Hearts and cause you to walk in my Ways 3. Come to Christ and you shall stand related in the nearest dearest and sweetest Relations to God and Christ you shall be his Sons and Daughters 1 John 3.1 Behold what manner of Love the Father hath bestowed on us that we should be called the Sons of God 2 Cor. 6. 17 18. Come out from amongst them and be ye separated saith the Lord and touch no unclean Thing and I will receive you and will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters saith the Lord Almighty You shall be his peculiar Treasure 1 Pet. 2.9 A chosen Generation a royal Priesthood a holy Nation a peculiar People Jesus Christ will be to you a Friend Cant. 5.16 This is my Friend Husband Isa 54.5 A Brother Sister and Mother Mark 3.35 4. Come to and accept of Christ for your Lord and Saviour and you shall be fed with dainty Fare and shall wear glorious Apparel Isa 55.1 2. You shall eat Wine and Milk yea that which is good Jesus Christ himself shall be your Food and his Righteousness shall be your Apparel Ezek. 16 10. I clothed thee also with broidred Work and shod thee with Badgers Skin and I girded thee about with fine Linnen and covered thee with Silk v. 11. I decked thee also with Ornaments and I put Bracelets upon thine Hands and a Chain of Gold about thy Neck see ver 12 13. All signifies the Beauty of a Believer in Christ this glorious Apparel is Christ's Righteousness imputed outwardly and the Heavenly Graces of the Spirit put on inwardly in the great Work of Sanctification In a word Come to Christ and you have all in having Him Christ is Heir of all things he hath all who hath Him who is all Now if either Love or Beauty or any excellency will draw you here 's all in Christ O Sirs come to Christ I beseech you do not refuse such a Saviour Thirdly Yet once more to prevail with you to come to Christ consider what a Hell of Misery you wilfully throw your Souls into by refusing to come to him what became of these in the Parable that set light by the Invitations to come Ver. 5. They made light of it and went away one to his Farm and another to his Merchandize Ver. 7. When the King heard thereof he was wroth and sent forth his Armies and destroyed those Murderers and burnt up their City O it 's a dreadful a fearful Case to refuse Christ offered Heb. 10.28 29. He that despised Moses 's Law died without Mercy under two or three Witnesses Of how much sorer Punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who hath troden under foot the Son of God c. Refuse Christ and you perish without remedy for ever O think of Hell who among you can dwell in eternal Burnings Refuse Christ and you sink without remedy into the lowest Hell And therefore I beseech you come to Christ what 's the matter you are so dead and cold to this Offer why so backward Christ is willing to receive Isa 55.1 Ho every one that thirsteth come Fourth Vse shall be of Direction Quest But how may a poor Sinner come to Christ I must now be short 1. If you desire to come to Christ then labour to see your need of Christ your undone State and Condition without Christ I 've told you 't is mere necessity that drives Persons to Christ Luke 5.31 32. You must be sick of Sin like those Acts 2.37 2. If you desire to come to Christ then you must beg and desire to be drawn to him Cant. 1.4 Draw me we will run after thee Joh. 6.44 No Man can come to me except the Father which sent me draw him Sin has so infeebled our Natures that we have no Strength nor Ability to any good Rom. 5.6 When we were without Strength Christ died for the ungodly If you would come to Christ see your own weakness see your need of the Drawings of the Spirit and beg for it 3. If you desire to come to Christ then sit under a rousing drawing Ministry Rom. 10.17 Faith comes by hearing Mark by what means so many thousands have been brought to Christ and it has been by the preaching of the Gospel as abundantly appears in these Scriptures Acts 2.37 38. Acts 16.14 Eph. 1.13 1 Thes 1.6 This is that very Ordinance that God has appointed to gather in the Elect to himself 1 Cor. 1.21 When the World by Wisdom knew not God it pleased God by the foolishness of Preaching to save them that believe And indeed this is the reason why the Devil and his Instruments do so much oppose the preaching of the Gospel O prize this Ordinance and wait daily at Wisdoms Gates Observe where the Gospel is purely preached Shun such Preachers as

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

Great God of Heaven Joh. 3.16 God so loved the World as to give his only Begotten Son to die Christ indeed is the Redeemer by whom we are saved from Wrath to come 't is by him that we have Redemption Ephes 1. But this way of Salvation was of the Father's Contrivance he calls Christ forth and employs him in the great work of Redemption Isa 49.5 And now saith the Lord that formed me from the Womb to be his Servant to bring Jacob again to him These are the words of Christ * Hoc capite continetur Prophetia de Officio Christi Piscator wherein he shews that the glorious Work of Redemption and bringing back the Elect to God was a Work to which he was called and fitted by the Father And therefore the Work of Redemption is sometimes attributed to the Father Col. 1.12 13. Giving Thanks to the Father c. And you and I should be much in adoring the Infinite Goodness and free Mercy of God that hath remembred us in our low Estate because his Mercy endureth for ever Psal 136.23 We were sinking into Hell and eternal Perdition had not the Father pitied us and contrived our Salvation we had perished without remedy for ever Look upon that new and living way to the Father by Christ and see the Father's eternal Love in it 2 Cor. 5.18 19. All things are of God who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ and hath committed unto us the Ministry of Reconciliation to wit that God was in Christ reconciling the World to himself O I beseech you adore admire and sing the Father's Praise for giving you a Christ Q. Secondly What is it God freely offers us A. It is the Lord Jesus Christ And this may be matter of Wonderment to Men and Angels that God should give us his Son one who was in the form of God and thought it no robbery to be equal with God Phil. 2.6 Him who was the Brightness * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it signifies more than Brightness even such a Brightness as hath a lustre cast upon it from some other thing Sicut Sol radios ex sua substantia gignit sic Pater ab eterno ex sua substantia Filium genuit Critica Sacra of his Father's Glory and the express Image † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Character figura idem of his Person and upholding all things by the Word of his Power Him who is Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ending which is and was and is to come the Almighty Rev. 1.8 A Lord of Lords and King of Kings Revelat. 17.14 The Image of the invisible God Col. 1.15 The only Begotten of the Father Joh. 1.14 Him in whom all Fulness dwells Col. 1.19 Him who is white and ruddy the chiefest of ten thousand Cant. 5.10 11. altogether lovely ver 15. A glorious infinitely compleat Person search Heaven and Earth none can be found like Christ But to illustrate this Greatness of God's Love in giving Christ let us consider by what Notions and in what Relations Jesus Christ is held out to us 1. Jesus Christ is a Redeemer and as such he is offered us Isa 59.20 The Redeemer shall come to Zion Ephes 1.7 We have Redemption through his Blood the Forgiveness of Sins Now Christ's being a Redeemer intimates two things to us 1. That we are by Nature in a State of Bondage if it were not so we should not need a Redeemer one that is already free needs not one to make him free And hence it is that the Carnal World sets so light by Christ and all the Offers of his Grace because they are not sensible of their Bondage and Slavery Now by Nature we are Slaves to Sin 2 Pet. 2.19 They are the Servants of Corruption Tit. 3.3 serving divers Lusts and Pleasures And not only so but we are the Devil's Slaves Ephes 2.2 wherein in time past ye ●alked 2. The Consideration of Christ as a Redeemer intimates to us that there was a Price paid to redeem lost Man from the Slavery of Sin and Satan and this was the Blood of Christ the Redeemer 1 Pet. 1.18 19. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as Silver and Gold but with the precious Blood of Christ as of a Lamb without Blemish and without Spot Now Christ is offered to you to be your Redeemer from Hell and Wrath. But who amongst you are willing to receive him to come to him It may be you will say We are all willing to have Christ our Redeemer No no there 's none willing but only such as are sensible of their Slavery The poor Sinner that finds himself bound with the Chains of Sin led by Satan Captive at his Will and so ready to drop into Hell O for a Redeemer for such a poor Soul such a Soul will cry and beg for Christ 2. Christ is a Mediator 1 Tim. 2.5 There is one Mediator between God and Man the Man Christ Jesus and this shews us that faln Man can have no Access to God immediately by himself there is so great a breach between God and him Psal 7.11 God is angry with the Wicked every day Let a Man in an unregenerate Estate do what he will God is angry with him If thou art out of Christ while thou eatest sleepest walkest yea when thou prayest God is angry with thee the Sacrifice of the Wicked is abominable to him Thou canst not come near him he is a consuming Fire Therefore we must have a Mediator a middle Person to reconcile an offended God and a rebellious Sinner to take up the Quarrel between God and Man Isa 27.5 Let him take hold of my Strength that he may make Peace with me and he shall make Peace with me No way to make Peace with God but by Christ Ephes 2.14 He is our Peace Now who will have Christ a Mediator None but those that are sensible of the Breach that Sin has made between God and their Souls 3. Jesus Christ is a Saviour and as such he is offered to us Luke 2.10 11. Behold I bring you good Tidings of great Joy which shall be unto all People For unto you is born a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. Now this supposes we were all by Nature lost otherwise no need of a Saviour Mat. 18.11 Jesus Christ came to seek and to save that which was lost Sinner dost thou see thy self lost dost thou see thy need of Christ a Saviour then a Saviour will be welcome this is sweet News to a poor lost Soul that sees he is undone by Sin 4. Jesus Christ is an Advocate 1 Joh. 2.1 If any Man sin i. e. any of the Elect and of those that Christ died for he did not die for all but for the Elect only we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous And he is not only an Advocate but an Intercessor Isa 53.12 Now this supposes that we were accused to the Father if we

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 Minister of Casfield in Bucks To which is added four Hymns I. An Hymn of Praises to God for giving Christ II. To Christ for redeeming us III. To God for the Gospel IV. The Believer's Groans for Sion's Deliverance I Joh. 5.12 He that hath the Son hath Life and he that hath not Son of God hath not Life London Printed for Nathanael Ranew at the King's-Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1691. THE PREFACE THIS Heavenly Sermon invites Souls to come to Christ that Spiritual Feast that best of Feasts costly to the Provider free to the Comer Christ was crucified to make a Feast for us but it crucifies him afresh that many who are affectionately invited will not come They will be starv'd before they will come to this Feast They will be damn'd before they will come to Christ Alas that they should perish when Life is so near But they that do come find by blessed Experience that his Flesh is Meat indeed and his Blood Drink indeed There is 1. Calling 2. Coming 3. Vnion 4. Communion Calling is twofold Outward Inward Outward Calling is by the Gospel and Gospel-Ministry Inward Calling is twofold Ineffectual Effectual The inward ineffectual Call leaves the Soul in worse state than it found it The quenching of the Sparks of Heaven is the kindling the Flames of Hell And they fall deepest into Hell that fall backwards into Hell The inward effectual Calling is when a Soul comes to Christ that is believing Joh. 6.35 This Coming or believing determins effectual Calling and begins Vnion This Vnion is the ground of Communion which on the Soul's part is a partaking of all such spiritual good things as are purchased by the Blood of Christ for Believers There is nothing that the corrupt Nature of Man is more averse to than Christ and Faith in Christ There are no Quarrels commenc'd by the World Flesh and Devil against any Grace so much as against justifying Faith nor against any Ordinance so much as that which Faith comes by which is the sound and plain preaching of the Gospel Rom. 10.17 Through Self-Fulness and Spiritual Distempers it comes to pass that there is no Appetite in the Soul after Christ but this Spirital Feast is loathed By others Christ is respected only as a remote cause of Salvation They will not allow Justification by Faith in Christ's Blood without the Deeds of the Law they will not come to Christ unless they can make him a Present As if it were not enough to be Joynt-Heirs with Christ unless they might be Joynt-Purchasers also But the Word saith Come for all things are now ready i. e. in Christ Luk. 14.17 Come without Money and without Price Isa 55.1 Only Come Q. Is not this presuming A. Nothing is more contrary to Presumption that this For 1. It is the greatest piece of Self-denial There is no Humility like Faith 2. It is taking the Lord at his Word Obj. This believing is a slight matter Answ It is a senseless and a vile Objection And to speak as the truth is People do but trifle in Soul-matters till they are effectually humbled and chastised by the Spirit of Bondage It is a great thing for a Man with the Heart to believe unto Righteousness Such a poor Creature is made first to know himself to be a very miserable lost undone helpless sinking perishing Wretch and so to know himself as to abhor himself and so to abhor himself as to deny himself and so to deny himself as to cast himself into the saving Arms of an only Saviour which were stretched upon the Cross and are spread wide open in the Promises of the Gospel to embrace any wretched Sinner as will fall into them This is done by Divine Light and Power The Spirit convinces the Father draws And Oh how the Soul cries pants yearns after Christ O nothing but Christ Nothing but Christ It can never be satisfied till it come into that blessed Bosom where the weary are at rest This breeds Repentance secures Obedience The Repentance is evangelical that Obedience filial The Terrors of the Law break the Heart into hard pieces the Love of Christ melts it and makes it flow like Water And the Soul that hath learned Christ to be her Righteousness finds him to be her Strength also Isa 45.24 In a word Christ is all He hath done all he hath suffered all and he must have the Glory of every part of our Salvation God will have his Son honoured Sinners Sinners Come to Christ Know that there is no Salvation but by Christ neither is there any Salvation by Christ but in Christ Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting Salvation Isa 45.17 Let nothing come between the Graff and the Stock Touch close upon the Foundation Let the whole weight of your Salvation lie upon that Foundation which God hath laid and not Man You are lost and undone come as such to Christ Come to a Saviour as to a Saviour he will receive you joyfully Will you not come O Come confess your Sins and that you are guilty to Vnexcusableness O Lord I cannot answer for what I have done I cannot bear what I have deserved But I appeal to the Blood of Christ Thy Justice might be glorified in mine eternal Destruction but it could never be satisfied but the Blood of Christ hath both glorified and satisfied thy Justice O let Christ's Blood go for mine Oh sprinkle my Conscience with the Blood of Christ Lie in Dust and Ashes and cry for the Blood of Sprinkling O Lord revive among us the Doctrine of free Grace the work of Conversion the Power of Religion and the Spirit of Brotherly-Kindness and Charity And now may we see the King of Kings and Lord of Lords sitting upon a Throne high and lifted up and his Train filling the Temple Now let him be exalted and extolled and be very high Now let him be great to the Ends of the Earth And blessed be the Lord God the God of Israel who only doth wonderous things And blessed be his glorious Name for ever and let the whole Earth be filled with his Glory Amen and Amen The Author's Advertisment to the Reader THe Reader is desired to take notice that the following Sermon was preached to a Country-Congregation without the least design of ever being made publick But some of the then Hearers being very earnest for a Copy of the Author's Notes with leave to print it the Author who was at first unwilling having no desire to be seen in Print yet at last condescended to give a Copy leaving it to their choice whether to make it publick or no. The Subject is Christ the very Subject of the Gospel If the Lord please to bless it to win over any Souls to