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A60681	Agapai aspilai The Norfolk feast : a sermon preached at St. Dunstans in the East, upon the 18th of July, 1671, being the day of the anniversary feast for that county, for some years omitted, but now intended to be continued / by a minister of that county.	Smythies, William, d. 1715.	1671 (1671)	Wing S4366; ESTC R223729	14,570	43

sad we may drink and forget our own poverty misery but we must not drink so as to forget the miseries of others 'T was no small provocation to God that the Prophet Amos mentioneth Chap. 6. ver 4.5 6. where God saw men lye upon Beds of Ivory and stretch out themselves upon their Couches and eat Lambs out of the flock and Calves out of the stall That chant to the sound of the Viol and invent to themselves instruments of Musick That drink Wine in bowls and anoint themselves with chief Ointments but they are not grieved at the afflictions of Joseph And therefore he resolveth ver 7. that they shall be the first that go Captive They think of their Brethren last to help them God will think of them first to punish them Let me conclude this particular with that good advice which Nehemiah gave Chap. 8. ver 10. Go your way eat the fat and drink the sweet and send portions unto them for whom nothing is provided This may suffice for the Explication of the first particular the lawfulness of Feasting but here it will be requisite before I pass it to remove an Objection or two Solomon calls mirth madness and looks upon all the pleasures we take in the world to be but vanity He shuts the door of the house of Feasting and opens that of Mourning In answer to which we must understand that Solomon discovering the vanity of the Creature doth tell us that it is madness for us to be merry in the enjoyment of such a shadow But so far as Feasting gives us opportunity to bless God and to enjoy the society of each other Solomon speaks not against it if he did we might confute him in his own Banqueting House where we have him Feasting many days together 1 Kings 8.65 And many expressions in the same Book would contradict each other Ecc. 2. ver 24. There is nothing better than for a man to eat and drink and enjoy good in his labour But it may rather be objected that our Saviour in the forementioned place Luke 14.12 13. doth strictly forbid the Feasting of Friends and Relations when thou makest a dinner or a supper call not thy Friends neither thy Kinsmen nor thy rich Neighbours lest they also bid thee again and a recompence be made thee But when thou makest a Feast call the poor the maimed the lame the blind c. In answer to which by comparing Scripture with Scripture we shall find that not is not always an absolute negative but to be understood in a comparative sense Non simpliciter sed secundum quid I came not to Baptize but to Preach the Gospel i. e. Rather to Preach the Gospel then to Baptize we must not think that Christianity doth in the least clash with Humanity Qui putant hic simpliciter damnari convivia partem humanitatis tollunt ab hominibus hoc magis absurdum esset quàm austerum cognatos à mensa hospitali excludere solummodo extraneis dare locum sed ita ut pauperes non negligas We find our Saviour at several Feasts where probably there were rich men entertained in that of John 2. where Christ found wine I cannot think that at the Marriage of a Rulers Daughter there should be none but poor and lame and blind to attend the Bride and Bridegroom nor is it probable that such would strive for Superiority and so we should suppose the former advice to be in vain so that the assertion remains undeniable that Feasting is lawful I dar'st not insist upon those inferences which might be made by which the covetous worldling might be reproved who is so far from Feasting others that he starves himself And likewise the Austere Lives of the Popish Votaries who deny themselves the lawful use of Gods Creatures which he hath given on purpose to be received with Thanksgiving But I shall not proceed any farther in this knowing well that our corrupt natures have more need of a curb of restraint than rains of liberty I hope when you were pleased to invite me to this service you did not expect that I should strain the sense of Scripture to the gratifying of a luxurious appetite that I should be a Prophet of smooth things and deceits or that I should invite or encourage any to your Feast by Prophecying of Wine and strong drink Mic. 2.11 But that I should be your Monitor a Prophet to warn you from God for the prevention of those exorbitancies whereof we are too apt at such a time to be guilty That you desire to imitate the Religious Customs in former times 1 Kings 8. When the Priests took up the Ark before the Congregation whilst the Feast was preparing or that the example of the Wise man might be our president who first prayed with great devotion like a Pious Priest before he Feasted with great preparations like a Munificent Prince or that I should write after Nehemiahs copy who devoutly read the Law of his God on the day of his Feasting Neh. 8.18 Give me leave therefore to speak to the second Observation viz. Feasting is dangerous it must not be without fear The company of our Friends and Country-men must not cause us to forget that we are in the presence of God This needs not damp our mirth in the least the child may be merry in its fathers company we may rejoyce though it be with trembling Psal 2.11 or as the Common-Prayer Translation Rejoyce unto him with reverence The Courtier is merry in the presence of his Prince and because he is so though he forgets not a due reverence It is not said that ever Job was jealous that his Sons had sinned but when they were Feasting It was at a Feast that Christ was lost and at another that he was betrayed 1. Particularly Feasting is dangerous yea very offensive if it be at an unseasonable time that is when Gods Judgments are in the Land The Prophet Isaiah speaks of it as an affront offered to the great and angry God Isa 22.12 In that day did the Lord call to weeping and to mourning and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth And behold joy and gladness slaying of Oxen and killing Sheep eating Flesh and drinking Wine c. Such an affront as he resolves shall not on a sudden be forgotten by him That Feasting should cost dear indeed their iniquity shall not be purged away till they dye If there were now Wars in the Land we should not then be filling of our bellies but complaining of our bowels not merry but pained at the heart as the Prophet Jeremiah was because he heard the sound of the Trumpet and the Alarm of War Jer. 4.19 If there were a Famine in the Land it were most unchristian and unnatural for us to be Feasting when many thousands are starving to be faring Sumptuously and Deliciously when many a poor Lazarus would be glad to cheat the dog of his crums If a devouring Plague were raging it were a