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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

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

have you ever been awakened by the Spirit of God to see your undone sinful miserable Estate But do not mistake me I do not mean that meer trouble for Sin is a sufficient Evidence of your coming to Christ No Cain and Judas were troubled for Sin but never came to Christ but when your trouble for Sin drives you to Christ Matth. 11.28 2. Such as have ever come to Christ and believed in him have seen the Glory Excellency Fullness and Perfections that are in Christ There is indeed all manner of Glories in Christ but a Carnal Eye sees them not the Eye of Faith only discovers the Excellencies that are in him Cant. 5.4 The Spouse had had a sight of the Fullness of Christ and therefore her Soul was in pursuit after him Now have you seen Christ's Excellency 2 Cor. 3.18 It may be you have heard of Christ you have read of Christ but have you seen him by Faith 3. Those that did ever come to Christ were drawn to him by the Ministry of the Word Rom. 10.17 Faith comes by hearing 1 Cor. 1.21 It pleased God by the foolishness of Preaching to save them that believe Now examine You think you have Faith how came you by it did you always believe that 's a sign you did never believe but have you found the Ministry of the Word to be the Power of God to your Salvation Rom. 1.16 Examine 4. All those who have ever yet come to Christ have divorced all their old Acquaintance I mean Sins with which the Sinner is as intimate as a Man with his Friend Isa 28.15 The Sinner is in League and Covenant with his Sins Tit. 3.3 nothing sweeter to the Sinners taste Job 20.12 13 14. But now when a Sinner comes to Christ he casts all his Sins away there 's now an absolute Breach between the Sinner and his Sins and not only gross and scandalous but hid and secret Sins he hates vain Thoughts Psal 119.113 He forsakes both the way of Sin and also the Thoughts of Sin Isa 55.7 The Wicked forsakes his Ways and the unrighteous Man his Thoughts Now examine is it so with you 5. Such account it a singular Honour to be employed in the Service of Christ Eph. 3.8 Vnto me who am less than the least of all Saints is this Grace given that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable Riches of Christ What an Honour did David count it to be but a Door-keeper in the House of God Now examine Do you indeed esteem it your great Priviledg that you may come and hear the Word preached that you may pray that you may sit down at the Lord's Table are these things counted greater Honours and Priviledges by you than if you had the Prince's Ear 6. Such who have ever come to Christ count an Interest in Christ and Relation to Christ their chiefest Treasures Christ is to them that Pearl of great Price which they value more than ten thousand Worlds 1 Pet. 2.9 To you that believe he is precious Do you see an Excellency in Christ Do your Souls above all things thirst for an Interest in him Relation to him Likeness to him 7. Such who ever did in a right manner come to Christ they take as much pains for Heaven in a way of Holiness and Obedience as if there were no Saviour no Mediator but Heaven were to be gained by works and yet after all live as entirely by Faith upon Christ as if they never had performed one Duty or done one good Work This you may see in St. Paul never any after Conversion did more than he did much in Prayer Fastings and Sufferings for Christ and yet never any lived more by Faith than he did Phil. 3.8 9. I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledg of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do count them but Dung that I might win Christ And be found in him not having my own righteousness which is of the Law but that which is through the Faith of Christ the righteousness which is of Christ by Faith Now examine Do you work out your Salvation with Fear and Trembling Do you give all Diligence to make your Calling and Election sure Do you labour to be holy in all manner of Conversation denying all Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts and living soberly righteously and godly in this present evil World Do you take up every Duty in point of performance but lay them down in point of dependance living only by Faith upon Christ III. Vse shall be of Exhortation to persuade every one of us to come to Christ It was the Work of these Servants in this Parable to invite Persons to Christ And 't is my Work this Day to persuade you to invite you to come to Christ O that I could tell what Words to use to prevail with you to come You are invited not only to the Marriage of the Son of God but to marry with the Person of the Son Christ is offered you in that sweet Relation of a Spiritual Husband Come my Brethren will you have Christ Do you see your need of Christ Do not your Souls long for a sight of Jesus Christ Come if you are but willing have but a Spiritual Thirst You may come and be welcome Christ doth not expect you should bring any price in your Hands Isa 55.1 Ho every one that thirsteth come ye to the Waters and he that hath no Money come ye buy and eat buy Wine and Milk without Money and without price So Rev. 22.27 it may be you are willing to have Christ a Saviour but you must have him a Lord also Many like Christ to bring them to Heaven but they are not willing to part with their Sins Now that I may prevail with you to come to Christ I will endeavour to do these three things First Shew you the excellency of the Person you are invited to marry with Secondly The Advantages that you will gain by coming to Christ Thirdly The danger of not coming 1. To invite you to come to Christ Consider what an excellent Person Christ is Had you but a sight of those incomparable Glories that are in Christ it would raise your Hearts in admiration of him and beget in you earnest desires of acquaintance with Him In Cant. 5.8 You have the Churches Sickness for a Sight of Christ In Ver. 9. The Daughters of Jerusalem wonder at her What is thy Beloved more than anothers Beloved This is the usual Language of a carnal Person You talk of the Beauty and Glory of Christ What is there in him more than in another To this the Spouse answers ver 10. My Beloved is white and ruddy the chiefest of ten thousand White in respect of his Divinity being God blessed for ever and Ruddy in respect of his Humanity Ver. 15. He is altogether lovely Search all the World there 's none to be found like Christ beautiful in his