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The Gospel-feast opened, or, The great supper of the parable by Joseph Hussey.
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Hussey, Joseph, d. 1726.
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is prepared to shew forth his Salvation from Day to Day Psa 96.2 Tho' you think the Pit is ready to receive you in Psa 69.15 and shut her mouth upon you even Hell Job 17.1 while the Graves are ready for you yet the Gospel opens the Everlasting Gates Psa 24.7 9. that you may look thro' a Door of Hope Hos 2.15 Tho' you Mourn in your Complaints and make a Noise Psal 55.2 yet he can still the Voice of your crying Psal 5.2 when he stops the Voice of his Justice and prepare you to sing of Mercy Psa 101.1 Tho' you count it that for your Parts Ezek. 37.11 Psal 1.3 your Hope is gone and your Branch is withered yet he that planted it by the Rivers of Water Isa 55.10 will cause it to bud and spring forth again In a word tho' you cry out with those Frighted Mariners in Paul's Ship Act. 27.20 that all Hopes of being saved is taken away yet the Gospel still suits your Case for the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost Matth. 18.11 He finds you out tho' you are got where you lose your selves tho' you are muffled up in shades 1 Sam. 10.22 or hid behind the Stuff or covered over with Dust or disguis'd with Tears or wrapt in a Mantle of Confusion Psal 109.29 you throw in a Fright about you Nineteenthly The Gospel hath All-sufficient Provisions suited to the Condition of wretched Creatures sunk below the Recovery of any Men or Angels God can do for thee what Men Neighbours thine Acquaintance Companions Brethren nay thy own Flesh and Blood cannot The very Called and Chosen of God that are made nigh to Christ Eph. 2.13 can but stand round about thee weeping but the Lord can break in with Tender Mercies Luk. 1.78 Psal 136.23 and in thy Low Estate recover thee I was brought low and he helped me Psal 116.6 last words It is the work of God and beyond the sufficiency of Men God's Friends may pity thee but 't is God himself must favour thee thou may'st lye in thy Pit while their Eye trickleth down with Tears Lam. 3.49 but the Arm of the Lord can quickly draw thee out Isa 53.1 They may lament thee fallen but he can lift thee up I looked and there was none to help therefore my own Arm brought Salvation Isa 63.5 * Arthur Jackson upon Isai 4th Vol. somewhat changed from the Author 's When God sought but a little Help of Man to do his People Justice he found not one appear'd much more then doth it note an Insufficiency for any Helper besides Him that hath the All-sufficiency of Free Grace and Power to save Men tho' sunk in Misery thro' an Original Apostacy If God should look out for Help thro' the whole Creation round he would never find any but what himself brings And He can speak a word which neither Heaven nor Earth Angels or Men ever dare pronounce My Grace is sufficient for thee 2 Cor. 12.9 Lastly The Gospel hath Eternal Provisions suited to the continuance of Man's Immortal Spirit As the Soul must endure for ever the Gospel hath Provisions to make it Happy thro' the same endless Parallel Jam. 2.5 Do you hope as Heirs of the Kingdom for a Kingdom that cannot be shaken why the Gospel hath such a Kingdom prepared for you Matth. 25.34 Heb. 12.28 Do you hope for Glory when you see a Full End of Grace why Heb. 6.18 Heaven is the Hope that is set before you Do you expect more than to be ransomed for a little moment here the Gospel suits with your Expectation for the ransomed of the Lord shal return and come to Zion with Songs and Everlasting Joy upon their Heads Isa 35.10 It is an Eternal Inheritance that is prepared for the Heirs of the Grace of Life Heb. 9.10 an Eternal Salvation Heb. 5.9 an eternal weight of Glory 2 Cor. 4.17 In one word you can never see a Full End of these All Things tho' you look towards the utmost Bounds of the Everlasting Hills Gen. 49.26 And thus I have shewn that as the Feast of the Gospel is full and plenteous so it is a Banquet of suitable Provisions that do fit all the Guests of it And Oh! that now as Man hath try'd to suit them and Apply them to your Case so God would by the Application of his Spirit press these Clusters for you into a Cup of Saving Health VII The Seventh thing is to give some Account Why it is a Feast with all Things in it 1. It is so in regard of the Great Founder Reas 1 who is a God that had All Things to give It is not the Provisions of a mortal Man but the Supper of the great King and no wonder when a King Feasts his Subjects if he hold a Feast in his House like the Feast of a King 1 Sam. 25.36 The Lord is a Great God and a Great King above all gods Psal 95.3 And therefore the Entertainment he makes must be a Feast that hath Provisions above all Feasts whatever a Feast with All Things in it Song 1.12 The King sitteth at his Table and the Feast of a King proclaims a Full Table and the Royal Founder of Divine Grace makes this Heavenly Fare the greater If this Great Provider were not God Joh. 9.33 he could do nothing Nihil dat quod in se non habet None can supply another with what he hath not himself antecedently but now All Things are eminenter in Deo that is they are dwelling by a Transcendent Fulness in him he is the God of all Grace 1 Pet. 5.10 first words and therefore he gives us all this Plenty We may say of every Dish made ready for God's Table as David spoke of the Materials he had made ready for the Temple 1 Chron. 29.16 All this Store cometh of thine Hand and is all thy own In himself is the Abundance of All Things and therefore the abundant Grace redounds 2 Cor. 4.15 There is a Full Treasure in God and therefore a Full Table he hath disht and garnisht forth for us This is the Lords Doing Psal 118.23 and therefore nothing Defective in it The Lord had so many Things to give that he made bare his Holy Arm Isa 52.10 that nothing might hang in his way to obstruct the Communication of a Full Gift to us In a word he is All and therefore he hath all ready 2. The Gospel is a large Feast Reas 2 with All Things ready because wheresoever God bestows that one Gift the Lord Jesus Christ he gives in all other Things with him Every Child of God hath a Richer Portion than he thinks of meerly for his Elder Brother's sake For He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us * Gave him up to Death for the Salvation of all the Elect.
are like the Slain that lye in the Grave Psa 88.5 whom it remembreth no more Well but now Life continues and there is some capacity of Improvement some Help and a Possibility of Recovery by the means of Grace It is said of him that is joined to all the Living there is Hope Eccles 9.4 We are now thro' the Merciful Providence and Good Hand of our God Living Men Neh. 2.8 God hath not yet rooted us out of the Land of the Living Isa 52.5 where our Place shall know us no more Job 7.10 but we may yet thro' Mercy walk before him in the Light of the Living Psa 56.13 The Angel hath not yet Sworn it in our Hearing even the Messenger of Death by a Sentence of Death within us 2 Cor. 1.9 Rev. 10.6 that Time shall be no longer but God hath spar'd us to recover strength after many a Humbling Visitation that had brought and once kept us low He hath rais'd us when we were fallen upon a Sick-bed and did not know whether ever we should come down from that Bed on which we were gone up but might surely die This is therefore the Season unto us who are all here present before the Lord Act. 10.33 because Life continues with us and to us whom he hath granted Life and Favour in a Recovery from Sickness Job 10.12 and his Visitation that hath preserved our Spirit 2. Now ready when Grace is now offered This may be opened in Two Things 1. Now when Crace is offered unto Saints to comfort them that mourn in Sion 2. Now when Grace is offered unto Sinners to bring them in to Christ 1. These Provisions are Now ready when Grace is offered unto Saints to comfort them that Mourn in Zion Isa 61.3 The Soul that thinks it hath had a Repulse yet shall not like Jordan now be driven back tho' thou hast cry'd out of a Denial in Months past Psa 114.5 Job 29.2 yet thou shalt not be deny'd thy Supper or kept without it Fasting when Grace is now offer'd We do not only hear of the Kingdom but if we believe Luk. 12.32 it is our Father's good pleasure to give us the Kingdom that we might eat and drink in it Luke 22.29 30. And I appoint unto you a Kingdom as my Father hath appointed unto me that ye may eat and drink at my Table in my Kingdom There is now the offer of a Gift to Saints in whatsoever of Spirituals they may be profitted withal Mat. 15.5 Mark 5.43 Christ hath commanded that something should be given them as he did unto Her that was heal'd to eat Tho' thou hast been afraid that Christ did frown upon thy coming heretofore yet lo Song 3.9 10. now he cometh unto the Table in a Chariot Pav'd with Love to meet thee Tho' thou hast cry'd under a sorrowful Spirit he would turn thee out of Doors yet lo now he puts forth his Hand upon the Handles of the Lock Song 5.5 to let thee in presently This Key of David shall be turned for Rev. 3.7 and not against thee to make thee lose thy Supper Grace is offer'd Grace is now ready for thee thy Redeemer is entred into the Chambers of his Love upon a Blessed Feast-Day to see thee When thou hast wept in secret and in solitary Retirements sighed out thy Case Christ hath heard the voice of thy mourning and is still taken with it he loves the Musick that is made by the Organs which he himself hath chosen see Cantic 2.14 Oh my Dove that art in the Clefts of the Rock in the secret Places of the Stairs let me see thy Countenance let me hear thy voice for sweet is thy voice and thy Countenance is comely The Poor Soul may often be compared to the (u) See Durham upon the Place Frighted Dove that runs into Holes instead of flying in at the Windows to hide it self Some fierce Temptation perhaps like a Hawk pursues thee and thou like a Poor Dove for shelter art scar'd into a Hole to hide thee and there thou lyest mourning in secret and durst not venture forth well however Grace is now offer'd and tho' thou canst not come home of thy self Christ hath sent to fetch thee Thou shalt now be guarded to come forth with others that are made to fly as the Doves to their Windows Isa 60.8 He will not abhor and reject or cast thee off but doth remember that now is a Time to embrace Eccles 3.5 Christ listens to the complaint of the Frighted Soul and is resolv'd to make it welcome Let me see thy Countenance let me hear thy Voice as much as to say Come now into my Presence venture to my Table 's side and see if I do not make thee welcome Ask what thou wilt and it shall be given thee even double to the half of the Kingdom Est 5.3 For Him that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out John 6.37 latter part 2. These Provisions in the Gospel are now ready when Grace is offered unto Sinners to bring them now in to Christ There is a fit opportunity upon the offer of Mercy for Sinners to be made now welcome to it Feasts are ready when the Guests have an opportunity to go and be made welcome at them so the Gospel is then ready when Sinners may have the Freedom to hear the Doctrines of Salvation on publisht it is Then for Sinners to listen after and lay hold of some Good Thing tender'd by the Lord God of Israel when they hear the Name of the Lord proclaimed even the Name Immanuel Mat. 1.23 which is God with us being proclaimed the Lord the Lord God Merciful and Gracious Long-suffering and abundant in Goodness and Truth Exod. 34.6 while he makes all his Goodness pass before us in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ Exod. 33.19 This is an opportunity to be made welcome So it is in the Preaching and Proclamations of it A Sinner may be now accepted at this Blessed Entertainment for it is called an Accepted Time 2 Cor. 6.2 A Time that God hath accepted for Sinners and a Time in which he accepts also of them The Gates of the Kingdom of Heaven are set wide open to receive Sinners now in Jesus Christ now opens to let in every Sinner that comes to Him The Gate of Mercy shall be lockt against none that have been knocking at it to come in Oh! how fit is the Present opportunity for Sinners to be made welcome how chearfully how abundantly might they come and be refresht at the Solemn Feasts Ezek. 46.9 Oh! how readily is Christ now opening of the Treasures of his Grace and Love to welcome Sinners to him What multitudes might there now step in while the Banquetting House is open Song 2.4 Oh! why is it that there is but one of a Family and Two of a Tribe Jer. 3.14 when