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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03274	The bridegroome by Samuel Hieron	Hieron, Samuel, 1576?-1617.	1613 (1613)	STC 13392; ESTC S115190	15,073	48

be mery lawfull to drink wine lawfull to feast lawfull to make good cheere lawfull to weare good clothes yes verily but vnder these precepts come in riot luxury intemperance pride and a floud of euils A Christian hath neuer more need to feare himselfe then when hee is to haue to doe in such things which in themselues may be vsed Hee is neuer in any thing so subiect to a fall especially in such meetings to solemne feasts lest the Table of plentie should become a snare c Psal 69.22 vnto him Iob was very iealous of his children that they blasphemed God in their hearts d Iob. 1.5 when they were at their feasts What great euils doe wee finde in Scripture to haue accompanied some great feastings where the fear of God hath not beene At Nabals drunkennes e 1 Sam. 25.36 at Abshaloms murther f 2 Sam. 13.29 at Ahashuerosh his a woful breach betwixt him and his wife g Ester 1.10 c. at Belshazzars terrible blasphemy against God h Dan. 5.3.4 at Herods killing of Iohn Baptist i Matth. 16.6 What iudgemēts read we to haue ouertaken men in their secure eatings Elah smotten and killed while he was drinking k 1 King 15.9 the Israelites whiles the flesh was yet betwixt their teeth before it was chewed the wrath of the Lord was kindled against them l Num. 11.33 Iobs children the house fell vpon them at their banquet m Iob. 1.19 I say with the Apostle These things came vnto them for ensamples were written to admonish vs. n 1. Cor. 10.11 To the end therfore our reioycings and feasting at this or the like occasions may not bee vnlawfull two things are chiefely to be cared for First that there be a carefull watching to preuent excesse Gluttony and Drunkennesse are works of Darkenes o Rom. 13.13 Take heed lest at any time your harts be oppressed with them saith our Sauiour p Luk. 21.34 There is a woe to those that continue til they be inflamed q Is 5.11 It was one of the sins of the ould world eating drinking like beasts r Matth 24 38 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as long as the stomacke would craue A mans eating should be for strēgth not for drunkennesse ſ Eccl 10.17 The second thing to be cared for is that God be not banished out of our thoghts but that stil his presence may be remēbred his iudgements considered The neglect heereof is called a Feeding without Feare s t Iude. 12. It is one a of the common miseries of feasting now a dayes Men as they thinke must lay aside all thoughts and speeches of God and Godlines or else they suppose they cannot be so mery as they would Truth is by such meane they should be restrained from that which is called mad mirth u Eccl. 2.2 otherwise heereby they should be much quickened to an holy reioycing And thus farre of those two things out of this Text which concerne the occasion Now it remaineth to speake of the things especially intended by our Sauiour which may concerne vs all The 5 Doct. Can the children of the Mariage chamber c Heere I will teach two doctrines The one is this That the true ground of the ioy and reioycing of Gods people is and ought to bee the presence of Christ Iesus This is that which our sauiour here maintaines that the children of God haue a kind of immunity from mouning and from these straiter exercises of humiliation when the spouse of the Church the Lord Iesus is among thē To cleere this point the maner of Christs presence must be enquired into He is either present in body as he was at the time of speaking these words with his disciples or after a spirituall maner concerning which is that promise Loe I am with you alway vntill the end of the world x Math. 28.20 He is spiritually present either by outward meanes or by inward feeling The outward meanes by which he is present are the publique ministry and preaching of the word and the free vse of the sacramentes Hence is it that Christ is sayd to bee in the mids of such assemblings y Math. 18.23 Iohn beheld him in the mids of the seauen golden candlesticks z Reu. 1.18 The Ministers of the Gospell are sayd to bee in his stead a 1. Cor 5.20 in their teaching the Wisedome of God poureth out his minde b Prou. 1.23 vnto the sons of men As for inward feeling whē the Lord vouchsafeth it he is sayd to be neere c Ps 145.18 according as when hee withdraweth it he is sayd to absent himselfe d Psal 77.7.8 So that now the meaning of the doctrine is that the maine matter of all sound reioicing vnto Gods children is the liberty of the means of grace and the euidence which they feel in their soules of Gods fauors Touching reioycing in the outward means we haue for example the ioy of the men of Bethshemesh at the restoring of the Arke e 1 Sam. 6.13 the ioy which was in Hierusalem at the reforming of religiō by Hezekia f 2 Chro. 30.21 the shouting when the foundation of the Tēple was laid after the captiuity g Ezra 2.11 the extraordinary gladnes when the publique teaching of the Law which had a long time beene discōtinued was again established h Nehe. 8.12 In the new Testamēt Samaria had great ioy for Philips ministry i Act. 8.8 Paul while he lay by the heels yet triumphed because Christ was preached k Phil. 1.18 By these we see how the Children of the mariage chāber take a kind of holy contentment when the Bridegroome is among them by the outward means Now for reioicing in the inward euidēces of his presence to the soule spirit look we vpon Dauid boasting in that ioy of heart which was giuen him by the Lords lifting vp of his countenance vpon him l Psal 4.7 vpon the Eunuch going on his way reioicing because he felt how faith in Christ was wrought in his soule m Act. 8.39 This was Maries ioy reioicing in spirit that she knew God in Christ was become her Sauiour n Luk. 1.46 This is that ioy which is called Ioy in the holy Ghost o Rom. 14.17 peace in beleeuing p Rom. 15.13 Peter termeth it glorious vnspeakable q 1. Pet. 18. and Christ saith it is such as none can take away r Ioh. 16.22 The vse This serueth very effectually to shew that they are none of the Bridegroomes Friends which in these euidences of his presence finde so little sweetnes Men reioyce in their wealth in their gettings in their health in their beauty in their honor in their belly-cheare in their gay apparrell in the pleasures of sinne in the satisfying of their wretched lusts in the ouerthrow fall of their enemies Such thinges