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Mount Moriah, or A sermon preached at Carrick, by Mr. Riddale, August 5. 1679.
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Riddale, Archibald.
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to be partaker of the inheritance above many are called but few are chosen Now more particularly I serve an Inhibition this day against all Atheists that is here that owns another God besides the true God and against all Idolaters that turn the Worship of God into a superstitious form or takes another Saviour besides Christ or that worships God in away that he has never prescribed nor appointed I must serve inhibition against all Cursers and Swearers and such as take the name of God in vain in their months and all gross Oaths not only these that have horrid Curses and execrations or that will Curse the People of God and Work of God but they that come out with minch't Oaths were they never so small I serve an Inhibition upon all Sabbath breakers this day such as make not conscience of Sanctifing all Gods ordinances such as make not conscience of keeping Gods day that dare bourd with any work upon Gods day that Folk should only do on an ordinary day if it were but to look needlessly on the Cattel and Corn upon a Sabbath day Particularly I serve inhibition this day on the Table of our Lord against all the Men and Women in Scotland that wittingly and willingly are Enemies to the persecuted and distressed Cause and work of God this day what ever it be be it Prelacy be it Snpremacy or be it arbitrary Government be it any thing that the People of God are suffering for this day for it 's sad since the business is come to such a length in Scotland that their is a stated quarrel between Christs and Antichrists backing and that this controversie has come to that length we have so many Heads standing on Poles on the account of it in Air and in other places of Scotland when there are so many in Prison upon this account and the Enemies have imbrued their hands so dreadfully in the Blood of the Saints of God you must now side your selves you must List your selves either on Christs Side or the Devils now any of you that have complyed with the Enemy to strengthen their hands either by taking the Declaration or the Oath of Supremacy or any the black bands that have gone up and down the Land any that has been troublers of the People of God and complyers with the Prelates and Curates if ye resolve to go on longer in these courses go to their Camp and seek your Food and come not Enemies in heart to this persecuted Table of the Lord in the Wilderness In the name of the great God I discharge you as ye would not incurr the damnation of your Souls and as ye would not be crucifiers of the Son of God and bring that upon your selves which you cannot easily take off But now upon the other hand least that some poor thing should be kept back least they should hold back and that their should be a scaring of such that the Bowels of Christ are yearning on this day therefore we have this to say be who yee will that is here that desired this day to bid adue to your Lusts and will Sin no more that is grieved in your hearts for the Evils ye have done to Christ and that is resolving to live to him and to be for him hereafter that is resolving to espouse his cause and to bide by him upon all hazards over all difficulties be what you will we invite you here to be sharers of this Feast of Fat things and Wine on the Leas well refined if thy Fingers were reeking with the Blood of the Saints if that now be thy exercise if thou resolve to be so no more come away if thou had been a Witch and had made an actual Portion with the Devil and would break the bargain now with the Devil and would make a new bargain with our King Christ come away if thou hath been guilty of Theft and Murder and never so many abominations if now thou be reforming and if this be thy exercise this day woes me I have so long dwelt in Sin and sojourned in the Tents of wickedness our Lords Bowels yearns on you this day and in the name of our Lord we invite you all to come forward come away poor thing what ever has been thy sad miscarriage before come away and thy Burden on thy Back to the Table of the Lord that before witnesses thou may give up thy name to the Son of God and here we are to take thee as a bond-servant and to welcome thee in his name now dear Friends lay ye the business to heart and think not that you must come and Mock him think not that you must come and profane the Table of our blessed Lord Jesus Christ but let all your debates be at an end now O let all your confusions be at an end now but if thou should come with confusion in thy Spirit come as thou art only let this be between Christ and you that henceforth ye are rosolved to be the Lords for better and worse Look on him now tell me how would yee look on him if yee saw him the day would yee have a Sight of him O Men and Women then he took up a peice of Bread in the one hand and the Cup of Wine in the other and said come come Sirs see yee him now behold your King behold him that was dead and is alive behold him that died at Jerusalem behold him that is now up above the Clouds sitting at the thrown of grace pleading on your behalf there is a sight the greater ye will not get in the kind of it in the World yee will not get the like of it till yee come to Heaven and see him in another manner of way how see yee him the day his Body all peirced his Body in one place and his Blood in another when ye are sound in Limb and Lith he is all tattered and he is drawn a sunder and your Blood is in your Veins behold Christs Blood is one way and his Body another O! how comes it to pass that our Blessed Lord and Mediator was seen in such away it was not because enemies was able to Master him but it was that yee might get good of him the day and yee could not have fed on him except he had been wounded now now would ye know how this comes to pass that our blessed Lord has gotten such wounds and that his wounds appears in two places the day would ye know how he has gotten these two wounds the day Justice gave him one blow for the Sin of the Jews because they had sinned Justice says they must die Christ says rather give me a blow on the Cheek though it should ding all the Flesh from the Bones well says Justice must it be so then Justice gives him one wound know yee how he has gotten another wound he has gotten it for the Sin of the Gentiles and among the rest for the Communicants of Carrick this day it is
done This made Bartimeus cry this made the Woman of Canaan cry sense of need that they were within a hair-breadth of Hell if God had not Mercy on them there is nothing for me but I will perish and be undone for even and I will travel under the power of my lusts a stranger to the grace of God if thou were never so far been in Religion O communicant it sets thee to Travel in the sense of thy wants for there is none here but they stand in need of Christ 2ly The opening of the mouth wide Comprehends a right Sense of the excellency and worth of these priviledges that our Lord holds out such a sence of their excellency as doth darken all earthly priviledges and all advantages a sence of their excellency that would cause you to cry with Paul the 3 of Philipians I count all things loss and dung that I may win Christ and with David in the 73 Psalm whom have I in Heaven but thee and on the earth that I desire beside thee and the poor thing is put to that with it it is grace that I must have it is Christ that I must have every drop of mercy is more sweet then the Honey and the Honey-Comb the word of God was sweet to David that was the opening of his Mouth and he reckoned Gospel priviledges so sweet that he could easily forgo all to be at it he envyed the Sparrow and the Swallow that bigged their Nests in the Tabernacle of God and chuseth rather to be a door Keeper in the House of God then to dwell in the Tents of wickeness that is the opening of the mouth then the Soul cryed none but Christ none but Christ and give me all the pleasures is the World I will despise them on this account it is some that is excellent and precious that I must have 3ly The opening of the Mouth wide comprehends a large and insatiable desire after the Lord it is not enough that the person cry out under his want and that the man know the excellency of Christ but there is this needful and ardent desire to beat-it such a resolution as is in the 132 Psalm I swear to the Lord that I will not go to my Bed that I will not give rest to mine Eyes nor slumber to mine Eye-Lids till I prepare a place to the Lord he will not be tangled with other difficulties that is in the wav but he must be at Christ and he resolves that although he should break his Neck be the gate he shall have him he has alonging for a sight of him it is no strange thing when David in the 12 Psalm cryes as the heart panteth after the water Brooks so my heart panteth after thee my Soul thirsts for the Living God and in the 63 Psalm my heart and Flesh cryed out for the Living God such a desire after him would be the opening of a mouth to God on the back of a Communion 4ly The opening of the mouth wide comprehends a preparing and making ready the Soul for Christ the man that opens his mouth makes ready to receive his Food the man that opens his mouth makes all ready and when Christ says give me thy Heart he is willing to give him it that is the equivalent of this he will have the heart in a suitable dress and ready for him are ye suitable Communicants the day the heart must be in a right frame and their is four things requisite for the preparing of the heart that is comprehended under the opening of the mouth to receive the priviledges 1. It is required for the preparing of the heart to have a suitable exercise a Travelling through matters between God and the Christian to see how they stand it is required of a communicant that he must examine himself and so let him eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup he that comes with a suitable Frame his Mouth is opened thus saith the Lord consider your ways consider your ways you most Travel through matters between God and you and you must know in what Tearms yee stand with him what Length have yee won how is your Spirits disposed for such work on the Lords day how stand yee affected to your King and Husband that you are to shake hands with what think yee of the bargain between him and you that he will be a husband to you that he should see to you and have a desire of you that yee shall trust your case to him and that ye shall wait on him in Death and in Life and that death it self shall not part you and him if yee should go to a Burning Fire with him yee will not part with him if yee should Travell to the Mountains with him ye will not part with him if yee should go Travelling out of Scotland with him yee will not part with him once be clear for you must not come and make a blind bargain 2ly A second thing that is requisite for the preparing of the heart for Christ is to get all these evils and abominations to the door that uses to take up his room and that hinders his heartsome entertainment and dwelling there there is a task for a Communicant to sweep the house and open the everlasting door and to cast wide the Gate that the King of Glory may come in that is the opening of the mouth to God to put strangers to the door thou that has entertained Christ he being in thy bosome thou must give a farewell to all drunkards and to whore-mastering the old trade thou must take farewell of it ye that loved the World and ease better than Christ ye must bid farewell to them and ye must say as Ephraim says in the last of Hosea What have I any more to do with Idols Thou that loved thy self better than Christ thou must say shall I put my self in his room nay thou must take thy self and thy right hand that has offended thee and thy eye that his offended thee and thou must tread under foot if it were even thy most precious enjoyments and delights you must take your farewell of them for Christ cannot take possession of the heart nor can ye open the mouth till these things get a farewell that must be your exercise the day O communicants ye must go through your pride and your vanity and your looseness and your own unrighteousness and self love ye must go through them one after another and put them to the door and say what have I to do with thee any more that is to prepare thy heart for Christ 3dly A third thing required in preparing the heart for Jesus Christ is this there must be a working up the heart to a heavenly frame it is not every frame that will please him for a Communion frame it must be a Heavenly frame that is a frame that will please him and that is a frame that is made up of many frames tenderness is required here