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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49589	The wedding-supper as it was handled out of the fourteen first verses of the 22. chapter of Matthew, in sundry exercises in Tavistock in Devon. Wherein the offer of salvation, both to Jews and Gentiles, is noted: and divers plain and pithy doctrines observed, and applied. Being the effect of twelve sermons preached by Thomas Larkham, the oppressed pastor of the despised Church of Christ there.	Larkham, Thomas, 1602-1669.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1652 (1652)	Wing L442; ESTC R222016	113,881	272

notice of the provider and maker of a marriage Supper A certain King saith our English translation But in the Original A man a King or a man being a King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Secondly who of his house was to be married for whose sake this great wedding was to be held His son The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a man that was a King that made a marriage for his Son The third particular shews us the Guests invited to this supper to wit First Jews unto the eighth verse Secondly Gentiles unto the end of the Parable But of that particular or any branch of it I have no purpose to speak at this time there being not much left of this hour Therefore of the First the feast-maker I am now to speak And here are two things held out concerning God to be considered First His humbling of himself under his being likened to a man Secondly His dignity though he be compared to a man yet it is to a man that was a King God is not a man but a Spirit and challengeth he that dares or can to liken him to to any thing Isaiah 40.18 To whom then will ye liken God Or what likeness will ye compare him unto And so also ver 25. To whom then will ye liken me or shall I be equal saith the Holy one And in the first of Timothy the 6. and 16. vers He only hath immortality dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto whom no man hath seen nor can see Yet nevertheless it is his pleasure to be set forth for our capacitie sake by Allusions to men Kings and other things that we might come to understand somewhat of this glorious invisible and hidden God Nihil est in Deo quod non eft Deus Every thing is most excellent that is in God in whom all good dwelleth Infinitely Eternally and Essentially For there is nothing in God which is not God I will not trouble you with Schoole Notions and subtilties But come to say first of that excellent frame of his in point of Humility or Humbling himself or condiscention Doct. The Doctrine shall be this The glorious God of Heaven and Earth is very Humble That is he is that exactly which the most Humble men are a little according to the measure of the Spirit proportionated out unto them Or as the man Christ Jesus was who had the Spirit not by measure though yet not above measure as he was man This would be a glorious discovery of God were it in the hands of one that had skill to manage it Reason 1 But we must do as we may In the name of the Lord Jesus therefore know That as it is the property of a gratious humble Soul to condiscend to men of low Estate Rom. 12.16 So God is said to humble himself to behold the things that are in Heaven and in the Earth Psal 113.6 He looketh on his meanest Creatures He raiseth up the poor out of the dust and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill ver 7. O what a Glory t is to great men to take notice of poor distressed mean ones But consider God must needs stoop very low to consider the best of his creatures for all the Nations in comparison of him are not so much as the drop of a bucket as the Prophet phraseth it Reason 2 Secondly consider what would you say of an eminent man a man of honour that having been abused by a poor scullion whom he is able to crush in a moment doth yet out of the goodness of his Nature and Humble frame of spirit Intreat Beseech send to first to have a reconciliation Would not all the World admire such a man Friends Thus God deals with sinfull men verse 3.4 of this chap. I am now upon And 2 Cor. 5.18 we read of Gods reconciling us to himself by Jesus Christ and of a Ministry of reconciliation And ver 19.20 of stooping so low and honouring man so much as to send Ambassadors or rather Petitioners to beg beseech and pray us to be reconciled to him Stand amazed O ye proud worms that have such proud implacable Stomacks that swell with venome like Toades and are better like mischievous Divels then like men So far are ye from being like Christian men O the wrath of pride as Salomon calls it I le sell my Plow I le do so and so though it cost me mine Estate I le not leave him worth a groat base Fellow Clown Mechanick Priest I le make him know that I am not his Companion Yea but thou art and shalt be the fellow creature of the meanest maugre thy pride Doth God do so or Dost thou think there is less difference between God and thy self then between thy self and the meanest man alive This is the second reason as I call it Reason 3 Thirdly We may argue or demonstrate the Humility of the Lord from the places of his dwelling or frame of spirit that he takes most delight in Isaiah 57.15 For thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabiteth Eternity whose name is holy I dwell in the high and Holy place With him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the Humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones Unto babes doth God reveal himself Mat. 11.25 To the poor separated ones of the world will he be a father and they shall be his Sons and Daughters though he be the Lord Almighty 2 Cor. 6.18 I tell you if God were to walk abroad in the shape of a man he would sooner visite a poor humble gracious soul a thousand times then the Alaflantara fellows mincing Minions or scrapeing Muck worms of the Earth notwithstanding their Wealth Beauty or Gallantry He putteth down the mighty from their seats and exalteth them of low degree Luk. 52. Reason 4 Fourthly His humility is magnified and made apparent by his great and patient waiting to be gratious What man of fashion would wait upon beggers heels to do them good to fill their hungry bellies and to cloth their naked backs Behold saith the faithfull witness I stand at the door and knock if any man hear my voice and open the door I will come in to him and will sup with him and he with me He waits even when his head is filled with dew and his locks with the drops of the night Cant. 5.2 He endures with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction Rom. 6.22 He is long suffering to us ward not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance These are glorious beams of that one Glory and excellency able to dazzle our eyes utterly whiles men are doing him all the mischief they can he is then waiting and striving to be gratious A Plaister was made for those Converts Acts the 2. of that very blood which they wickedly shed Vse 1 Then why should his Creatures be proud seeing the Creator is