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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

white still 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luk. 12.10 Thou fool which art without understanding thou witless fellow as the word in the Original signifies in Luke dost thou think God will cease to be God and deny himself as he must do if he should not avenge himself and vindicate his Gospel from those horrible neglects contempts and abuses which it is even as it were overloaden with by ungodly men No no. Thou shalt find he hath red colours as well as white he will tumble and rowl his garments in blood O consider this ye that cozen deceive oppress that flea off the skin of the necessitous man and chop his flesh and the flesh of his hunger-starved children as pye-mear or hearbs for the pot and are no more moved then the stones of the Wall You that live in pleasures and satisfie your sensual appetites dost thou think God made thee for nothing else but to play the fool to ride or run after a Hound or a Hawk Buzzard that thou art The Lord set home what I say at this time And you that trample the sweet Ordinances of breaking bread c. under the feet of your Superstitious Ignorance Pride Passion or Worldliness know that the Ordinances which we hold forth are the Ordinances of Jesus Christ And though we are earthen vessels yet the Gospel is a treasure And you that creep in among Gods People and yet are strangers to the life of grace and want the wedding garment know for certain that that God that bid me not along ago to woo you and even to compell you to come in hath now bid me tell you that you shall be bound hand and foot and cast into outer darkness where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth How dare men slight the hot thunderbolts that are now darted out of his word against them I am sent to every blasphemer of God hinderer or slanderer of his word to every adulterer to every one that is in malice and envy to every despiser of Gods Church with heavy tidings Psal 35.4 5.6 They shall be confounded and put to shame they shall be turned back and brought to confusion They shall be as chaffe before the winde the Angel of the Lord shall chase them Their way shall be dark and slippery the Angel of the Lord shall persecute them Of all the judgements that came upon the Jews I find this to be the chiefest that whereas they were once the children of the Kingdom they are now in outer darkness Matthew 8.12 that is whereas in the Church there is light they are now cast out of the Church and others from the East and West are got into their priviledges viz. to sit down in the Kingdom out of which they are banished And a curse of contempt upon them is fallen on them Whereever they come they are a despised People But yet this is their greatest unhappiness that they are the greatest Enemies in the World to the Christian faith through the blindness of their mind for they are in outer darkness even as it were in Hell This makes them to gnash their teeth at Christ and Christians This is the fruit of their rejecting Christ This plague falls many wayes Sometimes he blinds mens minds and hardens their hearts that they cannot profit by them though they live under them Sometimes they shall be so wicked as not to come to the places where the Ordinances are or if they come there they shall like the spider suck out poyson instead of hony And so their table is made a snare unto them and the word which should be the savour of life unto them becoms the savour of death unto death Let my counsel be harkned unto Vse 2 Take heed of abusing the means of Grace any way Causes of this evil I have mentioned many in my former use But now upon this use of advice I shall enquire after some causes of this epidemical evil One would think men should not be so foolish First therefore we shall find deadness of heart Pray therefore for quickning Grace Say which David Quicken me O Lord for thy names sake Psal 143.11 Say to the Lord I have a dead heart I do not consider thy rich offer or thy severe justice keep a groaning and crying to the Lord. But secondly People press exceedingly upon the mercy of God Therefore it is that the worst of People love to hear discourses of Gods mercy T is true we cannot look too much upon Gods mercy Psal 90.11 We may say of it as David doth of Gods anger Who knoweth the power of thine anger c. So who knoweth the highth and dephth length and breadth of Gods mercy it hath sour dimensions in that place Ephes 3.18 We cannot think of it any way answerable to the truth of it Thy mercy O Lord is in the heavens and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds Psal 36.5.6 7. Thy righteousness is like the great Mountains thy judgements are a great deep O Lord thou preservest man and beast How excellent is thy loving kindness O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings And again The Lord is graciand full of compassion 〈…〉 slow to anger and of great mercy The Lord is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works But yet for remedy and advice we must know that Gods mercy doth not destroy his justice Where you have a glorious discovery of Jehovahs back-parts Exod. 34.6.7 this is among That will by no means cleer the guilty visiting the iniquitie of the fathers upon the children and upon the childrens children unto the third and to the fourth Generation Hear what is written Deut. 29.19.20 And it come to pass when he heareth the words of this curse that he bless himself in his heart saying I shall have peace though I walk in the imagination of mine heart to add drunkness to thirst the Lord will not spare him but then the anger of the Lord and his jealouste shall smoke against that man and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him and the Lord shall blot his name from under heaven O it is a fearfull thing to sin against the riches of Grace Rom. 2.4.5 saith Paul there Despisest thou the riches of his goodness forbearance and long-suffering not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thy self wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgement of God It is a sign such souls are not partakers of mercy which are upon Gods mercy bold to sin O hard-hearted soul thou art telling of Gods mercy why dost thou not tell of his Justice the Apostle tells thee The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord