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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

Jesus Christ Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction c. 2 Thes 1.7 8 9. Be ye perswaded therefore before the sealing time before the Lord hath sworn against you to accept of Christ and to take heed of hypocrisie and that ye be not found naked lest this Sentence be heard and Commission given by the King for your execution to his Servants And so we fall upon the second branch of the circumstantial part of this Commission the persons commissionated his Servants Then said the King to his Servants These Servants are certain instruments which God makes use of some in this life some in the life to come The Servants which God makes use of here on earth to binde hand and foot c. are First Ministers these are Gods high Commissioners to binde and to loose Matth. 18.18 Verily I say unto you whatsoever ye shall binde on earth shall be bound in heaven c. It is true it is properly the work of the Church But the Ministers are appointed of God for the doing of the work I will give you the words of Dr. Fulk in his Annotations upon the Rhemists Testament upon 1 Cor. 5.4 in answer to that passage pretended to be taken out of Chrysostom upon those words Tell the Church Matth. 18. Complain to the Church that is to the Prelates and Presidents thereof saith he The authority of Excommunication pertaineth to the whole Church although the judgment and execution thereof is to be referred to the Governors of the Church which exercise that authority as in the name of Christ so in the name of the whole Church to avoid confusion So he It is a sad business to be bound by those Servants of the King of Heaven Secondly Magistrates are executioners too of Gods vengeance They bear not the sword in vain Rom. 13.4 For he is the Minister of God a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil in the same verse VVhen people will not take warning by Gods Ministers words nor by his judgements on others God suffers them to fall into the hands of Magistrates who have places of pain and shame Gaoles Bridewells stocks whipping-Posts and Gallowses These bind neck and heels also in Gods name and as his Servants Thirdly Military men which have the sword of war in their hands are Gods Servants Ashur is the rod of Gods anger and the staff in his hand is Gods indignation God sends such and gives them a charge to take the spoil and to take the prey and to tread down the people of his wrath as the mire of the streets Isa 10.5 6. These are most terrible of all for first they do not usually proceed so regularly as either of the former Ministers have a word to proceed by and Magistrates have Laws but weapons know not laws Arma nesciunt leges Will is the rule if not rage or desperate fury usually Ashur hath not God in his thoughts when he goeth to destroy and cut off nations not a few Isa 10.7 Secondly their Bindings have much cruelty their Language is more terrible they are people of a fierce language Cut their skuls cleave their heads even when I should have thought a reproof had been enough have I heard from these Sons of Mars for so have I heard them stile themselves in a bravado I intend not to dishonour the Imployment we have found much of God in many of them of latter times But yet they are the most dreadfull Servants of the Lord. Fourthly God hath binding Angels both good and bad Herod is smitten by an Angel of the Lord Acts 12.23 And 185 thousand are killed in one night by an Angel of the Lord 2 Kings 19.35 And the souls of ungodly men shall be bound by these binder● and tormented Yea Devils are let loose often by God to do mischief and to plague such as will not put their trust in God and others also sometimes for their tryal as Job You see then this Doctrine Doctr. God hath servants everywhere sitted to execute vengeance when he is pleased to give them the word of command This Doctrine is from the second circumstance Then said he to his servants You shall finde when the Lord had a purpose to destroy Ahab the Devil is ready and takes a Commission from the Lord to be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his Prophets 1 Kin. 22.20 21. Reason The Reason is All creatures are the Lords servants and he can command and make them to do his will even the meanest and worst of them Frogs Lice Flies Rivers Fire yea the snuff of a candle the tile of an house a crum of bread God can easily impower to the destruction of man Vse 1 Learn therefore in the first place that God wants not means to punish wicked men He hath servants in every place to speak to a rod in every corner to make use of VVo therefore to all such as either regard not his grace or abuse it with their bold hypocrifie or any other way But next and lastly for this point Be exhorted to dread his power and speedily to turn to him by Repentance Mot. 1 For now the door of Heaven standeth open the means of grace lasteth despise them not We have power more then ye are aware of despise us not The Lord will own what his Servants do for he hath bidden us do what we do Though we walk in the flesh we do not war after the flesh For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds 2 Cor. 10.4 5. And again Having in readiness to revenge all disobedience ver 6. So little account as ye make of our binding by word and Ordinances it is terrible and will be found to be so at last But Secondly for a second Motive Vengeance cometh suddenly unexpectedly if it be not prevented I should insist upon this matter as it is a Motive but it leads me to the third and last branch of the Circumstantial part of my Text The last Circumstance from the word Then Then the King said to his Servants That is presently upon Conviction followeth execution Or then that is when Gods time is come Or then that is suddenly unexpectedly From whence we may learn this most certain Oracle of Truth Doctr. When Gods time is come when the conviction is past suddenly and unexpectedly shall vengeance seize upon hypocrites and ungodly men So the Flood came on the world They were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage untill the day that Noah entred into the Ark and knew not till the Flood came and took them all away Matth. 24.38 39. God seems sometimes to delay to be slow but it is not so The Lord is not slack concerning his Promise nor concerning his Threats neither as some men count slackness 2 Pet. 3.9 Neither is he rash or hasty he useth deliberation he giveth time he calleth he stretcheth out his hand he will

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

confusion I had rather call it a binding then a cutting off Because it is an Ordinance of the Lord to be used for the good of an offending brother 1 Cor. 5.5 That the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus And we find that it was so by Gods blessing to the incestuous Corinthian 2 Cor. 2.6 7. Sufficient to this man is this punishment or censure which was inflicted of many 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So that contrary wise ye ought rather to forgive him comfort him lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with over much sorrow This is a strong Medicine by which a fallen brother grosly and that is hardned in his sin may yet be recovered And if it do not then he is thereby bound over to everlasting burnings T is true in some sence they are said to be cut off from the Church namely in a threefold respect First Perk. Cases of Conscience 3. Quest of the 8. c. They are excluded from Communion with the Church by the censure of the Church Secondly From God for what the Church rightly doth on Earth God doth in Heaven If the Church bind on Earth God binds in Heaven and so for Loosing also Thirdly In regard of themselves for a time they are cut off because they want the power and efficacy of the spirit untill they be throughly touched with repentance and begin as it were to live again Take heed ye that are bound with this Cord of God and his Church and labour to be unbound again There is a third Cord wherewith men are bound even in this life and that is the Cord of Conscience As this unworthy Guest here was bound he had not a word to say for himself He was bound hand and foot he was haltered as it were that he could not stirr So Judas was so haltered with the Cord of his Conscience that he could not chuse but halter his neck too For he went away and hanged himself Mat. 27.5 This is a sad Cord when God is pleased to make use of it O when a mans Conscience shall tell him that he hath no part nor portion in this business that his heart is not right in the sight of God as Peter told Simon Magus Acts 8.21 that he is in the Gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity This will be black News to that poor wretch whosoever he be Friends you are crank and merry but look o●●… this cooling carde ye are farr on to the ●…a●ing of this sad story told by your consciences to you that ye are the Enemies of God And note hereupon that men come not to be bound with this Cord by and by they usually come to a high degree of sin first They do the same things and commit the same sins for which they judge others They despise the riches of Gods goodness and forbearance and long suffering They have hard and impenitent hearts in a word they sin with a high hand against Conscience and begin to be careless and fearless and desperately secure And then commeth this ●ord of the Lord this whip of Conscience Judas his Cord I may call it Read 1 Thes 5.3 For when they shall say peace and safety then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape Such fellows come in sometimes among the People of God to make a faction and to do mischief But though hand joyn in hand the wicked shall not go unpunished Prov. 11.21 But they are bound together to be the Servants of sin shall be bound with Cords which shall not be broken It is storied of Julian the Apostate That after all his wicked behaviour against the Christians he was strock in a battle thorow the left arm into the short ribbs with a 〈◊〉 or Javelin in pulling which out and casting it into the air with his blood he uttered these blasphemous words being bound with this Cord of Conscience I am now speaking of Thou hast overcome me O Galilean Zosimus lib. 6. cap. 2. and Theod. lib 3. cap. 25. The second particular is in these words Take him away Hence observe Doctr. That it is a great punishment to be separated from God and from the comfortable society of Gods People It will be a principal part of the punishment of ungodly men hereafter to be turned out to be bid to depart and get packing from God and his People Mat. 7.23 Depart from me ye that work iniquity Mat. 13 ver 30 a●d 41. The tares must be bound in bundles that is as Christ himself expounds it the Angels shall gather out of his Kingdom all things that offend and them that work iniquity They must out of Gods Kingdom there is no place for them they must depart And so ver 49. of that same chap. The Angels shall come forth and sever the wicked from among the just●… And Mat. 25.32 And he shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divideth the sheep from the Goats and ver 41. He shall say to them on the left hand depart from me ye cursed c. they must depart upon which place saith one whom I heard many years agone Methinks I hear these Castawayes pleading and begging to this effect O Lord If we shall not sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in thy Kingdom if we shall not sit on thrones yet let us stand in thy sight though but at the door or let us but peep into the presence of thy People No saith God depart ye shall not see my face get out of my sight Ye shall not stand in the congregation of the righteous Ye scorned them once ye shall not be troubled with them now Depart Yet may these poor wretches say if we must needs depart thy presence O God and be thrust out from thy People yet remember we are thy creatures O Lord and bless us before we go No saith God depart ye cursed Away with my curse upon your back Why yet Lord may they say send us to some silent Corner where we may lie only under the paena damni or dissolve us to nothing out of which we were taken No that shall not be granted neither Depart into fire Happy should they be if they might cease to be but they must depart into hell torments Part is this all Heare one imaginary petition more to set forth the truth of the future condition of ungodly men Lord how long Lord how long Let it be but a thousand years may they say or if that cannot be obtained yet but as many years as there be stars in heaven drops in the Sea sands on the shore or under the Seas and let us come out then No It is everlasting fire O rocky heart tremble But yet once more Must we depart and be accursed and be in fire and that eternally Yet Lord may they say let us have a little good company to help wear along that which shall be without end