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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

We have spoken already of his charge and that both of the matter of it that he came into the marriage without a wedding garment and also of the manner of the Lords dealing with him calling him friend by an Irony As i● the King should say Friend what make you here I see you pretend to be one of mine but how is it that you come in hither not having a wedding garment We have also spoken Secondly of his Conviction and he was speechless Thirdly We have begun to speak of his execution out of these verses now again read unto you In which we have noted First The Commission it self in the 13. verse Secondly The ground or reason of it ver 14. Again in the Commission we have observed and fully handled the circumstantial part of it And are now the Lord assisting to proceed and to speak of the substance of the Commission out of these words Bind him hand and foot c. Wherein two things are set forth First The manner of his punishment bind him hand and foot and take him away and cast him into outer darkness Secondly The condition of this poor wretch under his punishment sad enough wofull enough in these words There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth We will begin with the manner of his punishment laid forth under a continued Metaphor taken from the manner of dealing used among men with gross and heynous offenders who being found guilty are manacled fettered and separated from the society of men and cast into some dark dungeon there to lie and dye and never to come out thence again Under which words Christ sets forth the future condition of all wicked men and women to wit that they shall be cast into Hell where they shall lie weeping and wayling and gnashing of teeth not only as long as the Sun and the Moon endureth but as long as God shall be God 〈◊〉 three degrees of misery is this punishment of ungodly men here described unto us First Bind him hand and foot that is Tye hi● fast chain him up let him not escape by 〈◊〉 means Secondly Take him away that is carry him hence from my gracious presence Let him never see my face more nor come among my servants Let him never sit with my pretious Saints more Separate him from the communion and society of my faithfull ones Depart thou cursed cateiffe saith God thou caredst not for my people or mine Ordinances on Earth and therefore now thou shalt not be troubled with them Take him away and cast him into outer darkness Here is a third degree of misery Let him go like a Castaway as he is as one good for nothing cast him away For men do not use to cast that away which is good for any thing But here is an aggravation of this third degree of misery cast him into outer darkness that is into Hell Into outer darkness that is out from God and out from his Church For with God is light and in his Church is light But out of Gods presence and out of the Church is darkness Note Therefore note by the way That To be cast out of the Church here is a degree of that outer darkness that ungodly men shall be cast into hereafter So some understand 〈◊〉 8.12 Many shall come from the East ●nd from the West Calvin c. But the children o● the Kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness that is Gentiles shall become Members of the Church and the Jews called the children of the Kingdom because they were so then shall be exiled and cast into a dark and dead frame of Spirit as usually such are as are justly excommunicated if Gods physick work not with them to their humiliation and repentance Now We will gather some short lessons from these particulars thus opened And the first shall be Doct. That ungodly men shall not escape punishment The Reason is because they are bound as it were hand and foot God hath ordained Bands and Chains to bind wicked men withall They are bound with a threefold Cord which is not quickly broken Besides the Chains and cords which God binds wicked men withal to Hell torments there is a threefold Cord to bind them with in this life First The Cord of Gods Decree Jude's Epistle ver 4. Who were before of old ordained to this condemnation All the men on Earth or Angels in Heaven are not able to break this Cord. There is also a blessed Cord which the Saints are bound with Rom. 8.30 Moreover whom he did predestinate them also he called and whom he called them also he justified and whom he justified them also he glorified The use that we may make of it is to bless God if we sind we are not bound with that chain that the wicked are bound with but with that fore-appointed for the Saints The second Cord to bind men is that Mat. 18.18 Whatsoever ye shall bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven This Church binding is the second with which men are bound And for my part I would not lie under the just censure of a well-ordered Church for the whole World The reason is because the Scriptures being true whom the Church binds on Earth God binds in Heaven There are three acts in this binding God acts first and last and the Church in the middle God acts first in giving rules to his Church to walk by The Church acts by those rules which God hath given and are like Levi which knew not father nor mother And this acting of a Church carrieth more in it then the reproof of one Godly man though a publick Preacher because of the Authority which the Lord hath given to his Church And then thirdly God acts in confirming in Heaven what the Church regularly doth on Earth There is in the Church use of ordinary and common brotherly admonitions and exhortations with this Cord the People of God bind one another to the Lord. So Heb. 3.12 Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God But exhort one another daily while it called to day lest any of you be hardned through the deceitfullness of sin And therefore all the People of the Lord should look upon this work as a duty and when it is performed it should be looked upon as a mercy from the Lord to tie us closer to him Besides this sometimes the unruly are to be warned and desired to forbear from communicating with the People of God This is as it were the trial of Leprosie We usually call it suspension from the Lords Supper and it hath its use as a cord to bind men to the good behaviour or to discover their Spirits But in the last place Fulk on 1 Cor. 5. Sect. 3. Rhem. Test there is excommunication which is to be done by the officers of th● Church as in the name of Christ so in the name of the Church and People to avoid

will give any great blaze But to give an account of my manner of speaking in the name of the Lord That so if it seem good unto you I may be restored to my brethren and employment in the work of the Lord at Tavistock though I shall in regard of means of subsistence have much less then I am to have should I continue Minister there where I am come under the bond of Conscience and whither I am by jealous Letters and by strong Arguments woed to return again Or otherwise may submit to Gods will and pleasure in whose hands are the hearts of all to turn them which way soever he pleaseth and therefore yours with this comfortable testimony in mine own Soul that I am ready to do my duty keep my station and go in and out before the People over whom the Lord hath made me Overseer So far and so long as it shall please his heavenly Majesty to give me life livelihood and liberty so to do And if my Adversaries have any thing to charge me with that is of legal cognisance I stand at our English Caesars judgement seat where let me be judged in Gods name I that have learnd by his Grace to look with boldness on my Father in Heaven in Christ need not fear those but rather flie to them that are his Ministers for our good on Earth besides I am of them that have in most parts of England I was Captive to the Lord Vicoun Lisle c. and to Sir Har. Waller the first four years of the ten at Breerwich and elsewhere in K●nt and also in Ireland adventured my life spent my strength and poor estate often endangered my liberty and limbs and health in my faithfull service of and adhaering to the Parliament of England for these Ten years last past since my return to my native land from that exile which Episcopal Tyranny and tenderness of conscience forced me unto I am loth to be too bold I might boast of my many and great sufferings under the Prelacy and of Gods wonderfull deliverances vouchsafed me in those dayes but I will make an end humbly submitting my Sermon to your censure mine outward man to your ordering and you shall I commend in my daily prayers as in duty bound to Jehovah Elohim that you may be a blessing to the Common-Wealth a joy to the good a terror to the bad and successfull in all your undertakings London May 12. 1652. This is the hearty prayer of him Who desires to be found a faithfull Steward in the Lords work And hopes to approve himself true and faithfull to the Commonwealth of England Thomas Larkham To all them in the Town and Parish of Tavistock in Devon that love the Lord Jesus in sincerity and are now oppressed by an ungodly generation Thomas Larkham their Rightfull Pastor wisheth increase of Faith Patience and Wisdom c. Beloved BEcause the day is Cloudy among you and the warming beams of that bright Sun of Liberty which so many Saints in England Ireland and even in Scotland sit under is obstructed and kept off from you by the furious marching of a youthfull Jehu among you in the head of a party that know not God and that will not obey the Gospel of Christ I thought good to present to you these ensuing Sermons preached among you and them to be for a remembrance to you a testimony against them and an apology for my self against those many obloquies and opprobrious calumnies which by evil tongues and unhallowed pens dipt in pride wrath and malice are dispersed against both you and me The issue of things I hope you will readily refer to the righteous Judge who hath a day set which is always the best to relieve his slandred oppressed and persecuted Servants My * Per a Call of God temptations on the right hand will appear by the loud Calls that I have to go into Macedonia to help on the great Work of God now on foot there And on the left hand the strong opposition that I finde against my return to you which can scarce be conceived aright much less exprest fully None but a God can hinder the builders of Babell and destroy the enemies of Zion among you Sit still a while and you shall see his salvation So far as the Angel of his presence shall go before me I am ready to follow Only let your conversation be as it becommeth the Gospel of Christ c. And in nothing be ye terrified c. Our business me thinks is like the launching of great Ships heaving and shoving will not do it till the tide come and it be high water When God puts forth his arm your holy and just desires shall be fulfilled In the mean time wait and read over these Sermons which once you heard put in practice what is in them contained rejoyce in the consolation that you shall finde here and there in them dispersed live in love make up breaches study to be quiet and in your daily prayers remember your Remembrancer and loving Brother in Christ Thomas Larkham Minister of the Gospel From my Chamber in London May 12. 1652. To the Reader CHristian Reader The inhabitants of the place * Tavistock in Devon where these Sermons were Preached may very fitly be compared to Jeremiahs figs mentioned cap. 24.2 One basket had very good figs even like the figs that are first ripe And the other basket had very naughty figs which could not be eaten they were so bad This gave the first motion to the printing of these ensuing Sermons The bad figs are among us very bad and with a high hand hath God and his wayes and worship been opposed Some passages thou shalt read which may seem too invective and sharpe and as proceeding from a spirit of bitterness but didst thou know the occasions thou wouldst wonder that the stones of the street did not cry out Now these Sermons nothing less being dreamed of then such unworthy carriage in the first taking of the Text meeting so right by Gods guidance and providence with some miscarriages were conceived by some and reported to many to be such unsufferable Sermons as the like have not been Preached and so generally bruted among all the Cavaleirs of the Country In the mean time many gratious souls blessed God that ever they heard them and also manifested themselves much affected with them That Therefore they may answer for themselves to the charge divulged abroad against them and that they may be usefull read over as they have been first spoken they now come forth to their triall The Authors first in print after twenty seven years spent in Preaching and suffering in the time of the Prelacy in almost all the Courts in England If thou that readest them find any thing in them with Gods mark upon it bless his Majesty for it the Author was an earthen vessel but truths are treasures Let him that first preached and now permits the publishing of these

when there is a working faith and a labouring love and a patient hope and all in sincerity in the sight of God our Father when People become followers of the Lord though much affliction follow and do receive the word with joy of the holy Ghost this is excellent doings and yet much more might be fetch'd out of that Chapter had I not other things to acquaint you with Therefore to stoop to my poor silly unbred yet populous Auditory I will name some particulars First If you be carefull to amend your ways Secondly Marks of men chosen of God To seek knowledge Thirdly To renounce the World Fourthly To feel and resist temptations Fifthly To fight against thy flesh Sixthly To forsake ill Company Seventhly To mourn and pray against special sins Eighthly To love Gods children that are the pretious ones and Gods Jewels Ninthly To hate Rascals and Athiests with a deadly hatred and not only to shun their society for that may be done for by-ends but to hate the very Garment spotted with the fiesh As Psal 15. In whose eyes a vile person is contemned Psal 26. I have not sate with vain persons c. Psal 139 Lord saith David do not I hate them that hate thee And am I not grieved with them that rise up against thee Yea I hate them as though they were mine own enemies And lastly Learn the folly of the mostdo men of our days O say men every body doth it I say it is an Argument that none but stark buzzards in Religion will use Gods People you see plainly out of this Text are of the number not of those many that are called only but of those few that are chosen O simple objection against Godly men yet common they be like no body Why it must be so it is so in the Text. And it behooveth all to try whether they be of the little number sheep of the little flock and a mighty Motive to labour in this search we have next to handle for a Doctrine it is the third and last to wit Doctr. That they which are not partakers of an effectual Vocation from Election must perish notwithstanding their outward calling to the profession of the Gospel This point ariseth from this word For which sheweth the ground of the condemnation that man lay under that yet was partaker of an outward calling he was not chosen he was not elected therefore it was that he was damned Reason And the Reason is because salvation depends upon Gods election as may be seen Rom 8.30 Moreover whom he did predestinate them he also called c. Rom 9 11.12 For the children being not yet born neither having done any good or evil that the purpose of God according to election might stand not of works but of him that calleth it was said to Rebekah the elder shall serve the younger Rom. 11.7 What then Israel hath not obtained that which he seeks for but the election hath obtained it and the rest were blinded Vse 1 Now if it be so as you plainly see it is then miserable may a mans condition be notwithstanding he enjoy the outward means of grace If he have not do not one time or another taste of the power of Gods Spirit it is a sign he is not ordained to life But because there is no good use to be made of this matter but to convince and to stir up to labour for assurance it will be necessary for me to answer an objection which is Object That if God hath not chosen a man in Christ to be his it is but in vain to labour for grace for it will not be had by any means Sol. Now I answer That secret things belong to God whose revealed will is Joh. 3.15 That not one that believeth in Christ shall perish It is my duty therefore knowing this to believe by doing whereof I may safely conclude mine election And therefore labor to believe every one of ye shew your faith by your works But to return whence I did digress They erre that think it enough to live under a good Ministry Judas lived under the best Teacher that ever was And we finde Mat. 7.21 22. that many that shall say Lord Lord shall not enter into the Kingdom of heaven And further many shal say in the last day Lord Lord we have prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out Devils and in thy name done many wonderfull works to whom yet it shall be said Depart from me ye that work iniquity Vse 2 Secondly then it must needs be bad with them that disclaim Profession Ordinances and the means of grace he that runneth may read their damnation Vse 3 Lastly let us all in earnest fall to enquiry about our Election and make a search for it Methinks every one should be carefull about a business of this concernment We are carefull to preserve our lives temporal much more should we be careful about our life and to be preserved from erernal destruction Quest But how may a man prove his election of God Answ I Answer I shewed before out of 1 Thes 1.3 to the end of the Chapter And further effectual Vocation is an evident signe of Election Rom. 8.30 And the fruits of holiness and righteousness 2 Pet. 1. ver 5. to the 11. Faith love patience sincerity and adhering to Christ a delighting in the excellent ones Consider whom dost thou love whom wouldst thou preserve if it were in thy power O consider this ye that hate Gods people that exclude thē what you can sometimes shamefully though shamelesly out of your Counsels for no other reason but because they make conscience of their ways and the Ordinances of Christ which ye contemn the time will come when ye shall be excluded The ungodly shall not stand in judgement nor sinners in the Congregation of the righteous And let such as have these forementioned graces rejoyce they shall grow and at last come unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ ERRATA In the Epist to the Parl. pag. 3. in the Margin insert Mr. I. B. blot it out in the next pag. in the 24. l. of the 3. page for while read untill In the 6. pag. of the same lip for where read whence In the Margin of the 7. for Brerewich read Greenwich p. 8. l. 2. for Sermon 1. Sermons In the book Pag. 1. the title for Tavistook r. Tavistock pag. 6. l. 17. for 7. put 2. pag. 51. l. 23. sor word r. world in the 46. p. l. 20. between the two words business and indeed insert the word Which FINIS