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 87.—** H« annwered and said unto them : he that aoweth the good 
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 3^i<^<^ The field is the world ; the good seed are the children of the 
 kingdom ; but the tares are the children of the jvricked one. 
 
 39.—" The enemy that sowed them is the Devil. The harvest is 
 the end of the world, and the reapers are |he angels. 
 
 40.—" As therefore, the tares are gathered and burned in tho 
 fire, so shall it be in the end of this world. 
 
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 .which 4o iniquity, ■ ^ 
 
 43.—" And shall cast them into a furnace of fire : there shall ba 
 wailing and gnashing ol teeth. 
 
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 m^fidom of their >^Father." ' 
 
 The parable of the tares and the wheat is perhaps as striking 
 and as important a parable as we have in the Bible. There is it 
 solemnity about it apt to awe the reader, and it is of that shoit and 
 pithy character that you would fancy few could find scope in it 
 for disagre'ementi 
 
 And yet, perhaps, there is no parable that has been cited and 
 quoted more constantly in opposition to its plain meaning, or no per* 
 lion of Scripture more openly wrested from its ortj^inal uses. Thank 
 God for his mercy in enabling us to read Sci^ipture in the light of 
 Scripture rather than.ot man. Man will do anything to enforce bin 
 own views, and few have seldom set themselves in opposition to the 
 teaching of the Church that they have not bent Scripture to 
 their -^lews, instead of bending their views to Scripture, I havw 
 chosen this parable, then, to-day in order to explain ii^Scripturally, 
 for I feel that you may come in coutact^viihsume who from my heart 
 I believe (however good they may be) are but poor hands at a logical 
 exposition ot the Word, but none the less dangerous for their lack of 
 reasoning. May the Lord^ then, be whh us as we seek after the truth 
 in God's own way, compairing Scripture with Scripture as He would 
 have us compare it. « 
 
 Now I would first give you the generally- received opmjon 
 ^'irffhe.parable Our Lord vpeaks in it of the Visible Chuich of Gotl 
 under ihcntitle-Kingdom of God. It is in fact an epitoni<[|of the spiri • 
 tual aspect of the Church in all ages and for all time. Under the 
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 CImrch or KiiiKtiom. The Church Vinible ii* repreMonted u» composed 
 orihi8 mixed multilnde until thu end oflhe worid.and at the etui of the 
 world I he good are neparated from the bad, and tlie righteous rrmnant 
 r<hino fiklh as the nun in the Kingdom of the Father. The leHHon, 
 therefore, iltvt moat readerH learn from the parab'e is this: Thai 
 , whilftt God has a spiritual Church unseen, composed altogether at 
 believers, His visible Church is not of this pure character but is com- 
 poml of some who are really IJis children and ol some who are not. 
 This mixture God allows. He says it is not to be ititerfered with ; the 
 Kood are to be warned to avoid the wicked and live unlike the wicked, 
 but no {jovernmeni or no body of men are ever to take, pn themselves 
 the visible separation of the wieked from the good or the formation of 
 any congregation composed altogether of Christian people. This 
 separation will be m^de by the angels when Christ appears, and not 
 before. For says the parable, " The harvest is the end of the world 
 and the reapers are the anjtfels, an,d at the end of the world the Son of 
 ]\ian shall send forth his anaeln, and //i«;^ shall ^a'her out of his king- 
 dom alFthJngs that offend, anti them which do iniquity and shall cast 
 them into a furnace of fire. There bhull be weeping and gnaishing ot 
 teeth." ^ , 
 
 In the fourth century a body of rcen caliod Donatists left the 
 African Church and endeavoured to form a perfectly pure body. W 
 course this parable stood in their way, and tliey disposeil of it after 
 this fashion. They Mated that it had nothing to say to the Church 
 viable or invi;<ible ; that it simply had reference to the world ; that 
 in ihe world God allowed good and bad men to live, and that no 
 Separation would be made between them until the second appearance 
 of Jesus C{iri.s?. Like most schismatics, the career of the DonatistB 
 wau short-lived, for although they only ai:ose in'the fourth century they 
 died ou? about the Commencement of the sixth. 
 
 Strange, is it not, ^ that thoir failure n(is not acted aa a warn- 
 ing to others ? and yet such is not the case. The Plymouth Brethren 
 of the present day hold precisely the same views as the Donatists en 
 the subject of the constitution of the Church. Every religious body, 
 they say, is in error, for evpry body perm it a a certain amount of evil 
 in its midisl— good and bad congregate together. The gooti and bad 
 fiomelimes kneel at the Lord's Table side by side, and until this is 
 Iteinedied Goj cannot bless His Word. " AVhat has divided the 
 t^hurch ?" says Mr. Darby, the founder of the body. •< The allowance 
 of evil in the assembli/, so that the spirit of God could not dwell 
 there," and then he adds : "^ But I speak not of gros* evil, such as 
 the world can take notice of; evil of any kind \i\ the assembly, if sanc- 
 tioned, will quench the spirit."* • 
 
 Of course such views clasli \vith the parable of the Tares, and the 
 Brethren havq been forced to adopt the Donatist mode qf explanation. 
 They explain it thus : " The parable of iher tares is so often brought 
 forward as a defence of promiscuous commnnionF that we cannot avoid 
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 Now 1 wish to show you that the parable has reference to the 
 Chufch and not to the world, and I will not ask to go very far outside 
 of the parable to prove it. V 
 
 The Brethren base their explanation of the parable on the expres- . 
 sion, '< The field is the world." I reply, I admit it ; but youhave no right 
 to make your argument turn on the j!e/d, but on an expression used 
 four times by our Saviuur — onoe^n the parable and three times in his 
 explanation ot it. That exprepsion is the " kingdom of Uod,*^ or 
 ** kingdom," The field is the world ; in that world there are good 
 and bac' people who profess to be children of God. Thev form the I 
 kingdom of Godx)n earth. It is this kingdom that has to be cleansed •'^-" 
 and purified bv the angels at the second coming, and not the loorld / 
 and It is out ot this MngUom that the wicked will be cast, and it is in 
 this kingdom (purified by the absence of the ungodly) that the holy 
 will remain. 
 
 Now give me your attention on this point. The kingdom 
 of Heaven, says Christ, is likened unto a man which sowed good seed 
 in his field. What does this mean 1 the erection of God's kingdom, 
 or Church, or whatever you like to call it on the earth, through the 
 teaching of the Gospeh The field, says Christ, is the world ; the seed 
 are the children of the kingdom, (of course in the world) but the tares 
 are the children of the wicked one (that have crept in amongst the 
 children of the kingdom.) Then he adds : The Son of Man shall send 
 4Pliarth his angels and they shall gather out of— what ? out of the world ? 
 nay— ihey snail gather out o//ita/ctitg-(2om all things t^at offend and 
 they that do iniquity and shall cast them into a furnace of fire ; there ■ 
 shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous 
 shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. That is after 
 the expulsion of the wicked from the Church — after its final purifica- 
 tion. Then shall it appear as^a bride adorned for her husband, pure 
 and spotless. Then, and not, till then. 
 
 That the kingdom does not mean the toorld is plain, for it is the 
 '< kingdom of the Son." « Then shall the Son send torth his angels 
 
 fid they shall gather out of hia kingdom." My kingdom, says 
 hrist, is not of this world. Nay, brethren, Christ's kingdom now on 
 earth — his visible kingdom — is composed of those who acknowledge 
 His naraf^. That thousands do so from irreligious motives I know ; 
 but the^r are the tares that shall yet be sundered. They are now in 
 Iha visible kingdom and in that kingdom they will remain ; but when 
 "^ we reach the restoration of all things then the kingdom itself will be 
 cleansed and purified, and the true seed of the Lord shall bear fruit to 
 his glory • - 
 
 But to show you the utter folly of the explanation given by the 
 Brethren r would referyou to the parable ofihe" Net cast into the sea," \^ 
 
 as recorded in the 47th and 60th verses, of this chapter. It appears 
 
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 «Wl identk«l tvith the parable of iho Uret and iha whfat. " Tl.a^ 
 king, om «f Weayen.»» «y. Chrint, " i. Iik« unto a net that wa» ou.t 
 ilL„«. k!'.!' ^?."' %« «here im nothing about the world. The not 
 cannot be the world for we are diMinctly fold it is meant to rnpreaent 
 
 ulni^^J "r *''*' '"r?''.^ "♦ "-»*•*"• Thia net, we are tS 
 I't^^'red 0/ even, kind.*' The original word " .ignifie, aWaw 
 
 ««,u« 7 w "*" '"'P'l J^«''<^"P«'0". "••<« typifift* how that the kii.g- 
 
 Jdom of Heaven ahould hencnforward be aa a net not caHt Into. 
 
 aingle , stream, aa under the Moflaio dinpenaition, but unto the 
 
 broad Ma of Ijie whole world, (fathering or drawing ligether aomo 
 
 "out of every kmdred, and tongue. nruJ people, a>.d ualion.'" Wdl 
 
 ?n'T!I.I^ T K^*'" '■"!'••''"' ''''''«^'""" ^Irew it to ahore and sat down' 
 
 parable ended here, without note or c(»minenf, then i'deed the 
 BrellirenmighUaTH argued thai the ap.rilukl fj^hera had n righ to 
 take on themaelvea the purification o» the Chnrch ; hut our SaTiourS 
 
 ^^X''2^1tnff'}l''J'''''^^''^'r'.^ ^"''"■"' '^eH'hhlowto Iheir theory. 
 u rKoM ' ' " ^^"Oie aaya) when I **(,t the end a/ the world : the anceL 
 ;; aha'l come forth and «evt,r the wftke.l from among the iual, andXn 11 
 " fni of rj^.t?" '*"" ^"rnaceof fire : there shall bo ^eep^inga'nd gnash ' 
 
 thi. u^r^hi ''°'i.*^"* •'.'" Impossible to set over the plain teaching of 
 hi i^rr ViJ"*' v*u "• P'«"''y 'he viHible Church of (Jod ca.t into 
 the waters of l.fe. That net is to remain there till it is full-until the 
 M^t^ifTK^'?*'^*'*' 10 /l//-and never will it be drawn to ^hore till the 
 ?n«!f- •. .'^'uP*"^"*'"" i ^"^ ^^""' '• •» drn^^n. then will (hot awful 
 inquismon. take place that eves y sinner should dread. No apolocv • 
 no orayers ; no tears will sla> the angels* hands that must sever onie 
 
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 his ! .'? '"'■ *" *'■'"*' '* " itiagnificent evidence of God's mercy ; 
 but the net drawn to shore and cleansed and purified i^ fully an awfu 
 
 fJl!J"'M"*'-.K^ ?^,''* J""'*^''- ''"'' '''«««*•'' ^^ God, it receives and 
 taites all with a holy inieniKin and will continue to do su till the rejec- 
 
 Inli- "["'"ya"* the sins of many shall allow the lime to be no longer 
 }a which God calls ; but men will not hear. 
 
 of «^? «'«hough, my brethren, thes-. parables tro to prove the mixture 
 
 rhJ5^K'"u *"''.'." **'* ^''"'"h »'" ^f'''^"*' of lime, let us remember 
 fiat i» both parables the good and bad, though mixed together, were 
 
 ^H, •" T"*T>.'''"*"^'' ?''^ "*^*' ""^^^ ^own wan good, and ffood it 
 remained. The tar^s when sown were bad, and remained bad till the 
 hour of separation. The tare remained a tare ; it was mixed, indeed, 
 wi h the good seed, but it was ue distinct fro.n it at the end aa it was 
 at the beginning. » •» w«o 
 
 ^l^ 1? 'i"^°"''' ^ «^J<h the servants of JeMH. We arc not 
 Bnv9£ by the Church or by any system of human organization, whether 
 composed altogether of good men, or mixed with evil. We are saved 
 solely and alone through our connection with, and faith in, the met its 
 
 Sn:°!J'£f''***"','"°"T*'"*" / ^'''"'d net gain the blessing of the 
 Spirit because I might worship with none but ChriMiaim (as Mr. 
 
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 of my ooniieciion with Christ, "The Spitit of Gpd bannot dvf«ll,»» 
 (•ays thut Writer) »« where evil ia tolerated. »»• / iay it can. Thtl 
 Comforter Which ubidea with the ohild of God lor ever will be with 
 him juai aii much whether he kneela beside a drunkard or m saint. 
 it would b4 too hard to rob fM of my heritage becau§e my next door 
 neighbour had nothing to $ay to it. Nay, beloved, the, indwelling of 
 the Spirit is an individuol thing— an increase of individual piety — 
 brings with it an increase of the Spirit's influence, nnd thus it is that 
 if, out of an assembly of many, even two or three meet jn the name of 
 Jesus, we have eveiy reason to feel that the Spirit will be in that 
 asseiiibly, and be in it for gor.d ; it will bo there with its children ; it 
 will iollow ilB children ; it will abide with its children ; and although 
 Mr /Darby may not think so, I place my Saviour's promise against his 
 unhappy views, that, *< when the Comforter is oome he will abide with 
 meifor ever." 
 
 I Rut remember we cati only claim this CoHiforter os children of 
 Goo, and if we are children of God we m^ubt be fts distinct from the 
 children of the world as the good'«eed was ever distinct from the tares. 
 We cannot help the tares being in the field, neither oah, or ought, we 
 prevent eviUmeii entering ouj^ churches and kneeling with us on the 
 same noor,N^ci prayer ; but it is no reason because we are liberal, and 
 I be|ieve» Christian, that we are to be inconsistent. We are to embrace 
 no tkre views, take part in n? tare pleasure, or ever act in such a way 
 •• to lead people to suppose that because we are amdh^st the tares 
 that therefore we are tares ourselves. We must never, iorget that, 
 thou^ we are living in darkness, we are child^||j|ef the light ; that 
 vrb are the faint light of the world, and that ouiwMt is not to be hid. 
 We inluBi remember that we are to come out and be separate, not by 
 destroying the tdres and by standing alone, but by living in the nridsr 
 pf the wicked as children,ui God, just as the good seed lived in the 
 inidst olthe tares, and yet had no immediate connection with them. , 
 Let lis be conoistent Chrif tians. Let us realize, first, the d'uty of 
 a child of God and thpn perform it, and, believe me, we will keep the 
 Spirit in our midst —yes ; keep ii fof ever— keep it till that happy day, 
 when the Chi.rch, being purified from all known evil, shall arise 
 vibeautiful to meet its Lord, and so shall we, as members of that Church, 
 'm for ever with the Lord. 
 
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