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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89578	A sacred record to be made of Gods mercies to Zion: a thanksgiving sermon preached to the two Houses of Parliament, the Lord Major, Court of Aldermen, and Common-Councell of the city of London, at Christ-Church, June 19. 1645. Being the day of their publike thanksgiving to almighty God for the great and glorious victory obtained by the Parliaments army under the conduct of Sir Thomas Fairfax in Naseby-field. /	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1645 (1645)	Wing M773; Thomason E288_36; ESTC R200112	25,316	41

bee done his heart is set upon record his work of building of Zion and let what else so ever be forgotren it matters not ought yee not to be like minded unto our Lord Secondly let me assure you there is nothing else will ever appease our troubles but the vigorous carrying on of this work A great many are afraid lest the quick establishing of Religion through the multitude of mens divided thoughts and ungodlinesse of many mens minds should make our troubles and conflicts more then they have been but be ye assured the Lords Kingdome being provided for in the right way God will prepare salvation for walls and bulwarks hee will be the safety of that Kingdome which advanceth his Kingdome the Kingdome of Christ it is a Kingdome of Peace as himselfe is a Prince of Peace It will never make tumults it will appease tumults in a Kingdome where Christs Scepter prevailes whare hee strikes the Earth with the rod of his mouth Cockatrices will be charmed and all enemies shall bee hush't and quiet It will I say make no tumults where it is received but let mee tell you Christs heart is so set upon the advancement of his Kingdome that where it is not received himselfe will breed tumults enow for them that oppose him and the stone cut out of the mountaine without hands will dash asunder all men and all things all Kingdoms all States that shal not give way to him I adde further concerning your selves that there is nothing will bring so great and everlasting glory to you as to have been instruments in your generation to further the work wherein Christs honour is so much concerned you have read Books and know the world I beseech you tell me out of all the ages of the world that are past cull out the choisest among men in their generations and say who among them was really an eminent Man if it were not for being an instrument in helping forward the Church of Christ multitudes have made stately buildings Fish-ponds Gardens Palaces Some have erected Kingdomes what is become of them all Jam seges est ubi Troja fuit is the doome of all of them they are all turned into vanity and so are the Makers of them Consider the greatest wisest richest learned'st of all who have lived if they were not for Christ and his Church what glory doth now remaine to any of them how much so ever they magnified themselves or were flattered by others who now wil honour them who now extols Pharaoh for a wise King Absalon for a compleat Courtier Achitophel for a politique States-man who now would have the lot of any of them do they not all lye buried ingloriously hath not the Lord made the moth corruption to rot them al But now look into Gods Book and read all Chronicles and you shall find that all they who have set their hearts to this work all Rulers Counsellers Parliaments who have been for the Lord and his Church and Kingdome their memoriall is honourable and blessed in all ages they are still eminent and glorious and shall bee so to the worlds end and in Heaven to all Eternity Set therefore your hearts to this great work shew a reall defire to glorifie him who hath these great things for us This Right Honourable Lords and Patriots I had to say unto you and as for you the rest of this Honoured and Reverend Assembly very many things might bee suggested unto you as means to exalt the glory of this our God and Saviour but the onely thing I shall at the present commend unto you is to be often with God in the Mount follow him with your prayers and supplications give him no rest till hee hath carryed on this great and Honourable Assembly to doe this work that they may raise the foundations for many Generations This from the second part of the Text The work that they should doe not to seek themselves but how the glory of God may be preserved in the present and future Generations The third and last followes which concernes the way they shall take to perpetuate Gods glory for building his Church and answering his peoples prayers what way shall they take for it This shall be written in perpetuam reimemoriam for an eternall monument of it The onely Lesson which I shall hence observe is this That one great way of giving God his deserved glory for his building of his Church and answering his peoples prayers is by causing these wonderfull workes of God to be written for the generations to come For the truth of it it is one of Gods Ordinances You shall finde it in the 78 Psal. vers. 5. where the Prophet had exhorted them to give eare and learne what God had done for them that they might teach it to their children This said he hee ordained for a Law and a Statute for Israel what was this Ordinance that they should write it and teach their posterity to come the wonderfull things which God hath done for his people he commanded not onely themselves to know him and his works and to talk of them but to provide that the generations to come might know what God had done So in the 17. of Exod. 14. vers. When God had begun to appeare for his people in a Warre against Amalck write it said he in a Booke a Book of the Warres of God for his Church and against his enemies must bee written and kept as a record from age to age So also Moses commanded them in the 31 of Deut. 19. vers. Now therefore write ye this Song for you and teach it the Children of Israel A song must be written and learned to expresse what God had done for a people who were most unworthy of the Mercies bestowed upon them So likewise Ester Est 9. 32. The great work of Gods defeating the conspiracy of Haman and deliverance of his Church was recorded not onely by an anniversary feast but it must bee written in a Booke Thus you see the Lord hath often enjoyned his people to record and transmit to posterity the great things which hee hath done for them And as he hath commanded it so his Spirit hath ordered and brought to passe that it hath been so Moses and Samuel and the rest of the Prophets have done it what should I trouble you with a discourse of particular instances since the whole Book of God is nothing but a Chronicle Book of Acts and Monuments of the Lords wonderfull works in gathering and building protecting and saving and doing good to his Church and destroying their Enemies And they did it many wayes sometime they made Eucharisticall Songs which they taught their children sometime they wrote them upon their Childrens names sometime by giving names to the places where the mercies were received sometime erecting stones and pillars sometime by appointing yearly Feasts of remembrance Many of which wayes were presented unto you the