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A25886	Englands Eben-ezer, or, Stone of help set up in thankfull acknowledgment of the Lords having helped us hitherto : more especially for a memoriall of that help which the Parliaments forces lately received at Shrewsbury, Weymouth, and elsewhere : in a sermon preached to both the honourable Houses of Parliament, the lord mayor and aldermen of the citie of London being present, at Christ-Church, London, upon the late solemne day of thanksgiving, March 12 / by John Arrowsmith ...	Arrowsmith, John, 1602-1659.	1645 (1645)	Wing A3775; ESTC R200016	25,663	39

from God in his own way Be intreated right Honorable to consider the nature of the work you have in hand and to remember that the grapes of Reformation can never bee kindly and throughly ripened but by beames of the Sun of righteousnesse the moon-shine of created abilities is too weak for such a production Seek we therefore to God for help and see we doe it in that way which Israel in this Chapter took and whereby they obtained the help in the Text which I shall not wander from so long as I fetch all my directions out of the bowels of this Story Doe it 1 In away of reall amendment Samuel here vers. 3. exhorts them to that as they hoped for deliverance they accordingly put it in practise ver. 4. Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth and served the Lord onely By Baalim Sanctius understands their He-Gods by Ashtaroth their She-Deities Be they hees or be they shee s Gods or Goddesses which had formerly beene worshiped all are now put away Israel gives them a bill of divorce saith Get ye hence what have I to doe any more with Idols We also have had our Baalim and Ashtaroth our prelaticall innovations popish corruptions Arminian subtleties Socinian blasphemies It concerns us so to put them away as to serve the Lord onely for time to come which how any Nation can doe that gives an universall liberty to all kinds of worship is not easie to conceive though one of late have made his addresse to both Houses of Parliament in behalfe of such a liberty I must professe for my own part that this proposition laid down by him viz. It is the will and command of God that since the comming of his Son the Lord Jesus a permission of the most Paganish Jewish Turkish or Antichristian consciences and worships be granted to all men in all Nations and Countreys was to me one of the greatest scandals I ever yet met with in print O bloody Tenent O speedy way of embroyling states of massacring Churches of erecting a Pantheon in every City That of Omnium Deorum among the Romans of Omnium Sanctorum among the Papists offended me lesse than this of Omnium Sectarum from the pen of a Protestant Sure I am One God one mediator one faith was Catholike Doctrine in Pauls time and that Religion is so dainty as not to admit of such mixtures Be you also well assured Beloved Christians that in this case every variation from unity is a step to nullity that if ever England which God forbid came from one Religion to all shee will quickly run from all to none 2. Of solemne humiliation Such was theirs Vers 6. They drew water and poured it out before the Lord and fasted that day and said there wee have sinned against the Lord These actions of drawing and pouring out water are by some thought to be hieroglyphicall Emptie a vessell of any other kind of liquor it leaves some rellish or colour or smell behinde it as when honey wine or oile is poured out Not so upon the effusion of water which is therefore fit to signifie the pouring out of mens hearts in such a manner as to leave none of their sinnes unconfest unrepented of To make it more solemne fasting is added to their humiliation as that which helps devotion to wings Chrysostome saith that Prayer without fasting is a souldier without a sword able to do but little service And yet of the two fasting may be the better spared I shall not be affraid to assert that fasting ing without prayer is a sword without a souldier able to do no service at all With Israel here we should confess as well as fast A Nation or person become speechlesse is neer unto death If we desire to have the Lord cover our sins by his pardoning grace wee must discover them in humble acknowledgments 3 Of earnest supplication I will pray for you unto the Lord saith Samuel to the people ver. 5. and they to him ver. 8. Cease not to cry unto the Lord our God for us that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistims {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is the phrase that is used concerning Elias Jam 5. 17. He prayed in his prayer we translate it hee prayed earnestly as if that which is not earnest were no prayer They in Jonah 3. 8. are directed to cry mightily unto God A whispering devotion is seldome answered with a loud echoe from heaven Ask saith Christ and it shall be given seek and ye shall finde knock and it shall be opened unto you Ask seek knock there will be need of all three Doe you want ablessing aske it of God have you asked yet still continue to want ● seeke it out have you sought yet cannot finde knock and the treasury where it lies shall be opened to you Was there evermore need hath not peace taken her leave doth not truth look towards the threshold It would be most strange and ominous if the Church should not be found upon her knees now when Rome and hellare conspiring against her if when three Kingdoms are beleagur'd by Popish confederates they should not be garrison'd with praying Saints 4 Of lively faith in Christ without which all the former are invalid Samuel here vers. 9. took a sucking lamb offered it for a burnt-offering wholly unto the Lord thereby turning both his own and the peoples eys upon the Lambe of God which was to come and to take away the sin of the world Whensoever you approach the throne of grace let it be your principall care to exercise faith in the Lord Jesus out of whom all our learning is but duncery all our duties but drudgery all our devotion but formality yea idolatry if Luther may be believed Incense of old was a type of his intercession bloud a type of his satisfaction one of these was to cover the mercie seat the other to be sprinkled upon it Levit. 16. 13 14. He shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercie-seat And hee shall take of the bloud of the bullock and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercie-seat c. to intimate that from God no mercie is to be expected but through the satisfaction and intercession of Jesus Christ no help to be sought at any time without eying of these The second observation which I am now to undertake runs thus The Churches duty is to commemorate help received See it both required and practised 1 Required Exod. 17. 13 14. Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword and the Lord said unto Moses write this for a memoriall in a book Psal. 102. 16 18. When the Lord shall build up Zion he shall appear in his glory This shall be written for the generation to come and the people which shall

be created shall praise the Lord Should Scripture be silent nature it self would read a lecture to this purpose Heare one of her high priests He is an unthankfull man that denies a benifit received so is he that dissembles it together with him that requites it not but of all the rest he is most unthankfull that hath forgotten it 2 Practised Behold Saint Paul recording his deliverance from the teeth of that roaring lion Nero in 2 Tim. 4. 17. The Lord stood with me and strengthened me and I was delivered out of the mouth of the Lion David his preservations Psal. 31. 21. Blessed be the Lord for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindnesse in a strong City It will be needlesse to multiply instances out of the Psalmes seeing Hosanna and Hallelujah Benedic and Benedicatur God blesse and blessed be God prayer and praise epitomize that whole book I shall rather choose to hint you to some of those courses which the Saints of old took for the registring of mer●ies They had 1 Their festivall dayes Such were the Purim viz. the fourteenth day of the moneth Adar and the fifteenth day of the same kept yearly as the dayes whereon the Jews rested from their enemies and the moneth which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy and from mourning into a good day These were made by them dayes of feasting and joy and of sending portions one to another and gifts to the poor Hest. 9. 21 22 26. in memory of what the Lord had done for them in breaking that snare which the malice pride and power of Haman had twisted for the whole Nation 2 Their Eucharisticall Songs As in Exod. 15. for the overthrow of Pharoah in Jud. 5. for the defeat of Jabin and Sisera in 1 Sam. 18. for the slaughter of Goliah Out of all which instances if it be noted that women were wont to beare a part in such songs for we read of Miriam in the first of Deborah in the second in the third of women out of all the Cities of Israel that observation will lead us to the right understanding of a place in Psal. 68. 11. mistaken by some as if it allowed women to preach because the word there rendred Preachers according to the old translation God gave the word and great was the company of Preachers is a word of the feminine gender Whereas the true meaning of Gods giving the word is his affording matter of joy and glad tydings in the course of his providence and the Preachers spoken of are nothing else but the company of women that published the same in their songs as may be further cleered by a passage in the same Psalme ver. 25. The singers went before the players on instruments followed after amongst them were the damosels playing with timbrels 3 Their significant names Which were sometimes imposed upon persons This course Joseph took to perpetuate the memory of mercies received by him in Egypt Gen. 41. 51 52. He called the name of his first-born Manasseh for God said he hath made me forget all my toil and all my fathers house And the name of the second called he Ephraim for God hath caused me to be fruitfull in the Land of my affliction The like was afterwards done by Moses in reference to what befell him in Midian Ex 18. 3 4. He had two sons by Zipporah the name of the one was Gershom for he said I have been an alien in a strange Land And the name of the other Eliezer for the God of my father said he was my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharoah Sometimes upon places Thus Abraham when his Isaac had escaped and a ram been accepted instead of his sonne called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh as it is said to this day in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen Gen. 22. 13 14. And Jacob when he saw the Angels of God that met him said This is Gods host and he called the name of that place Mahanaim i. e. two hosts either because the Angels appeared in two companies one on each side of him for his better security or because there was now an host of Angels added to that former host of men women and children which he carried along with him Sometimes upon peculiar monuments erected on purpose Such was Jacobs El-Elohe-Israel Gen. 33. 20. Such Moses his Jehovah-Nissi Exod. 17 15. Such also Samuels Eben-Ezer in my Text Enough hath been said to convincemen of this duty as also to inform them about it The most proper way as I conceive to enforce the practise of it at present will be to parallel the mercies of this story and Text with those of this age and day The first mercie we meet with here is the conventing of Israel at Mizpeh in a Nationall assembly ver. 5 6. Samuel said Gather all Israel to Mizpeh and they gathered together Interpreters are of opinion that the Philistims whom they were subject to had so tyrannized over them as to hinder all such conventions least being ouce gathered together they should consult how to free themselves that Samuel notwithstanding had now called a Parliament and got them to meet What devices have been used in former times one while to keep off another while to breake off Parliaments here in England hee 's a stranger in our Israel that doth not know I had almost said hee 's an enemy to it that is not affected with deep sense of the goodnes of God in calling and confirming this which you all have the happines to behold and I the honour to speak unto this blessed Parliament fastned by a late Act and made as a nail in a sure place for the Kingdome to hang all her vessels upon from the vessels of cups even unto all the vessels of flagons as the Prophet Isaiah speaks Wherefore here before we go further let us set up one Eben-Ezer saying Hitherto hath the Lord helped us A second mercie which this story acquaints us with is The Lords hearing the prayers that were then put up for Israel ver. 9. Samuel cryed unto the Lord for Israel and the Lord heard him Hath he not done the like for us was he ever a God hearing prayers more then of late Our devotion hath not had a miscarrying wombe but been fruitfull in deliverances neither have her breasts been dry for three Kingdoms all this while have been nursed up in the bosome of prayer The Jews were wont to stand when they prayed and from thence men learned to say Sine Stationibus non subsisteret mundus The world could not stand but for this standing in prayer But for it Ireland perhaps by this time had not been at all Scotland had been all in bloud and England giving up the ghost Each of these Nations may say for it selfe as the Psalmist doth Verily God hath heard he hath attended to the voice of my prayer Blessed be God that hath not turned away my