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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89564	A divine project to save a kingdome: Opened in a sermon to the Right Honorable the Lord Maior and court of aldermen, of the citie of London, at their anniversary meeting on Easter Munday, Apr. 22. 1644. at Christ-Church. By Stephen Marshall, B.D. Minister of Gods word at Finchingfield in Essex. Imprimatur, Charles Herle.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1644 (1644)	Wing M752; Thomason E47_31; ESTC R20669	34,916	50

A DIVINE PROIECT TO SAVE A KINGDOME Opened In a Sermon to the Right Honorable the Lord Maior and Court of Aldermen of the Citie of London at their Anniversary meeting on Easter Munday Apr. 22. 1644. at Christ-Church By STEPHEN MARSHALL B. D. Minister of Gods Word at Finchingfield in Essex JER. 5. 1. Run you to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem and see now and know and seeke in the broad places thereof if yee can find a man if there bee any that executeth judgement that seeketh the truth and I will pardon it REV. 3. 19. Bee zealous therefore and repent Imprimatur Charles Herle London Printed by Richard Cotes for Stephen Bowtell and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Bible in Popes-head-Alley 1644. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE The Lord Maior Court of Aldermen of the famous Citie of London LUke-warme Laodicea by some hath beene made Englands Embleme and sutably enough not so much to the cold climate and this coole evening of the world we live in as to the tepid spring of our reformation at first especially to the decaying Autumne which of late yeares wee were come to But as cold oft breeds an inflammation so this hath inkindled Gods wrath and it these sad combustions which we are already well-nigh consumed with what remaines now therefore but that fire should take out fire the kindly warmth of holy zeale the wofull heate of this devouring fire that it may not come to everlasting burnings Great is the honour that God in this kind hath conferred upon you and great the blessings which hee hath to this whole land conveyed by you Your Engines not more admirable to quench fire in your Citie then your care cost and blood freely usefull to the extinguishing of the generall scare-fire of this whole kingdome your zeale herein hath saved many provoked more hath under God beene as a wall of fire about us and will bee for ever a more sparkling Diamond in your Crowne then those stones of fire in the King of Tyres Diadem The Ministers Lungs some make the Prophets Bellowes to blow up a dying fire I desired that mine in preaching this Sermon might helpe to blow up yours to a yet brighter flame and if this further publishing of it at your request may any whit serve to keep still alive this holy fire on the Altar of your hearts whilst Incendiaries set on fire from hell are every where shooting fiery bullets to set all into a further combustion I am but subservient to my great Master in his present work who is now purging the blood of our Jerusalem out of the midst of it by the spirit of judgement and burning Fervet opus and then I know you will not coole It s reformation worke and the examples of Phinehas Elias John Baptist Luther Knox and those other great reformers tell us it requires zeale Baruch was a great repairer of Jerusalems walls but it is said of him that flagrante animo instauravit hee repaired fast but it was when hee was hot upon it It is Gods worke and they must be fervent in spirit that would serve the Lord who had rather wee should let his worke alone then see us freeze at it it is his zeale that must now doe all for us and therefore hee expects that our zeale should doe what wee can for him It is Christs worke and cause who is willing to redeeme us but that wee might bee a people zealous of good workes hee did not sweat that wee should freeze nor shed his blood out of his owne veines that it might congeale in ours It is finally a great worke and the oppositions against it are greater but as they said to Joshua Onely be couragious so I to you Onely bee zealous and then bee not discouraged Hannibal by fire made his way over the Alpes and you by zeale may make yours over greatest mountaines of opposition which without running up with full strength and speed will not bee gotten up to Palmes are the Embleme of victory but they love to grow in a hot soyle be warme and promise your selves the Palme nay God promiseth it and that not onely to Smyrna whose name smells sweet of warme incense that if shee will be faithfull to the death he will give her a Crowne of life but even to our cooler Laodicea that her whom hee was ready to spew out of his mouth whilst she was lukewarme hee will be ready to come into and sup with when she shall once be zealous and repent which is the humble and hearty prayer of your Servant for Christ STEPHEN MARSHALL A DIVINE PROIECT TO SAVE A KINGDOME Numb. 25. 10 11. And the Lord spake unto Moses saying Phinehas the Sonne of Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the Priest hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel while hee was zealous for my sake among them that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousie IF you view this Portion of Scripture seriously you will find Right Honorable and Beloved that the businesse contained in it doth very nigh concern our selves In a few words The condition of the Israelites at the present time which this Text speaketh of was this They had indured a long peregrination in the wildernesse for forty yeares together God had visited former rebellions upon them and now their wandrings were well-nigh accomplished they were come almost to the skirt of the Land of Canaan God had begun to deliver the promised inheritance unto them by overthrowing and rooting out Sihon King of the Amorites and Og the King of Bashan and had given their Country into the hand of Israel and had told them hee would goe on and root out all the rest of the Canaanites before them that there should not a man be able to stand in their way As the Lord your God hath done unto these two Kings so shall hee do unto the other Kingdoms whither they passed they need not feare them the Lord their God would fight for them and would very shortly place them in that land which hee had long before promised to their fore-fathers And now when they were just upon entring into the Land they had like to have made ship wrack in the very Harbour and had brought down such a new Plague upon them that if there had not been a timely remedy put in they had perished every Mothers childe of them without any forain enemy striking a stroake at them And thus it was when Balaam could not obtaine leave from God to curse the Israelites hee taught Balak the King of Moab a trick how hee might make God himselfe curse them viz. If hee could by any wayes draw them to rebell against God Hee had told him plainly that while they kept close to God all the world would bee too weak for them but could hee but devise any way to make them fall out with God God would