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A89586	The song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lambe: opened in a sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons, at their late solemne day of thanksgiving, Iune 15. 1643. for the discovery of a dangerous, desperate, and bloudy designe, tending to the utter subversion of the Parliament, and of the famous city of London. / By Stephen Marshall, B.D. and Pastor of Finchingfield in Essex. Published by order of that House.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1643 (1643)	Wing M789; Thomason E56_5; ESTC R16053	30,483	54

THE SONG OF MOSES THE SERVANT OF GOD AND THE SONG OF THE LAMBE Opened In a Sermon preached to the Honorable House of COMMONS At their late solemne day of Thanksgiving Iune 15. 1643. for the discovery of a dangerous desperate and bloudy Designe tending to the utter subversion of the Parliament and of the famous City of London By STEPHEN MARSHALL B. D. and Pastor of Finchingfield in Essex Published by order of that House REVEL. 17. 4. Come hither and I will shew thee the judgment of the great whore LONDON Printed for SAM: MAN and SAM: GELLIBRAND in Pauls Church-yard 1643. TO THE HONORABLE House of COMMONS now assembled in PARLIAMENT Honorable and Beloved THe holy King and Prophet David required that the prayses of God should be sung upon well tuned Instruments and some Psalmes which himself composed to that purpose he styled Michtam golden Psalms as being full of precious and choise treasure Such could I have wished might the Instrument have been and such the Song of Praise and Thanksgiving to have celebrated the goodnesse of God for this late wonderfull preservation of your Honorable Assembly and the famous and worthy City both whose ruine was plotted and designed by wicked and unreasonable men But you were pleased not onely to designe to this service a weak and untuned Instrument though not Crackt as Malice and Slander hath bruted it abroad but also to injoyn the publishing of this song of Thanksgiving which is full of weak and imperfect Notes And to this latter task I was I confesse farre more unwilling then to the former as being conscious unto my self how few conceptions could be brought by me to any such maturity as might render them meet to become the standing Monument of so great a Mercy and so happy a Day which is worthy to be ingraven on Marble rather then to be written on Paper and with letters of gold rather then with ink But in the pursuance of your Commands I have done it and added some few things which time nor strength would permit me to deliver in publike Being resolved to deny my self and to do nothing that may hinder me from being what I am and shall always desire to remain Yours wholly in the service of Christ and his Church STEPHEN MARSHALL A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE the Honorable House of COMMONS on the 15. of Iune 1643. being the day of their publique THANKS GIVING HOnorable and Beloved were the strength of my body and my furniture of wisdome learning and grace in any degree answerable to the service of this Day I could not but exceedingly rejoyce in being called to this work in this place at this time For having been lately restored from the gates of death what greater mercy could I wish then to praise God in the great Congregation and having been reported over the whole Kingdom to have altered my former judgement concerning this just cause of the Parliaments Defensive Arms yea that the horrour of my guilt in adhering to this Cause had distracted me and made me mad can I look upon it otherwise then as a great and publike taking off this reproach by being called to exercise my poor talent in that Assembly which is the whole Kingdom by Representation and at this time to be a furtherer of your joy and thankfulnesse for Almightie Gods watchfull eye and powerfull hand thus wonderfully manifested against the desperate and bloody Designes of those that would destroy you But I fear lest this which is so many wayes a favour to me should prove your losse through my weaknesse which would not permit me to study much in private and I fear will disable me in the publike delivering that little which God hath brought to my hand yet this doth encourage me I have abundant experience of your Candor and I know that both with God and man where there is first a willing mind especially in a day service of Thanksgiving it is accepted according to what a man hath and not according to that he hath not Yea I have one encouragement more that Gods providence hath directed me to such a Text which is not onely sutable to our meeting and service but so really intended by the Spirit of God for your time and work that the very reading of it though an hour together might exceedingly affect you if once you have the true meaning of it which Text you shall finde written in REVEL. 15. 3 4. read also ver. 2. Verse 2. And I saw as it were a sea of glasse mingled with fire and them that had gotten the victory over the Beast and over his Image and over his Mark and over the number of his Name stand on the sea of glasse having the harps of God 3. And they sung the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lambe saying Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty just and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints 4. Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy Name for thou onely art holy for all Nations shall come and worship before thee for thy judgements are made manifest THis Text though it be a part of the Apocalyps the darkest and most mysticall Book in all the Scriptures and therefore thought generally hard to be understood yet time one of the best Interpreters of Prophecies hath produced the events answering the types so full and clear that we have the whole Army of Protestant Interpreters agreeing in the generall scope and meaning of it which in a few words be pleased to take thus A great part of this Book is a setting out the conflicting state of the Church under the great Apostasie with the Antichrist the heaviest and forest enemy which ever the Church had and this Antichristian power and dominion is set forth as other Kingdoms elsewhere are by a systeme of the world wherein are earth water air sunne moon starres a King a Metropoliticall City Provinces People c. an Antichristian Empire an Antichristian World and this great Monarchy of Antichrist hath the time of its rising its triumphant reigning its declining and ruine and the state of the Church of Christ under all these clearly foretold in this Book And to say nothing of his rising and reigne his ruine is described in this fifteenth and sixteenth Chapter under the Type of seven Angels pouring out seven vials full of the wrath of God the seven vialls being so many degrees of the Beasts or Antichrists ruine which story of the vialls the Holy Ghost sets down two wayes first generally in the fifteenth Chapter secondly more particularly in the sixteenth Chapter In the generall description of them in this fifteenth Chapter we have first the circumstance of the place where this Vision was seen whence these Angels came that is heaven I saw another signe in heaven verse 1. that is the true Church whereof Christ is King opposed to the world wherein Antichrist reigns as beyond all doubt may

the credulous prayers for the devout works of piety for the charitable voluptuousnesse for the dissolute pardons for the faulty dispensing with all rules for men of lawlesse conditions with what ever else might allure the Nations to drink of the Whores intoxicating cup Neither hath the Devils cunning and power more appeared in the first contriving of it then after in the upholding of it in all ages stirring up men of excellent and rare perfections constantly and diligently to put in execution all his counsels and devices to hold in those who are already caught in their snares to allure others and to weaken and undermine all opposers how great and potent soever It is therefore well becomming the wisedom and power of this King of Saints to grapple with this Beast after this manner that in the things whereof he is most proud He might shew himself to be above him Secondly this enemy hath been the sorest and heaviest Adversary that ever the Church of Christ had in the world Nebuchadnezzar of old and the rest of the Assyrian Monarchs did break their bones like a Lyon the Aegyptian Pharaoh like a Dragon devoured them Antiochus Epiphanes cast down the Saints and stamped upon them and did weare them out the Romane Ethnick Emperours the three first hundred yeares wasted them in ten severall Persecutions but these and all these were as nothing in comparison of this Destroyer all their loines lay not so heavy upon the Churches back as the little finger of Antichrist Whether we respect the cruelty exercised upon the body or tyranny over their soules and consciences or the extent and length of time in both I say in respect of cruelty first upon the body I beleeve that upon a due survey there would be found upon his score more blood of Saints and Martyrs then was shed from the blood of righteous Abel to the beginning of his reigne A hundred thousand within the limits of one Kingdome put to death in a few weeks thirty or fourty thousand boasted to have fallen by the hands of one of his emissaries in the space of a few yeers and if so what hath been done in the rest of the Nations where all who once tasting of the whores cup delight to drink and to be drunken with the blood of Saints In her is found the blood of Prophets and of Saints and of all that were slaine upon the earth Secondly in respect of tyranny upon the soule we read not that Pharaoh or seldome any of the rest though they all oppressed the people of God in their outward liberties did much endeavour to force their consciences or if they did as sometimes Nebuchadnezzar and Antiochus the case was so cleare that they needed not take time to answer about it but this tyrant causeth all both small and great rich and poore free and bond to receive the marke of their spirituall slavery in their right hand and in their foreheads so that none must buy or sell save he that hath the mark or name of the beast and that with such deceivablenesse of unrighteousness with such power signs and lying wonders that he deceives those that dwell on the earth by means of those miracles which he hath power to do So that even many of the Lambs own followers have in part been deceived by him and if it were possible they would finally deceive the very elect of God Or if thirdly we respect the continuance and length of his bloody reigne in this also he exceeds the rest In Aegypt they were evil intreated about two hundred yeers The Babylonish yoke oppressed them threescore and ten years Antiochus sorely wasted them but it was but for a very little season The Heathen Empire of Rome proved more cruell and bloudy then any of the rest for the space of three or four hundred yeers but this Antichrist makes incessant desperate and bloudy war upon them no lesse then twelve hundred and threescore years together And if you put all this together you shall finde just cause why the King of Saints should proceed thus severely and strangely in ruining this great enemy of Himselfe and people making him as wonderfull in his terrible fall as he had been in his bloudy reigne Thus you have the truth of the doctrine fully and clearely demonstrated it remains now that I make some application of it to You wherein I shall confine my selfe to those three uses which we finde the Church makes of these workes in this place First they wonder at these wonderfull workes they observe them they have them digested into a song and sing this song of Moses and of the Lamb having as well their hearts filled with admiration of them as their mouths with praise And this Honourable and beloved let me commend to your practice in the first place Come and see the works of the Lord even the great and marvellous works of the Lord God Almighty how terrible he is in his doings towards the children of men All his works are great his works of Creation even of the least atomes the works of common providence governing even the wayes of the pismire are great and worthy to be sought out of all them that take pleasure in them but the works of the Lord towards his Church the goings of our Lord and King in his Sanctuary ruling his Saints in the middest of their enemies and after this manner breaking in peeces the Powers which doe oppose them is now the wonder of Angels and shall be the wonder of Saints to eternity and fit therfore that now it should be ours Mans disposition is naturally taken with thoughts and discourses of things great and wonderfull and is not satisfied but in something that raises the mind to a high pitch of admiration here you may behold an object fit if any to beget wonderment and indeed our spirits never are right till we stand at gaze here for this discovers a plaine difference between the spirits of godly and carnall men these latter are more taken with vaine and empty things A Poet or a well-penn'd Romancy how it takes some wasting upon it dayes weeks and moneths admiring the wit invention style or elegancy others wonder at the raising of this or that poore man to a great estate of wealth at another out of the dust advanced to the height of honour these things fill their hearts with thoughts when alone their mouthes with discourse when in company yet in the mean time the wonders of Christ are not taken notice of Christ's person offices administrations are too base things for them to busie their thoughts about they can see nothing but triviall matters and not worth their notice in them all yea they wonder at them who can spend their time in the Study of the Scriptures and the meditation of these works of Christ But these men whatever they think of themselves are sottish beasts carnall and brutish persons and