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A89591	A tvvo-edged svvord out of the mouth of babes, to execute vengeance upon the enemy and avenger. Presented in a sermon to the Right Honourable the House of Lords assembled in Parliament, in the Abbey-Church at Westminster, Octob. 28. 1646. the solemn day of their monthly fast. / By Stephen Marshall B.D. minister of Gods Word at Finchingfield in Essex.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1646 (1646)	Wing M797; Thomason E359_3; ESTC R201165	29,362	39

in these conflicts of ours have solemnely protested that their plot was onely to bee on the safest side that they might bee sure to stand whosoever fall In the name of God I promise it to every one that hath undertooke with Christ in the Cause of his Church they shall succeed well They used to say in Rome in Germanieus his dayes Salvus Germanicus salva Roma salva omnia Germanicus is well and the City is well and all is well I say it with better confidence Christ is well his Church is well their Cause is good a succeeding Cause a prosperous Cause and all shall bee well the worme must beat the mountaine to dust the Woman must compasse the man It may for a while seeme to goe very hard with the Church but the end will bee comfortable it was of old said of the Romans they were sometimes praelio victo nunquam bello they lost many a battell but in the conclusion they conquered every Nation which warred against them This most undoubtedly is the fate of the Church might hold us up in all our present difficulties I know many of you are yet at your wits end and wonder what will bee the end and event of these things the pillars of the Earth the pillars of the Land the pillars of Truth as well as of Peace are shaken ready to fall wee are wofully divided into minutula srustula and the young childe of Reformation in danger to bee swallowed up a Hydra a Dragon watcheth for it a malignant party on the one hand Blasphemies heresies and divisions on the other hand but there is a Spirit working wil subdue all the zeal of the Lord wil bring all well to passe therefore hold up your Spirits and fear nothing I cannot but commend unto you that excellent speech of Luther to Melancthon when the Protestants were in a very low estate when Melancthon was affraid Come saith Luther to him let the Pholips let the Bishops let the Turks and the Devill himselfe doe his worst against us nos filii regni sumus wee are the children of the Kingdome Dominus prope adest the Lord is at hand wee are engaged with Christ whom they have crucified and spit upon wee must carry the day from them So I say to thee Feare thou nothing the Barque wherein thou art may be tost it will never be split troubles may come the present may continue new ones may come but nothing shall come but such as that Christ contrives purposely that things may appeare difficult to us that his glory may bee the more in his carrying us through them all and in the name of Christ I promise you the event shall bee successefull And as this is comfortable in reference to the whole Church so it is wonderfully comfortable to every particular soule that feares the Lord Christ and may uphold them in all their temptations and afflictions crosses and desertions I am perswaded many a soule who heares mee this day wonder how they shall subsist one weeke longer their spirituall pressures temptations desertions are so strong another findes their outward afflictions so intolerable and their pressures more and more breaking in so that they are ready every moment to sinke under their burthen and know not what will become of them ready every day to conclude as David did in his haste and feare I shall one day perish by the hand of Saul I shall never hold out I shall never be able to stand against these impetuous assaults but cheare up thy heart if there bee any thing of Christ in thee though it bee but as smoking flax it shall never bee quenched though but as a bruised reed it shall never bee broken though it bee but a babe and suckling thou shall quell all thy enemies I tell thee I know it that all the power of hell is engaged against thee because thou art for Christ whether there bee any power of hell in thy heart in thy lust or in thy family in thy father in thy husband in thy mother in thy brethren or about thee all will bee against thee but as this power is against thee so I assure thee all the power in Heaven is engaged for thee all the power that the God of Heaven hath all his Attributes are for thee and therefore doe thou conclude though thou art a worme a woman c. the worm shall thresh the mountaine the woman shall compasse the man the lambe shall overcome the wolfe and what is said in the 17 of the Revelations of all the Kings of the earth that they should set against the Virgin Company who follow the Lamb but the Lambe should overcome them for hee is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and those that are with him who are called and chosen and faithfull the like is true of every soule who is a follower of the Lord Christ they must overcome and by the helpe of the Lord tread all their enemies under their feet Secondly because how unlikely soever the thing bee the Babes and Sucklings must queil all their enemies let me teach you all this point of wisdome never have any thing to doe against the Lord Christ or any of his children beware how thou have thy hand in any contrivement against any of those that are the Lambes followers I cannot give it you better then in an expression of Solomons in Proverbes 24. 15 16. to a wicked man Lay not maite O thou wiched man against the babitation of the righteous spoile not his resting place For the righteous falls seven times a day riseth agains but the wicked fall into mischiese I take the plaine meaning to bee this Solomon tells wicked men hee knows they cannot but bee like themselves plotting and contriving mischiese against those that feare God and possibly it is that through their contrivements they may cause the people of God oftentimes to fall to fall into afflictions under many crosses but let them fall never so often they will bee like the corke thrust it under the water you cannot keep it under the water it will rise againe so shall it bee with godly men they will get out of their troubles but when the wicked falls hee falls to the purpose hee will fall into mischief and never rise againe God will deale with them as hee did with Moab in the 16 of Isaiah Wee have heard of the pride of Moab he is very proud even of his haughtinesse and his pride and his wrath but his lyes shall not bee so therefore shall Moab howle for Moab Moab thought to make my children mourn and howle but I 'll make Moab howle for himselfe So thou maist thinke to carry on a plot or designe against Religion against the servants of God either their Cause in generall or some particular person of them but forbeare it as Gamaliel said to them Forbeare these men middle not with them lest yee bee found fighters against God they may

fall into trouble but God will bring them out I conclude this with that speech of David Psal. 37. The wicked plotteth against the just and gnasheth upon him with his teeth the Lord shall laugh at him for hee seeth that his day is comming This is the first Lesson now I proceed to the second Which is the manner how these Babes and Sucklings doe exercise this their great strength Out of the mouth of Babes and Sucklings You know that every creature which God hath endued with any strength hath a peculiar way of bringing out its strength ' the Lions strength lies in his jawes the Beare in his pawes the Eagle in her talons a Man by his armes the Bull by his hornes the Scorpions have their power in their tayle ' thus every creature that hath any notable strength hath some eminent way to exercise it Now would you know which way doe these Babes and Sucklings exercise their strength it is out of their Mouth Out of the mouth of Babes and Sucklings The Lesson I propound to handle from it is this That the peculiar way whereby Christ and all his seed doe overcome their enemies is by a power that comes out of their mouth That 's the peculiar way of fighting power comes out of their mouth For the truth of it see it First in Christ himselfe when it was prophesied of him in the 11 of Isaiah v. 4. how hee should reigne and rule over all Nations the Spirit of God layes it downe thus He shall smite the Earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips hee shall slay the wicked It was a rod of his mouth and the breath of his lips that 's the staffe of his power that which is called in the 110 Psalme the rod of his strength is in this 11 of Isaiah called the rod of his mouth so also in the 19 of the Revelations v. 15. where hee is brought on horseback fighting his battaile in the field and destroying all his enemies it is said Out of his mouth came a two edged sword that with it hee should smite the Nations and if you read his story while hee was upon earth you may observe that all in a manner which he did came out of his mouth sometimes by a word of command thus his miracles were wrought be healed be opened be cleansed c. sometimes by preaching converting some convincing others sometimes by prayer that is one reason as some thinke why he is called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Word of God because all that hee did was by a word Secondly See it likewise in his servants all the servants of Christ these Babes and Sucklings that are his brethren and his seed they all overcome by a power that comes out of their mouth And to cleare this consider first some passages of Psalme 68. a Psalm which I confesse deserves to be more fully cleared then a short Sermon will allow being so full to this purpose the whole Psalme being a full declaration of the way and manner how Christ and his followers doe overcome all their enemies The first verse of the Psalme is Let God arise and his enemies bee scattered and the close of the Psalme is God hath given strength to his people blessed bee God that is the drift of it to give glory to God for the strength hee hath given to his Sonne and the followers of his Sonne to subdue all their enemies and how is this performed to say nothing of Christ himselfe you may see the way of his Saints overcomming notably described ver. 18. Thou hast ascended on high thou hast led captivity captive thou hast received gifts for men even for the bellious also that the Lord God may dwell amongst them When Christ ascended then hee gave such gifts to his children and servants that by them they should bee so farre able to tame the most rebellious that the Lord God might dwell among them set up his throne and habitation in the midst of them what these gifts were the Apostle tells you expresly in the 4 of the Ephesians When hee ascended up on high hee gave some to be Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists some Pastors and Teachers these were the gifts which were powred out upon the day of Pent●cost all which were represented by the similitude of cloven Tongues whereby the Lord would teach you that all the gifts which Christ hath powred out upon his Church there is nothing so lively a resemblance of them all as the Tongue out of the mouth by the tongue comes all the power that the Saints have you 'll finde it as plain if you look into the 11 of the Revelations ver. 5 6. where the two Witnesses of Christ their manner of overcomming is described These two Witnesses are by the best Interpreters judged to be the small number of true believers who followed Christ all the time of the Antichristian Apostasie against these all the world fights for the space of twelve hundred and sixty yeares these two Witnesses ever cartyed the victory and there are they compared to Moses and Aaron to Elias and Elisha to Joshna and Zerubbabel so that looke what Moses and Aaron did in their time of Israels comming out of Egypt what Elias and Elisha in the time of that Apostasie and Joshua and Zerubbabel in the time of that Reformation these two VVitnesses should doe the same but how even as Moses Aaron Elias and the rest overcame all enemies and difficulties by a power proceeding out of their mouth as appeares in their stories so doe these these can smite the earth with plagues these can turn waters into blood these can shut and open heaven these can destroy their enemies who would hurt them but all this proceeds out of their mouth out of their mouth comes fire that destroyes their enemies all is done by their mouth and in the 12 of the Revelations verse 11. you may there read a great battail described that is fought between the Saints Christ and his Saints and the great red Dragon but Michael and his Angels overcome the Dragon and his Angels at the 11 Verse it 's said They that is the Saints overcame the Dragon by the blood of the Lambe that was the meritorious cause but the instrumentall cause was the word of their testimony They overcame him by the blood of the Lambe and the word of their testimony but you will bee better satisfied after I have opened unto you Wherein lyes the power which proceeds out of their mouth what is it or what doth their mouth Possibly I shall not bee able to name every particular branch but there are five things that are most cleare which all are the fruit of the mouth and by them in all ages these babes and sucklings have overcome the enemy and the avenger First 1. Preaching 2. Confessing or professing the Name Truth and Cause of