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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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