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A89577	A sacred panegyrick, or A sermon of thanks-giving, preached to the two Houses of Parliament, His Excellency the Earl of Essex, the Lord Major, court of alderman, and common councell of the city of London, the reverend Assembly of Divines, and commissioners from the Church of Scotland. Vpon occasion of their solemn feasting, to testifie their thankfullnes to God, and union and concord one with another, after so many designes to divide them, and thereby ruine the Kingdome, Ianuary 18. 1643. By Stephen Marshall, B.D. minister of Gods Word at Finching-field in Essex. Published by order of the Lords and Commons.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1644 (1644)	Wing M772; Thomason E30_2; ESTC R9118	32,433	40

me be bold first to speak to you Right Honourable the Lords and Commons of the Parliament of England wee have infinite cause all of us every day to blesse God for your unwearied labours that thus you stick to it night and day and are not discouraged But goe on still I beseech you make England a happy Nation and though many have disserted you be not dismayed I tell you their names shall be written in the Dust when yours shall be written in letters of Gold and the Generations to come shall say That these Glorious walls of Hierusalem were built in a troublesome time these foundations of Gods house were laid and the building reared up in times of Calamity but blessed be God for such Lords for such Commons which would not be taken off Carry on the work still leave not a ragge that belongs to Popery lay not a bit of the Lords building with any thing that belongs to Antichrist or Antichrists stuffe but away with all of it root and branch head and tayle throw it out of the Kingdome and resolve not to leave till you can say Now Christ is set upon his Throne and England is subdued to him and the Good Lord carry you on to doe so And you my Righ Honourable and Excellent Lord and the rest of the Noble Commanders that are ingaged in this service let me speak a word unto you I acknowledge what cause England hath to blesse God I hope your hearts beleeve how deere your labours are unto all that love God and your unwearied paines which you take how they are presented at Gods throne every day goe you on Noble and Resolute Commanders goe on and fight the Battells of the Lord Jesus Christ for so I will not now fear to call them for although indeed at the first the enemy did so disguise their enterprises that nothing cleerly appeared but only that you were compelled to take up Armes for the defence of your Liberties and to bring Rebells and Traytors to condigne punnishment but now they have ingaged all the Antichristian world so farre that all Christendome except the Malignants in England doe now see that the question in England is whether Christ or Antichrist shall be Lord or King all in the world I say again except our Malignants see it the Protestants owning the one and the Papists and Popish-affected the other as their cause Goe on therefore couragiously never can you lay out your blood in such a quarrell Christ shed all his blood to save you from hell venture all yours to set vp him vpon his throne that you may be made happy under him that you may preserve your Liberties and Lawes and preserve us out of the hands of them who would destroy all And you likewise Reverend Fathers and Bretheren you the Assembly of Divines and the Reverend and honourable Commissioners of the Church of Scotland joyned with them for the effecting of this worke goe you on I beseech you wait upon God humble your selues for former pollutions endeavour to see the patterne of the Lords house that you may hold out the true discription of the Lambs wife that England may be in love with it that you may have in due time the glory and praise of being Masierbuilders in this great worke of God And thou Right Honourable and welbeloved City of London of whom I utterly want words when I would speake goe on and be a patterne to all the Cities in the world as thou art this day in expending all for thy Glorious King the Lord Christ whom thou hast thus farre owned and whom thou lovest the Lord hath given thee great weatlh and estate grudge not still to lay it out in his cause if he had tooke it an other way thou wouldest have been contented if fire had burnt it if pestilence had wasted thy inhabitants if famine or plunder or any thing thou wouldest have been contented but now though there goe pound after pound and thousand after thousand and Regiment after Regiment when it is for the Lord Christ and purity of Religion which the enemy would deprive thee of together with thy civill Liberties never could it goe so honourably so nobly for his glory and thy owne comfort Goe on therefore I beseech you all and cary on the worke and for your incouragement remember and observe how the Lord your God goeth before you observe him in all his goings how he watcheth over you every day no weapon can prosper that is forged against you no tongue ariseth up in Judgment against you but the Lord condemnes it every one that pleads against you the Lord pleads against him though you loose many of your Noblest and wisest men the Lord supplies all to you if you had all the Intelligence in the world I know not how you should have things discovered to you so as the Lord hath discovered them so that if you have Raine one day you have sun-shine another and sometimes both of them mingled together And although as yet this day of our visitation is like that day in Zacharie Neither darke nor light but between them both in the evening you shall have light abundantly attend therefore upon the worke and resolve the Lord assisting you never to give over till you have set up David to be your King that is Christ upon his Throne and for your helpe in it I will commend to you certaine quallifications which you shall finde in this very Chapter amongst them that came thus to set up David to be King I shall name you six or seaven of them but I will insist only upon one of them 1. Look into the Chapter and you shall finde that they were many of them wisemen that knew the times and what belonged to every one of their dueties labour for that you have a Promise That God will grant wisedome to those that seek it Secoondly They were skillfull men every one of them able to doe that which belonged to his place Doe not you undertake any thing but what God hath fitted you for Thirdly They were Couragious men their faces were like Lyons they abhorred any danger when it was in Davids cause labour for such a spirit say as Nehemiah did should such a man as I flie no not to save my life flie when I am ingaged for Christ Fourthly They had a Spirit of Love infinite love to David and his Cause you shall finde when some of those that David most suspected came unto him when hee was at a very low ebbe he asked them whether they came friendly and heartily they answered presently thine we are David Peace be unto thee c. So say thine we are Lord Christ thine we are peace be to thy Cause oh come with Love that is the greatest means of all it is the band of Perfection and the only way to build up the Church of Christ I will saith Paul shew you a more

the worke that they would build though they built with the sword in one hand and a Trewell in the other and though they wrought both night and day and that some slept whilst others waked and on they would goe the Rulers and Heads being the forwardest of all when the enemie saw that the Text saith they were extreamly cast downe because they saw the worke was wrought by the hand of God So that enemies faile in their spirits when they see without changing the Nobles and Leaders are resoluedly set to carie on this worke That Christ shall be set vp for Lord and King And thus Beloved I have cleared the first Branch of this observation That the greatest joy that can be to any people is to see such a concurrence of heart to have the Lord Christ set vp for Lord King For the Application of it I shall insist only vpon two things First what infinite cause have all wee that are here gathered together to blesse the Lord for this day for this very day and all these dayes wherein we now live I confesse Beloved I discerne there are very many with whom you shall never talke but they are complaining of the miserablenesse of our dayes oh the times are miserable what glorious times had we three or four yeares or five or seaven yeares agoe for then they had trading plenty and ease and every one could sit vnder his owne vine and his figge tree no adversary nor evill occurrent and now they heare of nothing but warres and blood and exhausting of treasure and losse of their children and kinred and plundering their goods every where so that there is nothing but complaining amongst a world of people as if our dayes were most miserable Now Beloved give me leave to speake my thoughts freely I will set aside my Text and the matter I am in hand with and yet I will cofidently affirme that our dayes now are better then they were seaven yeares agoe Because it is better to see the Lord executing Judgment then to see men working wickednesse and to behold a people lye wallowing in their blood rather then apostating from God and embracing of Idolatry and superstition and banishing of the Lord Christ from amongst them Set the worke of this Text aside and the dayes are not so miserable now as they were then but take this in which I am handling and I will here in the wisest and greatest Auditory that any man in this Age hath preached unto not feare to say that since England was England since any Booke was written concerning England never was their that cause of joy and rejoyceing as there is this very day in England Was there ever a Parliament in England knowne which laid the cause of Christ and Religion so to heart as this Parliament hath done Did ever any Parliament till now with David sware as in the 132. Psalm That they will never give rest to their eyes nor slumber to their eye-lids till they have found out a place to set the Ark of Christ upon to set up Christ for their King Did ever Parliament call such an Assembly of Divines and make them by solemne Vow or Oath ingage themselves to present nothing to them but what should be to their best understanding the very will of the Lord God was there ever Parliament and Nobilitie and Ministers and Citizens and so many ten thousands of all sorts in England till now who did joyne in such a Covenant yea the two Nations together that they will to their uttermost indeavour the Reformation of Religion in the purity of it and preservation of it according to Gods Word Did ever when heretofore England hath been engaged in warre and blood the City of London the rest of the Tribes the Godly Party throughout England so willingly exhaust themselves only that Christ might be set up and willingly saying every day to the Lord God Lord take all so Christ may be but King Did ever any of you reade it to be thus with England till now My heart is towards the Governours of England which thus willingly offer themselves and I cannot but tell you that I think you should all doe as David and the Nobles did when they fetched up the Ark of God from Kiriath-Jearim And I the father instance in it because their case and ours were very like for there the Ark had been in Captivity amongst the Philistines and when it was brought out of Captivity and placed at Kiriath-Jearim ●it was but in Confinio Philisti●●●um neere the border of the Philistines whither when Gods people went to worship they went in danger they were sub●ect to the incursions of the Philistines and therefore it is said all Is●●el mourned after the Lord that is They could never goe to Worship but they went in fear of some mischief but now when David and the Nobles joyne together to bring up the Ark of God and to set it in a fit place for the glory of it they all danced and skipped for joy and King David the most joyfull Dauncer among them Though Michal scoffed at him and if this be to be vile saith hee I will be more vile then thus I will daunce againe before the Lord Thus should we doe When Jehoiada the high Priest on a suddaine brought out young King Joash when the people thought they should have alwayes laine under the Tyranny of Athalyah and never seen a Prince more of Davids race when such an unexpected favour was bestowed upon them how did they shout and joy Thus should our souls doe Honourable and Beloved had you ever more cause of joy Verily if there be any in this Assembly that thinks not this a sufficient retribution and satisfaction for all his Twentieth Part for all his Contributions for all his Payments and Hazards if he think himself not well appayed to see the Lord doing all this I say he is blinde I say his heart is not right with God hee hath no share in this present businesse But to the rest of you who know the glory and excellency of this worke which the Lord God is doing amongst us I beseech you rejoyce in it and goe your ways and eat the fat and drink the sweet praise the Lord for all the good he is doing to this our Israel and now that the walls are setting up doe as they did in Nehemiahs dayes when they had built them they shouted and rejoyced so that the noyse was heard I know not how many miles off so let all England Cry that our blood our Armies our Poverty our Millions wherein wee are ingaged are all abundantly repayed in this That there is such a Concurrence to set up the Lord Christ upon his Throne to be Lord and King over this our Israel And then Secondly Let me exhort you all to goe on in this Work which you have set your hearts and hands unto And wherein the Lord hath mercifully Carried you on thus farre and let

his Prince or Church or State but I speak of men of integrity and faithfulnesse of goodnesse who will trample all under their feet so that Christ might raign and that a Kingdome might be made happy such men set about a Prince may make a King like David and preserve him such a one if he be so and so right honourable have I done with the first part of my Text The matter of their joy the concurrence of them to set up David to be their King I should now have come to the second The manner of expressing their joy which was by feasting you 'le have enough of that anon All that I shall say shall be to perswade you to take heede that you have not too much of it I have not time to handle it otherwise I could have shewed you How Gods people used on such occasions as these to have feasting and rejoycing But I must confesse our dayes are such in regard of the manifold distresses that this Kingdom and poore Ireland are wrapped in that were it not upon such an occasion as this feast is I should say to all Feasters as Vriah said to David when he would have him go home to his wife The Arke said he and Israel and my Lord Ioab and all lye in the open field and shall I go home to be merry with my wife as the Lord liveth I will not doe it so I would say else to all Feasters Is Ireland undon and so many Counties in the Kingdom in that distresse are there so many hundreds so many thousands that lived heretofore like Nobles like Gentlemen who now have hardly bread to put into their bellies and canst thou finde money and cost in needlesse and Prodigall feasting this I should else have said But I confesse beloved to my poore observation Never was there a feast upon a better occasion among us nor for a better end then the Feast of this day not upon a better occasion that when the enemie did endeavour to ruin us by our division that this should be made an occasion of our feasting and rejoycing together and for such an end that whereas they would faine blow it over all the Kingdom over all the world that we are rent and divided a sunder the Lords from Commons and both Houses from the Citie c. we purposely Feast to praise God and tell all the world there is no such matter that we are all one of one heart and one minde that our eating and drinking should speake this out that all the world should heare it It is a blessed opportunitie and the Lord guided them who ever first perswaded to it I onely pray you Lords and Gentlemen in your Feasting do onely what becomes a Feast which followes a holy Convocation a day of rejoycing in the Lord and therefore in it observe these few Rules Remember first God must be regarded banish not Christ out of your Company let there be no carriage at your Table which may grieve him and make him say This Roome I delight not to be in Remember all the Feasts of Gods people in the Old Testament they were Sacrifices or Feasts which were accompanied with Sacrifices yea the very heathen counted them prophan men who would offer to make a feast of that that was not first offered to their gods hereby to make it blessed to them So do you eate and drink as in the presence of the Lord that you may praise the Name of the Lord who hath shewed this mercy to you doe as the little birds who take not one drop but they lift up their heads to heaven as if they would tell all the world whence they received their food so do you acknowledge the Lord give him his glory and his praise let there be no uncomely carriage among you I should justly be blamed if I should think you needed any perswasion to keepe you from drinking healths from riot and excesse I know you abhor it but I beg that none of your servants nor attendants may do it that nothing may be done which would grieve the Lord Secondly let the maine end of your feasting be Symbolum vinculum charitatis a pledge and bond to shew and more to make you all one of one heart and one minde that you may pledge one another in such a Cup as may not only speak you all to be one but may attaine the very end for which this feast is made more to ingage you in this Common cause That this Feast may be as a Feast which I think Lucian speakes of it where a poore wronged man made a Feast of an Oxe and every one who tasted of his meate did thereby engage himselfe to live and dye with that poore man to recover his right in somewhat that he was wronged in and so let this engage your Spirits that now you have eaten and drunk of their Cup that Your and their Spirits and Prayers and Hearts and Purses shall be all one O if this might be the carriage of it this day would be a blessed day There is one thing more that must not be forgotten you must in such feastings as these Remember the poore for whom nothing is provided alwayes did Gods people make at their feasts collections or contributions in Hester in Nehemiah c. Go your wayes and eate and drinke and remember them for whom nothing is provided and the very heathens upon such occasions would send portions at their Festivall times to the poore and needy And for that very end I confesse I was in hope that at such a great meeting as this is there would have been some publike contribution and collection that there being so many poore brethren in the Town plundred and undone and distressed our feasting might have given them a refreshing also but it did not appeare fit as I am informed to the wisdome of this Noble Citie when they had invited the Honourable Houses of Parliament and others to refresh the poore at the cost of their ghests but what is to be done for the poore they will do it at their own proper costs and charges I know they will not forget them but I beseech you all not to omit this duty upon this Festivall day though there be no Basons at the door before you sleep finde some Bason or other finde some poore to whom you may do somewhat that they may know that your hearts have remembred the afflicted in this day wherein God hath refreshed you and so much for this time FINIS 2 Cor. 4. 6. Gen. 11. Acts 2. Ester 8. ult. 9. 1. Lev. 23. 2. Esa. 25. 6. Gen. 32. 2. Especially these la●t ●●o●●s Sui●● 〈…〉 sse of the T●xt t● the occa●i●n P●● 25. 11. 2 Sam. 23. 3. 4. Some generall Observations out of this whole Chapter Vers 1. to 23. 17 18 19 20 c. Compare the first part of this Chapter with 2 Sam. 23. 8. ad finem Verse 29. Verse 32. Ver. 15. 20.