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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94049	Immanuel, or The church triumphing in God with us. A sermon preached before the right honorable House of Lords, in the Abbey of Westminster; at their publique thanksgiving, November 5th 1644. By John Strickland, B.D. Pastor of the church at St Edmunds in Nevv Sarum. A member of the Assembly of Divines.	Strickland, John, 1600 or 1601-1670.	1644 (1644)	Wing S5971; Thomason E19_15; ESTC R12729	27,641	46

foed●rum inter reges formula ut c●sdem sibi fore hostes amicos mutuo promittant Calvin they promised to have the same friends mutually and the same enemies Being in covenant with her he looks upon the Church as the mysticall body of Christ the least member whereof he will as surely defend as he did the least bone of his naturall body which he would not suffer to be broken as tender to him as the apple of a mans eye is to him Zach. 2.8 How did the Lord take poore mans part against all spirituall enemies when he ransomed his soule from the gates of death When Cyrus demanded of Tigranes who came to redeem his wife that had been brought into captivitie what ransome he would give for her he answered he would redeem her libertie with his own life So God having espoused the Church unto himselfe by covenant was willing to redeem her libertie with his own bloud Act. 20.28 Besides the generall covenant the Lord hath ingaged himselfe to take the Churches part by particular and speciall promises as Josh 1.5 Josh 1.5 I will not faile thee nor forsake thee though spoken to Joshua yet intended to every member of the Church of God and so applied Heb. 13.5 as also Isa 43.2 3. Thou art mine Isa 43.2 3. when thou passest thorough the waters I will be with thee and thorough the rivers they shall not overflow thee when thou walkest thorough the fire thou shalt not be burnt neither shall the flame kindle upon thee for I am the Lord thy God the holy One of Israel thy Saviour Whether the Prophet alludes unto the Israelites passage thorough the red Sea when Pharaoh and the Aegyptians pursued them and wherein God miraculously preserved and delivered his Church I know not sure I am water and fire are usuall though figurative expressions in Scripture of the Churches enemies persecutions wherein God promiseth to undertake for her Isa 59.19 as Isa 59.19 When the enemy shall come in like a floud the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a Standard against them He will raise up enough to oppose them he will as the Psalmist speaks give a banner that it may be displayed the Spirit of the Lord either the Spirit of prayer shall do it by bringing in reliefe from heaven or the Spirit of power whereby God will stretch out his own arme to fight against them when by the Spirit of prayer he hath stirred up his people to call upon him Vse 1 This calls upon us to behold the works of the Lord as ver following the text and to consider how comfortably God hath given us experience of this truth that we may more clearly see what grounds we have of rejoycing this day and so sing praises with understanding We shall find cause enough to say with David Psal 92.4 Psal 92.4 Thou Lord hast made us glad through thy works and we will triumph in the works of thy hands And againe to say with Moses Exod. 15. The Lord is our strength and our song and is become our salvation Who is like unto thee O Lord amongst the gods Who is like thee glorious in holinesse fearfull in praises doing wonders God hath opened unto us a treasury of mercies old and new Old mercies We have heard with our eares our fathers have told us what God hath done for us in their dayes in the times of old how he took our part when destruction was coming full saile against us in 88. and scattered the Armado proudly called Invincible The enemy said as Pharaoh Exod. 15.9 I will pursue Exod. 15 9. I will overtake I will divide the spoile my lust shall be satisfied upon them I will draw my sword my hand shall destroy them but the Lord blowed with his wind Ver. 10. ver 10. and disappointed them so that in saving us our Nation from that Spanish fury the Lord hath done great things for us whereof we rejoyce This day puts us in mind of another never to be forgotten deliverance from popish treachery more admirable then the former which was from open violence of which we may say as Hannibal was wont to say of two famous Romane Captains Magis se à non pugnante Fabio quam à pugnāte Marcello timere he fear'd more Fabius not fighting then fighting Marcellus our danger was the greater in the powder treason because secrecy made the blow more unavoidable and had not been discovered but by the eye of heaven it was a treachery that wants a name to expresse it unlesse you will call it as one doth by the name of a Catholique villa●y Learned endeavours have been made to finde a parallel in former Histories but this deliverance stands alone is a None-such The Text hādled in the morning Sermon Such a deliverance as you heard in the morning Ezra 9.13 14. Wee may therefore mutato nomine not onely make it our song this day but bequeath unto posteritie for a perpetuall Song of Englands praise that of Psal 124.1 2 3. Psal 124.1 2 3. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side now may England say if it had not been the Lord who was on our side when men rose up against us then they had swallowed us up quick but blessed be the Lord who hath not given us as a prey unto their teeth Our soule is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowler Ver. 6 7. the snare is broken and we are delivered New mercies Besides these ancient mercies which we have by descent from our ancestors God hath taken our part in these dayes of Jacobs trouble how many infernall conspiracies well-night as dark and deep as the Powder-treason have been lately defeated Which nothing but the eye of heaven could have seen nothing but the hand of heaven could have prevented Manifold deliverances with many glorious Victories have been given in upon all which we may write the King of Swedens Motto upon the Battell at Lipsich A Domino facta sunt ista my memory is not a sufficient Register nor were it fit for me at present if I were able to give you an account of particulars they are so many I will not therefore tell you of Edg-hill Newbury York c. which yet are to be accounted precious and lasting Monuments of the Lords being with us God hath given us in a bill of later providences for the Church in severall parts of the Kingdome ●on mouth New-Castle ●●n mouth I ever poole ●a●en in about 〈◊〉 time by reducing severall garrisons by prevailing for us in the field in severall places God hath honoured this one day consecrated principally to the memory of Englands deliverance from the Powder-plot with such a cōfluence of mercies as might justly require the separation of many dayes unto thanksgiving We had need to look that neither God be loser in his praise by giving in so much at once