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A89564	A divine project to save a kingdome: Opened in a sermon to the Right Honorable the Lord Maior and court of aldermen, of the citie of London, at their anniversary meeting on Easter Munday, Apr. 22. 1644. at Christ-Church. By Stephen Marshall, B.D. Minister of Gods word at Finchingfield in Essex. Imprimatur, Charles Herle.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1644 (1644)	Wing M752; Thomason E47_31; ESTC R20669	34,916	50

conversation of his Wife or a Father of his Children Behold thou art called a Jew instructed in the Law makest thy boast of God c. Dost thou commit Sacriledge Dost thou steale Dost thou commit aduitery What then The Name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you as it is written This serves first to acquit God in these his severe judgements against us in England he hath called an assembly of violent men against us he hath given us to drink the cup of astonishment a cup of deadly Wine but in truth when we consider things sadly and seriously we may wonder we remain a Nation that we are not utterly consumed God hath made us the wonder of the World for mercy hath done mighty things for this Nation hath heaped deliverance upon deliverance no Nation like us for mercy but alas I must also say no Nation like us for unkindnesse and Rebellion against him we who should have made all his Mercies motives and incentives to further obedience service and thankfulnesse have not only sinned under them and against them but with them fought against him with his own weapons and been worse and worse the more he hath done for us the more his Sun hath shined upon us the more like a filthy dunghill have we putrifyed and stunke in his nostrils Let us therefore humbly acquit him and say with Daniel The Lord our God is righteous in all his judgements for we obeyed not his voyce And with Ezra What shall we say after this O our God for we have forsaken thy Commandements Secondly Yea let us tremble and be deeply abased before him for our great rebellions lest he proceed and make us drink the very dregges of his cup of indignations He was pleased publickly in calling his people out from spirituall Babylon to take Germany the first of all the Nations and now in his day of visitation he hath first begun with them and these six and twenty yeares he hath most heavily afflicted them and still his hand is stretched out against them long time hath he spared us and seemed to say of us as once he did of Judah and Jerusalem I have cut off other Nations and destroyed their Cities I said surely England will receive instruction that their dwelling should not bee cut off but they rose early and corrupted all their doings And now the cup is come over unto us we are last taken in hand Oh let us timely meet him lest he proceed to make our plagues proportionable to his former mercies and our wickednesse Thirdly And for time to come let us beware that with Jesurun we kick not at him when he hath fatted us the usuall course of the world is this the more mercies God gives them the more liberty they take to sin against him the more learned the more honored the more rich men are the more bold they make with Gods Law to break it and cast it out and the more spirituall helps we have and furtherances many injoy the more secure proud and wanton they are before him but know for certain he keeps a Register of all his Mercies and thy account must be answerable he remembers how long thou hast lived upon him how neare he hath taken thee unto himselfe how oft he hath spared thee how accommodated thee with wealth yokefellow children credit friends but above all how long thou hast sate under his heavenly droppings what variety of Ministers c. Hee furnisheth thee with all let thy care be to bethink thy self how thou mayest lift up thy head when he will come to reckon for all thy Talents and when at any time the flesh begins to take liberty because he inlargeth thee check it thus and say Many a mercy hath the Lord given me for which of them do I thus abuse him Shall I thus requite the Lord O foolish creature and unwise is not hee thy Father that brought thee c. Thirdly that this betided them just when God was giving them possession of the promised Land when hee was marching in the greatnesse of his strength to destroy all their enemies that not a man might bee able to resist them yet then hee himselfe with his owne hands for their sinnes turneth upon them ready to destroy them all Learne this lesson from it That when the Lord is bestowing the greatest mercy working the greatest deliverance destroying the potentest enemies carrying himselfe so that all the world shall not bee able to hinder a people from receiving the greatest and most desirable mercy yet their owne wickednesse breaking out may deprive them of all and utterly undoe them when they are nearest the injoying of their happinesse Now the 40. yeares were ended and Og and Sihon both kild and God ingaged by Covenant that no enemie should stand before them had renewed his Covenant againe with them put them into a way that there needeth no more but meerely to enter in the Land a new rebellion breaketh out on their part which bringeth in a Plague that kild more of them then they had lost in all the warres that ever they had had This is just like that which the Lord spake by the Prophet Jeremie That at what time hee speaketh concerning a nation to build it and to plant it if that nation doe evill in his sight hee will repent him of all the good that hee promised and hee will roote them up and breake them downe not that God changeth his mind but that these wickednesses did change the state and condition of this people and put them out of a capacitie of receiving what God else would bee willing to conferre upon them Beloved I dare not stay you on this neither durst I passe it over without mentioning and I mention it to this end that wee may not bee too forward to promise our selves too much of our present prosperous condition which we seeme to bee in I confesse the Lord hath not onely by a mightie hand upheld us in the midst of all our tryalls these two or three last yeares but hath of late since wee have owned him in a Covenant and sworne for reformation of Religion and the Councells of such as seeke our ruine have more apparently owned Idolatry by joyning with the bloody Rebels of Ireland that are setting up popery and rooting out our Religion in Ireland and indeavouring the like against us since that day I say the Lord hath most admirably gone on and owned us and beene with our Armies and hardly unlesse it were once given us any check but all hath gone on very prosperously and through the goodnesse of God to mans eye wee are in a better posture now then ever wee were since the beginning of our publike troubles But for all that doe not promise your selves too much out of the present condition of things they may bee all well to mans eye but I tell you brethren there are such things found in every

A DIVINE PROIECT TO SAVE A KINGDOME Opened In a Sermon to the Right Honorable the Lord Maior and Court of Aldermen of the Citie of London at their Anniversary meeting on Easter Munday Apr. 22. 1644. at Christ-Church By STEPHEN MARSHALL B. D. Minister of Gods Word at Finchingfield in Essex JER. 5. 1. Run you to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem and see now and know and seeke in the broad places thereof if yee can find a man if there bee any that executeth judgement that seeketh the truth and I will pardon it REV. 3. 19. Bee zealous therefore and repent Imprimatur Charles Herle London Printed by Richard Cotes for Stephen Bowtell and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Bible in Popes-head-Alley 1644. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE The Lord Maior Court of Aldermen of the famous Citie of London LUke-warme Laodicea by some hath beene made Englands Embleme and sutably enough not so much to the cold climate and this coole evening of the world we live in as to the tepid spring of our reformation at first especially to the decaying Autumne which of late yeares wee were come to But as cold oft breeds an inflammation so this hath inkindled Gods wrath and it these sad combustions which we are already well-nigh consumed with what remaines now therefore but that fire should take out fire the kindly warmth of holy zeale the wofull heate of this devouring fire that it may not come to everlasting burnings Great is the honour that God in this kind hath conferred upon you and great the blessings which hee hath to this whole land conveyed by you Your Engines not more admirable to quench fire in your Citie then your care cost and blood freely usefull to the extinguishing of the generall scare-fire of this whole kingdome your zeale herein hath saved many provoked more hath under God beene as a wall of fire about us and will bee for ever a more sparkling Diamond in your Crowne then those stones of fire in the King of Tyres Diadem The Ministers Lungs some make the Prophets Bellowes to blow up a dying fire I desired that mine in preaching this Sermon might helpe to blow up yours to a yet brighter flame and if this further publishing of it at your request may any whit serve to keep still alive this holy fire on the Altar of your hearts whilst Incendiaries set on fire from hell are every where shooting fiery bullets to set all into a further combustion I am but subservient to my great Master in his present work who is now purging the blood of our Jerusalem out of the midst of it by the spirit of judgement and burning Fervet opus and then I know you will not coole It s reformation worke and the examples of Phinehas Elias John Baptist Luther Knox and those other great reformers tell us it requires zeale Baruch was a great repairer of Jerusalems walls but it is said of him that flagrante animo instauravit hee repaired fast but it was when hee was hot upon it It is Gods worke and they must be fervent in spirit that would serve the Lord who had rather wee should let his worke alone then see us freeze at it it is his zeale that must now doe all for us and therefore hee expects that our zeale should doe what wee can for him It is Christs worke and cause who is willing to redeeme us but that wee might bee a people zealous of good workes hee did not sweat that wee should freeze nor shed his blood out of his owne veines that it might congeale in ours It is finally a great worke and the oppositions against it are greater but as they said to Joshua Onely be couragious so I to you Onely bee zealous and then bee not discouraged Hannibal by fire made his way over the Alpes and you by zeale may make yours over greatest mountaines of opposition which without running up with full strength and speed will not bee gotten up to Palmes are the Embleme of victory but they love to grow in a hot soyle be warme and promise your selves the Palme nay God promiseth it and that not onely to Smyrna whose name smells sweet of warme incense that if shee will be faithfull to the death he will give her a Crowne of life but even to our cooler Laodicea that her whom hee was ready to spew out of his mouth whilst she was lukewarme hee will be ready to come into and sup with when she shall once be zealous and repent which is the humble and hearty prayer of your Servant for Christ STEPHEN MARSHALL A DIVINE PROIECT TO SAVE A KINGDOME Numb. 25. 10 11. And the Lord spake unto Moses saying Phinehas the Sonne of Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the Priest hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel while hee was zealous for my sake among them that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousie IF you view this Portion of Scripture seriously you will find Right Honorable and Beloved that the businesse contained in it doth very nigh concern our selves In a few words The condition of the Israelites at the present time which this Text speaketh of was this They had indured a long peregrination in the wildernesse for forty yeares together God had visited former rebellions upon them and now their wandrings were well-nigh accomplished they were come almost to the skirt of the Land of Canaan God had begun to deliver the promised inheritance unto them by overthrowing and rooting out Sihon King of the Amorites and Og the King of Bashan and had given their Country into the hand of Israel and had told them hee would goe on and root out all the rest of the Canaanites before them that there should not a man be able to stand in their way As the Lord your God hath done unto these two Kings so shall hee do unto the other Kingdoms whither they passed they need not feare them the Lord their God would fight for them and would very shortly place them in that land which hee had long before promised to their fore-fathers And now when they were just upon entring into the Land they had like to have made ship wrack in the very Harbour and had brought down such a new Plague upon them that if there had not been a timely remedy put in they had perished every Mothers childe of them without any forain enemy striking a stroake at them And thus it was when Balaam could not obtaine leave from God to curse the Israelites hee taught Balak the King of Moab a trick how hee might make God himselfe curse them viz. If hee could by any wayes draw them to rebell against God Hee had told him plainly that while they kept close to God all the world would bee too weak for them but could hee but devise any way to make them fall out with God God would