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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89567	Gods master-piece. A sermon tending to manifest Gods glorious appearing in the building up of Zion: preached to the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in the Abbey Church of Westminster, March 26. 1645. Being the day of the monthly publike fast, / by Stephen Marshall, B.D. minister of Gods Word, at Finching-field in Essex. Published by order of the House of Peeres.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1645 (1645)	Wing M756; Thomason E279_2; ESTC R200025	37,316	57

and out of this he looks for no other glory then from a Cabul a land of dirt or a shepheards cottage or a goard which springs up in a night and withers in a day but this peece he sets up for a higher end to be the eternall mansion of his holinesse and honour this is his Metropolis his Temple his house where his fire and furnace is his Court his glorious high Throne and therefore his glory is much concerned in this work when Nebuchadnezzar would have a City for the honour of his kingdome and the glory of his Majesty he will make it a stately peece Solomon made all his Kingdome very rich and glorious but he made his Court and especially his Throne another manner of thing so stately that the like was not to be seen in any other kingdome and therefore no wonder though he appeare in his glory in building up of that which we may boldly say must one day be made as glorious as his wisdome can contrive and his power bring to passe Having thus plainly opened and proved this excellent Doctrine give me leave in the Application to present you with some matter first of Joy and consolation secondly of Reproof and Terrour thirdly of Exhortation and Duty Here is a further excellent encouragement and strengthening of our comfort in that which I touched before viz. an assurance that this work must goe on doe all the world what they can they can never hinder the building up of Gods Church because God hath so set his heart upon it that for the doing thereof he hath cloathed himselfe with his glory and girded himselfe with strength and will he be hindred in it though all the Nations of the world should rise up against him to hinder it It is true the gates of Hell doe alwayes appeare with all their wisdome and strength against it but what of that it is his glory to build it and can we imagine that any shall be able to spoil him of his glory that any can pull downe what he will build or root up his pleasant plant when he hath called it his house of glory which he will glorifie that poore wormes shall be able to defile or deface it No no this work must be carried on feare it not He hath evidently begun it among our selves and we are often discouraged in it there is yet much to be done much rubbish still remaines to be carried out and we are very low our estates wasted the builders discouraged their hands weakned but not by might or an Army but by my Spirit saith the Lord must this work proceed and then what art thou O great mountain thou great mountain of Popery Prelacy superstition oppression division heresie schism what art thou before my servants the builders thou shalt flow down thou shalt be made a plaine Be strong therefore ye Nobles and servants of God whose hearts are set upon this work you shall notwithstanding all opposition see the cap-stone set upon the head of it and cry Grace Grace unto it The Lord useth an excellent similitude in Esay 31. 4. when he came downe to rescue his people and they were discouraged just as we are now with a multitude of oppositions he compares himselfe to a Lion or a young Lion that hath caught his prey when the multitude of shepheards are called out against him he scornes to mend his pace or be afraid of their voice So will the Lord of Hosts doe in building of Zion let all the world rise up against this work and he scornes to draw back from them or be afraid of the shepheards or their dogges he can worry them and all their dogs to peeces And therefore I beseech you who are engaged in this great worke of God when any discouragements fall out before you remember the errand that God bids Hezekiah send to Senacharib who came with some two or 300000 fighting men and sent him a very proud scornfull and threatning message tell him said God the daughter of Zion sits and laughes at him shakes her head and scornes him bids him doe his worst and well she might for these proud mountaines soone flowed downe for in in one night one of God servants killed 180000 eâ—en all his Captaines and great men were all killed so say thou when great difficulties rise up and thou beginnest to think Lord by whom shall Jacob arise for he is small our money failes us our Trade is gone yea in many places Ordinances faile us mens hearts are discouraged what shall we doe say the Lord hath put on his glorious apparell and he must and will carry on this work he will never undergoe that reproach This man began to build and was not able to make an end But why doth he then so delay it alas it is worse with us then it was two or three yeares agoe the summer is past the harvest is come and yet we are not delivered much bloud is shed the enemy is yet strong and potent our hearts faile our instruments decay and yet the worke hangs if God did appeare in his glory why would it come on thus heavily I answere the Lord is a God of judgment he is a wise God he knowes the fittest time That he doth delay is neither because he is weary of the work or because he is not able to doe it or because the enemy is strong No no the Holy One of Israel never fainted neither is he weary but it is onely because his best time is not yet come he will it may be more fit the enemies for destruction and us for deliverance it may be he will hunt us yet more from all our self-confidence and lay us low but in the fittest and best time of all this work must proceed no weapon can prosper that is forged against it the Lord will carry it on and finish it whether we live to see it it 's no matter if we dye and goe to heaven we are well enough let us serve God in our generation in this work which himselfe will owne in all generations Is it the Lords glory to build up Zion then miserable and wretched and cursed are all they that are the enemies of Zion who would pull Zion downe who with the children of Edom who cry Downe with it downe with it even to the very foundation who with Sanballat and Tobiah doe strive all they can to keep it low to hinder the Work-men that they may not carry it on what doe you think will become of these I le tell you how you shall guesse you shall finde in the sixth of Ezra when a great Emperour of Persia came to understand a decree of Cyrus wherein it appeared he was stirred up of God to build his house at Hierusalem he wrote a Letter to Tatnai and Shethar-boznai and many others who were enemies to the Jewes and had writ to the Emperour to know whether they

like a ball in strange countries It is no thinking to continue greatnesse in despight of God who at his pleasure puls down and raiseth up But in this work you have him ingaged build you Gods house and hee will build yours give his blessing to your posterity or in case they faile give you a name that is better then of Sons and Daughters But I 'l tell you that which is better for you better to your soules when you have served him herein this glorious work when the day of account and reward comes they who faithfully work most in this building shall have the best wages they shall sit upon thrones there and shine even as the Sun in the firmament for ever Secondly The benefit of this work for the publique State The publique State my Lords is that that you have sweat and toyl'd for hitherto and you would rejoyce to see it well setled to see poore England buoide out of these quick-sands into which it is falne What a blessed man would he be that could but put us into the way how to pacify Gods wrath kindled against the Nation and secure it for the time to come Now my Lords this will doe both this will pacify the wrath of God No such way under Heaven to remove it as to goe on faithfully in Reforming the House of God in setling Religion according to the Word That Heathen King Artaxerxes sent a letter by Ezra to all the Governours and bids them that they should let Ezra have all that he would desire for the House of God so much Gold and Silver and Wheat and Oyle and Salt as much as he would and bids him goe on and set all in order and what was the great Motive For saith he Why should there be wrath upon the Realme of the King and his Sons marke it if all was not done that was requisite for the House of God there would be wrath and let it be done and there would be no wrath so I say to you that God who hath cast us into these combustions can easily quiet them how often when we have been ready to strike saile in the harbour hath some Euroclydon cast us out into the sea againe and on the other side when ready to sinke how unexpectedly hath he raised our hopes Our work lies with him and with him only pacify God and all is done this black storm will bee blown over if hee but speak all will bee quiet you may see this clearly in the prophecy of Haggai God was very much displeased with them and blasted and cursed every thing they took in hand but as soon as they cordially set upon this work his spirit was pacifyed towards them And then for time to come with which I end The doing of this work wil be the readiest way to secure England against the like danger I am perswaded you all think that the seeds of deadly and continuall feuds are now rooted between Family and Family Neighbour and Neighbour such are the plunders and havocks made out of cruell spight and God knowes whether the childe but new born will ever live to see an end of them these I think are your feares but carry you on this work and this will secure the peace of the State for the time to come I say againe the doing of this shall secure all so that no Enemy shall bee able to hurt you It 's said of the Trojans Palladium and the Romans Ancile that they were the protection of those Cities that while they were safe no Enemy could hurt them when they were stolne and gone the City was lost Certainely the establishing of this will bee the Palladium and Ancile of England you have a promise in the fourth of Isaiah the latter end of it The Lord would create upon every dwelling of Mount Zion a pillar of a cloud and a pillar of fire for Upon all the glory there shall bee a defence mark a defence upon all the glory Keligion is the glory the ordering of Gods House is his glory and that is a defence even a wall of fire And you have had good experience of the fruit of Religion in this huge conflict wee have had these three or foure yeeres together for our Religion and Liberty mark who are they that have left you and who adheard unto you whether the Counties that have forsaken you have not generally been the dark places the Cities and corners of the Land where nothing but superstition Prelacy Ignorance and profanenesse have dwelt and whether the City of London and the Counties which have had the Gospel where Christ hath been soundly preached have not been the men who to the exhausting of all have adheared to you in your righteous defence and it 's hard to name one Town that hath been against you where the people are subdued to the Gospel of Christ and you find the generality of godly men thorow-out the Kingdom resolved to sink or swim with you because Jesus Christ hath put it into your hearts to reform and build up Zion I will conclude with that promise in the 58 of Isaiah the latter end where the Lord exhorts his people to build the old waste places and repaire the Cities for the generations c. The great incouragement which the Lord there gives them is The glory of the Lord shall bee their Rereward not their reward onely but their rereward their reserve that that shall back them the glory of the Lord is Religion the Ark and Ordinances Set up Religion beautifie the place of his Sanctuary make the place of his feet glorious that will keep God among you and keep the people faithfull to God and your selves and establish you so that the Enemy shall not bee able to rise up or if he do and come one way he shall fly seven waies And this is the first Circumstance from which the Prophet so magnifies this work of building up Zion because when the Lord doth build up Zion hee appears in his glory Consider what I have said and the Lord give you understanding in al things FINIS Esa. 60. 13. The Introduction shewing the tenor and occasion and scope of this Psalme Esa. 40. 1 2. Jer. 29. 12 13. Esa. 40. 31. And of these words Doct. 1. Doct. 2. Doct. 1. The building up oâ—Zion is a work peculiar to God alone 2 Sam. 5. 7. What is meant by Zion and the building of it 2 Sam. 6. 12. compared with 1 King 8. 1. Ephes 4. 11 12. 13. Proved by Scriptures 1. Mat. 16. 28. Psal. 32. 13 14 c. 48. 12. 51. 18. 69. 35. 126. 1 Esa. 14. 32. 28. 16. Zach. 8. 3 4. Psal. 121. 1 2. And by reason 1. because no other builders have any skill to doe it 2. 1 Psal. 49. 1. 8. Though God use them as his instruments Psal. 121. 12. Esa. 63. 5. Yet they contribute nothing to this work 1 Cor. 3. 6

in truth it is glory it selfe it is the very face of God and therefore holy men are said to beare the image of God because they are like his very face when Holy Holy Holy is the Lord of Hosts may be sung unto him the whole earth is full of his glory with that work which causeth his holinesse to appeare then like the Sun he shewes his glorious face when he appears in his holinesse Now this excellent Attribute is celebrated to the height in the Churches building This is cleare in that solemne and glorious representation of Christ ruling in and beautifying of his Church Revel. 4. the foure Beasts representing the Catholike Church in the foure quarters of the world when night and day they give glory to Christ the head and King the Builder and Ruler of his Church their Song is onely this Holy Holy Holy Lord God Almighty and that triumphant Song of the Church recorded Revel. 15. for the victory obtained over the Beast wherein they celebrate his greatnesse truth and justice the Church sets this as the rise of all For thou onely art holy and in truth the usuall name he takes to himselfe and by which his people call him in reference to this work is The Holy One of Israel and it is fit it should be so for then he shewes how little he can endure iniquity then he purges away the sin of his people then he makes them a peculiar people zealous of good workes then he separates their drosse and their rubbish from them then he makes them like unto himselfe never doth God beautifie his holinesse so as he doth when he builds the Church That is the third Fourthly and that which is one of the sweetest the Lord never magnifies nor glorifies his free grace and his love so as he doth in this work of building the Church all the treasures of love and favour which before lay hid in his breast do gloriously shine out then he marries her or keeps his Wedding-feast and makes all the world to know how deare she is unto him there and then and no where else doth he bestow his choice favours When he gives Kingdomes and Empires he gives nothing but a peece of clay what he cares not for but when he builds the Church there he layes out his Treasure The time would faile me to number the gifts which he then gives Great Princes ordinarily have their Almoners with them wheresoever they goe and they give this or that peece of silver or gold to ordinary Petitioners but when they will appeare in their glory and give such gifts as shall magnifie them then it may be they create Earles and Lords and great Officers of State which are peculiar and discriminating pledges of their love So doth God when he builds up other Nations with outward mercies with fruitfull seasons health wealth and pompe c. he esteemes them as nothing he cares not a shoo-latchet for these common gifts they are his common almes but when he builds his Church then he gives his Ordinances then he gives his Ministers then he gives them the Graces of his Spirit these are his Chrysolites his Emeralds his Pearles and Diamonds then he makes all the world stand amazed as my Text saith and all the Kings to wonder at the love and beauty which he shewes to his people in the day he builds up Zion then they who despised her shall wonder at her Who is this that comes out of the wildernesse leaning upon her beloved and bow downe at her feet and confesse that she is now to be called Heph-zibab and Beulah because her God delighteth in her And lastly The Lord useth more then at any other time to glorifie that excellent Attribute of his Justice because then he takes vengeance upon his Churches enemies You shall finde in the Scripture that these two things ever goe together the Lambes marrying and the Whores burning Zions building and Babels ruine his Servants exalting his enemies falling his People raised up his adversaries spoiled then doth the Lord call them to account and pay them eye for eye tooth for tooth breach for breach the day of Zions deliverance and redemption and fury and recompence to her adversaries ever goe together Behold saith the Lord in that day I will undoe all that afflict thee and will save and gather thee in one and the same day the spoiled Church shall be rescued and they who oppressed her shall be fed with their own flesh and made drunk with their own bloud The Church militant and malignant are as a pair of ballances or Buckets at a Well when the one goeth up the other still goeth down And by this time I hope you see how the Lord appeares in his glory when he builds up Zion I have but the fourth question to answer and this will be fit for Application and that is Why the Lord appeares thus glorious in this work rather then in any other There are these two reasons of it First because it is a worke that infinitely pleaseth him Men chuse to appeare in their cloaths and behaviour suitable to the work that they are to be employed in the woman of Tekoah must feigne her selfe to be a mourner when she goes on a mournfull message and David when he goes on a dolefull journey covers his face and puts on mourning apparell but when Solomon is to be crowned he goes in all his royalty and a Bride adorns her self gloriously when she is to be married Verily so doth the Lord when he goes about a worke he takes no pleasure in he puts on his mourning apparell he covers himself with a cloud and the heavens with blacknesse when he is to doe his strange work of judgment then he mournes How shall I give thee up Ephraim how shall I make thee as Sodom my bowels rowled within me my compassions are turned but the building of Zion doth infinitely please him because Zion is as the apple of his eye to him he bought Zion at a dear rate with his owne bloud he layes Zion in his bosome he is ravished with Zion Zion is his Love his Dove his faire one he hath chosen Zion and loves the gates of it better then all the Palaces of Jacob and being so pleasing to him no marvell if he put on all his glorious apparell when he is to adorn and build up Zion And seâ—ondly it is Because all the glory that he looks for to eternity must arise out of this one work of building Zion this one work shall be the onely monument of his glory to eternity this goodly world this heaven and earth that you see and enjoy the use of is set up onely as a shop as a Work-shop to stand onely for a week for six or 7000 years a thousand yeeres is with the Lord but as a day and when his worke is done he will throw this peece of clay downe againe

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