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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

let God arise speaking of Christ Psal. 68. let God arise and his enemies shall be scattered they fly as the dust before the wind as the wax before the fire as stubble before the flame so doe his enemies fall if Christ will but appeare against them In one word by him were all things Created by him they are upheld and subject and all things disposed of according to his pleasure and therefore under his shadow under his protection they may quietly rest and none can hurt them And lastly adde one more that this King lives for ever and reignes for ever make him once a King over a people and hee will ever bee a King They who are once his Subjects will ever be his Subiects yea and while they are under his government his government shall grow more glorious more vict●●ious of the increase of his Government and Peace there shall be no end be shall sit upon the Throne of David his Father to order it and establish it the Lord hath spoken it and it must be so I hope this is now cleere that the setting up of Christ to bee Lord and King is the greatest happinesse that can beside any Nation The second is that such a concurrence to find Princes Nobles Captaines c. for all these are in my Text to find the heads of all the Tribes thus concurring to doe it is the most glorious amiable and desirable meanes for effecting this work which to make plaine I beseech you to consider it two wayes First looke upon it as it is signum what this concurrence holdeth forth as its a signe Secondly as causa look upon in that which it worketh for the effecting of it First as it is a signe and so it expresseth first the greatest love and favour of God to that people never did the Lord from Heaven expresse to any Nation a greater token of his owning that Nation and People then when he maketh such a concurrence in their Princes and Nobles and Leaders to set up the Lord Christ to be their King of God in the Prophesie of Ieremiah and Zephaniah that he would them one heart and one way all of them should agree in one to serve him subiect to him with one consent This made David so ravished in his spirit when there was such a union and unanimity in his Princes and Nobles to joine with in preparing for the Temple Who am I Lord and what i● my people that wee should be able to offer thus willingly after this sort now therfore O Lord we thank and blesse thy glorious Name for it and argues it there as one of the greatest pledges of Gods accepting them that there should bee such a concurrence in such a worke Secondly it 's also the greatest signe that can be of a peoples love to Christ and of the greatest glory which they can possibly put upon him to be such a willing people to set him up upon his Throne This was promised as the great glory of Christs Kingdom that Kings and Princes should bring his Children upon their shoulders that they should bring their own glory and lay it and then Scepters at his feet be nursing Fathers unto his Church that whole Nations should flow in unto him and certainly its the greatest expression they can make and the greatest glory which the Lord can receive from poore men to have the Heads of a people thus oind to set up Christ upon his Throne It was much more glorious to David to be crowned after this manner then to have conquerred them by his Sword and for Salomon to have all the Kings about him to offer themselves to be his Servants out of that inward reverence and love they bore unto him then to have subdued them as Ioshua did the Kings of Canaan and even so is it here it 's a great exaltation of Christs glory to find whole States thus willing to submit unto him Thus it doth it as signum 2 Book upon it ut causa as it works towards the effecting of it Nothing which men can doe carryes such an energie as this joynt consent doth and that 3. severall wayes First such a publique concurrence of all these is a marvellous engagement of that people to adhere to the Lord without sliding back When David had sworne unto the Lord to find out a place for the Lord an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob he would give no sleepe to his eyes nor slumber to his eye lids untill hee had done what he could to effect it So when they have sworne a Covenant and their Princes and Rulers and all of them joyne together with such an vnanimous consent it averreth holdeth out to the world their full and unchanged resolution to spend and to be spent and to do all that ever they are able for the promoting of this worke Now this ingageing of a Nation to the Lord is an infinite meanes of effecting it and ingaeth the Lord to sware to them as he did to David in the like case Secondly this concurrence in the Princes and Leaders of the people is a marvelous meanes to draw all the people on as one man without any opposition when they that are their Leaders doe thus goe before them there is a notable example in this Text of the Tirbe of Issachar v. 32. of the rest of the tribes it 's said how many there came of some Tribes 10 thousand of some 20. thousand of some 40. thousand but of the Tribe of Issachar it is not said how many came but only 200. that were the Leaders and Lords of that Tribe with perfect heart and the Text addeth all their Bretheren were at their command all the whole Tribe If the Tribe of Issachar were 40. 50. 100. thousand set but the 200. Leaders right and they cary all the rest right infallibly whether they will or no And you all know by experience the infinite power Leaders have to cary the people to any thing be it good or evill Jeroboam and his Princes may lead the people to worship golden calves Joash and his Princes may draw the people to forsake God And againe Jehosaphat Hezechiel Iosiah and their Princes and Rulers may draw the people of the Lord into a Covenant to serve the Lord That is the second way to effect it by leading the people to submit unto Christ also Thirdly this vnity and concurrence of heart and spirit doth infinitely daunt and dampe the spirit of their Enemies who would hinder the worke neither is any thing such a terrour to those that would destroy and hinder the setting up of Christ as to see an vnity and concurrence of heart and hand of those that are the prime Leading men to carie on the worke This is notably set forth in the Booke of Nehemiah when Tobias and Sanballat and the rest of them had tried all their wits to devide and scare them and yet saw they went on with

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 Aldermen and Common Councell o● 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 PSALME 133. 1. Behold how good and how pleasant it is for Brethren to dwell together in unity Psalme 144. 15 Happy is that People that is in such a case Yea happy is that People whose God is the Lord London Printed for Stephen Bowtell and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Bible in Popes-head-alley 1644. TO THE ●●IGHT HONOVRABLE he Lords and Commons Assembled ●n Parliament His Excellency the Earle of Essex with the rest of the Noble and Worthy Commanders The Right Honourable the Lord Major the Court of Aldermen and Common Councell of the City of London The Reverend Assembly of Divines The Honourable and Reverend Commissioners from the Church of SCOTLAND THis worke was too high for me but as it s now done by so weake an hand is too low for so many judicious eyes with any favourable respect to look down to But 〈◊〉 own Children though lesse beautifull we can behold with ●●ve and even stoope to take them by the hand that wee may hold and lead them that cannot goe or stand by themselves ●●ch a weakling is this that is now before you the defects ●●d weaknesses whereof I acknowledge are mine but the ●●rth is Gods and yours to him I humbly present it for 〈◊〉 blessing and to you for your acceptance and helpe that may better goe abroad whilst all shall know that it is ●●rs more then mine and therefore to bee disposed of rather by you then by my selfe By your Command for so I interpret all your requests to me it was Preached and is now Published and this with the more boldnesse because with some confidence that it will passe the better without others censure because it hath already passed your scrutiny with allowance and acceptance But whatever the lot of it in that kind shall be it will be abundant satisfaction to me if the main end be attained by it which by you and me was intended in it viz the help of our selves and all the more to adore the infinite wisdome and power and goodnesse of our God who can make light to shine out of darknesse discords intended by enemies to make up our more harmonious consent and divisions of tongues that scatter the builders of Babel to help up the more compact building of his Church Hee once turned the day of his peoples griefes and feares to the quite contrary so that they had then joy and gladnesse a Feast and a good day insomuch that many of the people of the Land became Jewes for the feare of the Iewes fell upon them Now hee that hath wrought for us the like turne of things be pleased in mercy to worke a greater turne in all our Enemies hearts that so now and ever our Lord Iesus may appeare to be the wonderfull Counsellor the mighty God the everlasting Father whilst thus the Prince of his Peoples Peace So prayeth His and Your most Unworthy Servant STEPHEN MARSHALL THE PREFACE to the Sermon RIght Honourable and Beloved in the Lord this day is a day purposely set apart for feasting and it is like one of the Lords feasts where you have a feast and a holy Convocation And you are first met here to feast your soules with the fat things of Gods house with a feast of fat things full of marrow and wine on the lees well refined and afterward to feast your bodies with the fat things of the land and the sea both plenty and dainty But if you please you may first feast your eyes doe but behold the face of this Assembly I dare say it will be one of the excellentest feasts that ever your eyes were refreshed with Here in this Assembly you may first see the two Houses of Parliament the Honourable Lords and Commons after thus many yeares wrastling with extreme difficulties in their endevouring to preserve an undone Kingdome and to purge and reforme a back-sliding and a polluted Church you may behold them still not only preserved from so many treacherous designes secret treasons and open violences but as resolved as ever cheerfully to goe on with this great worke which God hath put into their hands Here you may also see his Excellency my most honoured Lord the Generall of all our forces by land and neare him that other noble Lord the Commander of our forces by Sea and with them abundance of noble and resolute Commanders al of them with their faces like unto Lions who after so many terrible battells and abundance of difficulties and charging in the face of so many thousand deaths are all of them still preserved and not a haire of their heads fallen to the ground Here also you may behold the Representative body of the City of London the Lord Mayor the Court of Aldermen the Common Councell the Militia and in them the face and affection of this glorious City This City which under God hath hitherto had the honour of being the greatest meanes of the salvation of the whole kingdome and after the expence of millions of treasure and thousands of their lives still as faithfull and resolute to live and die in the cause of God as ever heretofore Here you may likewise see a Reverend Assembly of grave and learned Divines who daily wait upon the Angel in the Mount to receive from him the lively Oracles and the patterne of Gods house to present unto you All these are of our owne Nation and with them you may see the Honourable reverend and learned Commissioners of the Church of Scotland and in them behold the wisdome and affection of their whole Church and Nation willing to live and dye with us All these you may behold in one view and which is more you may behold them all of one heart and one minde after so many plots and conspiracies to divide them one from another and thereby to ruine them all And which is yet more you may see them all met together this day on purpose both to praise God for this union and to rejoice in it and to hold it out to all the world and thereby to testifie that as one man they will live and dye together in this common cause of God of our Lord Iesus Christ his Church and these three Kingdomes O beloved how beautifull is the face of this Assembly Verily I may say of it as it was said of Solomons throne That

wealthy King of Tyrus wrote a Letter to him wherein he calls himself his Servant and saith because the Lord loved his People he set up thee to bee King over them To have a King who is such a glory to a Nation that when any of the People shall bee named in any forraine place the strangers shall say O they are happy in their Prince Or as the Queene of Sheba or 〈◊〉 and his People Happy are thy men happy are these thy Subiects and Servants which 〈…〉 continually before thee because God loven Israel to establesh him for ever therefore made he thee King over them this is a glory to a Nation Now thinke I beseech you whether there can bee any glory like to this to have the Sonne of God the second person in the Trinity made man now exalted to the Throne of Majesties on high to whom the Angels and Archangels and all the most of Heaven doe stoope and all the Creatures did bow the knee before him whether I say can there be any glory to a people like unto this to have this Lord Christ set up to bee their King 2. Consider the advantage that commeth to a State and people governed by him the infinite gaine and happinesse of all his Subjects under him David bid them all weepe for Saul because hee cloathed them all in scariet with other delights and put Ornaments of gold upon them they might grow rich under him But let mee tell you it is onely the Lord Jesus Christ and his Government that maketh a Nation or a People furnished with an all-sufficiency of all things As First in the things of this life Christ hath all things delivered into his hands the Father hath given them all up unto him and H●e giveth them to whom he pleaseth and his Kingdom hath the promise of this life as well as that which is to come So that if Gold or Silver or Wealth or ease or pleasure or liberty or any of these things bee good for them the Subjects of Christ must needs injoy it from their beloved King but these are scarce worth the naming The Glory of Christs Government to his People stands in this that the maketh their souls their best part their Spirituall-part their Eternall part he maketh their soules I say infinitly happy in being a King over them which no other Government reacheth to no not in any degree further then it is in subordination to Christ and endeth in him but now where Christ is set up to be King he giveth his Subjects such things as these The pardon and forgivenesse of all their sinnes the blood of Jesus Christ their King wherein they are all washed cleanseth them from all their sinnes so that not a man of them shall ever be called to an account before God for any thing they have done against him He maketh all of them righteous the Lord saith to him thy people shall be all righteous He doth adopt them all to be His children all His subjects are His children yea coheires yea they are all His brethren they may all enjoy communion with his Father and with himselfe and with his holy Spirit all his Kingdome is his Court all his subjects his Courtiers they may all as his Favourites stand before him and see his face they may all present their supplications to him for themselves and others with assurance to be heard and answered in all things according to his will in one word he is such a King who maketh all his Subjects to be Kings there is not one of all those where he is set up to be Lord and King over but he maketh them all to be Kings and Priests to God his Father It is in fiers in beginning and degree here in this world but afterwards shall to all eternity bee manifested and made good of them all in the highest heavens where when they have overcome they shall fit down with him on his throne as hee hath sat down upon his Fathers Throne Now brethren so farre as the soule is more excellent then the body so farre as heaven is above earth as grace is above gold and silver or drosse as eternity is above a moment so much more excellent are the advantages that Christ Jesus giveth to his subjects then any that can be received from any other Prince in the world now the happinesse of the soule is so excellent and so desirable to all men that you know that the very heathen by the light of nature did account this the greatest happinesse of all to any state to have Religion on set up which was for their soules happinesse as they conceived It is observable that you can hardly meet with one Philosopher or any one Law-giver among all the Heathen who did not make Religion which was for the worship of their gods and the welfare of their souls to be the prime worke of all yea so sacred a thing it was among them that cul●us deorum the worship of their gods was the principall care and charge of their Princes who therefore were their chiefe Priests and that so universally as Tullie saith there is no Nation so barbarous but you will finde Religion chiefly regarded and Plutarch writing to an Atheist tells him that possibly he may finde some Cities without learning and some without wealth and some without a well framed Government but should never finde any without Temples Altars the worship of their gods and consequently of the care of their soules welfare True it is indeed these poore blind wretches groped after the welfare of their soules to no purpose because they knew not God but worship't Devills instead of God but yet thus much wee learne from it that in their judgments which c●n procure the eternall happinesse of mans immortall soule is the greatest gaine the greatest advantage of all other and therfore because the setting up of Jesus Christ to be Lord King is alsufficient for this what greater good can come to any people A third priviledge of Christs being set up as King is the safety of his people let a Prince be never so wise so good loving to his subjects let them be never so happy in him yet if they want power to defend his Kingdome from violence of other States both he and they may soon prove miserable as we see in all the flourishing Empires of the World in times past another Prince hath violently come and spoiled all But now where the Lord Christ is set up to bee a King I need not in this Assembly tell you what strength they have Salvation is prepared for walls and Bulwarks he himselfe is a wall of fire round about so that no enemies shall dare come nigh to them there enemies have none of them any power but what Christ himselfe hath given them All power is his both in heaven and in the earth if he speake but the word all his enemies are overthrown