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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89586	The song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lambe: opened in a sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons, at their late solemne day of thanksgiving, Iune 15. 1643. for the discovery of a dangerous, desperate, and bloudy designe, tending to the utter subversion of the Parliament, and of the famous city of London. / By Stephen Marshall, B.D. and Pastor of Finchingfield in Essex. Published by order of that House.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1643 (1643)	Wing M789; Thomason E56_5; ESTC R16053	30,483	54

chew these cordialls the more sweetness shall we draw from them O therefore that Christ would open our eyes that we might see his wonders in their just dimensions in the wisdome power faithfulnesse greatnesse justice and truth shining in them that those things might be glorious and excellent in our eyes which are mean and common in the eyes of others that wee might be able to answer such as see no such thing in them with the Painter who being much taken with a piece though seeming plain yet of excellent workmanship to one ignorantly asking him what worth he saw in that poor peece O friend couldst thou see with my eyes thou wouldst be ravished with it And that our mouths might be filled with praises all the day long especially upon this day purposely set apart by us thankfully to record the great and wonderfull works the true and righteous judgements of our King of Saints In delivering us from the hurtfull sword in being on our side when men rose up against us in causing our soul to escape as a bird out of the snare of the fowler making their mischief to return upon their own head causing them to sink down in the pit which they made in the net which they hid is their own foot taken And so much for the first Use the Use of Admiration The second use the Church makes here of the works of Christ is to provoke and quicken themselves up to fear him and glorifie him Who would not fear thee and glorifie thy Name for thou onely art holy Lord who can understand these works of thine thus great and marvellous thus just and true and not acknowledge thee to be the onely holy One Let me presse it by way of exhortation to provoke you to the same duty Where first I must open what is meant by fearing and glorifying his Name and that which is made the ground of this fear and glory because thou onely art holy and first of his holinesse Holinesse whatever it is predicated of is nothing but a separation of the thing from common uses and to sanctifie is to respect it according to such separation or as becomes its holinesse and holinesse in God is nothing but the incommunicable Eminency of the Divine Majesty exalted above all other eminences whatsoever So that to be holy alone or to be the holy one in Scripture signification and to be God is all one Hab. 1. 12. Art not thou from everlasting my Lord my God my holy One Isai. 17. 7. At that day a man shall look to his Maker and his eye shall have respect to the holy One of Israel that is unto God Psal. 89. 18. The holy One of Israel is our King that is Iehovah is our King Amos 4. 2. The Lord hath sworn by his holinesse that is the Lord hath sworn by himself So then for thou onely art holy is as much as to say Thou onely art God these works of thine thus great and marvellous thus just and true sufficiently speak or prove thee O King of Saints to be the Lord God Almighty Secondly fear who would not fear thee To fear in this sense and in this place is to give that awfull respect unto Christ as becommeth his Excellency to serve him with a singular separate incommunicable service and is so commonly in the Scripture taken for the whole duty which we owe unto him thus to fear God and to take him for our God alone is all one Gen. 31. 53. Iacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac that is by the God of his father Isaac Isai. 8. 12 13. Neither fear ye their fear that is serve not their gods sanctifie the Lord of Hoasts and let him be your fear that is let him be your God alone And glorifie thy Name thy Name that is thy self thy Divine Majesty and to glorifie this holy One is not meant by making him glorious or by adding lustre or excellency to him which before he had not for who ever hath given unto him But to glorifie him is to acknowledge his excellency and glory to do unto him what may become his glorie to set up and exalt his glory To fear him then and glorifie his Name as the holy One is to acknowledge his Divinity to own him as their onely Lord and King and renouncing all other false Christs and Mediatours to devote themselves to serve him alone and worship him with a singular separate incommunicated worship his jealousie admitting no Corrivall there is none holy as the Lord neither shall any partake with him in his glory absolutely eminently to do to him themselves and to provoke others to do as becommeth his Excellency This is the duty which the Church here engageth her self unto and is in truth the whole of Christianity the summe of that everlasting Gospel which the Angel flying thorow the midst of heaven was to preach to them that dwell on the earth and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people saying with a loud voyce Fear God and give glory to him and worship him that made heaven and earth that is Iesus Christ alone by whom all things were created and by whom all things consist And this is the duty Honoured and Beloved which I desire to presse upon your selves even that you would be good Christians in your hearts and in your lives in your private places and in your publike standings to engage your selves with all your might with all your authority to advance the glory of Christ as the redeemed of the Lord as true Subjects to this King of Saints to offer up as a living sacrifice what ever you have or are to his service in advancing his Cause his Worship his Church doing it your selves and promoting it in others To this end I shall first give you a few quickning Motives to stir you up to make you ready and willing to your duty and secondly tell you what the Lord expects at your hands First consider what great and wonderfull things Our Lord hath already done for you and how little you have feared and glorified his Name to this day Who of you can count the great and righteous dealings of the Lord towards you not onely as you are men great or rich learned or noble nor onely as you are Christians redeemed called justified sanctified by this King of Saints though all and every of these mercies call loud upon you for this duty but I mean as you are a Parliament what great things he hath done for you in reference to this service wherein he hath lately employed you Hath he not carryed you in his bosome hath he not kept you as the apple of his eye as an Eagle fluttereth over her young spreadeth abroad her wings taketh them beareth them on her wings so the Lord alone hath preserved you How constantly hath he discovered and hitherto frustrated all the attempts of your enemies suffering no weapon of war to prosper that hath been