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heaven_n	bless_v	lord_n	praise_n	6,339	5	9.8316	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

his Prince or Church or State but I speak of men of integrity and faithfulnesse of goodnesse who will trample all under their feet so that Christ might raign and that a Kingdome might be made happy such men set about a Prince may make a King like David and preserve him such a one if he be so and so right honourable have I done with the first part of my Text The matter of their joy the concurrence of them to set up David to be their King I should now have come to the second The manner of expressing their joy which was by feasting you 'le have enough of that anon All that I shall say shall be to perswade you to take heede that you have not too much of it I have not time to handle it otherwise I could have shewed you How Gods people used on such occasions as these to have feasting and rejoycing But I must confesse our dayes are such in regard of the manifold distresses that this Kingdom and poore Ireland are wrapped in that were it not upon such an occasion as this feast is I should say to all Feasters as Vriah said to David when he would have him go home to his wife The Arke said he and Israel and my Lord Ioab and all lye in the open field and shall I go home to be merry with my wife as the Lord liveth I will not doe it so I would say else to all Feasters Is Ireland undon and so many Counties in the Kingdom in that distresse are there so many hundreds so many thousands that lived heretofore like Nobles like Gentlemen who now have hardly bread to put into their bellies and canst thou finde money and cost in needlesse and Prodigall feasting this I should else have said But I confesse beloved to my poore observation Never was there a feast upon a better occasion among us nor for a better end then the Feast of this day not upon a better occasion that when the enemie did endeavour to ruin us by our division that this should be made an occasion of our feasting and rejoycing together and for such an end that whereas they would faine blow it over all the Kingdom over all the world that we are rent and divided a sunder the Lords from Commons and both Houses from the Citie c. we purposely Feast to praise God and tell all the world there is no such matter that we are all one of one heart and one minde that our eating and drinking should speake this out that all the world should heare it It is a blessed opportunitie and the Lord guided them who ever first perswaded to it I onely pray you Lords and Gentlemen in your Feasting do onely what becomes a Feast which followes a holy Convocation a day of rejoycing in the Lord and therefore in it observe these few Rules Remember first God must be regarded banish not Christ out of your Company let there be no carriage at your Table which may grieve him and make him say This Roome I delight not to be in Remember all the Feasts of Gods people in the Old Testament they were Sacrifices or Feasts which were accompanied with Sacrifices yea the very heathen counted them prophan men who would offer to make a feast of that that was not first offered to their gods hereby to make it blessed to them So do you eate and drink as in the presence of the Lord that you may praise the Name of the Lord who hath shewed this mercy to you doe as the little birds who take not one drop but they lift up their heads to heaven as if they would tell all the world whence they received their food so do you acknowledge the Lord give him his glory and his praise let there be no uncomely carriage among you I should justly be blamed if I should think you needed any perswasion to keepe you from drinking healths from riot and excesse I know you abhor it but I beg that none of your servants nor attendants may do it that nothing may be done which would grieve the Lord Secondly let the maine end of your feasting be Symbolum vinculum charitatis a pledge and bond to shew and more to make you all one of one heart and one minde that you may pledge one another in such a Cup as may not only speak you all to be one but may attaine the very end for which this feast is made more to ingage you in this Common cause That this Feast may be as a Feast which I think Lucian speakes of it where a poore wronged man made a Feast of an Oxe and every one who tasted of his meate did thereby engage himselfe to live and dye with that poore man to recover his right in somewhat that he was wronged in and so let this engage your Spirits that now you have eaten and drunk of their Cup that Your and their Spirits and Prayers and Hearts and Purses shall be all one O if this might be the carriage of it this day would be a blessed day There is one thing more that must not be forgotten you must in such feastings as these Remember the poore for whom nothing is provided alwayes did Gods people make at their feasts collections or contributions in Hester in Nehemiah c. Go your wayes and eate and drinke and remember them for whom nothing is provided and the very heathens upon such occasions would send portions at their Festivall times to the poore and needy And for that very end I confesse I was in hope that at such a great meeting as this is there would have been some publike contribution and collection that there being so many poore brethren in the Town plundred and undone and distressed our feasting might have given them a refreshing also but it did not appeare fit as I am informed to the wisdome of this Noble Citie when they had invited the Honourable Houses of Parliament and others to refresh the poore at the cost of their ghests but what is to be done for the poore they will do it at their own proper costs and charges I know they will not forget them but I beseech you all not to omit this duty upon this Festivall day though there be no Basons at the door before you sleep finde some Bason or other finde some poore to whom you may do somewhat that they may know that your hearts have remembred the afflicted in this day wherein God hath refreshed you and so much for this time FINIS 2 Cor. 4. 6. Gen. 11. Acts 2. Ester 8. ult. 9. 1. Lev. 23. 2. Esa. 25. 6. Gen. 32. 2. Especially these la●t ●●o●●s Sui●● 〈…〉 sse of the T●xt t● the occa●i●n P●● 25. 11. 2 Sam. 23. 3. 4. Some generall Observations out of this whole Chapter Vers 1. to 23. 17 18 19 20 c. Compare the first part of this Chapter with 2 Sam. 23. 8. ad finem Verse 29. Verse 32. Ver. 15. 20.