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heaven_n	earth_n	lord_n	tremble_v	1,942	5	9.3297	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89565	Emmanuel: a thanksgiving-sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons upon their solemn day of praising God for the victory obtained by the Parliaments forces in Southvvales. In the church of Margarets Westminster, May 17. 1648. / By Stephen Marshall B.D. minister of Gods Word at Finchingfield in Essex.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1648 (1648)	Wing M753; Thomason E443_3; ESTC R204197	25,337	44

like not and thus God is deprived of his glory and we of our comfort O the wofull fruits of our discord Christ will not bear these things at our hands he wil either make us one or none I am perswaded he will either make us lay down these oru divisions or he will give us up into their hands who will make us agree in eating the bread of affliction and drinking the water of affliction make us agree in one common calamity with a witnesse Pardon this digression if it be one which the exigence of the times and our dangers put me upon I urge these things to stir up your frequent prayers that God would be merciful unto us that we might not thus pul down our houses with our owne hands Thus from the first part the confederacy against the Church the other I principally aime at and that is The deliverance from it where you have considerable two things First The deliverance it selfe the breaking of all the counsells of their enemies and the turning of all upon their own heads and Secondly The cause of it and that is Immanuel he is the worker of it Now though there be but one main lesson that I purpose to handle yet there are three or foure particulars that I would hint and but little more then name one is that although the Lord had brought these Assyrians upon his people and delivered his people into their hands yet their rage and cruelty and fury against his Church did move God to turn his hand upon them though he had imployed them to afflict and chastise his people That the more rage and fury is in the enemies of the Church the sooner doth the Lord compassionate the miseries of his Church there are very many examples of it in the 32. Deuter. I said I would scatter them speaking of the rebellions of his people which had anger'd him I said saith he I would even scatter them into corners I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men were it not that I feare the furie of their enemy that he would exalt himselfe too much against them Senacherib is a famous instance of this Esay 10. God had stirred him up to goe against his people to take the spoil of them and to tread them downe as the mire in the streets but Senacheribs rage grew higher he would destroy and utterly cut them off he would do to Hierusalem as he had done to Samaria but even therefore did God compassionate his people and ruine this proud adversary so likewise Zach. 1. 14 15 16. c. God was a little angry and displeased with his people and the enemies helped forward the affliction but therefore was God sore displeased with their enemies and even therefore did he returne to Hierusalem with mercyes Thus you see God compassionates the misery of his people the more the rage and furie of the adversary is kindlled against them And therefore to apply this in a word or two that which is to many in these dayes is a wonderfull discouragement of heart I thinke rather should to be a ground of hope to us I mean the extream rage and fury which appears in the spirits of most wicked men against such as fear God I believe there was never so much bloud nor wrath rage nor fury in the hearts of the enemies of Gods people as is this day to be found they feare not to speake it out that not a man of them shall live in the Kingdome when once power comes into their hands they hope the day is comming and they make account to doe as Pharaoh said he would do when he followed the Israelites into the Red sea I will now overtake them my wrath shall be now satisfied to the full upon them now who knowes but the Lord will doe his people the more good for this as David said of Shimei when he cursed him and they would have had him take off his head No saith he let him curse it may be God will doe me good for his cursing of me the more pride and wrath there is in the hearts of those that thinke to tread his people down the more will God lay their insolency to his heart Again you may observe here with what scorne and contempt the Lord doth speake of all the preparations of man against his people here was a mighty Army listed and rallied gathered together met at their rendezvouz yea come into the Kingdome and made account to carry all before them but how disdainfully the Lord speakes of all their preparations Associate your selves goe your wayes on you thinke to doe a great act you make account to carry all but it will not doe it will not stand poore peoplel you reckon without your host thus the Lord as the prophet saith sits in heaven and laughs at them he scorns all their preparations that they make against his servants and truly the naming of it should teach us to make the same use of it that Luther did Surely saith he if Jesus Christ sit in heaven and laugh at them we should be foolish on earth to sit and cry for feare of them for Christ well enough knowes what they can doe and what they shall doe let us never tremble at that which Iesus Christ laughes at Observe further That when the Lord doth think upon deliverance for his afflicted people it is nothing of their worth but only the interest of Immanuel which prevailes with God here the Lord had stirred up an enemy to come against them and they came and when they thought to doe great matters the Lord would not let them but would turne all upon their owne heads and why for Immanuel Immanuel is interessed in it not the worthinesse of Gods people as he often saith it be it knowne to you I doe nothing of all this for your sakes be you ashamed and confounded it is for my own names sake which I work for I regard the glory of my Son Christs interest will bring deliverance when the unworthines of the Church would rather call for vengeance 'T is true God dearly loves his people they are to him as the apple of his eye Kingdomes and nations are nothing to him in comparison of his people but 't is no worth in them nothing of their owne which commends them to him they often lye in their blood which yet is a time of love to him and should he forbeare healing and helping till their worthinesse cal'd for deliverance it would never come 't is that love wherewith he hath loved them in Immanuel which brings all therefore though we should be humbled and even tremble at the thought of our present unworthines yet should Gods people comfortably hope and wait that for Christs interest in our present cause and worke deliverance will come Before I come to the chiefe lesson point at one more That when the greatest inundations of miseries doe flow in