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A25886	Englands Eben-ezer, or, Stone of help set up in thankfull acknowledgment of the Lords having helped us hitherto : more especially for a memoriall of that help which the Parliaments forces lately received at Shrewsbury, Weymouth, and elsewhere : in a sermon preached to both the honourable Houses of Parliament, the lord mayor and aldermen of the citie of London being present, at Christ-Church, London, upon the late solemne day of thanksgiving, March 12 / by John Arrowsmith ...	Arrowsmith, John, 1602-1659.	1645 (1645)	Wing A3775; ESTC R200016	25,663	39

prayer nor his mercie from me Psal. 66. 19 20. We may in reference to them all erect a second Eben-Ezer for herein also the Lord hath helped us both helpt us to pray and helpt us to speed A third mercie is the Lords defeating their enemies and that so as to make Israel instrumentall for its own preservation in the 10. and 11. verses The Philistims drew neere to battail against Israel but the Lord thundred with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistims and discomfited them and they were smitten before Israel And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh and pursued the Philistims and smote them c. We are assembled this day to praise God for shewing the like favour to us in more then one or two places It may be observed out of Scripture that the Lord hath still been delighted in taking to himselfe a denomination from some fresh and recent mercie In one of the first ages of the world he is styled the possessor of heaven and earth as having not long before made the one for his throne and the other for his footstool After he had revealed himselfe by many promises to the Fathers he is frequently called the God of Abraham Isaack and Iacob When he had newly broken the yoke which Pharoah had put on his peoples neck then I am the Lord saith he that brought thee out of the Land of Egypt out of the house of bondage Having at another time delivered the same people from Babylon he renews in his stile the memoriall thereof Jer. 16. 14 15. The dayes come saith the Lord that it shall no more be said the Lord liveth that brought up the children of Israel out of the Land of Egypt but the Lord liveth that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the North After the Word was made flesh the amiable Title which the New Testament gives him is this The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ It is not long since he was pleased to crown the endeavours of our men of war with a triple victory that so with a threefold cord of love he might draw us to thankfulnesse Let him therefore be styled at least for this day The God of our Parliament and of their forces at Scarborough at Shrewsbury and at Weymouth I am not able to parallel our success with theirs in all things The chapter tels us of a defeat occasioned by miraculous thunder here was none such onely an artificiall thundering on both sides and that on ours blest to the discomfiting of our enemies Yea our three Commanders in chief in those three fore-mentioned places what were they else but to use the Poets expression Tria fulmina belli yet in two particulars they may be compared 1 Israels victory which the Text relates to was unexpected They were met together at this time to consult and not to combate not to fight and kill but to fast and pray to reforme and not to embattail themselves Yet now doth God give up their enemies into their hands Tell me was not the gaining of Shrewsbury unexpected by all men here the regayning of Weymouth a thing which but few of us had in our hopes Hath not the Lord in both these yea and at Scarborough done terrible things which we looked not for Have we not received Weymouth especially as Abraham did Isaack even from the dead may we not say upon this occasion mutatis mutandis as the man in the parable did of his son Luk. 15. 32. It is meet that we should make merry and be glad for this thy brother was dead and is alive again was lost and is found 2 Israel got the victory though the Philistims had the advantage It seemeth by the tenour of the story that full men set upon such as were fasting armed men upon such as were naked Israel for ought we read being furnished with no other weapons but their prayers and tears and sacrifices Onely when the Philistims were discomfited by the thunder they 't is thought took up the weapons that fell from their amazed enemies and with them did execution in the pursuit 'T is easily found which side the advantage was on at Weymouth Were not our numbers inconsiderable were not the few men we had well-nigh spent and worne out with watching and other military duties yet did they prove more then conquerors by getting not onely victory but booty recovering what they had lost before and withall possessing themselves of what the enemy had laid in Let us therefore bestow another Eben-ezer upon this and say once more Hitherto the Lord hath helped us I hasten to the third and last observation viz. That principall men are to have a principall hand in the duty of praysing God for his help Climbe we up to the full explication of this truth by certain steps which are these Every creature is made to praise God in its kind Men are more bound to this duty then other creatures Christians more then other men Professors eminent for their places in Church or State more than other Christians 1 Every creature is made to prayse God in its kinde Prayse ye him Sun moon prayse him all ye stars of light prayse him ye heavens of heavens and ye waters that be above the heavens Prayse the Lord from the earth ye dragons and all deeps Fire and haile snow and vapour stormie winds fulfilling his word mountains and all hils fruitfull trees and all Cedars beasts and all cattell creeping things and flying fowls Psal. 148. 3 4 7 8 9 10. They doe it accordingly Psal. 19. 1. The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handy work 2 Men are bound to this duty more then other creatures O that men would prayse the Lord for his goodnesse for his wonderfull works to the children of men Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people prayse him in the assembly of the Elders Psal. 107. 31 32. The whole world is a musicall instrument every string is so tuned as to be fitted for resounding the great Creators prayse But man of all visible creatures is the onely musician that knows how to play upon this instrument The rest can prayse God but Objective by being the objects of mans meditation They doe all bring as it were their severall sacrifices unto him and lay them down at his feet he is the Priest that must offer them up for the whole Creation 3 Christians more then other men That place in Psal. 65. 1. deserves more then ordinary consideration Prayse wayteth for thee ô God in Sion The Saints poure out their hearts to day in thanksgiving to God the next day yea it may be the next houre there comes a shoale of new mercies hee must be acknowledged also in them and therefore prayse is said to wait till the blessing arrive as being at hand ready to be tendred upon all

over us Manifold are the good turnes which these invisible helpers doe us though wee take notice but of few If Daniel be to be rescued from the hungry Lions an Angell stops all their mouthes Lot from the flames of fire and brimstone the Angels hale him out of Sodome If Elisha be in danger of being surprized by a great host of men a greater host of Angels appears in his defence Peter of having the work of his Ministery at a stand by his being kept in hold an Angell opens the prison doore and sets him at liberty If Iacob be in his way home wanting protection against Esau the Angels of God meet and guard him Elias in the Wildernesse wanting meat an Angell turns Sewer and serves it in Paul in a storme wanting comfort an Angell stands by and cheers him If Lazarus give up the ghost the Angels take his departing soul and carry it into Abrahams bosome Suppose the son and heire of a King returning from his travell in forreigne parts the Master of the Ceremonies meets him at the Port where he landeth conducts him to Court and leaves him in his fathers presence So it fares with a dying Saint he hath been travelling in this world as in a strange countrey is now returning back to God 't is a part of the good Angels helpfulnesse to meet him at the port of death so to convey him home from thence to the enjoyment of his Father and of full beatitude in him 3 By creatures of a mixt and middle nature Such are men visible in their bodies invisible in regard of their souls Now there is no sort of men that contributes not more or lesse to the help of the Church either freely or against their wils by an over-ruling providence turning that to the Saints advantage which was intended for their harme But two sorts are especially noted in Scripture for their helpfulnesse 1 Godly Magistrates When David was set up to be King his Inauguration is thus exprest Psal. 89. 19 20. I have laid help upon one that is mighty I have exalted one chosen out of the people I have found David my servant with my holy oile have I anointed him Before Moses his pious government Israel was as an helplesse child without a nurse hee is compared to a nursing Father carrying that people in his bosom as a sucking child Numb. 11. 12. Have I conceived all this people have I begotten them that thou shouldst say unto me Carry them in thy bosom as a nursing father beareth the sucking child unto the land which thouswarest unto their fathers No nursing father ever had a more froward child than Israel was yet Moses held out and might be held forth as a patterne to you Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament had you not made him so already I remember Austin in his Confessions prayseth God for furnishing his nurse with milk and for giving her an heart to impart it to him who had perished without it Well may this whole Assembly joyne with me upon this solemne day of thanks in blessing God for enabling you to do the work of nursing Fathers so well so long as also for inclining your hearts though you daily meet with frowardnesse more then enough to undergo with so much patience the manifold troubles of Church and State-nursery May it still be continued to us may fresh supplyes of the Spirit of Christ be vouchsafed to you when ever ye meet that gasping Ireland trembling Scotland bleeding England may all have help from the Honourable Houses 2 Godly Ministers The Prophets in Ezra 5. 2. were Fellow-helpers with Zerubbabel and Ieshua Theu rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Ieshua the son of Iozadak and began to build the house of God which is at Ierusalem and with them were the Prophets of God helping them Paul styles himselfe and his Fellow-labourers in the Ministery helpers of the Corinthians joy 2 Corinth 1. last The request put up to him in a Vision by the man of Macedonia was no other but this Come over and help us Acts 16. 9. When he goes about to draw as it were an Inventory of the Churches goods in 1 Corinth 3. end her wel-gifted pious Teachers are made the Inprimis of it All things are yours whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas Time was when such were very highly esteemed in love for their works sake and had in honour for their helpfulnesse Insomuch as when Chrysostome was like to be silenced the people cryed out We had better want the shining of the Sun than the preaching of Chrysostome When Nazianzen was taking his leave of Constantinople where he had been Preacher an old man was observed to fall into passion and heard to cry saying Goe father if you dare and take away the Trinity with you as if God would not stay after he was gon Yea there was a time here in England some few years since when the whole religious party throughout the Kingdom reckond upon their able and conscientious Pastor's as a principall part of their treasure till some of late began to make it a piece of Religion to throw dirt in the face of our Ministers even of the most godly among them As when Sfetigrade in Epirus was besieged by the great Turk a Traitor within knowing how much the Garrison souldiers abhorred the tasting of whatsoever they deemed unclean threw a dead dog into the well which furnished the inhabitants with water upon the discovery whereof the souldiers chose rather to die then to drink and so the City was yielded up In like manner now when the Church is so straitly besieged on every side many otherwise well affected begin to refuse the water of life held out in the publike Ministry onely because of that noysome carrion of exceptions and aspersions which some have treacherously cast upon the persons the calling yea the Doctrine of most of our best and ablest Preachers The good Lord send some happy hand by which this dead and deadly dog may be removed and all lovers of truth and peace brought to drink as before that so the giving up of a goodly City into enemies hands may be timely prevented Having done with the proof I shall now in the application hereof present you with matter of Encouragement of Terror and of Advice 1 Of Encouragement to the people of God We have an Almighty helper on whom we may rely with confidence how many soever our extremities how strong so ever our adversaries be We may boldly say The Lord is my helper I will not fear what man can doe unto me Heb. 13. 6. The keyes of Rome will shew themselves more potent then the gates of hell if ever they finally prevail against the Church Take a City besieged by Land if the sea be open it may be relieved block it up both by sea and land yet so long as heaven is open it may receive help from thence

be created shall praise the Lord Should Scripture be silent nature it self would read a lecture to this purpose Heare one of her high priests He is an unthankfull man that denies a benifit received so is he that dissembles it together with him that requites it not but of all the rest he is most unthankfull that hath forgotten it 2 Practised Behold Saint Paul recording his deliverance from the teeth of that roaring lion Nero in 2 Tim. 4. 17. The Lord stood with me and strengthened me and I was delivered out of the mouth of the Lion David his preservations Psal. 31. 21. Blessed be the Lord for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindnesse in a strong City It will be needlesse to multiply instances out of the Psalmes seeing Hosanna and Hallelujah Benedic and Benedicatur God blesse and blessed be God prayer and praise epitomize that whole book I shall rather choose to hint you to some of those courses which the Saints of old took for the registring of mer●ies They had 1 Their festivall dayes Such were the Purim viz. the fourteenth day of the moneth Adar and the fifteenth day of the same kept yearly as the dayes whereon the Jews rested from their enemies and the moneth which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy and from mourning into a good day These were made by them dayes of feasting and joy and of sending portions one to another and gifts to the poor Hest. 9. 21 22 26. in memory of what the Lord had done for them in breaking that snare which the malice pride and power of Haman had twisted for the whole Nation 2 Their Eucharisticall Songs As in Exod. 15. for the overthrow of Pharoah in Jud. 5. for the defeat of Jabin and Sisera in 1 Sam. 18. for the slaughter of Goliah Out of all which instances if it be noted that women were wont to beare a part in such songs for we read of Miriam in the first of Deborah in the second in the third of women out of all the Cities of Israel that observation will lead us to the right understanding of a place in Psal. 68. 11. mistaken by some as if it allowed women to preach because the word there rendred Preachers according to the old translation God gave the word and great was the company of Preachers is a word of the feminine gender Whereas the true meaning of Gods giving the word is his affording matter of joy and glad tydings in the course of his providence and the Preachers spoken of are nothing else but the company of women that published the same in their songs as may be further cleered by a passage in the same Psalme ver. 25. The singers went before the players on instruments followed after amongst them were the damosels playing with timbrels 3 Their significant names Which were sometimes imposed upon persons This course Joseph took to perpetuate the memory of mercies received by him in Egypt Gen. 41. 51 52. He called the name of his first-born Manasseh for God said he hath made me forget all my toil and all my fathers house And the name of the second called he Ephraim for God hath caused me to be fruitfull in the Land of my affliction The like was afterwards done by Moses in reference to what befell him in Midian Ex 18. 3 4. He had two sons by Zipporah the name of the one was Gershom for he said I have been an alien in a strange Land And the name of the other Eliezer for the God of my father said he was my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharoah Sometimes upon places Thus Abraham when his Isaac had escaped and a ram been accepted instead of his sonne called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh as it is said to this day in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen Gen. 22. 13 14. And Jacob when he saw the Angels of God that met him said This is Gods host and he called the name of that place Mahanaim i. e. two hosts either because the Angels appeared in two companies one on each side of him for his better security or because there was now an host of Angels added to that former host of men women and children which he carried along with him Sometimes upon peculiar monuments erected on purpose Such was Jacobs El-Elohe-Israel Gen. 33. 20. Such Moses his Jehovah-Nissi Exod. 17 15. Such also Samuels Eben-Ezer in my Text Enough hath been said to convincemen of this duty as also to inform them about it The most proper way as I conceive to enforce the practise of it at present will be to parallel the mercies of this story and Text with those of this age and day The first mercie we meet with here is the conventing of Israel at Mizpeh in a Nationall assembly ver. 5 6. Samuel said Gather all Israel to Mizpeh and they gathered together Interpreters are of opinion that the Philistims whom they were subject to had so tyrannized over them as to hinder all such conventions least being ouce gathered together they should consult how to free themselves that Samuel notwithstanding had now called a Parliament and got them to meet What devices have been used in former times one while to keep off another while to breake off Parliaments here in England hee 's a stranger in our Israel that doth not know I had almost said hee 's an enemy to it that is not affected with deep sense of the goodnes of God in calling and confirming this which you all have the happines to behold and I the honour to speak unto this blessed Parliament fastned by a late Act and made as a nail in a sure place for the Kingdome to hang all her vessels upon from the vessels of cups even unto all the vessels of flagons as the Prophet Isaiah speaks Wherefore here before we go further let us set up one Eben-Ezer saying Hitherto hath the Lord helped us A second mercie which this story acquaints us with is The Lords hearing the prayers that were then put up for Israel ver. 9. Samuel cryed unto the Lord for Israel and the Lord heard him Hath he not done the like for us was he ever a God hearing prayers more then of late Our devotion hath not had a miscarrying wombe but been fruitfull in deliverances neither have her breasts been dry for three Kingdoms all this while have been nursed up in the bosome of prayer The Jews were wont to stand when they prayed and from thence men learned to say Sine Stationibus non subsisteret mundus The world could not stand but for this standing in prayer But for it Ireland perhaps by this time had not been at all Scotland had been all in bloud and England giving up the ghost Each of these Nations may say for it selfe as the Psalmist doth Verily God hath heard he hath attended to the voice of my prayer Blessed be God that hath not turned away my