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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89588	A thanksgiving sermon: preached to the Right Honorable the Lord Maior, aldermen, and Common Councell of the Citie of London, upon occasion of the many late and signall victories, and deliverances vouchsafed to the Parliaments forces, in Pauls Church London, July 28. 1648. By Stephen Marshall, B.D. Minister of Gods Word at Finchingfield in Essex.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1648 (1648)	Wing M791; Thomason E455_2; ESTC R205009	23,539	38

together to bite Iudah and for this the Lord gives them up to Senacherib and he bites devours them all Thus was it also Ieremy 6. 6. when the people were given wholly to oppresse one another the City was wholly oppression in the midst of it violence and spoile griefe and wounds were every where found then was Ierusalem a Citie to bee visited by them who should gleane them as a vine who should be cruell to them and shew no mercy Thus you see the Lord sometimes leaves his people under heavy yokes yokes put upon their lives estates consciences liberties when they will not bee under Gods government when they are not thankfull for good governours when they according to their own power will be tyrannicall and oppressive one to another I shall not stay upon the Application of this I onely say of it as Christ of the Cup he was to drink Father if it bee possible let this cup passe from me Lord let this Cup passe from us let not our God give us up to spoyle to confusion to oppression for I am too well assured that in all these things I have spoken wee have deserved to drinke this cup and our sinnes cry loud in the eares of God for it and whatsoever you may say of the two latter I am confident you 'l all beare mee witnesse wee have highly deserved it in the first of these the Lord hath offer'd to England the government of his own Scepter the government of his Gospel he is shewing us the way how he will rule us in Ecclesiasticall things but alas there is not a thing under heaven more abominable to the people of this Land then to think that they should have such a yoke put upon them though the aime and end of it bee onely to make them holy but we will have none of it the thing we will have is to live as we list wee will not have this man rule over us the Lord grant wee bee not broken with other yokes And as for ingratitude for our other Magistrates and Rulers and for our biting and devouring one another the Lord knowes it is to bee found in every corner of the Land I onely mention these things that in this day of rejoycing for mercies received you may all joyne in prayer that the Lord bring not this evill upon us Thus briefly for the first the second lesson which I mainely aime at is That howsoever the Lord sometimes lets his people lie under heavy and terrible yokes yokes upon their lives names estates liberties consciences call them by what names you will yet Jesus Christ hath a time when hee will break them all Thou hast broken it was not broken yet but God uses to speak of his mercies intended for the Church in the preterperfect tense as things already done because they were so sure the Lord Christ will breake the yoke of their burden the staffe of their shoulder the rod of their oppressor when the Lord doth at any time leave his people in this sad condition which I have spoken of hee never puts them out of his own hand though hee may deliver them into the hands of others hee alwayes keeps the line in his owne hand that the adversary cannot doe what they list they are bounded by him and it is not for want of love or of power that the Lord lets any such yoke ever come upon the neck of his people but onely from his owne will and from his own wisedome the Lord orders it so that the heaviest thing that betides them shall never hurt a haire of their heads as Christ hath it in Luke though some of them be put to death not a haire of their heads shall perish hee never gives them so into the hand of wicked men as to put them out of his owne hand or to cease his owne care but this doctrine holds out a further mercy that though the Lord sometimes puts them into the hands of wicked men and lets them be his rod to scourge them beate them pinch them thresh them yet in his due time hee will breake all those yokes and the yokers together all such as put them upon his peoples necks they their yokes shall all perish for both of them are equally intended as it is in the next words as in the day of Midian not onely the people of Israel were saved from Midian but the Midianites destroyed also and so in Senacheribs time not onely the people delivered but the enemies destroyed now that the Lord will doe it blessed be his name there are 1000. promises that it shall bee so and as great a cloud of instances to prove it hath been so Egypts yoke was broken the Philistims broken Ashur and Babylon broken yea the ruine of all the kingdomes of the earth who have successively laine heavy upon his Church and people doe all beare witnesse to this truth that the rod of the wicked shall not alwayes rest upon the back of his people I shall not inlarge my discourse upon this because I thinke it is a knowne theame every one that hath read the Scriptures can give proofes of it I shall onely present to your consideration two or three Texts one is that of Isa. 49. 24. The Lord promised in the former Verses a great inlargement increase prosperitie so that their Land should be too narrow for them Kings and Queens should bow unto them now he knowing how hard it would bee for his people to beleeve this because of the great bondage they lay under and the utter improbability of getting out of that state brings them in in this 24. verse objecting thus Alas our miseries plead prescription over us our hope is gone shall the prey be taken out of the hand of the mighty or the lawfull captive delivered now our adversaries say we are a lawfull prey we are prisoners of warre and they can plead right as well as might to bring us under and now shall wee ever bee delivered yes saith the answer of God even the captive of the mighty shall bee delivered and the prey of the terrible shall bee taken out of his hand for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee and I will save thy children and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and in the 51. of Esay after hee had promised to consume their enemies as a moth eates a garment and that his people should returne with the voyce of singing unto Sion hee then chides their feare and unbeleefe Why fearest thou a worme that shall die why fearest thou because of the fury of the oppressor as if hee were ready to destroy and where is the fury of the oppressour alas it 's gone as a puffe of wind then followes the captive exile hastneth that hee may bee loosened that hee may not die in the pit nor that his bread should faile hee feares lest he should starve or die in