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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94049	Immanuel, or The church triumphing in God with us. A sermon preached before the right honorable House of Lords, in the Abbey of Westminster; at their publique thanksgiving, November 5th 1644. By John Strickland, B.D. Pastor of the church at St Edmunds in Nevv Sarum. A member of the Assembly of Divines.	Strickland, John, 1600 or 1601-1670.	1644 (1644)	Wing S5971; Thomason E19_15; ESTC R12729	27,641	46

Die Mercurii 6. Novemb. 1644. IT is this day Ordered by the Lords in Parliament Assembled That this House doth hereby returne thanks to Mr. Strickland for his great paines taken in the Sermon preached by him yesterday being the fift of November in the Abbey Church Westminster before their Lordships who is desired to print and publish the same And it is farther Ordered that none shall Print or reprint the said Sermon unlesse he be authorized under the hand of the said Mr. Strickland Jo Browne Cler Parliament I doe Authorize Mr Henry Overton to print this Sermon JOHN STRICKLAND IMMANVEL OR THE CHURCH TRIUMPHING IN GOD WITH US A Sermon preached before the Right Honorable House of LORDS in the Abbey of Westminster at their publique Thanksgiving November 5th 1644. By JOHN STRICKLAND B. D. Pastor of the Church at St EDMUNDS in NEVV SARUM A Member of the Assembly of Divines PSAL. 23.4 Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will feare no evill for thou art with me LONDON Printed by Matthew Simmons for Henry Overton at his Shop in Popes-head-Alley 1644. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORDS NOW ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT AT WESTMINSTER MY LORDS BEsides your Appointment which carries the sacred authoritie of a command with me there are three things somewhat incline me to yeeld this Sermon to the Presse notwithstanding the just sense I have of mine own weaknesse and its unworthinesse First The birth-day of it allowed not sufficient time for a full delivery your Lordships great occasions after the Morning Sermon so straitned the time of your Evening-Sacrifice that by your late coming together I was compelled wholly to lay aside some parts and to deliver the rest by pieces Raptim as I could in such haste Now the Presse hath given me leave a little better to gather the materialls which then I scattered and to couple all into some better proportion by the sinewes of coherence that I may present you with the intire though yet unpolished body of my Meditations intended for you Secondly The matter which was suited to a day of Praises before your Loraships may be very usefull if not necessary at all times Even now * A Fast observed by both Houses of Parliament when You are putting on Your mourning-garments and when the whole Kingdome seems to be in a more sad posture then it was Novemb. 5 th Our praising God for his being with us in a thanksgiving-day may effectually admonish and prepare us to mourne after Gods presence in a day of humiliation with more affectionatenesse For as it is true Monendo laudat it is likewise true inverted Laudando monet Yea the paying of God his due tribute of praise for the great things he hath done is the way to ingage him to doe greater things for us in a future time of need if we doe it heartily it ministers courage and resolution in the cause and gives an unconquerable strength to our faith in expectation of a happy end Iehosaphat therefore made the praising of God a part of his preparation to battell when a dreadfull Army of enemies came against him 2 Chron. 20.21 2 Chron. 20.21 He appointed Singers unto the Lord that should praise the beautie of holinesse as they went out before the Army and to say Praise the Lord for his mercy indureth for ever And it was not in vaine their praising God prevailed as if it had been praying to him Ver. 22. for ver 22. When they began to Sing the Lord set Ambushments against the Children of Ammon and Moab and Mount-Seir and they were smitten Wee are behind with God in this above other duties Nature and self-love can prevaile with us to a kind of prayer in time of distresse because that is the ordinary knowne way to obtaine reliefe but praising God is a more refined and spirituall dutie above Nature and requires both puritie and strength of grace to be well performed 'T is not impossible but this plaine and home-spun Discourse may stirre up the endeavours of some in this neglected dutie one of ten to returne and give God praise and so contribute somewhat unto publique benefit Be not You guiltie of unthankfulnesse to God most Noble Peeres lest the Lord lose his end in bringing in publique mercies lest wee fare the worse and prevaile the lesse in a good cause yea lest you bring evill upon the Land as Hezekiah did by not rendring againe according to the benefit done unto him for therefore was wrath come upon him ● Chron. 32.25 and upon Iudah and Ierusalem 2 Chron. 32.25 Thirdly You are the Men my Lords with whom God will plead the Kingdomes cause and through whom in this great Controversie now on foot wee look for Gods presence with England by Gods being in your Counsells and by his blessing of your martiall affaires we all say The Lord of Hosts is with us It much concerns you it much concerns us all that You earnestly seek after and carefully keep God with you in your great imployments and that we all strive by prayer for Gods presence with You that God may stand and judge in the Assembly of our gods and therefore doe I thus humbly present this poore peice to Your Noble acceptance and patronage that it might happily put You in remembrance of your dutie if You cast your eye upon it or the people of theirs in praying for You that God may be with You in the great work of Church and State which is and shall be daily the prayer of The meanest of those that serve You in the Lord JOHN STRICKLAND IMMANUEL OR THE CHURCH TRIUMPHING IN GOD WITH US PSAL. 46.7 The Lord of Hosts is with us the God of Iacob is our refuge THE mention of the sonnes of Korah in the Title and of the earths removing and the mountaines shaking ver 2. 3. seems somewhat to countenance the opinion that the sonnes of Korah penned the Psalme upon their deliverance when the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up their father Numb 16.32 a Muscu●●s Others conceive it penned by David or some other upon a notable deliverance of the Church from the Ammonites Moabites and Syrians in the dayes of David recorded 2 Sam. 10. But most probably the miraculous b 〈…〉 deliverance of the Church from the Assyrians in the time of Hezekiah when the Lord by the hand of an Angel from heaven slew in one night 185000. of the enemy as the History makes it appeare 2 King 19.35 This I say was probably the occasion but whether David or some other was the Penman of this Psalme as it is not determined so is it not materiall to our purpose However it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Psalme of praise or triumphall Song wherein the Church rejoyceth in the Lord giving him not onely the praise of her experience for a deliverance received but also the praise of her hope and confidence for the future setting him up