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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89567	Gods master-piece. A sermon tending to manifest Gods glorious appearing in the building up of Zion: preached to the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in the Abbey Church of Westminster, March 26. 1645. Being the day of the monthly publike fast, / by Stephen Marshall, B.D. minister of Gods Word, at Finching-field in Essex. Published by order of the House of Peeres.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1645 (1645)	Wing M756; Thomason E279_2; ESTC R200025	37,316	57

full of Gods wisdome but never doth the wisdome of God so shine out as in the admirable contrivances that he hath for the building up for the repairing and restoring of his Church It is said that the spirit of wisdome doth rest upon Christ when he is given to be the Ruler of his Church carrying it in a way beyond all humane comprehension his way being in the sea his path in the great waters and his footsteps not knowne when yet he leads his people as a flock Conceive a little of it by this The Lord doth so contrive it that all the crosse and excentricall motions of all creatures doe all concurre to further this work though they work according to their severall principles and for their owne severall ends most of them intending mischiefe and ruine to the Church yet he orders them all to be as directly subservient to carry on the work of building the Church as if they all studied it and intended it with their whole might The plots of the enemies their strength their cunning their cruelty persecutions and the weaknesses faults corruptions and even divisions of his servants all contribute toward the building up of the Church though they seem all contrary to it God seemes to me to lay a taxe not onely upon Heaven but upon Hell it selfe and all the powers of darknesse and all their servants that every one of them should bring in their utmost power to carry on this work You have an excellent instance in the 60 chapter of Esay where God orders it that the Islands and Kingdomes the Princes and Nobles the Beasts and Birds the Forests and Rivers the Gold Silver Brasse and Iron all kind of creatures and things shall contribute their uttermost to raise up and beautifie this building yea though they intend it not though they intend the contrary to ruine and spoile it as is clearly expressed Many Nations gathered together against Zion that say let her be defiled and let our eye looke upon Zion when in the meane time the wisdome of God hath contrived it that they come but to be threshed out and to be made a crop for Zion to feed upon Never doth the Lord so magnifie his wisdome as in his excellent contrivances about the Churches welfare suiting all providences and occurrences of things and endevours of all people though they have a thousand severall ends yet every one to contribute their best as if one soule dwelt in them all which made Paul when he considered of this point to be even swallowed up with admiration O the depth of the riches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments and his wayes past finding out who hath knowne the minde of the Lord or who hath beene his Counsellour Another is his almighty power which is so eminently seen in this work that it is Gods ordinary expression to call it the creating of a new heaven and a new earth Behold I create a new heaven and a new earth he creates it And in the 59 of Isaiah where God speaks of the Church I create the fruit of the lips peace peace the fruit of the lips is the preaching of the Word but it is done in a way of creation he creates Ministers creates Ordinances creates meanes and helps creates deliverances creates graces comforts all done in an almighty way of creation Now creation you know first fit irresistibiliter there is no power able to stand against a Creation So it is here when God pleases to build the Church the Mountaines flow downe thus you have it Esay 64. 1 2 3. Oh that thou wouldest rent the heavens that thou wouldest come downe that the mountaines might flew downe at thy presence as when the melting fire burneth to cause the waters to boile when thou didst terrible things which we looked not for And the like hath the Prophet Zachary What art thou O great mountain before my servant Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plaine that is all oppositions all Kingdomes all Empires all the gates of Hell and whosoever stand against it they are all broke in peeces when once God is pleased to undertake the building of the Church I le build my Church and the gates of Hell shall not prevaile against it What are these gates of hell Christ speaks according to the manner of those Countries the gates of a City were the place where there was both the wisdome and the strength of a City In their gates sate their noble and wise Consellours there were their Courts kept in their gates lay their Ammunition out of their gates went all their Commanders All the wisdome and power of Hell that is of Satans kingdome must all be broken if God please to build his Church he speakes the word and it is done done irresistibly Secondly Creation sit ex nihilo it rises out of nothing though there be no preparative though you cannot imagine what shall be the materia ex qua the thing out of which the work should arise yet if Creation comes it doth it out of nothing Thus the Lord brings in the Church at one time wondering at her owne encrease when she had sate long as a desolate widow a captive without children forsaken of her husband and an innumerable multitude of children suddenly saying in her eares The place is too narrow for us where shall we have room to dwell Who hath hegotten me these who hath brought up these these where have they been Unthought of means and mercies usually appear in this work to magnifie the power of God Thirdly Creatio fit in instanti as it is done out of nothing so it is done in a trice in the twinckling of an eye Who hath heard such a thing as this who hath seen such things saith the Prophet in the 66 of Isaiah What is that of a Nation that was borne in a day Shall the earth be made to bring forth in a day must there not be a space between seed-time and harvest or shall a child be begotten and born in a day yet Zion doth so brings forth before she travailes delivered of a man-child in an instant yea of a Nation and that before her paine came and elsewhere the sudden encrease of the Church is compared to whole flights of Doves and to the clouds flying swiftly and in abundance through the aire Who are these that flye like the clouds and as Doves to their windowes But most fully this is promised in the 110 Psalme where the Churches encrease is compared to the dew which in innumerable drops comes suddenly out of the womb of the morning there 's another glorious Attribute of God shining out his almighty power Then thirdly His Holinesse Never doth the Lord appeare so holy a God as he doth in this work of building the Church Holinesse is not onely a glorious Attribute but