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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89564	A divine project to save a kingdome: Opened in a sermon to the Right Honorable the Lord Maior and court of aldermen, of the citie of London, at their anniversary meeting on Easter Munday, Apr. 22. 1644. at Christ-Church. By Stephen Marshall, B.D. Minister of Gods word at Finchingfield in Essex. Imprimatur, Charles Herle.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1644 (1644)	Wing M752; Thomason E47_31; ESTC R20669	34,916	50

may I be imployed and laid out what is there in my head or heart in my soule or body in my treasury shop or house which may be of any use for the Lord most gladly will I spend and be spent for such a God in such a cause for such an end verily such a frame of heart is invaluable verily such a man to the State is more worth then his weight in Gold Quest But how shall we get it what Prometheus may wee send to heaven to fetch downe this sacred fire Answ. 1. It is true that from heaven and from heaven alone it must be fetched and thence wee may fetch it as Eliah did his fire by prayer When Solomon prayed the Temple was filled with smoake and the Apostles men of like infirmities to us while they were praying were baptized with this fire so let us pray for this holy heate and that God who breathed our soules into our bodies will breath this grace into our soule prayer and zeale mutually produce one another as water and Ice doe God hath promised to give his Spirit whose onely worke this is to them who aske it the meditation of the former motives will provoke to pray and the earnest and humble prayers of faith will obtaine it 2. When this fire is come from heaven wee must bee carefull to preserve it the fire of the Tabernacle was first sent from heaven but was nourished and maintained by fewell on earth so must wee doe This coale must bee fetched onely from Gods Altar but we must preserve it with fewell such as are reading hearing and meditating on Gods Word Gods Word is both fire and fewell let it dwell in our hearts lay it in our bosomes and it will warme and inflame us 3. Sermons also are bellowes for this purpose and are of great power to stirre up these coales experience shewes us that zealous preaching makes zealous people Peter and Paul who are compared to men of fire walking among straw made the people fervent in spirit who lived under their Ministry Despise not prophesying and Quench not the Spirit are joyned together 1 Thes. 5. 20. flie therefore like Doves to the windowes of Gods house waite at Wisedomes gate and the sparkes of grace will be blowne up into a flame 4. Communion with such as are zealous Iron sharpens Iron so doth the conversation of active zealous men their zeale will provoke others company hath a strange influence even a dull Jade will run for company a companion of fooles will learne folly and such as walke with the wise and godly will ere they be aware quickned up and their spirits fired and hearts glow as the two Disciples when they walked with Christ though they knew him not or as Moses face which shined when hee had beene with God though he were not aware of it Lastly beware of such things as extinguish zeale such as are sulstracting the fewell which should feed it neglecting attendance upon publicke ordinances omitting of family and closet duties or letting out our hearts after such things as are meere quench-coles as the study of such things as tend not to edification in truth and obedience or letting out the affections after worldly things this outward heat cooles our inward choakes zeale for God so doth the nourishing of any secret lust pride malice uncleannesse c. these wast consume make shipwrack of zeale are as a theefe in the Candle or a continuall dropping into a little fire grieves quenches the spirit Thus zeale and an unmortified lust a known sin chosen to be lived in though never so secret can no more dwell together in a heart then Christ and Belial Dagon and the Arke And bad company is as dangerous a quench-coale as any thing in the world they say he that lives with a Criple will learne to halt where iniquitie abounds mens zeale for God is in danger to grow cold Peter may warme his hands in the high Priests Hall but hee will coole his heart The time being more then spent I can onely point at these things Consider what I say and the Lord give you understanding in all things FINIS Ezek 24. 14 Jer 6. 29. Isa 4 4. Nehem 3 20. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Rom. 12. 11. Hab. 97. 37. 32 Tit. 2. 14. Josh. 1. 7. Revel. 2. 10. Revel. 3. 16. with 19. 20. Introduction to the Text Deut. 3. 21. 22. Numb 31. 16. Numb. 25. 2. And Parts of it Observ. 1. Application Obs. 2. I evit 26. 4. to 41. Amos 3. 1 2. Amos 3. 12. Ezek. 16. Dan. 9. 12. Zeph. 3. 7. Vse 1. Deut 9. 14. 3. Rom. 2. 17 18. 3. Deut. 32. 6. Obser. 3. Ier. 18. 10. Ier. 18. 10. Application 2. Part of the Text Whence first observe Doct. One man may save a whole kingdome Eccles. 9. 18. Ioshua 7. Iob 22. 30. Ier. 5. Application Doct. 2. Pacifying Gods wra●h removes any Plague Exod ●5 ● Namb. 16. 46. Ioshua 9. 20 2 Chron. 24. 18 28 11. 32. 16. Esa. 13. 5. Dan. 8. 12. Which is demon●trated 1. Dan. 6. Psal. 78. 23. 27. 31. 2. 2 Kings ● 2 Sam. 24. Ioel 2. 25. Application Therefore our greatest busines is to pacifie Gods wrath Esa. 13. 41. 54. ult. Ezek. 30. 24. Ier. 37. 56. 7. c. Wayes how it may bee done 1. Levit. 26. 40. 2. 1 King 8. 33. 35. 47. ●4 ●6 Dan 9 16. 3. Psal. 106. 30. The maine doctrine Zeale against sinne pacifyeth Gods wrath against sinners VVhich is proved by severall examples Read vers. 1. 2 3. 6. 2● Vers 7 8 9 10. Vers 20. 27 28 c. And severall promises Which is further explained shewing what zeale is And the properties and e●fects of it 1. 4. Numb. 25. 4. Exod 32. Nehem. 13. ●nd why reale able to doe Application First to lament the want of it Exhortation to it Motives to zeale See Matth. 19 29. Meanes to attaine it 1 King 8. Act. 2. 1 Thes. 5. 16. 20. Prov. 22. 24. 25 c. Luk. 24. 32. Exod. 34. 29. Heb. 10. 25. 1 Tim. 6. 4. 14. 7. 2 Tim. 2. 14. Titus 3. 9. Luk. ● 14. Ephes. 4. 29 30. 1 Cor. 5. 6. 2 Cor. 6. Matth. 24. 12.