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A89586	The song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lambe: opened in a sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons, at their late solemne day of thanksgiving, Iune 15. 1643. for the discovery of a dangerous, desperate, and bloudy designe, tending to the utter subversion of the Parliament, and of the famous city of London. / By Stephen Marshall, B.D. and Pastor of Finchingfield in Essex. Published by order of that House.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1643 (1643)	Wing M789; Thomason E56_5; ESTC R16053	30,483	54

chew these cordialls the more sweetness shall we draw from them O therefore that Christ would open our eyes that we might see his wonders in their just dimensions in the wisdome power faithfulnesse greatnesse justice and truth shining in them that those things might be glorious and excellent in our eyes which are mean and common in the eyes of others that wee might be able to answer such as see no such thing in them with the Painter who being much taken with a piece though seeming plain yet of excellent workmanship to one ignorantly asking him what worth he saw in that poor peece O friend couldst thou see with my eyes thou wouldst be ravished with it And that our mouths might be filled with praises all the day long especially upon this day purposely set apart by us thankfully to record the great and wonderfull works the true and righteous judgements of our King of Saints In delivering us from the hurtfull sword in being on our side when men rose up against us in causing our soul to escape as a bird out of the snare of the fowler making their mischief to return upon their own head causing them to sink down in the pit which they made in the net which they hid is their own foot taken And so much for the first Use the Use of Admiration The second use the Church makes here of the works of Christ is to provoke and quicken themselves up to fear him and glorifie him Who would not fear thee and glorifie thy Name for thou onely art holy Lord who can understand these works of thine thus great and marvellous thus just and true and not acknowledge thee to be the onely holy One Let me presse it by way of exhortation to provoke you to the same duty Where first I must open what is meant by fearing and glorifying his Name and that which is made the ground of this fear and glory because thou onely art holy and first of his holinesse Holinesse whatever it is predicated of is nothing but a separation of the thing from common uses and to sanctifie is to respect it according to such separation or as becomes its holinesse and holinesse in God is nothing but the incommunicable Eminency of the Divine Majesty exalted above all other eminences whatsoever So that to be holy alone or to be the holy one in Scripture signification and to be God is all one Hab. 1. 12. Art not thou from everlasting my Lord my God my holy One Isai. 17. 7. At that day a man shall look to his Maker and his eye shall have respect to the holy One of Israel that is unto God Psal. 89. 18. The holy One of Israel is our King that is Iehovah is our King Amos 4. 2. The Lord hath sworn by his holinesse that is the Lord hath sworn by himself So then for thou onely art holy is as much as to say Thou onely art God these works of thine thus great and marvellous thus just and true sufficiently speak or prove thee O King of Saints to be the Lord God Almighty Secondly fear who would not fear thee To fear in this sense and in this place is to give that awfull respect unto Christ as becommeth his Excellency to serve him with a singular separate incommunicable service and is so commonly in the Scripture taken for the whole duty which we owe unto him thus to fear God and to take him for our God alone is all one Gen. 31. 53. Iacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac that is by the God of his father Isaac Isai. 8. 12 13. Neither fear ye their fear that is serve not their gods sanctifie the Lord of Hoasts and let him be your fear that is let him be your God alone And glorifie thy Name thy Name that is thy self thy Divine Majesty and to glorifie this holy One is not meant by making him glorious or by adding lustre or excellency to him which before he had not for who ever hath given unto him But to glorifie him is to acknowledge his excellency and glory to do unto him what may become his glorie to set up and exalt his glory To fear him then and glorifie his Name as the holy One is to acknowledge his Divinity to own him as their onely Lord and King and renouncing all other false Christs and Mediatours to devote themselves to serve him alone and worship him with a singular separate incommunicated worship his jealousie admitting no Corrivall there is none holy as the Lord neither shall any partake with him in his glory absolutely eminently to do to him themselves and to provoke others to do as becommeth his Excellency This is the duty which the Church here engageth her self unto and is in truth the whole of Christianity the summe of that everlasting Gospel which the Angel flying thorow the midst of heaven was to preach to them that dwell on the earth and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people saying with a loud voyce Fear God and give glory to him and worship him that made heaven and earth that is Iesus Christ alone by whom all things were created and by whom all things consist And this is the duty Honoured and Beloved which I desire to presse upon your selves even that you would be good Christians in your hearts and in your lives in your private places and in your publike standings to engage your selves with all your might with all your authority to advance the glory of Christ as the redeemed of the Lord as true Subjects to this King of Saints to offer up as a living sacrifice what ever you have or are to his service in advancing his Cause his Worship his Church doing it your selves and promoting it in others To this end I shall first give you a few quickning Motives to stir you up to make you ready and willing to your duty and secondly tell you what the Lord expects at your hands First consider what great and wonderfull things Our Lord hath already done for you and how little you have feared and glorified his Name to this day Who of you can count the great and righteous dealings of the Lord towards you not onely as you are men great or rich learned or noble nor onely as you are Christians redeemed called justified sanctified by this King of Saints though all and every of these mercies call loud upon you for this duty but I mean as you are a Parliament what great things he hath done for you in reference to this service wherein he hath lately employed you Hath he not carryed you in his bosome hath he not kept you as the apple of his eye as an Eagle fluttereth over her young spreadeth abroad her wings taketh them beareth them on her wings so the Lord alone hath preserved you How constantly hath he discovered and hitherto frustrated all the attempts of your enemies suffering no weapon of war to prosper that hath been

the present putting a new song of praise into your mouthes A prop for your faith to stay upon for time to come the Lord hath delivered and will deliver A further advantage to break the power of the malicious and ungodlymen and a warning to you to beware of neuters and secret false friends who though they take sweet counsell together with you and speak you fair beleeve them not for there are seven abominations in their hearts And by all this ye are I suppose fully satisfied that these works of our Lord God Almighty are as marvellous for their manner as before you have heard they were for their time kinde and instruments working light out of darknesse causing even the experience of the Church in these later ages clearly to interpret Sampsons riddle Out of the eater came forth meat and out of the strong came forth sweetnesse and making all the bloudy and cruell entendments of the Antichristian enemie in the effect no more hurtfull and dangerous to the Church then his was to Phereus Iason when he run at him with his sword and in stead of killing him opened an incurable imposthume and saved his life Secondly as they are great and wonderfull so as evident is it that they are just and true the justice of them is celebrated chap. 16. 5. Thou art righteous O Lord because thou hast judged thus and chap. 18. 6. we finde the Angel calling upon the Church Reward her as she hath rewarded you double unto her double according unto her work in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double how much she hath glorified her self and lived deliciously so much torment and sorrow give her O in what exact ballances hath Christ proportioned and weighed out gall and wormwood reproach and shame bloud and ruin to these enemies making them to drink of the same cup which they had before reached to his servants They had grievously afflicted the bodies of the Saints of Christ and now behold upon them noysome and grievous sores They had drunk the bloud of the Saints and Prophets and now behold rivers and fountains of bloud given them to drink They had their Edicts to kill heretikes and Lollards as they called them and now in England and among the Netherlands it 's made capitall for the Iesuits and other Incendiaries and Factors for the Whore to be found amongst them They had burnt the worshippers of Christ and now behold themselves scorched with fire and great heat They had before deprived the Saints of the light of the Scriptures and now behold the Beasts Kingdom overspread with darknesse so that they gnaw their tongues for pain Thus you see the King of Saints rendring according to that rule of justice Eye for eye breach for breach tooth for tooth full measure shaken together and running over Ecclesiasticall historie is full of instances which speak home to our purpose in this particular of Emperours Kings Nobles Popes Bishops Priests men women of all ranks and degrees upon whom these righteous judgements of God have been made manifest you have a whole Catalogue of them digested to your hands in Mr. Foxes book of Acts and Monuments I shall let passe this particular onely with this one observation That whereas this great enemy this Abaddon this Apollyon is made up of all the hatefull qualities of all those Kingdoms which heretofore have oppressed the Church of God and is therefore called Aegypt Sodom Babylon so the wrath of these vialls poured out upon him is the mixture and quintessence of those plagues and judgements whereby all those Kingdoms formerly were destroyed for here you have noysome and grievous sores waters turned into bloud palpable darknesse thunder and lightning and great hailestones the plagues of Aegypt here you have the drying up of the river Euphrates the means of the destruction of Babylon fire and brimstone the judgement of Sodom Even so Lord God Almighty true and righteous are all thy judgements And they are as clearly celebrated for their truth Even so Lord God Almighty True are all thy judgements was the voyce of the Angel out of the Altar at the pouring out the viall upon the Rivers and Fountains of waters turning them into bloud and after they were all poured out Iohn heard the voyce of much people in heaven saying Hallelujah salvation and glory and honour and power unto the Lord our God for True and righteous are his judgements for he hath judged the great whore which to understand you must know that these vialls were put up long ago by Christ and laid up in store with him and sealed up among his treasures and written in a book and not onely so but the Counterpart of this book was sent and signified by his Angel unto his servant Iohn and the epoche or time of their beginning and the whole series of their accomplishment for time and place matter manner and measure exactly represented to him whereof many things are already come to our knowledge being fulfilled just ad amussim apocalypseôs according to the standard of the Revelation and although some things concerning the interpretation of these plagues and curses remain yet dark unto us being not fully accomplished yet when all these vialls shall once be poured out the whole Church shall be able to say of them as Ioshuah did in another case of the blessings You know that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you all are come to passe and not one thing hath failed So not one drop of all these vialls hath fallen to the ground in vain not a plague failed but all have accomplished the things for which they were sent write them down These are the true sayings of God If you would know some reason why Christ delights to proceed after this manner in the destruction of this enemy I answer First because this enemy is the master-piece of all the Devils workmanship the Dragons darling to whom he hath delivered over his power and his State his throne and dignity whatever Beelzebub prince of the Devils and the whole Conclave of hell could invent all hath been infused into this grand Adversary there was never yet State framed in the world by the wit and art of man more wisely contrived and plotted more powerfull and forcible to subdue the whole world unto it self by claiming a Ius divinum laying a foundation for firm obedience in mens consciences and having in it sufficient to nourish all mens affections and to fit every mans humour that each fancie may be satisfied and each appetite finde what to feed on yea what ever may prevail with any man is there to be found wealth for the covetous honour for the ambitious learning for the studious great employment for metald spirits multitudes of ceremonies for the superstitious gorgeousnesse of shows for the vulgar and simple miracles for