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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89565	Emmanuel: a thanksgiving-sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons upon their solemn day of praising God for the victory obtained by the Parliaments forces in Southvvales. In the church of Margarets Westminster, May 17. 1648. / By Stephen Marshall B.D. minister of Gods Word at Finchingfield in Essex.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1648 (1648)	Wing M753; Thomason E443_3; ESTC R204197	25,337	44

the Nation against them this is the way of all Gods people they cry down the glory of the world the pleasures of the world the riches of the world the honour and pompe of the world they cry all down as a base thing and they profesle to lay up all their treasure elsewhere and therefore the world cannot beare it then add in the last place That all that is excellent in the Church is invisible and undiscernible by a carn all eye they have in them many things that will challenge respect and reverence but they are not seen all the outside is poore and base and mean and contemptible unattended unhonoured and for such a poore low sort of people to take so much upon them who have no worth in them that others can discern is intolerable no marvaile that the world bee against them this made the two Witnesses so hated Revel. 11. that though they were but two and they also cloathed in sackcloth yet they durst undertake to throw fire in the faces of all men who lived upon earth Upon such grounds as these there ever hath been in the hearts of all the enemies of the Church an incessant indeavour and an unanimous confederacy to ruin them and destroy them I note this but for these two ends briefly First That it may teach all the servants of Christ all the people of God what they must look for in this world while their lot is to live amongst worldly men they must looke for no other but plots and conspiracies and confederacies for their ruine and let it not bee hard It was so with the Lord himself Quod erat Christus erimus Christiani What Christ was we Christians must bee and it is enough to be like our Master while hee hee lived upon earth although hee never did hurt any walked unblamably pitied all helped all that came to him yet hee was not beleeved in his word he was reproached in his life hated in his person grieved in his Spirit the whole way of the world went against him and it must and will bee so with his servants while there is a devill and a devillish spirit in the world the gates of hell will bee working in one kind or other Non semper saeviunt Nerones sed nunquam cessat diabolus there are not alwayes raging Neroes but there are alwayes devils and devillish men every Abel shall be sure of a Cain and the Congregation of Christs people must bee opposed by the association of Malignant enemies But Secondly That which I would faine leave with you is this even a use of wisdome which all the servants of God should learn since there is such a confederacy and an harmony in the spirits and endeavours of all the enemies of Gods people for their ruine how should this provoke al the servants of Christ to associate and unite themselves together for their mutuall safetie certainly when Gebal and Ammon and Amalek and the Philistines and they that dwell at Tyre Asher and the children of Lot are all confederate against Gods people it were a starke madnesse for Ephraim then to bite Manasses and Manasses to bite Ephraim and both these to devoure Iudah O how uncomely and unseasonable a thing is it to find the people of God divided one from another and helping by their jealousies and divisions the hurt and raine one of another at that time when there is one soul and spirit possesses all their adversaries to destroy them how sad is it that we cannot learne that wisedome of our adversaries looke over all the world and you shall find that the generality of the world are all children of Babel children of confusion have severall interests one from another can undermine one another can fight one against another yet they all can and doe convenire in hoc tertio they all agree in this that when there is a businesse against the Church of God they will all be one against it Shall not the servants of God joyn together for their safety this duty of loving one another our Saviour presseth upon us by many arguments we have one God one Lord one Faith one Baptisme c. it was one of his last injunctions Love one another it 's the band of perfection c. yet all will not do it our great enemy knowes how open we lye to him when a spirit of division is got in they that have read the stories of the Church are able to prove it that next to Apostasie from God the divisions that have been found amongst Gods people have been the greatest means of their hurt and mischief God in mercy teach us now to learne our duty sure I am this exhortation was never more needfull and usefull then it is at this day and unto this nation where there are found a people a godly people for whom the Lord hath done admirable things greater then which he hath not done since he brought Israel out of Egypt and now after God hath done all this for us wee are tantum non swallowed up and should it prove so it must lie upon this our divisions have undone us when the Lord hath prevented our enemies wee have undermined one another and been jealous one of another and hated one another and that so bitterly that I have often with sorrow thought that in England this day it is not much better then it is in Turkie in this respect they who write of the state of the Christians among the Turks say this of them that their divisions are such one against another and their hatred so implacable that they love the Turke better then they love one another and that the Turke makes use of them as his instruments and informers to ruine one another and that if there were an Army of the one side able to cope with an Army of the Turkes he that shall expect to have but one good wish from the rest of the Christians to accompany them would be utterly deceived which saith a learned observer makes their bondage irrecoverable Alas that we should be so neer if in England that the divisions that are got in amongst the servants of God should make us like the Hieroglyphique of the Dragon and the Lion fighting one against another when the Griffin hangs over them to devoure them both when they have weakened wounded one another This is our present sad condition God in mercy amend it I have much adoe to keep off from further enlarging my complaint upon this wofull theam because our divisions beside all other mischiefes which attend them hinder us from prising and esteeming deliverances and the mercies which God bestowes upon us as in such a deliverance and mercy as we meet to praise God for this day many yea many honest and good men hardly know how to praise for it when the instruments of it are men from whom we are divided in our affections lest possibly some such respect should be offered them as we

like not and thus God is deprived of his glory and we of our comfort O the wofull fruits of our discord Christ will not bear these things at our hands he wil either make us one or none I am perswaded he will either make us lay down these oru divisions or he will give us up into their hands who will make us agree in eating the bread of affliction and drinking the water of affliction make us agree in one common calamity with a witnesse Pardon this digression if it be one which the exigence of the times and our dangers put me upon I urge these things to stir up your frequent prayers that God would be merciful unto us that we might not thus pul down our houses with our owne hands Thus from the first part the confederacy against the Church the other I principally aime at and that is The deliverance from it where you have considerable two things First The deliverance it selfe the breaking of all the counsells of their enemies and the turning of all upon their own heads and Secondly The cause of it and that is Immanuel he is the worker of it Now though there be but one main lesson that I purpose to handle yet there are three or foure particulars that I would hint and but little more then name one is that although the Lord had brought these Assyrians upon his people and delivered his people into their hands yet their rage and cruelty and fury against his Church did move God to turn his hand upon them though he had imployed them to afflict and chastise his people That the more rage and fury is in the enemies of the Church the sooner doth the Lord compassionate the miseries of his Church there are very many examples of it in the 32. Deuter. I said I would scatter them speaking of the rebellions of his people which had anger'd him I said saith he I would even scatter them into corners I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men were it not that I feare the furie of their enemy that he would exalt himselfe too much against them Senacherib is a famous instance of this Esay 10. God had stirred him up to goe against his people to take the spoil of them and to tread them downe as the mire in the streets but Senacheribs rage grew higher he would destroy and utterly cut them off he would do to Hierusalem as he had done to Samaria but even therefore did God compassionate his people and ruine this proud adversary so likewise Zach. 1. 14 15 16. c. God was a little angry and displeased with his people and the enemies helped forward the affliction but therefore was God sore displeased with their enemies and even therefore did he returne to Hierusalem with mercyes Thus you see God compassionates the misery of his people the more the rage and furie of the adversary is kindlled against them And therefore to apply this in a word or two that which is to many in these dayes is a wonderfull discouragement of heart I thinke rather should to be a ground of hope to us I mean the extream rage and fury which appears in the spirits of most wicked men against such as fear God I believe there was never so much bloud nor wrath rage nor fury in the hearts of the enemies of Gods people as is this day to be found they feare not to speake it out that not a man of them shall live in the Kingdome when once power comes into their hands they hope the day is comming and they make account to doe as Pharaoh said he would do when he followed the Israelites into the Red sea I will now overtake them my wrath shall be now satisfied to the full upon them now who knowes but the Lord will doe his people the more good for this as David said of Shimei when he cursed him and they would have had him take off his head No saith he let him curse it may be God will doe me good for his cursing of me the more pride and wrath there is in the hearts of those that thinke to tread his people down the more will God lay their insolency to his heart Again you may observe here with what scorne and contempt the Lord doth speake of all the preparations of man against his people here was a mighty Army listed and rallied gathered together met at their rendezvouz yea come into the Kingdome and made account to carry all before them but how disdainfully the Lord speakes of all their preparations Associate your selves goe your wayes on you thinke to doe a great act you make account to carry all but it will not doe it will not stand poore peoplel you reckon without your host thus the Lord as the prophet saith sits in heaven and laughs at them he scorns all their preparations that they make against his servants and truly the naming of it should teach us to make the same use of it that Luther did Surely saith he if Jesus Christ sit in heaven and laugh at them we should be foolish on earth to sit and cry for feare of them for Christ well enough knowes what they can doe and what they shall doe let us never tremble at that which Iesus Christ laughes at Observe further That when the Lord doth think upon deliverance for his afflicted people it is nothing of their worth but only the interest of Immanuel which prevailes with God here the Lord had stirred up an enemy to come against them and they came and when they thought to doe great matters the Lord would not let them but would turne all upon their owne heads and why for Immanuel Immanuel is interessed in it not the worthinesse of Gods people as he often saith it be it knowne to you I doe nothing of all this for your sakes be you ashamed and confounded it is for my own names sake which I work for I regard the glory of my Son Christs interest will bring deliverance when the unworthines of the Church would rather call for vengeance 'T is true God dearly loves his people they are to him as the apple of his eye Kingdomes and nations are nothing to him in comparison of his people but 't is no worth in them nothing of their owne which commends them to him they often lye in their blood which yet is a time of love to him and should he forbeare healing and helping till their worthinesse cal'd for deliverance it would never come 't is that love wherewith he hath loved them in Immanuel which brings all therefore though we should be humbled and even tremble at the thought of our present unworthines yet should Gods people comfortably hope and wait that for Christs interest in our present cause and worke deliverance will come Before I come to the chiefe lesson point at one more That when the greatest inundations of miseries doe flow in