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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89591	A tvvo-edged svvord out of the mouth of babes, to execute vengeance upon the enemy and avenger. Presented in a sermon to the Right Honourable the House of Lords assembled in Parliament, in the Abbey-Church at Westminster, Octob. 28. 1646. the solemn day of their monthly fast. / By Stephen Marshall B.D. minister of Gods Word at Finchingfield in Essex.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1646 (1646)	Wing M797; Thomason E359_3; ESTC R201165	29,362	39

in these conflicts of ours have solemnely protested that their plot was onely to bee on the safest side that they might bee sure to stand whosoever fall In the name of God I promise it to every one that hath undertooke with Christ in the Cause of his Church they shall succeed well They used to say in Rome in Germanieus his dayes Salvus Germanicus salva Roma salva omnia Germanicus is well and the City is well and all is well I say it with better confidence Christ is well his Church is well their Cause is good a succeeding Cause a prosperous Cause and all shall bee well the worme must beat the mountaine to dust the Woman must compasse the man It may for a while seeme to goe very hard with the Church but the end will bee comfortable it was of old said of the Romans they were sometimes praelio victo nunquam bello they lost many a battell but in the conclusion they conquered every Nation which warred against them This most undoubtedly is the fate of the Church might hold us up in all our present difficulties I know many of you are yet at your wits end and wonder what will bee the end and event of these things the pillars of the Earth the pillars of the Land the pillars of Truth as well as of Peace are shaken ready to fall wee are wofully divided into minutula srustula and the young childe of Reformation in danger to bee swallowed up a Hydra a Dragon watcheth for it a malignant party on the one hand Blasphemies heresies and divisions on the other hand but there is a Spirit working wil subdue all the zeal of the Lord wil bring all well to passe therefore hold up your Spirits and fear nothing I cannot but commend unto you that excellent speech of Luther to Melancthon when the Protestants were in a very low estate when Melancthon was affraid Come saith Luther to him let the Pholips let the Bishops let the Turks and the Devill himselfe doe his worst against us nos filii regni sumus wee are the children of the Kingdome Dominus prope adest the Lord is at hand wee are engaged with Christ whom they have crucified and spit upon wee must carry the day from them So I say to thee Feare thou nothing the Barque wherein thou art may be tost it will never be split troubles may come the present may continue new ones may come but nothing shall come but such as that Christ contrives purposely that things may appeare difficult to us that his glory may bee the more in his carrying us through them all and in the name of Christ I promise you the event shall bee successefull And as this is comfortable in reference to the whole Church so it is wonderfully comfortable to every particular soule that feares the Lord Christ and may uphold them in all their temptations and afflictions crosses and desertions I am perswaded many a soule who heares mee this day wonder how they shall subsist one weeke longer their spirituall pressures temptations desertions are so strong another findes their outward afflictions so intolerable and their pressures more and more breaking in so that they are ready every moment to sinke under their burthen and know not what will become of them ready every day to conclude as David did in his haste and feare I shall one day perish by the hand of Saul I shall never hold out I shall never be able to stand against these impetuous assaults but cheare up thy heart if there bee any thing of Christ in thee though it bee but as smoking flax it shall never bee quenched though but as a bruised reed it shall never bee broken though it bee but a babe and suckling thou shall quell all thy enemies I tell thee I know it that all the power of hell is engaged against thee because thou art for Christ whether there bee any power of hell in thy heart in thy lust or in thy family in thy father in thy husband in thy mother in thy brethren or about thee all will bee against thee but as this power is against thee so I assure thee all the power in Heaven is engaged for thee all the power that the God of Heaven hath all his Attributes are for thee and therefore doe thou conclude though thou art a worme a woman c. the worm shall thresh the mountaine the woman shall compasse the man the lambe shall overcome the wolfe and what is said in the 17 of the Revelations of all the Kings of the earth that they should set against the Virgin Company who follow the Lamb but the Lambe should overcome them for hee is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and those that are with him who are called and chosen and faithfull the like is true of every soule who is a follower of the Lord Christ they must overcome and by the helpe of the Lord tread all their enemies under their feet Secondly because how unlikely soever the thing bee the Babes and Sucklings must queil all their enemies let me teach you all this point of wisdome never have any thing to doe against the Lord Christ or any of his children beware how thou have thy hand in any contrivement against any of those that are the Lambes followers I cannot give it you better then in an expression of Solomons in Proverbes 24. 15 16. to a wicked man Lay not maite O thou wiched man against the babitation of the righteous spoile not his resting place For the righteous falls seven times a day riseth agains but the wicked fall into mischiese I take the plaine meaning to bee this Solomon tells wicked men hee knows they cannot but bee like themselves plotting and contriving mischiese against those that feare God and possibly it is that through their contrivements they may cause the people of God oftentimes to fall to fall into afflictions under many crosses but let them fall never so often they will bee like the corke thrust it under the water you cannot keep it under the water it will rise againe so shall it bee with godly men they will get out of their troubles but when the wicked falls hee falls to the purpose hee will fall into mischief and never rise againe God will deale with them as hee did with Moab in the 16 of Isaiah Wee have heard of the pride of Moab he is very proud even of his haughtinesse and his pride and his wrath but his lyes shall not bee so therefore shall Moab howle for Moab Moab thought to make my children mourn and howle but I 'll make Moab howle for himselfe So thou maist thinke to carry on a plot or designe against Religion against the servants of God either their Cause in generall or some particular person of them but forbeare it as Gamaliel said to them Forbeare these men middle not with them lest yee bee found fighters against God they may