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A82313	The building and glory of the truely Christian and spiritual church. Represented in an exposition on Isai. 54, from vers. 11. to the 17. Preached to His Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax and the general officers of the army, with divers other officers, and souldiers, and people, at Marston, being the head-quarter at the leaguer before Oxford, June. 7. 1646. / By William Dell, minister of the Gospel, attending on His Excellencie Sir Thomas Fairfax in the Army. Together with a faithful testimony touching that valiant and victorious army, in the epistle to the reader. Published by authority.	Dell, William, d. 1664.	1646 (1646)	Wing D918; Thomason E343_5; ESTC R200942	30,138	43

heaven and so he will give Nations and Kingdomes for them and hath said The Nation and kingdome that will not serve thee shall perish yea those Nations that be utterly wasted On that this Kingdome in it selfe and in its representation would avoid this evill as they would escape this end The 4. Monarchies for opposing the Spirituall Church have fallen for its sake and so shall every other Kingdome and Common wealth that undertakes against it Verse 16. Behold I have created the Smith that blowes the coales in the fire and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work and I have created the waster to destroy Verse 17. But no weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper c. Thou art saith God to the Church a small weak despised contemned persecuted people but thy safety protection blessing lyes in me and in my power and wisedome and lovs Behold I have created the smith c. That is I have formed him that makes the Sword and Gun and Pike and that prepares the Ammunition and both he that makes the weapon and he that useth it are in my hands and they shall only do what I would have them do and no more and so No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper God blunts the edge of the weapon and weakens the hand and puts fear into the heart of him that useth it and so no weapons that have been used have prospered hitherto and if any more weapons shall be used hereafter they shall be as unprosperous as these And every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgement thou shalt condemn Two wayes you see the enemies of the Church assault the Church by their hands and by their tongues and this latter way is the more dangerous of the two by the former they scourge the Church with rods by this latter with Scorpions This weapon of the tongue is the most dangerous weapon that ever was used against the Church in any age and the last refuge of the Devill and his instruments to annoy the Church And thus when the enemy failes at the strength of his weapons he undertakes againe with the malice of his tongue and with this the enemy strikes against the Saints that professe the truth and against the truth it selfe professed by the Saints Against the Saints that professe the truth clothing them with odious names and loading them with base aspertions Independents and Sectaries and Schismaticks and Hereticks some such there are indeed in the Kingdome but they abuse the precious Saints of God with these and other reproaches and so crucifie Christ againe in his body not between two theeves but between two hundred theeves that so it may be the greater difficulty to discerne him Their tongues rise up in judgement against them it intimates they shall have specious pretences against the Church Oh these are the men that would turn the world upside downe that make the Nation full of tumults and uproares that work all the disturbance in Church and State it is fit such men and Congregations should be suppressed and that they should have no imployment in Church or State it will never be a quiet world till some course be taken with them that we may have truth and peace and government againe And thus they have faire pretences against the godly and use the glorious names of truth peace and government to the destruction of them all And this is the sense of these words for their tongues to rise up in judgement against them Yea me thinks this phrase intimates thus much as if they would call in the aide and power of the secular Magistrates against the spirituall Christians and then their tongues rise up in judgement against them indeed and except they engage the Magistrates power against the Saints they think they can never doe them mischiefe enough And thus their tongues rise up in judgement against the Saints that professe the truth 2. As the enemy strikes with their tongue against the Saints that professe the truth so also against the truth professed by the Saints and this they call by way of reproach new light as their predecessors at the beginning of the breaking forth of the Gospel in this Kingdome called it New learning yea they call the truth error and the very minde of Christ in the word heresie and the power of godlinesse Independency and the contending for the faith once given to the Saints faction and sedition and the like and this grieves the Saints a thousand times more then any personall reproaches to heare the truth and light and life and spirit of the Gospel despised and spoken against and blasphemed this is that that fetches not only teares from their eyes but even drops of blood from their hearts the truth of God being much dearer to them then their estates or names or lives But see how God conquers this weapon of the enemies tongue to the faithfull aswell as the former weapons of their hands every tongue that riseth up in judgement against thee thou shalt condemne All that speake and rage and raile and reproach and slander and vilifie and abuse the Saints either by their tongues or pens thou by thy uprightnesse integrity innocency truth faithfulnesse shalt condemn them thy wayes and thy works that are led and acted in Christ and his Spirit shall be the condemnation of all thine enemies and their misreports and slanders shall be done away as a mist before the Sun and thy righteousnesse and integritie shall break forth in that clearnesse and brightnesse and strength that they shall sit down astonished and amazed and they shall be condemned not only by the word and by the Saints but by all the common morality of the world yea and by their own conscience so that they shall carry their guilt with them night and day and shall not be able to look the godly in the face whom they have so reproached the very presence of the Saints shall be the condemnation of their enemies who have before so unworthily judged them yea the whole world shall see the faithfulnesse and integrity of the Saints of God and shall justifie them and condemne their enemies and shall say lo these are the men that the world judged for Sectaries and Schismaticks and what not see how faithfull they have beene to God and the true Church of God and to the State and surely th●y must needs be bad men that are enemies to these And thus while our enemies judge us they shall be condemned themselves And this shall certainly be done as sure as the word of God is true and as sure as the Lord lives to make good his word For This is the heritage of the Servants of the Lord That is you shall have this by as sure right as any man hath an inheritance that is entailed upon him This is your heritage O ye servants of the Lord to make voyd the force of every weapon that is used against you and to condemne every tongue that judgeth you This promise is our portion the lot of our inheritance and in this we rejoyce that while we serve the Lord truly and faithfully neither the hands nor tongues of the enemy shall hurt us but in the end we shall be more then Conquerours over all Let my portion fall in this pleasant place and I shall have a goodly heritage And their righteousnesse is of me saith the Lord That is these servants of mine are not men of a humane and morall righteousnes only but they pertake of the righteousnes of God in Christ Their righteousnesse is of me or thus though they are sinners before the world for as the world reckons their own sinne for righteousnesse so it reckons Gods righteousnesse for sin yet they are righteous before me and in my eyes So that how ever the world reckons us evill doers and not worthy to live in the world yet God reckons us righteous and our righteousnesse is before him To conclude seeing God hath engaged himselfe to secure us in his wayes both from the weapons and tongues of men Goe and tell the Foxes that we will walk without feare in the world both to day and to morrow and the third day we shall be perfected FINIS Jer. 36 32. John 8. 44. Deut. 33. 29. 1 Pet. 1. 12. Revel. 5. 9. Vse Vers 11.

The Building and Glory of the truely Christian and Spiritual CHURCH Represented in an EXPOSITION On Isai. 54 from vers 11 to the 17. PREACHED To His Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax and the General Officers of the Army with divers other Officers and Souldiers and People At Marston being the Head-quarter at the Leaguer before Oxford June 7. 1646. By WILLIAM DELL Minister of the Gospel attending on His Excellencie Sir Thomas Fairfax in the Army Together with a faithful TESTIMONY touching that valiant and victorious Army in the Epistle to the Reader Matth. 5. 11. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake Verse 12. Rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you Psal. 69. 9. The reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me Published by Authority LONDON Printed for G. CALVERT at the Black Spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1646. To the READER HAving obtained this grace from God to be called into some friendship and familiarity with Jesus Christ so as to hear and receive from him something of the minde and bosome of the Father according to his free grace who hath mercy on whom he will and having after many tears and temptations not unknown to many yet in the body obtained this further grace to speak the Word of God with boldnesse I have also been counted worthy to be taken into some fellowship with Christ in his sufferings and to endure the contradiction of sinners and oft-times to encounter the rage and madnesse of men yea and to fight with men after the manner of beasts altogether brutish and furious And thus it hath fared with me often especially at two remarkable times The one at Lincoln upon occasion of two Sermons preached there on these words of the Prophet Isaiah chap. 9. 7. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end Wherein giving unto Christ his own proper due many were angry I had taken too much from men to whom yet nothing belongs but iniquity shame and confusion they could not bear this that the Lord alone should be exalted But that Doctrine of truth the Lord hath strongly upheld with the right hand of his righteousnesse and the glory of it hath since shone into many hearts in this Kingdom much contrary to their desire The other time wherein I met with remarkable opposition was lately at Marston the Head quarter at the Leaguer before Oxford whither some coming out of the City of London in all probability out of some special designe seeing the old malignity now acts in a new form and is daily coming forth in a second and more plausible cunning and deceiving edition became exceeding angry and headie against the plain and cleer truth of the Gospel delivered in this following Exposition wherein the whole truth and substance of what was then delivered is exactly set down and nothing abated but rather some things farther pressed adding as Jeremiah in the second roll many like words to the former New some of these men seeing themselves and their new designe cleerly discovered by the light of the Word and made altogether naked suddenly they grew fierce and furious contradicting and blaspheming yea some of them speaking the language of hell upon earth of which there are some witnesses as became men of such a generation These men according to the operation of that spirit which works mightily in the children of disobedience come and fill the whole City with lyes and slanders laying to my charge things that I knew not the falshood and untruth whereof there are some hundreds and some of them of great and eminent worth and piety ready to witnesse Wherefore of meer necessity I was constrained to publish this Exposition as a witnesse to this present and the following generations of these mens resisting the Spirit and acting against Christ himself in the Word And though the discourse be very plain not savouring of any accuratenesse of humane wisedom and learning yet they that are themselves spiritual will acknowledge somthing of the Spirit in it and for that cause will rellish and love it though others will therefore be at the greater enmity against it But for my part I have set down my resolution in the Lord in this Cause of Jesus Christ not to weigh all the power of earth or hell one feather but to put it to the utmost trial whether the truth of the Gospel or the slanders and lyes of men shall prevail whether the smoke of the bottomlesse pit that comes forth out of the mouth of these and many others shall be able to blot out or darken the brightnesse of Christs coming in the Ministery of the Gospel yea and whether the power and malice of the devil and the world shall be stronger then the love and protection of Jesus Christ And I doubt not but the more the world acts in the Spirit of the devil the more will Christ enable us to act in his own Spirit till all at last shall be forced to acknowledge that the Spirit that is in us is stronger then the spirit that is in the world And what now have all these men obtained by all their malice and fury but a greater and more open discovery of the truth and to cause that that light of the Gospel that onely shone in one Congregation should through the printing of it have its beams scattered in many parts of the Kingdom and wherever the truth comes the children of the truth will entertain it ask no body leave And thus through the over-ruling power of Gods wisedom do these men betray their own and their fellows cause and overthrow their own and their ends and whilst they think to oppresse the truth propagate it the more and thus shall truths enemies perish and the truth it self flourish yea flourish through slanders oppositions contradictions blasphemies and all the vilenes and villany in the world And all this confidence in us arises hence because Christ is not as a dead man but is risen and ascended and sits at the right hand of God and fills all things doth all things in heaven and in earth in the world and in the Church among his friends among his enemies till these be made his footstool which is the very thing we are now in expectation of Now one thing more which I think fit to acquaint the world withal in this Epistle is this That none of these thorny hearers durst after come to discourse with me or to look me in the face but one among them that seemed of a better temper then the rest upon the urging of a godly Citizen then present did speak with me and the question he asked of me was this Whether I thought that all Presbyterians were carnal Gospellers I told him I was far from thinking any such thing for I knew