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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52045	A peace-offering to God a sermon preached to the honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament at their publique thanksgiving, September 7, 1641 : for the peace concluded between England and Scotland / by Stephen Marshall ...	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1641 (1641)	Wing M766; ESTC R14789	35,078	57

low stiles are easily troden down every hawke dare flie at pigeon any wilde beast run at a silly lambe 2. And partly it comes from that inveterate hatred and enmity which God hath put betwixt the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman from which enmitie it comes to passe that the wicked can no more cease to persecute the righteous then the troubled Sea can cease from casting up mire and dirt 3. And partly from the devill who as he reignes in all the children of disobedience so where ever he is he makes it his great work to make warre with the woman and her seed which keep the commandments of God and have the testimonie of Jesus Christ Persecuting men often die often have been reconciled persecuting Kings and Princes have become nursing Fathers and nursing Mothers but Satan never turnes Christian Non semper saeviunt Nerones sed nunquam cessat diabolus The devill ever goes about like a roaring Lion seeking to devoure them 4. Yea God himself hath ordered it to be so for his own glory because he delights to rule amongst his enemies and to make the wrath of man to turn to his praise that he may shew his wisedome power and love in preserving his Lillie among the thornes and to keep his bush though burning from consuming Many are the uses which this lesson might teach us I shall onely name these two as most agreeable to our present businesse First to admire adore and praise the wisedome goodnesse power and care of God in the protection and preservation of his Church and people in the midst of so many and mighty malicious and impetuous adversaries We are prone to wonder why Gods people walking so innocently and inoffensively should meet with so much hard usage but alas could we read what is in the heart and purpose of all our ill neighbours we should rather wonder that there is one godly man left in the world In stead of thinking it strange concerning their fiery trials as though some strange thing happened unto them we should with thankfull hearts daily sing this Psalme were not the Lord himself on our side we should instantly be swallowed up quick the waters would overwhelme us the proud waters would go even over our soul Secondly this may teach us all never to be secure if we have escaped one danger if we be come out of six troubles and the seventh hath not been able to hurt us if whole armies of our enemies be overthrowne let us not hang up our armour upon the wall grow not carelesse because the rod of him that smote us is broken for out of the Serpents root will come forth a Cockatrice and the fruit will be a fiery flying Serpent God hath lately done great things for these two unworthy Nations great enemies are quelld great yokes are broken blessed be his Name for it but our enemies are not all dead our adversary the devill who rules in all the children of disobedience compasseth the earth and goes about like a roaring Lion seeking whom he may devoure Be sober therefore and watchfull and keep on the whole armour of God that we may be able to withstand in the evill day and having done all to stand But though there be cause of watchfulnesse a yet you will see there is no cause of distrustfull fear by that time I have briefly opened the next branch which is the author manner and way of their deliverance God hath not not given us a prey to their teeth c. Where among many considerable things I shall onely commend to you these 2. observations First That they were not made a prey because God would not give them as a prey to their teeth Secondly when they were as birds caught in the net and snared God chose that for his time to break their snares asunder The first affords us this comfortable lesson That how potent soever how cunning or malicious soever the enemies of Gods Church are how great imminent or unavoidable the dangers of Gods people are yet they never can be made a prey unlesse God will give them for a prey All things seeme to meet that might make them a prey yet because God would not give them to be a prey therefore they were not made a prey This is abundantly proved out of the Scripture when ever God told his people they should be spoiled it was added he would deliver them up When at any time they were spoiled God is said to spoil them God sold his people into the hand of Jabin King of Canaan The Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian God sold his people for nought he made them a reproach a scorn and derision he made them turn their backs from their enemie So likewise when they desired deliverance from their enemies they used to beg in these termes that God would not deliver the soul of his turtle unto the multitude of their enemies accounting all to depend upon Gods act if God refused to deliver up his turtle they feared none others catching or shooting his turtle Most remarkable is that place in Deut. 32. 30. The Lord did there in that song tell the people what would betide them for their rebellion afterward they should be scattered into corners and be made a spoile to all their enemies round about them insomuch that two or three of their enemies should chase a thousand of them and a handfull of their enemies should put ten thousand of them to flight Now whereas they might object and say Is this according to thy promise that thou madest in the 26. Levit. That thy people should chase their enemies that five of them should chase an hundred and an hundred of them should put ten thousand to flight how comes it then that one should chase a thousand of thy people Mark what answer God makes them in that 30. verse This could never have been unlesse their Rock had sold them and the Lord had shut them up If God say to one Spoile them shut them up it is done presently If God will not do it all the world cannot do it And the ground of it is plain because God not onely is a wall of fire about them keeps a watchfull eye upon them carries them under his wings and in his bosome but even all creatures all things which might hurt them all their enemies who would hurt them have such a dependance upon God that not onely in him they live and move and have their being but all their motions and operations are but as Tools in Gods hands That although they seem to work from principles of their own yet the truth is they are but meerly as the ax and the sawe in the hand of God who useth them This the Scripture speaks an hundred times The great King of Assyria was but the rod of Gods anger though his heart