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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

Die Jovis 29 Octob. 1646. ORdered by the Lords in Parliament Assembled That Mr. Marshall one of the Assembly of Divines is hereby Thanked for his great paines taken in his Sermon the last Fast Preached before the Lords of Parliament in the Abbey Church Westminster And he is hereby desired to Print and Publish the same which is to bee Printed onely by Authority under his own Hand Joh. Browne Cler. Parliamentorum I doe hereby appoint Stephen Bowtell to Print my Sermon Stephen Marshall A Tvvo-edged Svvord OUT OF THE MOVTH 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 Esa 41. 14 15. Feare not thou Worme Jacob thou shalt thresh the Mountaines and beat them to dust Jer 31. 22. The Lord hath created a new thing in the earth a Woman shall compasse a Man Revel. 11. 5. If any man will hurt them fire proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies London Printed by R. Cotes for Stephen Bowtell at the Bible in Popes-head-alley 1646. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE LORDS Assembled in Parliament Right Honorable THis Sermon published by your Order holds out an instance of what St. Paul preached 1 Cor. 1. 27 28. God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise the weake things of the world to confound the things which are mighty and base things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen yea and things which are not to bring to nought things that are What Creature so simple weake or base as a Worme a creature which no man values loves or feares yet here 's a worme beats great Mountaines to dust and makes the hills as chaffe What so shiftlesse and unable to defend it selfe or offend an Enemy as a Babe or Suckling yet behold here are Babes and Sucklings quelling and destroying the strongest enemies even the Enemy and Avenger Your eares have not onely heard these things preached but your eyes do see them fulfilled in this our day O that these things might perswade your hearts of these Two things 1 That it is better more excellent and honourable to be one of Christs Babes one of his weake simple and despised ones then to bee one of the Zanzummims the Nimrods or men of renowne of the world 2 That the greatest support and strength to Families Cities or Kingdomes proceeds out of the mouth of these Babes that their hearts and tongues can doe more then an host of Men The first would make you with Theodosius rejoyce more in being the meanest Christian then in being the greatest earthly Potentate The latter would provoke you both to plant the Kingdome with faithful Ministers who are Fathers to beget these Babes unto Christ and to encourage and cherish the godly party of this Kingdom who with Mordecai will seek the wealth of the Kingdom and as so many shields under God defend this Nation against all its enemies These Innocents will deliver the Iland and it shal be delivered by the pureness of their hands Yea it would provoke you to get such about you and with David make your eyes set upon the faithfull of the Land that they may dwel with you and serve you and conclude that you and your Family shall be blessed in them My Lords I beseech you let this bee your choice it is the earnest prayer of Your Honours most obliged Servant STEPHEN MARSHALL A SERMON PREACHED Before the Right Honourable House of Lords at their Monethly FAST October 28. 1646. PSALME 8. 2. Out of the mouth of Babes and Sucklings hast thau ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest still the Enemy and the Avenger THe 4th Verse of this Psalme is the key of the whole Psalme What is man that thou art mindfull of him or the son of man that thou visitest him And it fully manifests that the whole scope of this Psalme is to glorifie God for the singular dignity that God hath put upon Man above all other Creatures and this dignity or glory of man is exemplified in Two particulars First That God hath chosen out this creature Man whose originall is from being a Babe and a Suckling to bee his Champion whereby he will quell and destroy all his enemies that is in this second Verse The other Branch is That God hath chosen this creature Man to be his Viceroy his Deputy to rule and govern all the workes of his hands God hath trusted him so farre as to put all that hee hath made under Mans feet and having done these two things for him made him his Champion to conquer his enemies and the Master of his house for the governing of his friends what remaines more to bee done for him this is to bee a little inferiour to God himselfe Lord what is man that thou art thus mindfull of him or the sonne of man that thou shouldest thus visit him The first of these two Mans being chosen to bee Gods Champion to still or quiet Gods enemies I have chosen to speake of this day and in it there are these two things to bee handled First Who it is upon whom this great honour is conferred described in these words Babes and Sucklings Secondly The dignity or honour that is put upon them in the other words Out of the mouth of these Babes and Sucklings thou hast ordained strength because of thine enemies to still the Enemy and the Avenger And this second Branch hath two remarkable particulars First The dignity it selfe which is put upon him or what the savour is that hee hath received and that is strength and such strength as shall quell all Gods enemies the enemy and the avenger The way and manner how this strength is exercised that is by the mouth Out of the mouth of Babes and Sucklings hast thou ordained strength For the interpretation of the words all doe agree that Man is the subject here meant but of what Man is a great question I finde the greatest part of Interpreters to agree that it is meant of the first Adam Adam in his Creation who was lifted up above all the rest of the creatures as Lord and King over them and so it is nothing as they conceive but the praising of God for the excellency that Man was endued with in the day wherein God created him or formed him out of the dust of the earth but whosoever will seriously consult the New Testament where this Psalme is three severall times quoted shall evidently finde that this is meant not of Man in his creation but of Man in his renovation not of the first Adam but of the second Adam of the Lord Christ primarily I say who grew up as a tender