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A89567	Gods master-piece. A sermon tending to manifest Gods glorious appearing in the building up of Zion: preached to the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in the Abbey Church of Westminster, March 26. 1645. Being the day of the monthly publike fast, / by Stephen Marshall, B.D. minister of Gods Word, at Finching-field in Essex. Published by order of the House of Peeres.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1645 (1645)	Wing M756; Thomason E279_2; ESTC R200025	37,316	57

in truth it is glory it selfe it is the very face of God and therefore holy men are said to beare the image of God because they are like his very face when Holy Holy Holy is the Lord of Hosts may be sung unto him the whole earth is full of his glory with that work which causeth his holinesse to appeare then like the Sun he shewes his glorious face when he appears in his holinesse Now this excellent Attribute is celebrated to the height in the Churches building This is cleare in that solemne and glorious representation of Christ ruling in and beautifying of his Church Revel. 4. the foure Beasts representing the Catholike Church in the foure quarters of the world when night and day they give glory to Christ the head and King the Builder and Ruler of his Church their Song is onely this Holy Holy Holy Lord God Almighty and that triumphant Song of the Church recorded Revel. 15. for the victory obtained over the Beast wherein they celebrate his greatnesse truth and justice the Church sets this as the rise of all For thou onely art holy and in truth the usuall name he takes to himselfe and by which his people call him in reference to this work is The Holy One of Israel and it is fit it should be so for then he shewes how little he can endure iniquity then he purges away the sin of his people then he makes them a peculiar people zealous of good workes then he separates their drosse and their rubbish from them then he makes them like unto himselfe never doth God beautifie his holinesse so as he doth when he builds the Church That is the third Fourthly and that which is one of the sweetest the Lord never magnifies nor glorifies his free grace and his love so as he doth in this work of building the Church all the treasures of love and favour which before lay hid in his breast do gloriously shine out then he marries her or keeps his Wedding-feast and makes all the world to know how deare she is unto him there and then and no where else doth he bestow his choice favours When he gives Kingdomes and Empires he gives nothing but a peece of clay what he cares not for but when he builds the Church there he layes out his Treasure The time would faile me to number the gifts which he then gives Great Princes ordinarily have their Almoners with them wheresoever they goe and they give this or that peece of silver or gold to ordinary Petitioners but when they will appeare in their glory and give such gifts as shall magnifie them then it may be they create Earles and Lords and great Officers of State which are peculiar and discriminating pledges of their love So doth God when he builds up other Nations with outward mercies with fruitfull seasons health wealth and pompe c. he esteemes them as nothing he cares not a shoo-latchet for these common gifts they are his common almes but when he builds his Church then he gives his Ordinances then he gives his Ministers then he gives them the Graces of his Spirit these are his Chrysolites his Emeralds his Pearles and Diamonds then he makes all the world stand amazed as my Text saith and all the Kings to wonder at the love and beauty which he shewes to his people in the day he builds up Zion then they who despised her shall wonder at her Who is this that comes out of the wildernesse leaning upon her beloved and bow downe at her feet and confesse that she is now to be called Heph-zibab and Beulah because her God delighteth in her And lastly The Lord useth more then at any other time to glorifie that excellent Attribute of his Justice because then he takes vengeance upon his Churches enemies You shall finde in the Scripture that these two things ever goe together the Lambes marrying and the Whores burning Zions building and Babels ruine his Servants exalting his enemies falling his People raised up his adversaries spoiled then doth the Lord call them to account and pay them eye for eye tooth for tooth breach for breach the day of Zions deliverance and redemption and fury and recompence to her adversaries ever goe together Behold saith the Lord in that day I will undoe all that afflict thee and will save and gather thee in one and the same day the spoiled Church shall be rescued and they who oppressed her shall be fed with their own flesh and made drunk with their own bloud The Church militant and malignant are as a pair of ballances or Buckets at a Well when the one goeth up the other still goeth down And by this time I hope you see how the Lord appeares in his glory when he builds up Zion I have but the fourth question to answer and this will be fit for Application and that is Why the Lord appeares thus glorious in this work rather then in any other There are these two reasons of it First because it is a worke that infinitely pleaseth him Men chuse to appeare in their cloaths and behaviour suitable to the work that they are to be employed in the woman of Tekoah must feigne her selfe to be a mourner when she goes on a mournfull message and David when he goes on a dolefull journey covers his face and puts on mourning apparell but when Solomon is to be crowned he goes in all his royalty and a Bride adorns her self gloriously when she is to be married Verily so doth the Lord when he goes about a worke he takes no pleasure in he puts on his mourning apparell he covers himself with a cloud and the heavens with blacknesse when he is to doe his strange work of judgment then he mournes How shall I give thee up Ephraim how shall I make thee as Sodom my bowels rowled within me my compassions are turned but the building of Zion doth infinitely please him because Zion is as the apple of his eye to him he bought Zion at a dear rate with his owne bloud he layes Zion in his bosome he is ravished with Zion Zion is his Love his Dove his faire one he hath chosen Zion and loves the gates of it better then all the Palaces of Jacob and being so pleasing to him no marvell if he put on all his glorious apparell when he is to adorn and build up Zion And se●ondly it is Because all the glory that he looks for to eternity must arise out of this one work of building Zion this one work shall be the onely monument of his glory to eternity this goodly world this heaven and earth that you see and enjoy the use of is set up onely as a shop as a Work-shop to stand onely for a week for six or 7000 years a thousand yeeres is with the Lord but as a day and when his worke is done he will throw this peece of clay downe againe

unto the Throne of Christ and ordinarily the men whom he doth chuse to work the greatest matters by are men of a meane presence of weake parts and contemptible gifts though God will have some that are eminent to let you see that his grace can make use of any but yet the greatest services that have beene done in the Church of Christ have been most-what done by instruments from whom mans wisdome would promise very little so that in them is usually fulfilled that of the Prophet A woman doth compasse a man the weake prevaile over the strong and the simple over the wise and that of the Apostle Paul God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise weake things ●o confound the things which are mighty and things which are not to bring to nought things that are And that also of the 8 Psalme Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength to quell the enemy and the avenger And truely their Tooles wherewith they work are no more promising then the Work-men The great Engine whereby Satan must be fetched from his strong hold and made to fall like lightning downe from heaven whereby captived souls shall be delivered from his power and snares whereby the dead in sinne shall be raised the prison doores opened the blind made to see the deafe to heare the food whereby the Saints shall be nourished the Rod whereby they shall be guided and ordered what are all these even the Foolishnesse of preaching shall doe all this and washing with water in name of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost Eating of Bread and drinking Wine in a Sacrament Praying to God such kind of Tooles as these are are the instruments wherewith these unlikely Work-men are furnished far more ludibrious things in reference to this work then a Shepheards boy with his sling and his bag were to the Philistian Giant Thirdly take likewise the Time for that is as remarkable as any of the rest The time when the Lord useth to build his Church heare in this 102 Psalme it was when the Church professed her bones were burnt up like a hearth her belly cleaved to the dust she was like an Owle like a Pelican like a Swallow fed on ashes and my Text in the next words saith God would regard the prayer of this poore destitute Church The Hebrew word here translated destitute signifies either the shrub of a broken Tree or the Heath that growes in the barren Wildernesse such were Gods people at this time Now here is the time which God chuses when the enemies of the Church have them in the greatest bondage when his Church and people are in most utter incapacity of doing any thing towards their deliverance or expecting any thing to be done for them that time he ordinarily chuses for the rescuing of his people When hee fetched them first out of Egypt when they were worne out there with making brickes and the tale of their brickes was do●bled then did God send a Shepheard to fetch them out When in the 70 yeares captivity they complained that their bones lay scattered as one should hew chips on the face of the earth and in another place compared to dry bones that was the time he chose to raise them up a glorious Army and to bring them out for himselfe And so it is observed by Historians that when the Lord came to deliver his Church from the terrible persecutions under Nero and the rest of the persecuting Romane Emperours and now lately from Antichrist when Cardinall Cajetan said that the Germans were so devoted to the Pope that they were ready to eat grasse and hay more pecudum like brute beasts at the Popes command for the redemption of their soules and all the rest of the Christian world stood in the same condition the Kings having given their Crownes to the Whore and laid their heads in her lap and their glory at her feet and all the people Vassals and Slaves wondering after that inchanted Beast then by a few Monks and Shavelings did the Lord break the power of this great enemy in pieces and began the rearing up of that great work which he is carrying on at this day And such like times doth he chuse in planting grace and building of his kingdome in the conversion of particular men plucking them out of Satans clawes when they are most desperately wicked when Manasseh wallowes in bloud of Innocents when Mary Magdalene is prostituting her selfe when Paul is mad against the Church when Matthew sits at the receipt of Custome every one of them wallowing in their bloud carried headlongly to destruction fulfilling the lusts of the flesh with greedinesse loving their bondage not suspecting or understanding their danger not so much as desiring a better condition this is the time the Lord chuses Now to doe it by such instruments out of such stuffe at such a time this addes much to his glory I remember it is spoke of one of Davids Worthies in the 2 of Samuel 23. it was Benajah the sonne of Jehojada that among all his valiant acts this was one that he slew a Lion but that which magnifies it is the Time when he slew it it was a Lion that was got into a pit in the time of a great snow a Lion in a pit is most desperate most rampant because there is no flying away especially in a snow the cold of the weather making all the heat of the beast gather about his heart and so encreases his courage and strength and in the time of a snow when a man hath hardly any footing to stand where he must fight this magnified the time when Benajah slew the Lion So for the Lord to doe it by such instruments and out of such stuffe and at such a time if I had no other thing to say I know you would by this acknowledge that the Lord appeares in his glory But the fourth is the maine proofe of all and that is The manner how the Lord doth it which my Text most aimes at it is in such a manner as shews him abundantly to be that which he is those excellent and eminent perfections of All-sufficiency which are in God do marvellously irradiate and shine out when God builds the Church Among many others which may be observed permit me to speak a little of these 5 excellent Attributes which do in their eminency shine out when he undertakes the building of the Church First his unsearchable wisdome Secondly his almighty power Thirdly his excellent holinesse Fourthly his his infinite grace and bounty And fifthly his admirable justice These five Attributes doth the Lord ordinarily magnifie in the highest degree when he is pleased to arise to build up Zion First I say his unsearchable Wisdome The Prophet speaks aright of all Gods works O Lord how manifola are thy works in wisdome hast thou made them all the whole world is

and out of this he looks for no other glory then from a Cabul a land of dirt or a shepheards cottage or a goard which springs up in a night and withers in a day but this peece he sets up for a higher end to be the eternall mansion of his holinesse and honour this is his Metropolis his Temple his house where his fire and furnace is his Court his glorious high Throne and therefore his glory is much concerned in this work when Nebuchadnezzar would have a City for the honour of his kingdome and the glory of his Majesty he will make it a stately peece Solomon made all his Kingdome very rich and glorious but he made his Court and especially his Throne another manner of thing so stately that the like was not to be seen in any other kingdome and therefore no wonder though he appeare in his glory in building up of that which we may boldly say must one day be made as glorious as his wisdome can contrive and his power bring to passe Having thus plainly opened and proved this excellent Doctrine give me leave in the Application to present you with some matter first of Joy and consolation secondly of Reproof and Terrour thirdly of Exhortation and Duty Here is a further excellent encouragement and strengthening of our comfort in that which I touched before viz. an assurance that this work must goe on doe all the world what they can they can never hinder the building up of Gods Church because God hath so set his heart upon it that for the doing thereof he hath cloathed himselfe with his glory and girded himselfe with strength and will he be hindred in it though all the Nations of the world should rise up against him to hinder it It is true the gates of Hell doe alwayes appeare with all their wisdome and strength against it but what of that it is his glory to build it and can we imagine that any shall be able to spoil him of his glory that any can pull downe what he will build or root up his pleasant plant when he hath called it his house of glory which he will glorifie that poore wormes shall be able to defile or deface it No no this work must be carried on feare it not He hath evidently begun it among our selves and we are often discouraged in it there is yet much to be done much rubbish still remaines to be carried out and we are very low our estates wasted the builders discouraged their hands weakned but not by might or an Army but by my Spirit saith the Lord must this work proceed and then what art thou O great mountain thou great mountain of Popery Prelacy superstition oppression division heresie schism what art thou before my servants the builders thou shalt flow down thou shalt be made a plaine Be strong therefore ye Nobles and servants of God whose hearts are set upon this work you shall notwithstanding all opposition see the cap-stone set upon the head of it and cry Grace Grace unto it The Lord useth an excellent similitude in Esay 31. 4. when he came downe to rescue his people and they were discouraged just as we are now with a multitude of oppositions he compares himselfe to a Lion or a young Lion that hath caught his prey when the multitude of shepheards are called out against him he scornes to mend his pace or be afraid of their voice So will the Lord of Hosts doe in building of Zion let all the world rise up against this work and he scornes to draw back from them or be afraid of the shepheards or their dogges he can worry them and all their dogs to peeces And therefore I beseech you who are engaged in this great worke of God when any discouragements fall out before you remember the errand that God bids Hezekiah send to Senacharib who came with some two or 300000 fighting men and sent him a very proud scornfull and threatning message tell him said God the daughter of Zion sits and laughes at him shakes her head and scornes him bids him doe his worst and well she might for these proud mountaines soone flowed downe for in in one night one of God servants killed 180000 e●en all his Captaines and great men were all killed so say thou when great difficulties rise up and thou beginnest to think Lord by whom shall Jacob arise for he is small our money failes us our Trade is gone yea in many places Ordinances faile us mens hearts are discouraged what shall we doe say the Lord hath put on his glorious apparell and he must and will carry on this work he will never undergoe that reproach This man began to build and was not able to make an end But why doth he then so delay it alas it is worse with us then it was two or three yeares agoe the summer is past the harvest is come and yet we are not delivered much bloud is shed the enemy is yet strong and potent our hearts faile our instruments decay and yet the worke hangs if God did appeare in his glory why would it come on thus heavily I answere the Lord is a God of judgment he is a wise God he knowes the fittest time That he doth delay is neither because he is weary of the work or because he is not able to doe it or because the enemy is strong No no the Holy One of Israel never fainted neither is he weary but it is onely because his best time is not yet come he will it may be more fit the enemies for destruction and us for deliverance it may be he will hunt us yet more from all our self-confidence and lay us low but in the fittest and best time of all this work must proceed no weapon can prosper that is forged against it the Lord will carry it on and finish it whether we live to see it it 's no matter if we dye and goe to heaven we are well enough let us serve God in our generation in this work which himselfe will owne in all generations Is it the Lords glory to build up Zion then miserable and wretched and cursed are all they that are the enemies of Zion who would pull Zion downe who with the children of Edom who cry Downe with it downe with it even to the very foundation who with Sanballat and Tobiah doe strive all they can to keep it low to hinder the Work-men that they may not carry it on what doe you think will become of these I le tell you how you shall guesse you shall finde in the sixth of Ezra when a great Emperour of Persia came to understand a decree of Cyrus wherein it appeared he was stirred up of God to build his house at Hierusalem he wrote a Letter to Tatnai and Shethar-boznai and many others who were enemies to the Jewes and had writ to the Emperour to know whether they

and his Angels no such glorie or Nobilitie as to be emploied in this work had you all Acts of Parliament to entaile all your Lands Honours Names and Fortunes all that you are and all else that you wish for would never make you so honourable as to be numbred amongst these that built up the Church of God that when the Lord shall reckon up the people who were by him emploied in the work as he saith once of Zion This and that man was borne there so for God to say for the Registers of his acts and worthy deeds to say Such a Noble-man such an Earle such a Lord stood out in my cause and worke when the Nobles of Tekoah would not put their hands to it When some of the Nobles of Judah kept intelligence with Sanballat and Tobiah when some others discouraged the well-affected such a man like another Nehemiah wrought for me night and day and never put off his cloaths except it were to wash them never could such an honour be put upon you look not while you live in this world though you might live an hundred yeares ever to have the like opportunitie O that it might sink deep into your hearts that you did understand what an honour it is to be a helper of God in laying the foundation of a new heaven and earth Nay my Lords consider in the fourth place God hath called you to it as expresly as he did call Bezaleel and Aholiab as he called Hiram when Solomon sent for him to help him build the Temple he could have cast your lot to be meane men or in his providence have left you among them who have deserted him and his cause who shall therfore one day be cloathed in confusion but he hath kept you here while these great matters of Religion are in hand things which I hope will prove the foundations of many gnerations This work he hath called you unto and hath said to you as once he said to Cyrus Build my house and when God calls you may be bold to follow him rely upon him for wisdome counsell strength successe c. according to that promise Esa. 45. 2. I will go before thee I will break in peeces gates of brasse and barres of iron I am the Lord who calls thee and will blesse thee Yea fifthly the Lord hath already blessed you in it Remember I beseech you at what a miserable low ebbe we were when your Lordships and the Honourable House of Commons entred into an Oath and Covenant with God Almighty and sware unto him with your hands lifted up to heaven that you would endevour the reformation of Religion what our state was then and how this work was derided and scorned yet ever since though you have been building in a very troublesome time and have for our sinnes met with many a stop many a Perez-Vzzah in bringing-in the Ark of God a blessed alteration hath God made in our affaires since we have owned his cause how hath he owned us what deep conspiracies hath he detected what victories hath he bestowed how many waies hath he blessed us and carried the work on notwithstanding our weaknesses our follies our not taking advantage of the opportunities yet the Lord hath carried it on because he doth owne it Nay give me leave to adde your forwardnesse and hearty affection to it may make the work easie to all others if you as so many Gedeons goe before them and say to the people Doe what you see us doe Look on us and doe likewise in this cause of God you are like the first sheet of an Impression when that is printed it is a patterne for thousands to be wrought off afterwards with ease Nay lastly know it for certaine that in this point of the purgation and reformation of Religion all the well-affected of England will live and die with you what David said to Solomon My Son up and build all the Nobles and Princes and the courses of the Priests will be at thy command I may boldly apply to you Go on in this work and you shall find England will never desert you the State of England the well-affected the Gentry the People the Ministers will live and die with you while you will live and die cordiall to Gods cause It is an old observation when Princes and great men leave God they lose their Names Friends Glorie while Joash was for Religion they all stuck to him when he listened to the Princes who drew him off from God he lost his life and glorie all at once even famous Solomon himselfe who built the Temple when he forsook God he lost ten of his twelve Tribes and it 's as true here at home among them whose hearts remaine faithfull to God and his cause either in the house of Lords or Commons although some clouds doe sometimes rise over them some jealousies and surmises which soon blow over againe few of them are forsaken but let any tacke about and forsake God and they are blasted presently they are irrecoverably lost My Lords consider of these things seriously and let these arguments taken from your owne condition and standing provoke you to goe on resolutely in this glorious work There is one Motive more and that is taken from The fruit and the gaine that will come of this great work of your building up the Church of God Take it in two branches in two things both which I am assured are very deare to you the one concernes your selves the other the State For your selves your Honours and Families and Posterities are certainly very deare to you men of great bloud and birth and estate make the preservation and establishing of their Familie ordinarily next to the salvation of their soules Now my Lords you may take this for a certaine Rule Build you Gods house God will build yours Jehu though not sound at heart entailed the Crowne of Israel to the fourth generation upon his posteritie for sticking to God in the cause of Baal in rooting Baal out of Israel and God promised concerning Solomon he shall build my house and I will establish his Throne mark it those two go together he shall build my house and I will establish his Throne and God said to David in the same chapter because he had but a purpose to build a house for the Lord because it was in thy heart to doe it I will build thy house for ever and even the very Midwives in Egypt who loved Gods people God built them houses So that if ever you would eternize your names and bring Gods blessing upon your families know certainly this is the onely way other projects will not doe it he can cut off families and houses in their greatest glory Shebna thought by pride and pomp and state to carry it out but shalt thou reigne saith God because thou hast built thee a brave house I le kick thee