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A89586	The song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lambe: opened in a sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons, at their late solemne day of thanksgiving, Iune 15. 1643. for the discovery of a dangerous, desperate, and bloudy designe, tending to the utter subversion of the Parliament, and of the famous city of London. / By Stephen Marshall, B.D. and Pastor of Finchingfield in Essex. Published by order of that House.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1643 (1643)	Wing M789; Thomason E56_5; ESTC R16053	30,483	54

THE SONG OF MOSES THE SERVANT OF GOD AND THE SONG OF THE LAMBE Opened In a Sermon preached to the Honorable House of COMMONS At their late solemne day of Thanksgiving Iune 15. 1643. for the discovery of a dangerous desperate and bloudy Designe tending to the utter subversion of the Parliament and of the famous City of London By STEPHEN MARSHALL B. D. and Pastor of Finchingfield in Essex Published by order of that House REVEL. 17. 4. Come hither and I will shew thee the judgment of the great whore LONDON Printed for SAM: MAN and SAM: GELLIBRAND in Pauls Church-yard 1643. TO THE HONORABLE House of COMMONS now assembled in PARLIAMENT Honorable and Beloved THe holy King and Prophet David required that the prayses of God should be sung upon well tuned Instruments and some Psalmes which himself composed to that purpose he styled Michtam golden Psalms as being full of precious and choise treasure Such could I have wished might the Instrument have been and such the Song of Praise and Thanksgiving to have celebrated the goodnesse of God for this late wonderfull preservation of your Honorable Assembly and the famous and worthy City both whose ruine was plotted and designed by wicked and unreasonable men But you were pleased not onely to designe to this service a weak and untuned Instrument though not Crackt as Malice and Slander hath bruted it abroad but also to injoyn the publishing of this song of Thanksgiving which is full of weak and imperfect Notes And to this latter task I was I confesse farre more unwilling then to the former as being conscious unto my self how few conceptions could be brought by me to any such maturity as might render them meet to become the standing Monument of so great a Mercy and so happy a Day which is worthy to be ingraven on Marble rather then to be written on Paper and with letters of gold rather then with ink But in the pursuance of your Commands I have done it and added some few things which time nor strength would permit me to deliver in publike Being resolved to deny my self and to do nothing that may hinder me from being what I am and shall always desire to remain Yours wholly in the service of Christ and his Church STEPHEN MARSHALL A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE the Honorable House of COMMONS on the 15. of Iune 1643. being the day of their publique THANKS GIVING HOnorable and Beloved were the strength of my body and my furniture of wisdome learning and grace in any degree answerable to the service of this Day I could not but exceedingly rejoyce in being called to this work in this place at this time For having been lately restored from the gates of death what greater mercy could I wish then to praise God in the great Congregation and having been reported over the whole Kingdom to have altered my former judgement concerning this just cause of the Parliaments Defensive Arms yea that the horrour of my guilt in adhering to this Cause had distracted me and made me mad can I look upon it otherwise then as a great and publike taking off this reproach by being called to exercise my poor talent in that Assembly which is the whole Kingdom by Representation and at this time to be a furtherer of your joy and thankfulnesse for Almightie Gods watchfull eye and powerfull hand thus wonderfully manifested against the desperate and bloody Designes of those that would destroy you But I fear lest this which is so many wayes a favour to me should prove your losse through my weaknesse which would not permit me to study much in private and I fear will disable me in the publike delivering that little which God hath brought to my hand yet this doth encourage me I have abundant experience of your Candor and I know that both with God and man where there is first a willing mind especially in a day service of Thanksgiving it is accepted according to what a man hath and not according to that he hath not Yea I have one encouragement more that Gods providence hath directed me to such a Text which is not onely sutable to our meeting and service but so really intended by the Spirit of God for your time and work that the very reading of it though an hour together might exceedingly affect you if once you have the true meaning of it which Text you shall finde written in REVEL. 15. 3 4. read also ver. 2. Verse 2. And I saw as it were a sea of glasse mingled with fire and them that had gotten the victory over the Beast and over his Image and over his Mark and over the number of his Name stand on the sea of glasse having the harps of God 3. And they sung the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lambe saying Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty just and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints 4. Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy Name for thou onely art holy for all Nations shall come and worship before thee for thy judgements are made manifest THis Text though it be a part of the Apocalyps the darkest and most mysticall Book in all the Scriptures and therefore thought generally hard to be understood yet time one of the best Interpreters of Prophecies hath produced the events answering the types so full and clear that we have the whole Army of Protestant Interpreters agreeing in the generall scope and meaning of it which in a few words be pleased to take thus A great part of this Book is a setting out the conflicting state of the Church under the great Apostasie with the Antichrist the heaviest and forest enemy which ever the Church had and this Antichristian power and dominion is set forth as other Kingdoms elsewhere are by a systeme of the world wherein are earth water air sunne moon starres a King a Metropoliticall City Provinces People c. an Antichristian Empire an Antichristian World and this great Monarchy of Antichrist hath the time of its rising its triumphant reigning its declining and ruine and the state of the Church of Christ under all these clearly foretold in this Book And to say nothing of his rising and reigne his ruine is described in this fifteenth and sixteenth Chapter under the Type of seven Angels pouring out seven vials full of the wrath of God the seven vialls being so many degrees of the Beasts or Antichrists ruine which story of the vialls the Holy Ghost sets down two wayes first generally in the fifteenth Chapter secondly more particularly in the sixteenth Chapter In the generall description of them in this fifteenth Chapter we have first the circumstance of the place where this Vision was seen whence these Angels came that is heaven I saw another signe in heaven verse 1. that is the true Church whereof Christ is King opposed to the world wherein Antichrist reigns as beyond all doubt may

I may say of the things they are so takē with as Christ to the Disciples who were so affected with the stones goodly building of the Temple Are these the things ye wonder at I tell you there shall not be left here one stone upon another So these riches these buildings this power and authority this great man in his countrey these things I say by too much regarding whereof many lose their soules what shall they all be ere long Heaven and earth shall be on fire and what shall these things be then and I may further say of the men who admire these things that they are greater vanities then the things they wonder at Who having immortall soules fit to be partakers of the divine nature understandings capable of the knowledge of God meditations worthy only of God should yet thus basely prostitute and abase themselves to advance a thing of nothing whereas on the contrary a holy heart is so taken with Christ and his wayes that all other things appear to them to be but toyes and folly as men got up on high neer the Heavens behold the earth but as a little spot Augustine observed this difference in himselfe that so long as he was a stranger from the wayes of holinesse he thought the study of the Scriptures to be a dull businesse infinitely preferring Tully before the Bible but after his conversion he took no pleasure in that Author where he found not the Name of Iesus Oh therefore that you would poure out your hearts in the study of these things that the wonderfull way of Christ's governing in his Church might take up not the least part of your thoughts How he hath kept this bush burning and yet not consumed how strange it was that a few Fishermen should by preaching and suffering like some conquering Alexander subdue the Nations Think of his strange course permitting an Antichrist to Lord it above a thousand years in the world so as to subdue the world wholly to his yoake suffering the Kings to give up their Crowns Scepters to him prostituting their power at his feet and when Satan thought himselfe so strong as to continue the Church in this condition for ever that then a silly Monke should set himself against the world and in a short time rescue a great part of it frō under his yoak Another time come neerer into England think what he did by King Edward a Child by Queen Elizabeth a Woman the great deliverances from the Spanish Armado from the hellish Powder-treason come neerer yet and behold the wonders of these two or three last years in England and Scotland ponder them seriously they are the Lords doings and ought to be wonderfull in your eyes Think yet further how wonderfull he will be when he comes to be admired in his Saints at the last day feed your hearts and raise them sometimes with some of these thoughts sometimes with others untill they burne within you Oh but we cannot meditate we love indeed to reade these things and delight to heare them but we cannot meditate on them Say not so lest you prove your selves persons without grace Psalme 78. it is made the note of a wretch and of one whose dayes God will consume in sorrow to forget the works of God and of a brutish person Psal. 92. not to consider them and if you cannot finde a heart to wonder at Him and his wayes as an occasion of praise take heed he shew not himselfe wonderfull in your confusion Wherfore have we our reason and tongues but to observe and speak of these things think we to live with the Saints and glorify Christ in Heaven and not have dispositions fram'd to give him all the glory we can while we live here on earth which we cannot doe if we observe not these things I know that there is a dulnesse and auknesse in the spirits of the best yet godly hearts will endeavour to overcome it He that is wise will ponder these things will fet his heart to taske in these studies and that not as to an unpleasing drudgery but as to an employment Divine and Angelicall most pleasing and delightfull My meditation of Him shall be sweet And for your better quickning to this duty consider First that this is the only way to make us Heavenly and spirituall by feeding on such matters of wonderment The object about which we are conversant gives a tincture to our spirit naturally such as our spirits are such are our studies pueri crepundia gestant children play with rattles and morally our spirits are moulded into the studies we are accustomed to Secondly this will make us ever fit for Gods service This our Lord will be served with reverence and feare and what begets that but a knowledge of out distance upon the consideration of His greatnesse from his wonderfull workes all base and low conceits will then vanish all society and communion among men is maintain'd by a knowledge of inequality when we see more eminency in men for their gifts and graces and places it strikes a reverence and strengthens the bands of love and respect much more strongly doth the serious and deep beholding of the unparallel'd perfections and excellencies of God shining in his wonderfull works captivate the soule and lay it low before him but of this more in the second use Thirdly this is the way to make us profit and grow up in grace when God sees us humble admirers of his greatnesse and diligent searchers into his goodnesse he will reveale himselfe yet more and more to us as Christ said to Nathaniel Because I said this unto thee beleevest thou thou shalt see greater things then these or the Lord to the Prophet I will shew thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not Fourthly as a further motive and help be thoroughly acquainted with thine own condition really sensible of thine own vilenesse wants and basenesse of all kindes take the dimensions of thy corruptions the height length and depth of them consider that thou art in thy self a vassall of Satan a vessel of wrath dead in nature and disposition to good dead in Sin posting to eternall destruction and then every thing of Christ thy Saviour will be wonderful unto thee Fifthly and lastly consider thy relations to Christ He is thy head thy King thy Lord thy Husband thy brother withall thy interest in all his works they are all done for thee thou hast a part in every deliverance they are thy enemies that fall upon the pouring out of every viall a share in every mercy and our interest in any thing sets it off the better to our affections makes us with unwearied diligence to search out whatsoever is scibile in it much more should it here where the more we shall study the more we shall wonder and the more we wonder the more shall we honour God and better our selves the more we

things are set as if there would be a lengthening out of these unnaturall wars untill the Cities and Countries are utterly spoiled and the Land wasted without inhabitant Now in these calamitous times every mans thoughts run as Nebuchadnezzars with desire to know what should come to passe hereafter and to demand with that Saint How long it shall be to the end of these troubles and all complain that there is no Prophet to tell us how long neither can I blame them as curious who are modestly solicitous to know what will be the event of these things for even the Prophets and holy men of God heretofore searched diligently to know what and what manner of times the Holy Ghost intended when he spake of the sufferings of Christ whether in his Person or in his members Now my Text gives I say a satisfactory answer to this difficult Question and I undertake without fear of being censured to be wise above what is written to tell you what will be the issue and event of all these troubles All Protestant Writers do agree that we are under the pouring out of some one or more of these seven vialls Some think the fourth viall is now powring out upon the Sun of the Antichristian world Others the fifth upon the throne of the Beast there are that think we are come as farre as the sixt viall and the river Euphrates is drying up I will not determine which of them it is it is sufficient which of them soever it be my Text assures me the event shall be this which is the event of every viall Antichrists part shall be weakned and the Church of Christ shall be strengthened Something in every viall may afflict the Church but incurably wounds the Beast As the seven Trumpets were so many degrees of the destruction of the Heathen Empire so the seven vialls are so many degrees of the destruction and ruin of the Antichristian Empire and it is worth your observing that all the time the whole twelve hundred and threescore years of Antichrists reign Christ always had an army of Saints to warre against the Beast a competent number of witnesses who loved not their lives unto the death But all the while of Antichrists rising and triumphant reigning the event of every conflict or scuffle was that the Beast grew higher and the Church fell lower the Papacy prevailed over all that rose up against it so that the Church in the end was hardly to be found visible upon the face of the earth But it is far otherwise in his declining time the time when the vials are pouring out every one of thē plucks part of his fleece one of them strips him of this Kingdom another of that one of them weakens his Temporall another his Spirituall Jurisdiction He is under the vials as Haman before Mordecai having once begun to fall he can never more prevail against them untill in the end the seventh viall being poured out upon the whole power of darknesse the whole Church triumphantly shouts with a loud voice It is done there is an utter end of this enemy So that I dare speak it as confidently as I beleeve the Revelation to be divine Scripture and the meaning of it thus farre made known to the Churches that what viall soever is now powring out the issue will be That Antichrist shall lose and Christ shall gain And there is but one objection against it which I confesse to be a great one and that which troubles many viz. Whether the two witnesses be yet slain their story ye shall read in the eleventh of the Revelation These two witnesses are the small yet competent number of pure worshippers who follow the Lamb and conflict against the Beast all the time of his reign now it is there said that during this whole space of time they prophecy in sackcloth and ashes in a low and mournfull condition and the Beast makes warre against them and prevails against them but quando finituri sunt testimonium a little before the end of their mournfull prophesie which is a little before the Beasts finall destruction the Beast shall not onely keep them low in sackcloth and ashes and prevail by degrees against them as heretofore but shall kill them and their dead bodies shall lie unburied in the streets of that great City that is in all the Territories of spirituall Babylon and the Beast and his followers shall be more jolly and glorious then ever they have been Now many learned Divines suspect this killing of the Witnesses is not yet past and if it be not the Church must go lower then ever it hath been and how then is the Antichristian State weakned by every viall To all this I answer that although I am not able to say This bitter Cup is yet past Father if it be possible let this Cup passe away yet I can say this is true I have delivered that every viall shall weaken the Beast and strengthen the Church and whether they be killed or not killed when ever their killing comes it lasts but three propheticall dayes and a half that is but three years and a half and then presently come in the glorious times which Christ hath promised and the Church long lookt for so that what that Father said of the Arian persecution Nubecula est cito transibit it is but a short though terrible storm and will quickly have an end and that end will be comfortable to the witnesses who shall after three dayes and a half arise from their death and ascend up to heaven in a cloud their enemies beholding it and the great City immediately destroyed with a terrible earthquake And is not this comfortable You see I go not about to determine what the event of these troubles will be to England as England is a Civill or Politicall State or Common-wealth Christ breaks and moulds Common-wealths at his pleasure He hath not spoke much in his word how long they shall last or what he intends to do with them onely this that all Kings and Kingdoms that make warre against the Church shall be broken a pieces and that in the end all the Kingdoms of the World shall be the Kingdoms of our Lord and his Saints and they shall reign over them But it is the cause of the Church the blessed event of these things to the Church of Christ which I speak of the welfare and good successe of Religion in which Cause you are properly engaged and interessed and which I hope is dearer to you then ten thousand Englands Therefore Beloved Be ye stedfast and unmoveable alwayes abounding in the work of the Lord fear not your enemies because they are blasphemous and wicked because they are set on fire with the rage cruelty and treachery of Hell fear them the lesse for that Let my enemy be as the wicked and he that riseth up against me be as the ungodly Their wickednesse is your advantage it is their weaknesse and makes you strong Let not the huge stature of the Anakims and Zamzummims terrifie you Our state for the present is low it may be we shall be lower but lower we cannot be then Iob was upon the dunghill from whence God raised him up not lower then Ionah in the Whales belly from whence the Lord delivered him not lower then the Israelites at the Red-sea thorow which the Lord made a way for them Go on with your work and fear nothing this King of Saints hath depths answerable to all our depths depths of mercy answerable to our depths of misery depths of power answerable to our depths of weaknesse He can give a comfortable Outgate out of all our straits and my Text sayes he will do it and with my Text I conclude Great and wonderfull are the works of our God And he delights to work wonders both in ruining his adversaries to uphold comfort and deliver his people engaged in his Cause and to bring others in subjection to him who yet are strangers from him The Nations shall come and worship before thee because thy judgments are made manifest FINIS Some few instances clearing the main Doctrin and some in largement of the first Use 2 Cor 8. 12. The Text 1. 2. 3. Exod. 15. Josh. 7. The main Doctrine of the Text Explained Revel. 16. 5 6. Isaiah 59. 18. Judg. 1. 7. 〈◊〉 Doctr. 〈…〉 instances Deut. 32. 36. Isa. 59. 16 c. Albertus Crancius Cajetanus Cardinalis Judg. 7. 13 14. Jer. 31. 22. Jer. 38. 11. Neh 3. 5. Revel. 16. 8. Psal. 77 9. Isai. 64. 1. Cant. 2 8. Nahum 1. 3. Sleidan Veramundus de suroribus Gallicis Knox Hist. of Scot Thuanus Psal. 136. 23. Nehem. 4. 3. Prov. 26. 25. Judg. 14. 14. Revel. 16. 2. Ver. 5. Ver. 9. Ver. 10. Levit. 24. 10. Luke 6. 38. Vol 3. 954. c Vol. 2. 185. 187. Revel. 17. 5. Chap. 11 8 9. Chap. 16. 2. 3. 10. 21. Chap. 16. 12. Chap. 19. 20. Revel. 16. 7. Chap. 19. 1 2. Deut. 32. 34. Revel. 1. 1. Revel. 19. 9. Reason 1. Revel. 13. 2. Sands West relig. fect 13. Exod. 18. 11. Dan. Revel. 18. 24. Dan. 3. 16. Rev. 13. 16 17. 2 Thess. 2. 9. 10. Revel. 13. 14. Revel. 18. 4. Matth. 24. 24. Revel. 11. 2 3. Application 1. For admiration Mat. 24 2. Psal. 107. 43. Psal. 104. ult Motives 1. 2. 3. John 1. 50. Jer. 33. 3. 4. 5. 2. Vse of Exhortation Revel. 14. 6. Col. 1. 16 17. Motives 1. 〈…〉 10 11. Psal. ●●6 71. Psal 106. Esay 57. 16. Ezek. 2 Kings 2. Revel. 15 ● Isay 1 Sam. 2. 30. Ezck. 17. 15. 1. 2. 3. 3. Vse of Encouragement Dan. 2. 29. Dan. 8. 13. Psal. 74. 9. 1 Pet. 1. 10 11. Ester 6. 13. Dan. 2. 24. Dan. 7. 22. Revel. 11. 15.