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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 particular instances are too many to be related in a Sermon I shall mention onely some few things which as so many continued threads have run through this whole peece of his workmanship first in the greatnesse and wonderfulnesse secondly in the truth and righteousnesse of them First these works have been great and wonderfull for the kinde When the Antichristian Empire which at first was contrived with that wisedome and underpropped with that strength ruling even the souls and consciences of men and had prevailed so farre that all the Kings and States of the World were so drunken with the Whores Cup that they not onely kissed her well-favoured face but as so many brute beasts lay at her foot-stooll prostituting all their power and strength unto the Beast and under her command making warre even against the Lamb himself and helping to drink the bloud of his Saints none daring to question the truth or rather divinity of her Commands so that she could glorifie her self and say in her heart I sit as a Queen and shall see no sorrow now that suddenly it should be put into the hearts of most of the Europaean States to hate this Whore to endeavour to make her desolate and naked to eat her flesh and burn her with fire how great and marvellous doth this speak the work for the kinde of it Who but the Lord God Almighty could do this It is certainly the Lords doing and must be marvellous in our eyes Secondly if we consider the time which our Lord Christ was pleased to make choyce of for the effecting these great works they will appear yet more wonderfull even when his Church was at the lowest when he saw that their power was gone and there was none shut up or left when the enemy was come in like a flood and no man to lift up a standard against him when he saw that there was no helper even then put he on righteousnesse as a breast-plate and an helmet of salvation upon his head and the garments of vengeance for his cloathing Who can be ignorant of these things who knows not the low condition of Germany when Luther first appeared though onely against the notorious abuse of the Popes Indulgences and other luxuriant branches of his Tyrannicall usurpation insomuch that a Bishop wishing him well yet despairing of successe counselled him as the Story reports after this manner Frater frater abi in Cellam dic Miserere mei Deus To thy beads Frier thou wilt do no good in this work For the people of Germany were at that time so bewitched with the sorceries of the Whore and so enthralled to her power that as that proud Cardinall too confidently boasted they were ready at the Popes command for the redemption of their souls to have eaten grasse and hay more pecudum after the manner of brute Beasts And was not the Church in other Countries as low namely at the first appearing of Zuinglins and Oecolampadius in Helvetia of Calvin Viret and Farell in France Cranmer Latimer Ridley especially Bilney and Tyndall in England Hamilton Wischart Knox and others in Scotland at that time when in a word the whole Church might have taken up that complaint Ezek. 37. 11. Our bones are dried our hope is lost we are cut off for our parts then did our Lord Christ open their graves and cause them to come up out of their graves and made them live and stand up upon their feet an exceeding great army this also must needs be acknowledged to be the work of the Lord God Almighty who is wonderfull in counsell and excellent in working And as the kinde and time so thirdly the consideration of the meanes and instruments renders them yet more wonderfull to effect great things by weak meanes is an argument of great power and strength That the walls of Iericho should fall at the blast of trumpets of rams horns that a Cake of barley bread tumbling into the hoast of Midian should come unto a tent and smite it and overturn it that the tent should lie along that Gideon and three hundred men with lamps and empty pitchers should overthrow the whole hoast of Midian who came as grashoppers for multitude they and their Camels being without number that a woman should compasse a man a weak woman subdue a mighty man these are New things as the phrase there is Behold the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth a woman shall compasse a man c. And yet this you shall see was no new but Gods usuall and constant course which he takes in this work pouring out these Vialls of his wrath upon this potent enemy by the ministery of most weak and contemptible instruments pulling his Church out of the dungeon of Superstition by old cast clouts and rotten rags as once Ebedmelech the Ethiopian did the Prophet Ieremie Was not Luther a poor Monk and other priests and shavelins newly crept out of their superstitious Cells the first Engineers that battered the walls of this great Babylon who were they but the poorer meaner sort of people that at the first joyned with the Ministers to raise the building of Reformation few of the Princes and Nobles putting their necks to the work of the Lord or if any did yet the Divine Providence so ordered it that either they were suddenly taken off as the Duke of Saxony and Landgrave of Hessen by imprisonment or immaturely taken away as Edward the sixth by death or more miraculously preserved as Queen Elizabeth a woman in England and King Iames a childe in the beginning of Reformation in Scotland and although in the progresse of the work many Kings and Princes have stood up as nursing Fathers yet still we may observe that the greatest things have been done by them from whom least could be expected as not to trouble you with more instances the almost incredible and strange proceedings of the late victorious King of Sweden will abundantly testifie who as a contemptible Prince crossing the Baltick-sea entred Germany with not above five or six thousand men and a very small sum of Mony and yet in as little time had before his death almost brought to nothing that mighty House of Austria thought by many to be the Sun giving light and influence to the Antichristian world upon which the fourth Viall was to be poured out I might I say give you many other instances this may suffice God will you may be confident in time make all the world know that this great Image this great Antichristian Oppressour shall be broken in pieces by a Stone cut out of the Mountains without hands without humane help Fourthly and lastly and above all the manner of his working proves them most wonderfull For if we observe but the goings of this King of Saints if we trace him in his footsteps in this great work of execution upon his enemies marching before his people travelling in the

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

be cleared out of the fourth Chapter of this Book which is the Stage of all the Apocalypticall visions Secondly we have the things themselves or the marvellous signes which were seen in this place and they are three First The behaviour of the true Church of Christ during this time of the pouring out of the vialls ver. 2 3 4. Secondly The description of the seven Angels the instruments who were to pour out these vialls their apparatus qualifications and furniture they come out of the temple clothed in pure and white linnen and having their breasts girded with golden girdles Habitu cluctu sacerdotali ornati like the Priests of God Ezek. 44. 17 18. pure worshippers Thirdly A description of the Church in reference to Christs presence with it his owning and protecting it though after a more dark manner vers. 8. The Temple was filled with smoak from the glory of God and from his power c. alluding to Gods taking possession of the Tabernacle Exod. 40. 34. and of Solomons Temple 1 King 8. 10 11. The first of these I am to deal with at this time viz. The behaviour of the Church during the time of the pouring out the vialls Wherein observe two things first their state verse 2. secondly their work verse 3 4. Their state I saw as it were a sea of glasse mingled with fire and them that had gotten the victory over the Beast c. stand on the sea of glasse having the harps of God This sea of glasse or crystall is described Chap. 4. 6. placed before the Throne alluding to the great Laver or Sea in Solomons Temple wherein the Priests were to wash themselves from their uncleannesses whenever they approached nigh to the Altar of God to offer sacrifice onely that was made of brasse this of a more pure and transparent metall In this Laver the Reformed Churches had lately been washed from the foulnesse and pollutions of Antichristianity out of which they had newly escaped having gotten the victory over the Beast and over his Image and over his Mark and over the number of his Name and being cleansed in this Laver though mingled with fire whether of contention or other affliction I dispute not they stand up on the brim of it with the harps of God in their hands with instruments of praise as the Israelites did upon the banks of the Red-sea thorow which they had lately passed and in it been baptized unto God singing a song of praise for their great deliverance from Pharaoh and his Hoast who perished in the pursuing of them This was their condition and their posture a delivered cleansed condition a praisefull posture Secondly their work during the time of the pouring out the vialls they sang an {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a triumphant song Canticum gratulatorium eucharisticum a song of praise and thanksgiving wherein observe two things first the Title of the Song The Song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb Secondly the subject matter of the Song Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty c. The title First the song of Moses the servant of God i. e. such a Song and upon such an occasion as Moses and Miriam and the rest of the Israelites sang unto God when they had passed through the Red sea 2ly and the song of the Lamb we have many songs of the Lamb recorded in this Booke cap. 4. 11. Thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory and honour and power c. is the constant song of the whole Church of Christ cap. 5. 9. the same quire sings a new song to the Lamb when hee had taken the booke to unloose the Seales thereof cap. 11. 17. the same Church sings another song of prayse upon the resurrection of the two witnesses and the fall of the tenth part of the great City We give thee thankes O Lord God Almighty c. cap. 12. 10. upon Michaels victorie over the dragon there is another Song of praise Now is come salvation and the Kingdome of our God and the power of his Christ c. cap. 14. 3. there's a New Song sung before the throne which no man could learne but the hundred forty and foure thousand which were redeemed from the earth Now whether this Song of the Lamb be the Song which those harpers sang or whether and how farre it is composed out of the rest of the songs recorded in this Book is needlesse as some Interpreters doe to enquire because we have the matter of the Song layed downe in so many words it is sufficient that it 's therefore called the Song of the Lamb because it was indited by the Spirit of the Lamb and tends to advance the glory of the Lamb their Saviour and Deliverer 2. The matter of the Song which divides in selfe into two parts 1. The Churches confession of the nature of those workes which Christ doth in the pouring out the seven vialls ver. 3. viz. Great and marvellous are thy workes Lord God Almighty just and true are thy ways thou King of Saints i. e. They are great and wonderfull fit onely to bee done by him who is the Lord God Almghty just and true well becomming him who is the King of Saints 2. The use which the Church makes of these works which is threefold 1. They record celebrate and publish them 2. They engage and binde themselves faster and closer to him in his worship and service Who shall not feare thee O Lord and glorify thy Name for thou onely art holy 3. They prophetically foretell the use which shall be made of these workes by such as yet were strangers viz. As Christ proceedes to manifest these wonderfull and righteous plagues and judgments upon the Antichristian world the people of Italy Germany France England Scotland Denmarke Sweden Polonia Hungaria and the rest of the elect shall shake off the Yoke of Antichrist and submit to the Scepter of Iesus Christ for all Nations shall come and worship before thee for thy judgments are made manifest Thus you have a plaine view of the Text together with the interpretation out of which many excellent and usefull truths might be observed As first that all which is done in the pouring out of the seven vialls is the wrath of God upon the Antichristian faction so that however in the pouring out of every viall there is something which is grievous to the reformed Churches to humble purge and quicken them yet there is no wrath upon anywhere ever it is poured but onely as there is something of Antichrist among them which Christ will search for find and destroy where-ever he finds it Consider the whole work of the vialls and you shall finde noysome and grievous sores upon them onely that have the mark of the Beast the drinking of bloud the scorching with heat the gnawing of their tongues for paine the being destroyed with hailstones c. All these light

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.