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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89578	A sacred record to be made of Gods mercies to Zion: a thanksgiving sermon preached to the two Houses of Parliament, the Lord Major, Court of Aldermen, and Common-Councell of the city of London, at Christ-Church, June 19. 1645. Being the day of their publike thanksgiving to almighty God for the great and glorious victory obtained by the Parliaments army under the conduct of Sir Thomas Fairfax in Naseby-field. /	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1645 (1645)	Wing M773; Thomason E288_36; ESTC R200112	25,316	41

glorifie him by writing the Mercies they have received and transmitting them to posterity and the other is a comprehension of their whole Work that they shall not rest in any one way of manifesting their care to glorifie God but shall make it the sum of their whole life they being created to no other end The People that shall bee created shall praise the Lord And I rather incline to this because this expression The People that shall bee created does ordinarily in the Scripture signifie a People brought from an extreame low despicable condition to a state of happinesse and blessednesse fit to serve God These are said A people created for Gods praise But Beloved wee need not bee solicitous about it chuse which of them you please the difference will not be materiall in respect of the practicall Observations arising from them both of them afford many and the same helps for a day of Thankesgiving Some few whereof I shall endeavour by the Lords assistance in one houre or a little more to set before you The first and the maine and that which indeed is the comprehension of the whole Verse is this That when God appeares in his Glory to build his Church and gratiously answers his Peoples Prayers their whole work should hee to praise him That is the generall They have then nothing else to doe but to make it the work of their life to give praise and glory to him This paying of the Rent-penny of praise to our God this worke of Thankesgiving which is the end God aimes at in all his workes which is the end why Man at first was created why the Church was redeemed why the Saints are called This that is the onely heavenly work that can bee done upon earth this which is the onely joyfull imployment that shall last to all Eternity in another life This work which should ever waite for God in Zion Praise waiteth for thee O God in Zion This whereof the Church should bee the Magazine the Store-house and Treasury Unto him be Glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages and the Church is therefore called his Glory Israel my Glory Not onely because hee glories in it but because it glorifies him This Duty I say of Gods redeemed ones To praise him can never be handled often enough never pressed enough on Gods people But truly it hath been so frequently and so fully in all the branches of it delivered unto your selves upon such joyfull dayes as these are wherein you have had the whole institution of a thankfull people and all their work that I know not what to adde to that which heretofore hath been delivered save onely that what is said of our English laws That we have abundance of good Lawes and need but one more that is to put all the rest in execution the same I may say that there are abundance of Sermons of Thankesgiving extant and we need but one more and that is to have our hearts inflamed to practise them which I shall endeavour this day by the Lords help by handling some more particular Observations which this Verse affords very suitable to the condition whereinto the Lord hath brought us at the present And there are three things in the Text from whence as from so many Well-heads may flow severall instructions seasonable and usefull for our present businesse First somewhat I shall collect from the Persons who should perform this work The People that shall be created that is their Epithet Secondly from the Work which these Persons shall imploy themselves in that is to endeavour that God may have his Glory from themselves and succeeding ages Thirdly and principally and that which I shall most insist upon from the way and meanes which this created people should take that God might have his due glory from themselves and succeeding ages and that is this great Mercy of God in building his Church and hearing his Peoples Prayers should bee Recorded by them This shall bee written for the Generation to come In the first of these which I shall onely point at the Persons from whom God doth promise himselfe the performance of this great Duty The People that shall bee created Many excellent Collections might be made One is that which Mr. Calvin observes upon this Text viz. Wee may here discerne what in the Judgement of Gods People is the state of the Church when they are deprived of Gods Worship and Ordinances and scattered among the Heathen and what their estate is when God is pleased again to set up his Tabernacle amongst them In the first of these conditions they were as if their Creation were annihilated as if they were resolved into their first principles But when God was pleased from Heaven to looke upon them with a restauration of his Temple and Worship and bring them again into a Religious Common-wealth then they looked upon themselves as a People that were new created that had a new being bestowed upon them Their outward condition was much alike in both for the things of this life Bond-men they were in Babylon and Bond-men they were when they returned into Canaan the same Emperours and Kings bore sway over them and kept them under and for ought I can learne they were richer in their captivity then in their own Countrey but when they were brought back to have liberty againe to serve God in the way of his Ordinances then they looked upon themselves as people that had a new being Thus they constantly judged of themselves when their Temple was burnt and they scattered among the Heathen then they judged of themselves as dead and ary bones as those whose bones lay scattered as when one cutteth chips about the pits mouth but when they had againe got a naile in Gods Sanctuary and might enjoy the liberty of his Sabbaths Feasts Sacrisices c. it was as the founding of a new Heaven and a new Earth unto them This I onely mention Another is That when the Lord would engage his Servants to give him his praise and glory for their deliverance hee chuses to call them by this Name A people created that is reduced out of nothing brought to a blessed state from a low and meane condition from a people whom God calls by this Name hee promiseth himself his glory and praise whoever forget him yet the people who shall thus bee Created will praise him And that affords this Lesson That the People whom God in Mercy brings from a low and meane condition are the People from whom God promises to receive praise and glory Indeed such is the selfishnesse of our corrupt Nature that if we are any thing or doe any thing we are prone to forget God and sacrifice to our own nets and burn Incense to our own yarne insomuch that when ever God finds a people who shall either trust in him or praise him it must be an an afflicted and poor people

while in the world and then it is dissolved and their people remaine not to them but are either destroyed or delivered over and left to some other Governour but this Kingdome of Christ shall never leave its people to any other Conquerour It is with other Kingdomes as my Text a little after tells you it is with the Earth and Heavens as a garment they all wax old as a Vesture they change and rot and come to nothing but the Kingdome of Christ like himself hath never any end and the Generation of his Servants shall ever continue in his sight The Church is sometimes more and sometimes lesse visible The people that praise God are sometimes more in number and sometimes fewer but they alwayes are in all ages God will have them that shall give him his glory and sing him praises in the Churches This I onely mention Secondly another which more concernes us is the works they should attend unto that the glory of this great deliverance might be alwayes rendred unto him Which affords us this lesson That a People who are truly thankfull for Gods building up of Zion and hearing the prayers of his afflicted ones will endeavour by all meanes possible that all ages present and to come may glorifie God for it Or more briefly take it thus The whole work of Gods redeemed people is to provide that God may alwayes and every where have the glory of it Expositors observe upon this Text that this redeemed Church take no thought concerning themselves about their own ease pleasure wealth gaine or any thing else might accrew unto themselves by this deliverance to make their own life easie or sweet but their thoughts and studies are wholly laid out how the present and succeeding Generations should give all glory to God for it And hee that runnes may read it in the practise of many others recorded in Scripture The time would faile me to give you a catalogue of the Churches Kings Prophets Priests and other holy men of God who have been like minded Their care was as Joabs at the taking of Rabbah of the Ammonites that David might have the glory of it Thus did Moses when they were brought out of the Egyptian bondage Thus Deborah and Barak after the discomfiture of Jabin Thus did Hannah 1 Sam. 2. and innumerable others who in all the Lords administrations to them whether inlargements or pressures have been studious of nothing so much as how in all things God might have his glory preserved and spread David the man after Gods own heart exceeded all others in this thing Quid retribuam what shall I render unto the Lord was his usuall study and hee never thought his own parts his wit fancy thoughts tongue pen c. sufficient for it but when hee had stirred up all within him Blesse the Lord O my soule and all that is within mee blesse his holy Name Hee would also stirre up all without him all the Church Blesse the Lord yee house of Israel let Israel say let all that feare God say His mercy endureth for ever All the Nations make a joyfull sound unto God all ye Lands All the Angels Blesse the Lord yee his Angels all yee his Hosts Yea all Creatures blesse the Lord all his workes in all places of his Dominion whether above or below animate or inanimate The Sun and Moon the Starres of Light the Dragons and deeps fire and haile Snow and vapours Mountaines and hills fruitfull trees and Cedars Beasts and all cattle creeping things and flying Fowles hee layes a tax upon them all to come in and contribute their utmost that God might have the glory due to his Name for exalting the horne of his people even the children of Israel the people neere unto him And there are three speciall Reasons why this should bee the great worke of the Lords saved and rescued people and why indeed they can doe no other then study thus to exalt him One is because they well know that the Lord hath reserved nothing to himselfe but onely his glory the benefits hee gives to them all the sweetnesse and honey that can bee found in them hee gives them leave to suck out but his glory and his praise is his owne and that which hee hath wholly reserved of that hee is jealous lest it should either bee denyed Eclipsed diminished or any the least violation offered to it in any kind All Gods people know this of him and therefore they cannot but indeavour to preserve it for him Secondly besides they know as God is jealous in that point so it is all the work that hee hath appointed them to doe he hath therefore separated them to himself out of all the Nations of the world to be his peculiar ones for this very end that they might give him all the glory and praise of his mercy I have said God created him formed and made him for my glory Esay 43. 7. This is the law of his new Creation which is as powerfull in them as the law of Nature or the first creation is in the rest of his Works And therefore with a holy and spirituall naturalnesse if I may so call it the hearts of all the Saints are carryed to give God the glory as really as the stones are carryed to the Center or the fire to fly upwards this is fixed in their hearts the work of grace hath moulded them to it that they can doe no other but endeavour to exalt God it being the very end why their spirituall life and all their other priviledges are conferred upon them Yea thirdly they know their owne Interests are much concerned in Gods glory they never are losers by it if in any work of God he want his praise they will want their comfort but if God bee a gainer they shall certainly bee no losers Whatsoever is powred upon the head of Christ what ointment soever of praise or glory it will in a due proportion fall downe to the skirts of his garments nor is there any other way to have any sweetnesse comfort praise or glory to bee derived unto themselves but by giving all unto him to whom alone it belongeth and then although hee will never give away his glory the glory of being the fountaine the first supreame originall giver of all good yet they shall have the glory of Instruments and of fellow workers with him which is a glory and praise sufficient This is a lesson of singular use to all Gods redeemed ones in many particulars But the onely thing I shall at the present insist upon is to direct how we may best improve the mercy of this day and how we may do something worthy of this dayes meeting the Lord hath turned our heavinesse into rejoycing hath took off from us the garment of mourning and put upon us this day the garment of salvation And I am perswaded this honourable Assembly hath