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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

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

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