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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89591	A tvvo-edged svvord out of the mouth of babes, to execute vengeance upon the enemy and avenger. Presented in a sermon to the Right Honourable the House of Lords assembled in Parliament, in the Abbey-Church at Westminster, Octob. 28. 1646. the solemn day of their monthly fast. / By Stephen Marshall B.D. minister of Gods Word at Finchingfield in Essex.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1646 (1646)	Wing M797; Thomason E359_3; ESTC R201165	29,362	39

peace that there might be freedome to seek God and to serve him according to his will and know you for certaine that every soul which shall be wonne to Christ be it the soule of a woman or of an old man that stoops for age or of a childe yet every soule wonne to Christ and so numbred among these Babes and Sucklings will bee as stout a souldier as ever you did employ and will in your extremity doe more then all the experienced Captains that tread on English ground because God is with these and these must carry it the power of heaven is engaged with them therefore for the Lords sake further Religion the propagation and settling of it you are wise and can think of the wayes which have been often set before you God Almighty blesse you in it and ever let these parties be deare in your eyes who have such interest in Heaven let them bee owned as the Souldiers who will never fail you though others may and will The other thing I humbly advise is this That you would alwayes carry this in your wise thoughts never to engage in any cause wherin you should not be accompanyed with the power that comes out of the Mouthes of these Babes and Sucklings you have found though it may be carnall eyes see it not that the prayers and teares of Gods people and their cleaving to God and their interest in your Cause hath been the greatest meanes under heaven to keepe your Lordships to be a Parliament House to this day and the Lord keep you that whatsoever businesse you have what contest or warre soever you may have that your Cause bee such that these Babes and Sucklings bee not constrained to withdraw from your assistance my meaning is that the Cause bee ever good and such a Cause as God will own and as God cals you to hitherto your Cause hath been manifest and your way hath been cleare the Lord keep you that you and the Babes and Sucklings of my Text may live and dye together and then wee are well enough but when ever you engage against them or without them you will be worsted 2. To the rest who is there among you that belongs to this party who are of Christs number I beseech you give us your help come all of you and helpe the Lord against his enemies helpe in the great worke that now is in hand doe not say you can contribute nothing it may bee some of you have no Money or Lands no wisdome or authority I am sure thou hast that which Gods people may receive benefit by Christ hath given thee a mouth which is a quiver full of choice arrowes thou canst professe Christs truth thou canst sing his praises thou canst call him Abba father thou canst be one of his remembrancers thou canst pray for the peace of Zion thou canst say Our Father which art in heaven let thy kingdome come and little doest thou know what great things thou maist doe in thy Closet in thy Chamber in the Fields at thy work no tongue can utter what admirable helpe thou maist give thou maist reach Rome and Spaine and Ireland succour the one and destroy the other O for the Lords sake lay out your strength to the utmost come out I say and helpe the Lord all that are able Solomon saith Hee that in a famine withholds Corne the people will curse him what will thy condition be if thou withholdest thy help in the needfull time of trouble you know Mordecai's speech to Hester Who knowes but thou camest to the Kingdome for such a time as this I say to thee without any if or and I know thou art indued with all this strength for such a time as this O therefore fill thy mouth with praises with confessions with prayers and with whatever else may quell the Lords and thy enemies even the enemy and the avenger But take this in thou must bee carefull so to use this power that it may take and speed thinke not that every one that pretends to pray or pretends to Covenant or professe Gods name can doe it I could give you abundance of instances where the Lord hath aborninated al these things they have bin curses to them who have used them have you not often read of such speeches as these What hast thou to do to take my Name into thy mouth when yee make many prayers I will not heare you when they pray I will destroy them with sword famine and pestilence and many other the like know therefore it s not bare Preaching or Confessing or Singing or Praying that will doe any thing these must be used and done aright and there are excellent Rules for every one of these to teach us how to use them so as to make them effectuall but a Sermon will not beare the handling of them I shall at the present commend onely two directions which are common to them all 1 See that that Mouth out of which all this strength must be exercised bee a sanctified Mouth a Mouth separated to and engaged in Gods Cause onely let it not bee the Mouth that St. James speakes of Out of the same Mouth comes cursing and blessing let it not be a Mouth that shall sing Hosanna to Christ in the Temple and crucifie him in the Court that shall sing a Psalme to him in the Congregation and a bawdy Catch in an Alehouse or Tavern that shall blesse his Name in the assembly of his people and blespheme him in the company of prophane ones that shall talk of Heaven and holinesse in one company and uncleannesse and luxury in another this is a Mouth end a Mouth a double Mouth that the Lord takes no more pleasure in then in a double heart No let the Mouth that is such an excellent instrument as this and the tongue in it let it I say bee for the Lord and for the Lord onely let it bee a sanctified Mouth And secondly 2 That though all this power must be exercised out of the Mouth yet it must come further then from the Mouth the Mouth is the instrument it is the gun if you will or the sword but the Mouth it is not the magazine it is not the store-house though the tongue is the glory for execution there must bee another thing that must be the fountaine and therefore this sanctified Mouth must fetchall from another treasury there is a double store-house whence it must be furnished 1 Christs merit the meritorious cause of all the conquest is the blood of the Limbe goe not thou out in the force of thy prayer say not I can pray I can preach I have a bold Spirit to confesse Christ and I have taken the Covenant and will stand to it God forbid thou shouldest thinke this can contribute any thing because it is in thee no but let the blood of the Lambe be the meritorious cause upon which thou relyest faith in