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A89580	A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, now assembled in Parliament, at their publike fast, November 17. 1640. Upon 2 Chron. 15. 2. The Lord is with you, while yee bee with him: and if yee seek him, he will be found of you: but if yee forsake him, he will forsake you. / By Stephen Marshall, Batchelour in Divinity, minister of Finchingfield in Essex. Published by order of the said House.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1641 (1641)	Wing M776; Thomason E204_9; ESTC R212613	31,991	52

put together amounts to thus much that Gods presence in his Covenant with any people implyes that they are dearly beloved of him that hee workes all their workes for them and shields and defends them against all their enemies I come now to the Application of it wherein because I chiefely intend the next poynt the Condition of Gods presence I will briefely make two or three Collections onely which I conceive may be most seasonable and sutable to your office and to the occasion of your meeting here this day First is it so that the glory and happinesse of a nation stands in the presence of God in his Covenant Then I humbly pray you all to take notice what are the greatest Evills and who are the most desperate Traytors against the King Church and State of England at this day I doubt not but you have a multitude of complaints of Grievances presented to the Parliament house all at least pretended to be contrary to the welfare of the State give mee leave to put up one Great One and to informe you who bee the Authors of the greatest Grievances and Evills that can possibly betide the Kingdome of England even they that would rob us of our God Solomon saith A man that wasts his Father and chaseth away his mother is a miserable wretch And I know if evidence should he brought into this Honourable assembly against any one that had deprived the King of a Subject you would think him worthy of severe punishment But higher if you should light upon one that should endeavour to deprive the King and Kingdome of a wise Counsellour and States man in the multitude whereof is the safety of the Kingdome But higher yet if any should be found that had lift up his hand against his Majesty the Lords anoynted who is the breath of our nostrills if any such should be discovered would you not say of them as she said to David Let the soule of my Lord bee bound up in the bundle of life and let the Lord sting the soules of his enemies as out of the middle of a sting yea would not every true hearted subject in the Kingdome say thus also O but Honourable and beloved they that would rob us of the glory of our King and Kingdome that would take away all our happinesse and protection and prosperity that would leave us naked to our shame that wee should become a scorne and spoyle are not they worse than any of the former You will say Who is he and where is he that dares presume in his heart to doe so I pray stay for a full answer till the next poynt touching the Condition of enjoying God be unfolded in the meane time take this in part I pray God there bee none such met this day to fast and pray before the Lord Every sonne of Belial every one that is a Rebell against God every one that workes wickednesse is that wicked Haman that sells Hester and all her people to destruction If there be any such here you will give me leave being Gods Minister and your Servant to discharge my Office faithfully Should there bee but one such I say among you that are called together to bee the Repairers of the breaches to such a one let me thus speak If thou be found to bee the Achan that keepes God from going out with our armies the Jonas that art ready to cast away the ship so that there is no hope of our safety till thou be cast out if thy conscience accuse thee that thou art a child of Belial an Idolater a superstitious person a prophane Esau lay this close to thy heart how miserable and wretched a man thou art that not onely adventurest thine own soule to most certaine ruine in opposing the Lord but as another Sylla thou pluckest out thy fathers purple haire and deprivest the Kingdome of the glory of it so that it may be written upon thy Grave-stone This man was the ruine of his King and Countrie And for the Lords sake Honourable and beloved take it to heart and lay it up with you that if Gods presence be our glory then those that would robus of it are our greatest enemies Think of them all as he upon lesse ground said of the Children of Dan. You have taken away my God and what have I more And secondly let me beseech you all in this your great Nationall Councell and Assembly to take seriously into your thoughts what may be the best way of lengthening out our tranquillity Beloved all the Nations in Christendome have beene in grievous perplexities many yeares round about us wee have beene hitherto kept as another Land of Goshen where light hath still shined when all others have beene in darknesse And I know the hearts of some of you have sadly expected when God should come and erect his Iustice seat among us or give the sword a Commission against us now you are met for this very thing to provide for our welfare for the Lords sake take care to keepe him with us if he goe all goes wee can never light our Candle if this Sunne bee set wee shall never fill our Buckets if this Fountaine bee shut up All your counsells and advising will be nothing if God say I will stay no longer in England Wee shall then bee a spoyle to any enemy a few unarmed men will bee too hard for us all It is recorded of the Palladium in Troy that while that Image remained there the City was impregnable and that till the Greeks lighted on that stratagem to steale that Idoll away they could never winne the City What ever fancy there was in that you know how much it concernes us to keepe our GOD with us let your maine care bee to fixe and settle him therefore among us and then wee are safe if you let him goe we are an undone people Thirdly if Gods presence in his Covenant bee the glory and safety of a people then may all of you undertaking any service for GOD and his Glory most comfortably and securely rest on God to defend and protect you against all dangers It is no question but your enemies are mighty malicious and cunning and it may bee they are digging as deepe as Hell for Counsell to doe you mischiefe in this great way and work that you are in But while you are with God God will bee with you Are not five Sparrowes sold for a Farthing saith our Saviour Are not you more worth than all the Sparrowes in the World are you not in Gods Worke As Caleb said The Lord is with us feare not them They shall all be bread for us Goe on boldly use what providence you can to prevent dangers but comfortably remember that the Name of the Lord is a strong Tower the righteous runne to it and are safe I will conclude this with a story of Luther which he tells of a Bishop of Magdenburg A Duke of

all their hearts and with all their soule and all their strength when he hath most neede of them If a woman will doe many things for her husband yet if her heart goe more after her Puppets her cloaths her servants than after him especially in times of his necessity her heart cannot beeinterpreted to be with her husband because he is not acknowledged in the due place of an husband So if there be any thing any cause any person that we rather ingage our selves for than for God and his cause wee cannot be said to be with God So now you have the meaning of the Condition of enjoying God while yee are with him It is 1 To be reconciled to God and to walk with him as an holy people 2 To continue with him in the purity of his worship 3 To stand by him in every cause which doth concerne his glory The deductions which might flow from this Doctrine for our use are many I shall confine my selfe to these two as being most sutable and seasonable to the time and your worke First matter of Humiliation and mourning before God for time past Secondly matter of Duty for time to come For the first Honourable and beloved you stand this day before the Lord to afflict your soules and though you bee the chosen men of your Tribes lifted up above your brethren yet you are now called not onely to bemoane your owne iniquities but to beare the iniquity of the whole Kingdome And me thinkes I looke upon you as upon the Prophet Ezekiel when he was to beare the iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah hee was to lye upon his side and to eate his bread made of Wheate and Barley and Beanes Lentiles and Fitches miserable coarse bread and baked with the dung of man and to drinke a little water for many dayes together How sad and heavy the Prophets spirit must needs be when he was thus to beare such a burthen is easie to judge Such a temper of spirit would this day well become you And now could I but speak to you from the Lord how sad things there are against England in this point of not being with God could you with patience and grace heare me and would the Lord affect my heart and yours in handling and hearing of them we should make this place a Bochim a place of weepers the stoutest heart would be as Queene Huzzab and her Ladies when they went into Captivity tabering on their breasts and mourning as Doves yea howling after the manner of Dragons Could I as in a mirrour set before your eyes how infinitely farre off the body of this Kingdome is from being with the Lord we should wonder that the Lord hath not wholly forsaken us long agone and that instead of injoying this liberty of pleading with God for our lives for our Prince and Countrey and for whatsoever is precious to us we are not left like unto Sodom and made like unto Gomorrah Take a view of all the three particulars mentioned in the point First are we an holy people I am now pleading Gods cause and though a poore unworthy man I stand betwixt God and a Kingdome I aske again are we an holy people Are our Princes our Rulers our Magistrates our Ministers and the body of the people holy Doe wee walke according to the rules of Christianity the summe whereof for the practicall part is laid downe in the ten Commandements and those expositions that our Lord gives of them Doe we walke thus I know there is no man here so ignorant as to imagine that we doe Alas the Prophets speech too well befits us Ah! sinfull Nation a people laden with iniquity a seed of evill doers Children that are corrupters The whole head is sicke the whole heart is faint from the sole of the foote even to the head there is no soundnesse in it but wounds and bruises and putrifiedsores Aegypt was never more bespread with Locusts and Frogges than our Kingdome is with horrible prophanenesse uncleannesse oppression deceit and whatsoever is a stench in the Lords nostrills The generality of people wearing indeed the Lords Livery being Christned and doing the Devills work all the yeare long Nay is there any thing this day so hated as holinesse have we not gotten termes to scoffe down all goodnesse is not almost every man who will not sweare and be drunke and be deboyst as a Turke or worse cryed downe with the odious name of a Puritan That as Ambrose said of Paulinus a yong noble man of Rome at whom when he was converted to Christ and left the worlds glory to carry Christs Crosse there was more wondring than if a Mule had cast a Foale And as Bede said of the ancient Britaines immediately before their destruction by the Saxons that they were come to that height of wickednesse as to cast Odium in Religion is professores tanquam in adversarios God knowes many thousands are guilty of the same in this Land this day the measure of our iniquity seemes to be more than full O that our hearts could this day bleed for it Secondly see what wonderfull cause wee have to bee abased for all the injury the Land stands guilty of in abusing God in the poynt of his Worship which is the defiling of the marriage bed betwixt God and his people God hath visited all the Reformed Churches brought most of them almost to nothing yet passe over and see whether ever any of them have provoked the Lord in this kinde so much as wee have done Let mee name foure or five things too much practised and too little lamented God in mercy affect our hearts with them this day First the Articles of our faith the depositum the good thing committed to us which we received from our fore Fathers and should transmit entire to our posterity oh the miserable defection that wee have made from God adulterating thereof Tell mee beloved what one poynt what one Article of Faith controverted betwixt us and the Church of Rome is there that our Pulpits and Presses and University Acts have not beene bold withall as if we were weary of the Truth which God hath committed to us as if indeed for our not receiving the truth in love God were giving the Nation up to believe lies Secondly let me instance in the Lords Day a day which is a signe betwixt God and his people that He is their God that sanctifieth them That as Idoll-worshippers are knowne by keeping holidayes to their Gods So Gods people are knowne to bee his people by observing of his Holy day It is most true that our ancient Doctrine established is purer in this poynt than can be found in most of the Churches and excellent Lawes we have for the backing of it but I believe there hath not beene in all the Christian World such high affronts offered to the Lords day as of late hath beene in England and I am confident

which may appeare by the odious names hee gives to their sinne calling it sometimes Rebellion as being a denying his Soveraignty Iosh. 22. 16. 22. Sometimes Apostasie Ier. 2. 13. Sometimes Adultery the most unpardonable sinne betwixt man and wife Ezek. 16. And sometimes Blasphemy Isai. 65. 7. Thirdly it is a sinne that hath vengeance and punishment intailed upon it to the Third and fourth generation The Iews say to this day that there was never any calamity betided their Nation since their comming out of Aegypt but there was an ounce of the Golden Calfe in it It is a sinne that GOD failes not to visit upon Children to the third and fourth Generation But now on the other side God will shew mercy to thousands of them that love him and keepe his Commandements How is that The Lord interprets them to love him that purely worship him As a man who finds his wife faithfull in the marriage bed judgeeth that shee loves him and that her heart is one with his what ever other infirmities shee may have Yea they are interpreted to keepe all his Commandements God will trust them for all his Commandements whom he finds faithfull in his worship Yea to a thousand Generations hee will remember them which is longer than this wicked world shall stand The kindnesse and faithfulnesse of them that maintaine and preserve the pure Religion and worship of God shall ever bee in the sight of God for them and their posterity Oh! let mee helpe your reckoning in the day of the LORD intreating you for the Childrens sake of your owne body to lay what I have said to heart that you may provide that the Ordinances of God bee neither taken away nor defiled that GOD may be purely worshipped in his owne way for time to come And that by a Generation of men who seeke onely to glory in our flesh wee bee not jugled our of our Religion nor mis-led in such a way of service as that Gods soule should take no pleasure in us Thirdly and lastly which is the comprehension of all the rest bee on Gods side ingage your selves in every cause which is Gods Owne what God ownes As Christ said You shall not have me alway that is in my person but the poore you shall have alway and when you will you may doe good to them So I say you have not Christ with you in his person but you alwayes have his Cause his Truth his Ordinances his Day his Ministers his Children the Teares of the afflicted all causes of Instice and Righteousnesse these are Gods causes God would have all his friends zealous for him and appeare for him his Church and his Cause And to inflame your hearts to this be pleased to consider these few incouragements First God hath deserved it at your hands that you should appeare for Him Hee hath appeared for you when none could His Sonne Iesus Christ gave his owne soule a ransome for your sinnes or else you had perished in Hell for ever Hee hath made you the Head rather than the Tayle Hee hath heaped upon you Honour Wealth and Friends and you can give no other reason why you are not more miserable than the poorest Vagrant that wants both house and home but onely this that GOD hath beene on your side Doth not hee then deserve to bee owned They say Love is loves Loadstone and loves Whetstone Secondly Gods Cause his Church and Children have few friends and many enemies and those enemies no Babies but Principalities and Powers Cruell Cunning Malicious and unweariable And more now than ever Satan knowes his time is short hee stirres up all his instruments as if one spirit possest them all And is it not a shame that the Lords friends should bee more backward in his cause than the vassalls of Satan are in their Masters I adde thirdly the Lord to punish the Pride Sloath Hypocrisie and Formality of his people hath of late suffered the enemies of the Church to prevaile exceeding farre The face of Christendome this day so miserably rent with Warres Sedition Heresies and Schismes is a most ruthfull spectacle Who can looke upon poore Germany and not even bee compelled to weepe over the Booke of the Lamentations againe And GOD knowes whose Lot is next Little quiet I feare is to bee expected in Christendome till the Beast his Kingdome be ruined Now wee know that the Lord accounts that the most seasonable time for his friends to owne his cause when the enemies are most violent against it then God saith Who is on my side who When the pressures of the Church are greatest the opportunities of appearing for the LORD are most seasonable and great are their Rewards who then sticke to him Every one would gladly embrace a glorified CHRIST but when the whole Councell shall reject him then with Nicodemus to plead for him this is honourable When hanging upon the Crosse his Disciples runne away from him then with Ioseph of Arimathea boldly before Pilate to shew love to him this is acceptable When the Jewes had an exalted Mordecay then the people of the Land would turne Iewes The Samaritanes would helpe to build the Temple when the Persian Emperour is a friend to the Church But our Lord saith let mee have the man that will not bee ashamed of me before a froward and adulterous Generation Marke he doth not say in a gracious Generation then no man will bee ashamed of him but in an adulterous and froward Generation Fourthly when you strike in on the LORDS side on his Churches side on his Causes side you shall not onely strike in with the best side with the best Cause but with the most prevailing with that side which must and shall have the victory at the long runne It would make a man never to be afraid to be ingaged in a quarrell where hee is sure of the Victory The Barke wherein Christ his Church and Cause are may bee tossed but can never bee drowned Populus Romanus saepe praelio victus nunquam bello The Romans lost many Battailes but they were never overcome in a set Warre at the long runne they crushed all their enemies So all the enemies that seeme too hard for Christs cause and his Church must perish Hee must rule till all his enemies be made his footstoole In Zacharie the 12. there are foure or five admirable expressions The Church is compared to a Hearth of Fire in the midst of a Wood Like a Torch of Fire in the middest of a Sheafe Whether the Wood or the Fire the Torch or the Sheafe will have the victory judge yee In verse the second shee is compared to a cup of Poyson that will end them who thinke to devoure it To an heavy Stone that will returne upon those to their ruine who endeavour to carry it away So shall it bee with all Nations that fight against the Church and cause of Christ And if

any man should happen to lose his life in the Lords quarrell as the Angell said to Daniel Hee shall stand up in his lot Hee shall rise up and follow CHRIST cloathed with glory Revelations the nineteenth the Armies in Heaven that followed Christs triumphant Chariot were such as were holy and faithfull and loved not their lives to the death Would not this move any man to bee on Gods side Lastly Honoured and beloved in the Lord let the consideration of your great place and office that God Almighty hath called you to raise up your spirits to endeavour great things for the LORD For my part I am too weak to fathome in my thoughts what the great worke is to which you are called together by God You are met to seeke the good of the Land the good of the Church a greater charge than the salvation of your owne soules is put into your hands It may bee not onely our welfare and peace and Religion but even the welfare of all Christendome under God depends upon your meeting That God that might have left you as I said to bee hewers of Wood and drawers of Water hath called you to bee Repairers of all our breaches and the Prayers and blessings of all GODS people are upon you The eyes of all the Nation next under GOD and our gracious Soveraigne are fixed upon you Oh what a mighty tye doth this put upon the soule of every one of you to lay aside all businesse and pleasures and lusts and ends of his owne and solely to study how to advance CHRISTS cause and appeare where Christ would have him appeare Your work is great our evills are many but be not discouraged onely rememember that God is with you while you are with him As it is in Zech. 4. Who art thou O great Mountaine before my servant Zorobabel thou shalt become a plaine If God be with Zorobabel Mountaines shall become Plaines before him God can make those things that you apprehending as Hydra's and Monsters would tremble to thinke of to fall before you as the leaves of a tree There is a notable storie of Luther when hee first came out against the Pope Albertus Cranzius a Bishop that liked well his project but thought it impossible to bring it to passe wrote to Luther Frater Frater abi in cellam dic miserere mei Deus Frier Frier goe to thy Cloyster and say Lord have mercy upon mee this worke is too hard for thee yet Luther wrought wonders One Luther will doe great things if GOD bee with him One Parliament may doe great things if God bee with them Resolve upon it this day to bee for God make this another blessed seventeenth of November But if through feare treachery cowardise pride or sloth you withdraw your selves from Gods work Deliverance shall come to Gods people another way and you for your part shall not onely lose your share in the comfort but you shall bring all the guilt and sinnes that the Nation groanes under to stand upon your owne score before God Yea you will think it is a great word but I speake it not rashly it may bee more guilty than the very Authors of our mischiefes who have beene firme to their owne principles in the bringing of them in and you contrarie to your light and office doe further them if you not withstand them As hee who solicited an Emperour for a pardon for one that had killed two men and received a denyall upon that very reason that the delinquent had twice imbrued his hands in bloud replyed to the Emperour Nay you killed the second for if hee had beene cut off for the first hee had never killed the other So abundance of evills committed by private men are not the sinnes of the Rulers and Princes at the first but may afterwards through their connivence or want of zeale be truely reckoned and accounted theirs God forbid that you should bring so great a burthen upon your own soules and consciences Vp and be doing and the Lord be with you in his cause Now although your wisedomes best know what is to be done and it may seeme unfit to prescribe such a Colledge of Physitians a way of a Cure Yet give mee leave onely to propound one thing even the same which was prest in the forenoone which I suppose would prove a Catholike remedy for all our evills and the greatest meanes for the lengthning out of our tranquillity and the healing of all our distempers that is the promoting establishing and maintaining a faithfull learned painfull preaching Ministery that every Candlesticke may have a Candle that every Flocke may have a faithfull Shepheard to guide them This is the thing I would propound to you This was the course Iehoshaphat tooke who sent Princes and Levites who taught in Judah and went about through all the Cities and taught the people Blessed be God for the light that shines among us Yet I must tell you that of nine or ten thousand parishes which they say are in England I believe there are many thousands which these eighty yeares have not had the blessing to enjoy at the least any long time a setled faithfull preaching Ministery So that I believe and I speak somewhat from experience that many thousands if not thousands of thousands know not the right hand from the left in the very principles of the Doctrine of Christ What ever bee the cause whether it bee that our Lawes and Constitutions are defective whether the negligence or corruption of our Governours whether the want of a preaching maintenance or whether all these bee the fault Certaine it is there hath beene hitherto a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} somewhat which hath hindred the spreading of it And it is worth your most diligent enquirie whether the neglect of this hath not beene one maine cause of the ill successe of so many former Parliaments Could you provide mercifully for people in this you would make all safe and England would thanke you as long as it is England To incite you be pleased to consider but these two things First we deserve no further the name of a Christian Nation than this is done nor any further than this is advanced This is the Scepter whereby Christ rules The dwelling of his Word with a people is the greatest proof of their owning him for their Prince and his acknowledging them for his owne Subjects Is any Country esteemed a part of a Princes Dominion that is not ruled by his Lawes Neither can any Land be accounted Chists Kingdome where the preaching of the word which is the Rod of his power is not established And the Lord hath ever esteemed the hinderers of his Word to bee the men that would not have Christ rule over them Secondly if all the good Lawes in the world were made without this they would come to nothing order what you can leave this undone you will never doe the thing you aime at