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A89582	A sermon preached to the two Houses of Parliament, at their solemn meeting to praise God for his infinite mercy in the restoring of the said Houses of Parliament to their honor and freedome with so little effusion of blood: at the Abbey-Church in Westminster, Aug. 12. 1647. / By Stephen Marshall, B.D. Minister of Finchingfield in Essex.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1647 (1647)	Wing M779; Thomason E401_29; ESTC R201798	19,695	33

to settle the Kingdom in Civill peace and Libertie when Jehu cut God short in matter of Reformation God cut the Civill State short in matter of authoritie libertie and wealth and gave them up to be like the Summers threshing 4. As you should regard his truth worship Ministry so you must love countenance and incourage his people let your eyes bee upon the godly in the land consider their sad condition at this time they are not onely hated by wicked men but extremely divided among themselves bee you pleased to reach forth a healing hand try whether God will honour you so far as to helpe to reconcile the divisions that are between Gods people that those things that rund and divide their hearts and affections one from another may be taken away make it your care and God will administer not onely occasions but will help you to do it Begin it first in your houses set an example to others to follow you Oh that God would perswade you to beleeve that God hath shewed you the mercy of this day for this very end that you are as Joshua the High Priest Zach. 3. 2. so many brands shatcht out of the fire that you might keepe his charge and build his house I am sure Gods portion in the land hath been your safety hitherto and if you be faithfull in this work it will bee your security for time to come Religion is Gods glory it will bee your glory and the Lands glory yea the Lands security The Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Sion and upon her assemblyes a cloud and smoak by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night for upon all the glory shall bee a defence let this then bee your first and greatest care to look to Gods interest in the Kingdome 2 For setling the Kingdom in matters of civill liberty and Peace that you would remember it is unity of hearts and not power of Arms that must settle England and had you an Army ten times as good and great as it is unlesse you carry your affaires so as to satisfie the hearts of honest men of men that will be satisfied with Reason though you may carry things on while your force compels men yet things so set up will not long continue the kingdom will be divided and you divided with them and we shal be in danger to be ruined all together therfore I beseech you let the interest of men who will bee satisfied with honesty truth justice c. be consider'd in their due place carry things so that no moderate men may wish they had power in their hands to dissolve or cut in pieces that peace and establishment which you shall make yea I could wish that even such as are lyable to just exceptions might be gratified with favors so far as there is hope that they may be won Desperatio fasit audaces ac fortes he was a wise Statesman who said Saevitia victoris sape facit magnas seditiones ex parvis Severity of Conquerors oftentimes makes great seditions to arise out of small ones But these things I onely mention you are wise and know what is best in things of this nature This I am sure of stand you for God and he will guide and honor you study to settle Truth Peace and Unity in the Kingdom and that God who hath now given you such a deliverance beyond your expectation doth well know how to repair your Honor to take away your reproach out of the land in one day to make you the most honorable and renowned Parliament that ever was and can make all these things that have been your discouragements and abasements to prove so many scales or degrees to raise you higher in the thoughts of God and man Consider what I say and the Lord give you understanding in all things FINIS Introduction Shewing the suitablenesse of the Text to the occasion The sum of this Chapter from verse ●0 to the end A discord between the two Tribes and half and the other Tribes Wherein two things 1 The originall of this quarrel 2 The making up of this breach or quarrell Some generall observations our of this story Doct. It 's a great mercy when God seasonably appeares to prevent his peoples ingaging in war one against another 1 Sam. 26. 32. 2 Sam. 20. Esay 9. 19 20. 21. Ier. 13. 14. Prov. 6. 19. Matth. 5. 9. This Doctrine further cleared by shewing three things 1 2 3 1 Warre is a sore judgement 2 Civill warre a greater judgement Prov. 18 9. 3 Warre of Gods people one against another the greatest of all judgements Rom. 12. 18. Ephes. 4. 3. Esay 11. 9. Psal. 133. per torum Application 1 For Reproof of three sorts 1. Of such as live in such sins as bring down judgements 2. Of such as are Physicall causes who endevor to engage Gods people in War one against another Gen. 49. 56. 3 Nor are they to be excused who praise not God for the mercy of this day Iudg. 21. 3. Vse 2. To provoke to blesse God for the mercy of this day 1. 2. The greatnesse of this deliverance appeares by considering foure things 3 4 1 The sad occasion of it 2 The persons ingaged in the preparation of a new war 2 3 3 The nearenesse of our danger 4. The consequents of it 1. 2. 1. Vse 3. 3 Exhort to improve this deliverance to right ends 1 To all who fear God to study peace and reconciliation since our Father is so unwilling we should fight 1 More especially it concerns the Parliament to impr●ve it 1 To search why God thus abased them Esay 35. 2 To attend their great worke now he hath thus restored them In making Religion their greatest care 2 King 10. 30. Zach. 3. 2. Esay 4. 5.

compell the honorable Houses of Parliament to passe what they pleased shall reproach them revile them shall thereaten their lives shall enter the House and order what the Speaker must propound to the question what the Glerke must write and after eight houres keeping them prisoners and using them at their pleasure when night was comming on the Members hardly to escape with their lives such an indignitie it was that I am perswaded if rightly understood many hundred thousands in this Kingdome of England would not count their dearest blood too great a price to vindicate or expiate and as if this were not enough against the next Friday Printed Bills set up to call all the company together againe and hereby the Speakers and many of the Noble Lords and Gentlemen compelled to flie so that they could not with safetie of their lives attend the publique serieve this you know was the Originall Secondly Consider the persons that were ingaged in preparation for a new warre First the Honorable Houses tooke both conscience and honour engaged to have this vindicated and their safety provided for The Generall and Officers of the Army hearing of the violence that was offered to the Parliament resolved to enable the Parliament to call it to an accompt or they would perish in it and thereupon the Army that was scattered almost 200. Miles within the space of one weeke was brought together to a Randezvouz which was within a few houres march of the Citie of London The Citie of London not to patronize or protect the insolencie offered against the Parliament for multitudes of them professe and protest an abhorrencie of it but apprehending that the Army would come and either plunder them or give Lawes to them are presently upon their preparation for defence the Army on the other side looking upon the Cities preparation judge that the Citie was resolved to protect this Insolency and Villany that was committed thus both make all possible preparations Thirdly take in the propinquitie of it how neere this was to execution so neere that I am perswaded most men that looked upon it did as to the judgement of man conclude it unavoydable wee must now dash one upon another so neere that the very night before the day wherein we might have been embrewitg our hands in one anothers blood there appeared no probability of right understanding between the two differing parties so neer that I thinke there was never any destructive worke so neere the execution unlesse it were the Gun-pouder plot And lo now in this nicke of time the Lord appeares in the Mount the cloud breakes the Citie will trust the Army they will open their works their gates to them the Army will trust the Citie they will march in peace quite thorough it from end to end no word or act of hostilitie betweene them both The Speakers and the Honorable Lords and Gentlemen who were driven away returne backe the Parliament fits in peace and safety and all this preparation for war and destruction ends in a calme all this hath God done but this will yet appeare more wonderfull if you take in the fourth consideration and that is The Consequents of it First What would have beene and must have been if God had not appeared And Secondly The Consequents that are and I hope shall bee upon this his mercifull appearing for us The Consequents that would have beene my tongue cannot expresse my heart cannot conceive how sad our condition would have beene if the Lord had suffered this neare engagement to have been brought to execution if he had permitted this child of blood to have been borne certainly either the Parliament that hath so dilligently and constantly consulted the good of the Kingdome Citie and Army must have been destroyed or the Army that hath fought so faithfully resolutely and successefully for Parliament for Kingdome and Citie must have been destroyed or the Citie which in the worst of our times hath so cordially with their state and blood adhered to Parliament and Army must have been destroyed and in the destruction of any one of these I am able to apprehend nothing but the ruine and destruction of them all wee should have seene a sad Catastrophy an end of all the expected hopes even the giving up the ghost of what wee have fought and contended for hitherto wee had seene the Embryo of Reformation strangled and made an end of we had seene all delivered up into the hands of that partie that was full with the expectation of such a day and now doubted not but all must be in their hands who hoped soone to give Lawes both to Parliament and Army Citie and Ministers to all godly people by what names or titles soever they bee called each should bee carved out what they would have alotted unto them In a word actum esset there had been an end of England for any good dayes that we should have hoped for but the Lord appearing hath prevented this and given us hopes of better things for already wee have that wch Phinehas took as a blessed fruit of his Embassage here in my Text We perceive this day that God is with us This day have we a further pledge that God is not wearie of the Parliament of England not weary of the Citie of London not weary of the Army but his interposing thus seasonably to take weapons out of their hands shews us new evidence of his watchfull eye of his carefull heart to doe good to us all gives us a further proof that he hath waies of deliverance when wee have none and is not that a blessed consequence and this likewise we see already that the Parliament not only sits in peace and safety but hath an opportunity put into their hands to send some timely succors to Ireland that our Brethren there may have cause to blesse God with us and for us and to settle and make a comfortable close of the long calamities of England and the King and Parliament City and Army come to a better understanding each of other there may be such consequences and fruit of it if God please to blesse and guide the Parliament to improve it that the generations to come shall have great cause to praise God for appearing upon that day when he kept his people from imbruing in one anothers blood Now Honourable and Beloved is not this a mercy worthy of acknowledgments have we not cause to say this day Loe This is our God and we have waited for him and he will save us this is our God we will be glad and rejoyce in his salvation hath not the Lord done very mercifully when as beyond our expectation hee hath put this song of Praise into our mouths whereas this day we might have all been flying into caves or deserts or seeing our dearest friends blood pouring out and our selves given up for a spoil O if you understand these things aright give

glory to God who hath vouchsafed this Mercy to us Since the Lord hath appeared thus mercifully given us such a pledge as he hath done let us all endeavour to improve this mercy What shall I render to the Lord is the constant question of a thankfull heart so is this also How shall I use this mercy aright We must study therfore how to improve this great deliverance For our help herein I humbly commend two Directions one in generall which concerns all of us the other more particular which properly concerns you the Honourable Lords and Gentlemen of the two Houses of Parliament For all of us Besides all those Uses which should be made of every deliverance which are to teach us to turn to God to beleeve in him to trust him for time to come to tell abroad his wonderfull works which he hath done Besides all these methinks this mercy doth hint to all Gods people that God is very willing they should study to bee reconciled one to another for truly Brethren if we had gone to War now whatever might have been the pretended cause the reall truth had bin Gods people had gone to destroy one another They that have fought together against their common Enemies who have pray'd together mourn'd together lov'd one another liv'd as brethren contributed borne burthens done all with one heart and one spirit now under the pretence of I know not what must have sheathed their swords in one anothers bowells And when they were so neare it and their Father would not permit them Is it not a voice from heaven Children you must be reconciled Doth it not speak to them as Moses to the two Israelites Sirs you are brethren doe not fall out one with another Do not wrong one another Had God for our sins left us under this judgement to help to destroy each other and then the remainder of us given up into the hands of other adversaries they would have taught us to be at peace one with another wee should have agreed in prisons or in banishment or in the shadow of death O that the Lord would fix it upon the hearts of all that feare him to make this collection from this great Mercy that the people of God must study to be reconciled and united together and to bear one with another every one to indeavour to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace More especially my Lords and Gentlemen this dealing of God toward you seems to call for some notable duties at your hands Let me freely speak a few things unto you 1 That God hath oftentimes cast reproach upon you and humbled you heretofore but in this last abasement the Lord hath set such a stigma such a mark of scorne suffering you to bee spit in the face after that manner suffering the young to beare themselves insolently against the Ancient and the base against the Honorable that I cannot but say there was some high displeasure of God either to your persons or to the Kingdome whom you represent or both I doe therefore most humbly pray you that you would search your own hearts and enquire whether there be not some cause why our gracious God did thus abase you certainly a Father uses not to spit in the face of his Childe if there bee not some speciall cause for it And I cannot think that the Lord would ever have let such an ignominious act that carryes so much abomination in the face of it to bee offer'd to a Parliament if he would not thereby put them to search for somewhat for which they ought to lay themselves low in secret before him When Shimei did curse and revile David David presently reflected upon himself So-let him curse since God bids him curse David hee presently remembred how hee had dishonored God in the matter of Uriah and therefore looked at this reproach as righteously inflicted by the hand of God how culpable-soever Shimei was in it I commend it to your serious thoughts whether as men or Parliament-men or whether as Houses of Parliament the honour and glory of God have not been slighted by you and therefore the Lord hath suffered this slight and scorn to bee cast upon you enquire whether there bee not as much cause why the God of heaven let this reproach bee cast upon you as you have to appoint a Committee to enquire who they were that have done it I blame not your care in that but I humbly pray that you would be carefull of this As I would fain have you learn somewhat from the disgrace which God cast upon you So Principally I desire you to improve the deliverance that now God hath afforded he hath now vouchsafed in his mercy to bring you to sit in Parliament in safety that you may consult the welfare of this Kingdome my most humble suit unto your Lordships and you Noble Gentlemen is consider more seriously then ever heretofore what a task lies upon you you have a very sick Patient of the Kingdome of England to cure it is almost ready to give up the ghost at your doore and in your hand now for the Lords sake if ever any of you have before-time thought of any private interest of your own lay it a side and now attend wholly to the publick now God hath given you one opportunity more try whether possibly you can save the Kingdome or no and in your endeavours I commend onely these two Heads to your serious consideration First Know for certain you can never save this Land without God If the Lord will not work with you you can work nothing Except the Lord build the House they labour but in vaine who build it But if you will work for Gods interest the Lord will work with you and carry on your own interests so far as yours is good Now the Lords interest in the Kingdome is Religion his Worship his Truth his Saints his People let them have the deepest part of your care you will but set up a wall without morter Arena sine calse Sand without lime if you do not take God along with you preserve Gods Truth in the first place buy not Peace with the selling of the Truth of God 2 Look to Gods Worship let that be set up and preserved in purity and take all rubbish and filth from it 3 Let the Ministers be encouraged with countenance maintenance provide that every Flock may have a Shepheard and that they may be helped forward look to Universities those Schools of the Prophets out of which may be sent laborers into the Lords vineyard you have begun many good things in this kind but you have bin hindred by many intervening accidents and the work still hangs the Reformation still sticks in the birth now make it your great work be faithful in building Gods house God wil build your house but if you shall be slight in it know for certain you shal never be able