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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

A SACRED RECORD To be made of GODS MERCIES TO ZION A Thankesgiving 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 By Stephen Marshall B. D. Minister of Gods Word at Finching-field in ESSEX Exod. 17. 14. And the Lord said unto Moses Write this for a Memoriall in a Booke and rehearse it in the Eares of Joshua m Psal. 44. 1. Our Fathers have told us what Works thou didst in their dayes in the times of Old Psal. 78. 4. Wee will not hide them from their Children shewing to the Generation to come the praises of the Lord and his strength and his wonderfull Works that he hath done London Printed by Rich. Cotes for Stephen Bowtell and are to be sold at the sign of the Bible in Popes-head-Alley TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT YOur time is so taken up with the important Worke of rescuing these bleeding Kingdomes and the Church of Christ in and with them that I am sure you are not at leisure to read long Epistles and were I able in a Dedication to write what might very much kindle your zeale provoke your whole inward man and thereby further your great Work I conceive it were onely to tell the world what counsell I thought might doe you good and therefore in stead of studying to present you with an Epistle which few of you would read I doe onely obey your Order and at your Command publish to the view and for the use of all and present unto your selves this plaine Sermon Preached unto you upon the day of your late Thanksgiving unto God for one of the greatest mercies the Victory and what came with it duly considered that God hath bestowed upon our unworthy Nation these many yeares What else I desire to have pressed upon your hearts I chuse to doe it when I am called at any time to Preach unto you or rather to beg it for you at the Throne of Grace where you and your great Work are every day as by many thousand others humbly remembred by Your most obliged Servant STEPHEN MARSHALL Die Veneris 20. Junii 1645. IT is this Day Ordered by the Lords in Parliament Assembled That Mr. Marshall one of the Assembly of Divines who Preached yesterday in Christ-Church London before the Members of both Houses of Parliament and in the presence of the Lord Major Aldermen c. of the City of London is hereby thanked for his great pains that he took in the said Sermon it being a day of Publike Thanksgiving within the said City and Lines of Communication for the late prosperous successe of the Parliaments Forces under the Command of Sir Thomas Fairefax And that he is hereby desired to Print and Publish the said Sermon which none shall presume to Print or re-print but by Authority under his own hand Jo. Brown Cleric Parliamentorum Die Veneris 20. Junii 1645. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That Sir Peter Wentworth and Sir William Masham doe returne the Thanks of this House to Mr. Vines and Mr. Marshall for the great paines they took in the Sermons they yesterday Preached at the intreaty of both Houses before the said Houses the Lord Major and Aldermen at Christ-Church in London And that they be dered to Print their Sermons And it is Ordered that none shall presume to Print their Sermons but such as shall bee authorized under their hands writing H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I doe appoint Stephen Bowtell to Print my Sermon Stephen Marshall A THANKESGIVING SERMON PREACHED To the two Houses of Parliament June 19. 1645. PSAL. 102. 18. This shall bee written for the Generation to come and all the People which shall bee created shall praise the Lord Right Honourable and Beloved I Have formerly in two Sermons opened the two Verses immediately going before this Text The first of them before the Right Honourable the House of Peeres The latter before the Honourable House of Commons and there shewed at large that these two Verses did containe two Circumstances which alwayes accompany the Lords Work of building up of his Church and they are rendered as two Arguments why all the world should stand in admiration of it The one is because when ever the Lord builds up Zion Hee dotb appeare in his Glory hee appeares like himself magnifying all his Attributes The other that he does then return a gracious answer unto the Prayers of his afflicted People These two were handled in the valley of Baca the valley of Teares upon dayes of Humiliation that out of them you might receive some strength in your mourning after the Lord to help you to wait upon him while you are at his Work building the Street and Wall of Hierusalem in a troublesome time But now the Lord having in great measure given a gracious experience and fruit of those two in this late great and unexpected Victory and Mercy wherein God hath appeared in his Glory and answered his Peoples Prayers in our exceeding low condition his Providence having also called me by your choice to meet you in the valley of Beracah the valley of Blessing to praise God for this I could not thinke of a fitter Text then of the very next words to those that helped you in the dayes of your Mourning which containes the use which the Church in all ages shall make of the Lords building up of Zion And though my time for preparation hath been very short yet I am incouraged because I have been taught of God that a Peace-Offering to himself is easily found And I have often found from you that my poore endeavours how weak soever being the best I have have never been rejected And therefore without further Apology and Preface let us consider of the words as they thus lie This shall bee written for the Generation to come And the People which shall bee created shall praise the Lord Here are you see two Sentences And for the Interpretation of them some Expositors doe conceive that the first Sentence containeth the use that the Generation who receive this Mercy shall make of it They shall Write it for the good of Posterity The second they think containes the use that the future Generation shall make of former Mercies that are thus written and and transmitted to them The People that shall bee created shall praise the Lord the unborn Generation shall praise God for it But others and I think more rightly doe conceive that both sentences are meant of the same individuall People and that the one of them is but an Exegeticall interpretation of the other or rather the first of them is an expression of one way how the redeemed of the Lord shall

bee done his heart is set upon record his work of building of Zion and let what else so ever be forgotren it matters not ought yee not to be like minded unto our Lord Secondly let me assure you there is nothing else will ever appease our troubles but the vigorous carrying on of this work A great many are afraid lest the quick establishing of Religion through the multitude of mens divided thoughts and ungodlinesse of many mens minds should make our troubles and conflicts more then they have been but be ye assured the Lords Kingdome being provided for in the right way God will prepare salvation for walls and bulwarks hee will be the safety of that Kingdome which advanceth his Kingdome the Kingdome of Christ it is a Kingdome of Peace as himselfe is a Prince of Peace It will never make tumults it will appease tumults in a Kingdome where Christs Scepter prevailes whare hee strikes the Earth with the rod of his mouth Cockatrices will be charmed and all enemies shall bee hush't and quiet It will I say make no tumults where it is received but let mee tell you Christs heart is so set upon the advancement of his Kingdome that where it is not received himselfe will breed tumults enow for them that oppose him and the stone cut out of the mountaine without hands will dash asunder all men and all things all Kingdoms all States that shal not give way to him I adde further concerning your selves that there is nothing will bring so great and everlasting glory to you as to have been instruments in your generation to further the work wherein Christs honour is so much concerned you have read Books and know the world I beseech you tell me out of all the ages of the world that are past cull out the choisest among men in their generations and say who among them was really an eminent Man if it were not for being an instrument in helping forward the Church of Christ multitudes have made stately buildings Fish-ponds Gardens Palaces Some have erected Kingdomes what is become of them all Jam seges est ubi Troja fuit is the doome of all of them they are all turned into vanity and so are the Makers of them Consider the greatest wisest richest learned'st of all who have lived if they were not for Christ and his Church what glory doth now remaine to any of them how much so ever they magnified themselves or were flattered by others who now wil honour them who now extols Pharaoh for a wise King Absalon for a compleat Courtier Achitophel for a politique States-man who now would have the lot of any of them do they not all lye buried ingloriously hath not the Lord made the moth corruption to rot them al But now look into Gods Book and read all Chronicles and you shall find that all they who have set their hearts to this work all Rulers Counsellers Parliaments who have been for the Lord and his Church and Kingdome their memoriall is honourable and blessed in all ages they are still eminent and glorious and shall bee so to the worlds end and in Heaven to all Eternity Set therefore your hearts to this great work shew a reall defire to glorifie him who hath these great things for us This Right Honourable Lords and Patriots I had to say unto you and as for you the rest of this Honoured and Reverend Assembly very many things might bee suggested unto you as means to exalt the glory of this our God and Saviour but the onely thing I shall at the present commend unto you is to be often with God in the Mount follow him with your prayers and supplications give him no rest till hee hath carryed on this great and Honourable Assembly to doe this work that they may raise the foundations for many Generations This from the second part of the Text The work that they should doe not to seek themselves but how the glory of God may be preserved in the present and future Generations The third and last followes which concernes the way they shall take to perpetuate Gods glory for building his Church and answering his peoples prayers what way shall they take for it This shall be written in perpetuam reimemoriam for an eternall monument of it The onely Lesson which I shall hence observe is this That one great way of giving God his deserved glory for his building of his Church and answering his peoples prayers is by causing these wonderfull workes of God to be written for the generations to come For the truth of it it is one of Gods Ordinances You shall finde it in the 78 Psal. vers. 5. where the Prophet had exhorted them to give eare and learne what God had done for them that they might teach it to their children This said he hee ordained for a Law and a Statute for Israel what was this Ordinance that they should write it and teach their posterity to come the wonderfull things which God hath done for his people he commanded not onely themselves to know him and his works and to talk of them but to provide that the generations to come might know what God had done So in the 17. of Exod. 14. vers. When God had begun to appeare for his people in a Warre against Amalck write it said he in a Booke a Book of the Warres of God for his Church and against his enemies must bee written and kept as a record from age to age So also Moses commanded them in the 31 of Deut. 19. vers. Now therefore write ye this Song for you and teach it the Children of Israel A song must be written and learned to expresse what God had done for a people who were most unworthy of the Mercies bestowed upon them So likewise Ester Est 9. 32. The great work of Gods defeating the conspiracy of Haman and deliverance of his Church was recorded not onely by an anniversary feast but it must bee written in a Booke Thus you see the Lord hath often enjoyned his people to record and transmit to posterity the great things which hee hath done for them And as he hath commanded it so his Spirit hath ordered and brought to passe that it hath been so Moses and Samuel and the rest of the Prophets have done it what should I trouble you with a discourse of particular instances since the whole Book of God is nothing but a Chronicle Book of Acts and Monuments of the Lords wonderfull works in gathering and building protecting and saving and doing good to his Church and destroying their Enemies And they did it many wayes sometime they made Eucharisticall Songs which they taught their children sometime they wrote them upon their Childrens names sometime by giving names to the places where the mercies were received sometime erecting stones and pillars sometime by appointing yearly Feasts of remembrance Many of which wayes were presented unto you the