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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25886	Englands Eben-ezer, or, Stone of help set up in thankfull acknowledgment of the Lords having helped us hitherto : more especially for a memoriall of that help which the Parliaments forces lately received at Shrewsbury, Weymouth, and elsewhere : in a sermon preached to both the honourable Houses of Parliament, the lord mayor and aldermen of the citie of London being present, at Christ-Church, London, upon the late solemne day of thanksgiving, March 12 / by John Arrowsmith ...	Arrowsmith, John, 1602-1659.	1645 (1645)	Wing A3775; ESTC R200016	25,663	39

Die Jovis 13. Martii 1644. IT is this day Ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled that this House doth give thanks to Master Arrowsmith for his great pains taken in the Sermon hee preached on the 12 of this instant March in Christ-Church London before the Members of both Houses of Parliament and giving thanks to Almighty God for his blessing to the Parliament for their late good success at Shrewsbury and Weymouth And that the said Master Arrowsmith is hereby desired to print and publish his Sermon which is not to be printed or reprinted by any but by authority under his hand John Brown Cler. Parl. Die Jovis 13. Martii 1644. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that Master Solicitor and Master Nicholas doe from this House return thanks to Master Arrowsmith and Master Vines for the great pains they tooke in the Sermons they preached at the intreaty of both Houses at Christ-Church yesterday being a day appointed for publike thanksgiving and that they doe intreat them to print their Sermons And it is Ordered that none shall presume to print their Sermons but whom they shall license under their hands writing H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I appoint Samuel Man to print my Sermon John Arrowsmith ENGLANDS EBEN-EZER OR STONE of HELP Set up in thankfull acknowledgment of the LORDS having helped us hitherto More especially For a memoriall of that help which the PARLIAMENTS Forces lately received at Shrewsbury Weymouth and elsewhere IN A SERMON Preached to both the Honorable Houses of PARLIAMENT the Lord Major and Aldermen of the Citie of LONDON being present at Christ-Church LONDON upon the late solemne day of Thanksgiving March 12. By JOHN ARROWSMITH B. D. Published by Order of both Houses Hos. 13. 11. O Israel thou hast destroyed thy selfe but in me is thine help 2 Chron. 14. 11. Lord it is nothing with thee to help whether with many or with them that have no power Help us O Lord our God for we rest on thee and in thy name goe we out against this multitude O Lord thou art our God let not man prevail against thee LONDON Printed by ROBERT LEYBURN for SAMUEL MAN dwelling in PAULS Church-yard at the signe of the SWAN 1645. To the right HONORABLE the LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT THe Glorious Temple had a beautifull gate Such is a Gratulatory Epistle to a Sermon of Thanksgiving Our Estates and Liberties blesse your Honours Religion and Learning do no lesse I shall therefore here mention a few of the many good offices done for them Whereas the publike worship of God was much embased you have been carefull to take away the glittering tin of specious Ceremonies together with the ugly drosse of known Superstition Let popish Spirus bewaile the want of making a fair shew in the flesh which so many desire let them cry out and say There is not so much State and bravery in the service of God as heretofore I dare be bold to tell the World that much more holinesse will be found in your brasen Serpent then ever was in their golden Calf It is not long since Christians of the greatest zeale were iniured by certain Sons of Levi even as of old the sons of Eli with their flesh-hock of three teeth offered violence to the people when they came to offer sacrifice You have wrested from them their flesh-book and broken the three teeth thereof which were illegall Canons ensnaring Oaths and rigorous High Commission-censures Not long since Professors in England Amnon-like were lean from day to day by reason of the love they bare to Romish fopperies as he to Tamar many affecting the garbe of Rome in their most solemne worship as Amnon pretended to lorg for meat of Tamars dressing Others proceeding as he did with her to a carnall knowledge of that Whore But after your happy assembling the hand of God wrought an happy change in their hearts and made them generally hate this Tamar as much and more then ever they loved her You have now not onely turned her out but boulted the doore by an holy Covenant to endeavour the extirpation of Popery and Superstition Not long since there were many pens and tongues fully employed in decrying the Lords day and disputing against the morality of the fourth Commandement An employment to be for ever abhord because as Noah tooke to himselfe clean beasts by sevens six for propagation the seventh for sacrifice which was accordingly offered up at his comming out of the Ark So the Lord who allows us six da●es for civill affaires would have the seventh sacrificed to himselfe as an whole burnt offering Yet as Antiochus took away the daily sacrifice these men had almost taken from us the Sacrifice of days but you have restored it by a most pious and wholsome Ordinance according to the good hand of God upon you And whereas one of the breasts of our common Mother hath been dried up of late or rather yielded much bloud instead of milke you have already made some and we hope are about to make further provision for the other lest the coal which is left us be quenched as the woman of Tekoah said to David lest Cambridge become as a cottage in a vineyard as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers After such high and holy services be it far exceeding far from you all to dishonour him who hath said ye are Gods by an ungodly conversation If it be not if any root of bitternesse do spring up hereafter in either House I shall crave leave to represent the danger thereof as in a parable A certain Priest having to doe with a great men that was resolute in sin yet desirous of absolution and perceiving be did not understand the latine tongue instead of absolving him said as followeth Dominus Noster Jesus Christus teabsolvat si vult remittat tibi peccata tua quod ego non credo perducat te ad vitam aeternam quod est impossibile My Lords and Gentlemen the parable be to them that hate you and the interpretation thereof to the sworn enemies of Jesus Christ That not so much as one of you who continue members at this day will at anytime prove a stone of offence by the errors of his iudgement or irregularities of his life that every one will become an Eben-Ezer a stone of help in that sense wherein Joseph is called the sheepherd the stone of Israel is the hope and shall be the prayer of A worthlesse but willing servant of Christ his Church and your Honours John Arrowsmith A SERMON Preached to both HOUSES of PARLIAMENT at Christ-Church London upon the late solemne day of Thanksgiving Mar. 12. 1644. 1 SAM. 7. 12. Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpeh and Shen and called the name of it Eben-ezer saying Hitherto hath the Lord helped us GReat conjunctions of heavenly bodies are

his praying thrice aday Evening and morning and at noon will I pray and cry aloud But as on purpose to put his soule in tune here that in heaven it might make the better musick he multiplies prayses even to seven times in a day Psal. 119 164. Seven times a day doe I praise thee becanse of thy righteous judgements The Application hereof followeth What now remains O ye principall men Lords Commons and Citizens but that you be exhorted to have a principall hand in this duty of praysing God for his help and called upon to doe what ye ought both for the substance of the work and manner of performing it 1 For the substance of the work Know and remember that God must be praysed with your hearts your parts your lips your lives and your estates 1 With your hearts Psal. 103. 1. Blesse the Lord ô my soule and all that is within me blesse his holy name The deepest springs are wont to yeeld the sweetest waters they are the sweetest thanks that proceed from a depth within For as Seneca well the value of thanks resolves it selfe wholly into the frame and disposition of the heart 2 With your parts You are men of great and vast abilities ô consecrate them all to God The Spirit of man Solomon saith is the candle of the Lord Prov. 20. 27. Suffer not your bright candles to burn downwards imploy not your parts in the things of this world altogether not at all in the things of hell left they sweal quite away without doing any considerable service to God or man Great parts are like great Ordnance if the Fort wherein they are planted bee yeelded up to Jesus Christ they 'r of excellent use against the Serpent and his seed But so long as Satan holds the Fort no men more mischevous to the Church than those that have the best naturall and acquired abilities yea none in so dangerous a condition in reference to their own soules I must be bold to tell such as abuse their wits and other endowments in the service of Satan against the truth that their lightsome candles will but serve to light them to hell and their large parts to enlarge their condemnation there 3 With your lips Psal. 51. 15. O Lord open thou my lips and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise The tongue is called a mans glory partly because speech is a thing wherein men excell beasts and partly because it is given him to glorifie God withall Prayse and thanks should be offered up when ever we draw neere to him in any duty particularly when ever we pray Phil. 4. 6. Be carefull for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God with thanksgiving Expect no acceptance of those prayers wherein there is not some spice of that Prayer without prayse is a censer without burning coals from which there can no sweet savour ascend 4 With your lives for therein lies the life of thankfulnesse He is the most thankfull that is the most fruitfull Christian There must be Gratiarum actio a doing of thanks Else if our thanks be not accompanied with obedience we doe but play Jews-play with Christ saying Haile King of the Jews and smiting him Physitians iudge of the heart by the arme feele the pulse that they may know the state of the vitals How beats the pulse of thy conversation according to that will God judge of the soundness or sickliness of thy constitution Would you render reall thanks Remember what you have lately sworn namely to goe before each other in the example of a reall reformation The Lord had caused the Land to passe under a rod a rod that fetch'd bloud at every lash before we would be brought into the bond of that Covenant Beleeve it he that whipt us to it will whip us for it if it be not kept The curses ingrost in that flying roll Zech. 5. will be sure to over-take us for swearing falsely by the name of the Lord 5 With your estates Honour the Lord with thy substance Prov. 3. 9. Christ will never trust Judas more The Saints are now his purse-bearers and from them it is expected that they should willingly disburse when ever the Lord hath need in his members This is the duty of every day especially solemne days of thanksgiving Eat the fat and drink the sweet and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared for this day is holy unto our Lord neither be ye sorry for the joy of the Lord is your strength Nehem. 8. 10. That joy which enlargeth the heart at such a time should take away straitnesse of hand Thanksgiving dayes should be giving dayes Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him saith Saint Paul prescribing an order concerning the collection for the Saints 1 Cor. 16. 1 2. Why upon the first day of the weeke Chrysostome hints to this reason because then in the use of those Ordinances that were dispensed on the Lords day the spirits of Christians resenting the goodnesse of God more then at other times would be more ready to give the Saints a taste of theirs You that have this worlds good shut not up your bowels now from those of Melcomb Weymouth and Plymouth that need so much and deserve so well Let the consideration of those late mercies we have received be a means to open all obstructions of heart and purse and to procure mercie from you for those persons by whom and places where we have received them 2 For the manner This great worke of praysing God must be performed unanimously and cheerfully 1 Unanimously We should all glorifie God with one minde and with one mouth Rom. 15. 6. which is utterly impossible so long as through difference in opinion and affection that event is looked at as a crosse by one which appears a rich blessing to another There will hardly be one mouth where there is not one mind God will hardly be glorified where there is not a sweet conjunction of both Cleopatra dissolved an union of great price and dranke it in an health to Marcus Antonius Divisions are Satans Drinke-offerings No such drinkers of health to hell as dissolvers of union If my soule might have its wish I should not desire what Austin did to see either Paul in the pulpit or Rome in its pomp but the thing I would beg should be Union Next to a full and clear sight of its own union to Jesus Christ my soule should long for nothing more in all the world than union of the King to his Parliament of the godly throughout the Kingdom among themselves Who ever lives to see these things may sing his Nunc dimittis with Simeon Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace for mine eyes have seen thy salvation 2 Cheerfully Psal. 149. 5 6. Let the