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parliament_n	assemble_v	city_n	london_n	3,070	5	7.6466	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89577	A sacred panegyrick, or A sermon of thanks-giving, preached to the two Houses of Parliament, His Excellency the Earl of Essex, the Lord Major, court of alderman, and common councell of the city of London, the reverend Assembly of Divines, and commissioners from the Church of Scotland. Vpon occasion of their solemn feasting, to testifie their thankfullnes to God, and union and concord one with another, after so many designes to divide them, and thereby ruine the Kingdome, Ianuary 18. 1643. By Stephen Marshall, B.D. minister of Gods Word at Finching-field in Essex. Published by order of the Lords and Commons.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1644 (1644)	Wing M772; Thomason E30_2; ESTC R9118	32,433	40

A Sacred Panegyrick OR A SERMON OF THANKS-GIVING Preached to the two Houses of Parliament His Excellency the Earl of Essex the Lord Major Court of Aldermen and Common Councell o● the City of LONDON the Reverend Assembly of Divines and Commissioners from the Church of Scotland Vpon occasion of their Solemn Feasting to testifie their thankfullnes to God and union and concord one with another after so many Designes to divide them and thereby ruine the Kingdome Ianuary 18. 1643. By Stephen Marshall B. D. Minister of Gods Word at Finching-field in Essex Published by Order of the Lords and Commons PSALME 133. 1. Behold how good and how pleasant it is for Brethren to dwell together in unity Psalme 144. 15 Happy is that People that is in such a case Yea happy is that People whose God is the Lord London Printed for Stephen Bowtell and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Bible in Popes-head-alley 1644. TO THE ●●IGHT HONOVRABLE he Lords and Commons Assembled ●n Parliament His Excellency the Earle of Essex with the rest of the Noble and Worthy Commanders The Right Honourable the Lord Major the Court of Aldermen and Common Councell of the City of London The Reverend Assembly of Divines The Honourable and Reverend Commissioners from the Church of SCOTLAND THis worke was too high for me but as it s now done by so weake an hand is too low for so many judicious eyes with any favourable respect to look down to But 〈◊〉 own Children though lesse beautifull we can behold with ●●ve and even stoope to take them by the hand that wee may hold and lead them that cannot goe or stand by themselves ●●ch a weakling is this that is now before you the defects ●●d weaknesses whereof I acknowledge are mine but the ●●rth is Gods and yours to him I humbly present it for 〈◊〉 blessing and to you for your acceptance and helpe that may better goe abroad whilst all shall know that it is ●●rs more then mine and therefore to bee disposed of rather by you then by my selfe By your Command for so I interpret all your requests to me it was Preached and is now Published and this with the more boldnesse because with some confidence that it will passe the better without others censure because it hath already passed your scrutiny with allowance and acceptance But whatever the lot of it in that kind shall be it will be abundant satisfaction to me if the main end be attained by it which by you and me was intended in it viz the help of our selves and all the more to adore the infinite wisdome and power and goodnesse of our God who can make light to shine out of darknesse discords intended by enemies to make up our more harmonious consent and divisions of tongues that scatter the builders of Babel to help up the more compact building of his Church Hee once turned the day of his peoples griefes and feares to the quite contrary so that they had then joy and gladnesse a Feast and a good day insomuch that many of the people of the Land became Jewes for the feare of the Iewes fell upon them Now hee that hath wrought for us the like turne of things be pleased in mercy to worke a greater turne in all our Enemies hearts that so now and ever our Lord Iesus may appeare to be the wonderfull Counsellor the mighty God the everlasting Father whilst thus the Prince of his Peoples Peace So prayeth His and Your most Unworthy Servant STEPHEN MARSHALL THE PREFACE to the Sermon RIght Honourable and Beloved in the Lord this day is a day purposely set apart for feasting and it is like one of the Lords feasts where you have a feast and a holy Convocation And you are first met here to feast your soules with the fat things of Gods house with a feast of fat things full of marrow and wine on the lees well refined and afterward to feast your bodies with the fat things of the land and the sea both plenty and dainty But if you please you may first feast your eyes doe but behold the face of this Assembly I dare say it will be one of the excellentest feasts that ever your eyes were refreshed with Here in this Assembly you may first see the two Houses of Parliament the Honourable Lords and Commons after thus many yeares wrastling with extreme difficulties in their endevouring to preserve an undone Kingdome and to purge and reforme a back-sliding and a polluted Church you may behold them still not only preserved from so many treacherous designes secret treasons and open violences but as resolved as ever cheerfully to goe on with this great worke which God hath put into their hands Here you may also see his Excellency my most honoured Lord the Generall of all our forces by land and neare him that other noble Lord the Commander of our forces by Sea and with them abundance of noble and resolute Commanders al of them with their faces like unto Lions who after so many terrible battells and abundance of difficulties and charging in the face of so many thousand deaths are all of them still preserved and not a haire of their heads fallen to the ground Here also you may behold the Representative body of the City of London the Lord Mayor the Court of Aldermen the Common Councell the Militia and in them the face and affection of this glorious City This City which under God hath hitherto had the honour of being the greatest meanes of the salvation of the whole kingdome and after the expence of millions of treasure and thousands of their lives still as faithfull and resolute to live and die in the cause of God as ever heretofore Here you may likewise see a Reverend Assembly of grave and learned Divines who daily wait upon the Angel in the Mount to receive from him the lively Oracles and the patterne of Gods house to present unto you All these are of our owne Nation and with them you may see the Honourable reverend and learned Commissioners of the Church of Scotland and in them behold the wisdome and affection of their whole Church and Nation willing to live and dye with us All these you may behold in one view and which is more you may behold them all of one heart and one minde after so many plots and conspiracies to divide them one from another and thereby to ruine them all And which is yet more you may see them all met together this day on purpose both to praise God for this union and to rejoice in it and to hold it out to all the world and thereby to testifie that as one man they will live and dye together in this common cause of God of our Lord Iesus Christ his Church and these three Kingdomes O beloved how beautifull is the face of this Assembly Verily I may say of it as it was said of Solomons throne That