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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

excellent way and that is Love a more excellent way then coming wth interpretation of Tongues a more excellent way then Prophecying the most excellent of all others they came with infinite readinesse of spirit so ready that no man should need to call goe ye and goe ye but let us goe every one striving which should be first Another which indeed was a great one was singlenesse of heart sincerity no man driving any work or designe of his own verily the doing of that the looking of self-ends hath been the way of them who have built up Anti-christs Kingdome but an abhorred thing among them that build up Christs Kingdome they desire no other reward but only to see Christ on his throne set up that and you give them Peace enough Gold enough Honour enough you give them enough of all so the worke may be done for which they are imployed all these are in that Chapter But the greatest of all is that which I would more fully speak of and commend unto you even the Concord and unitie of heart and unitie of minde of Spirit free from devisions and dissentions among themselves so my Text saith All these came with one heart and one minde and again all of them with one perfect heart to set up David to be their King This I would commend to you as the greatest means of all the rest beloved there is innumerable arguments for the perswading of you to it it is the work of this day you are this day met together to praise God for it and therefore it will be very seasonable for me to commend it to you 1. This vnity of heart and concurrence of spirit to this worke is the beautifullest thing in all the world behould how comely a thing it is for bretheren to dwell together in vnity nothing more beautifull then vnity and concord in a good worke All that write of beauty say that Symotry is the best part of it to have a sweet joyning of spirits and hearts together to set vp Christs Kingdome is the loveliest thing in the world 2ly It is vtile aswell as jucundum strong aswell as lovely it is the greatest meanes of safety in all the World to have vnion and concord among them that are engaged in Christs cause an Arch is the strongest building and a circle the strongest Figure because in both each part supports and strengthens one another in truth it is the greatest meanes of safety to any weake people It is well observed by one that a few despised Jewes when they are but of one heart and one minde resolved every man to stand close to other for their lives they have strength enough against their enemies of 127 Provinces that they dare not stir against them yea it strikes terror into their enemies when they see how resolutely and boldly they will stand out in it so when the Lords people they that own Christs Cause are as Solomon saith the Church of Christ is terrible like an army with Banners with their Banners displaied and well ordered there is no strength of enemies able to stand before them and it is observed of France that if it do not combat it self all the world cannot conquer it and Tacitus observed it long since that the Romans had never conquered England if their petty Princes had not been divided among themselves and some Historians shew how that all the times when England was conquered by the Romans Saxons Normans it was alwayes caused by the divisions that were among themselves O therefore I beseech you since this unity and concord is such a strength labour to be all of one heart and all of one mind in this Work And there are three things before your eyes which may extremely whet up your spirits to it the one is the practice of your adversaries do but mark what combinations they make The Tabernacles of Edom and the Ishmalites of Moab and the Hagarens Gebal and Ammon and Amalech the Philistims and they that dwell at Tyre Ashur joyned with them and the children of Lot all of them in one Look upon them in Ireland in England you shall see them bound by Oaths by Covenants you shall see them sending into France offering offensive and defensive leagues to Antichristian people so they will but joyne to come and help to ruine us shall there be this care among them to destroy us and shall not we be united Secondly you see and this dayes work sets it before your eyes what infinite indeavours they use to oppose all our union if the City and Parliament be united if the two Houses be united if England and Scotland be united what extreme indeavours are used what stone is not rolled what sort of men is not attempted what Profession soever they be of be they Jesuites be they Friers be they Priests be they Professors be they such as they call Puritanes they try them all to see if they can but divide the City from Parliament the Houses one from another the English from the Scots what would they not buy it at Hoc Illiacus velit magno mercentur Atridae millions of gold would they give to effect it Thirdly consider their greatest hope and our greatest danger is in our divisions A Diamond they say is easily cut with its owne dust and a House is then most like to fall when all the joynts of it begin to part one from another unity and concord among brethren are well compared to the bars of a Castle not easily broken and while they remain firme give safety and security but when they are once broken they will hardly be made whole they are also fitly compared to a Cable roap which will not easily break but if once cut asunder its hard to tye a knot upon it again I beseech you therefore you honourable Lords and Nobles and Commons you Reverend Divines you Valiant Souldiers you worthy Citizens I know you cannot in all things be all of one minde but in what you can be all of one heart though you cannot in all things be of one minde let confusion and division belong to them that build Babel let there be no noise heard at the rearing of the Lords Temple Next to the guilt of our sinnes I feare nothing so much as our divisions but could we first be reconciled to our God by faith in the blood of Christ and be firmely united together and set all our shoulders as one man to this work our enemies designes would all faile and the work of God would prosper in our hands I will conclude this first Branch with that Councell of the Apostle Phil. 2. 1. If there be therefore any Consolations in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the Spirit if any bowels mercies fulfill my ioy that ye be like minded having the same love being of one accord and of one mind And with that 1 Cor. 1. 10. Now

let God arise speaking of Christ Psal. 68. let God arise and his enemies shall be scattered they fly as the dust before the wind as the wax before the fire as stubble before the flame so doe his enemies fall if Christ will but appeare against them In one word by him were all things Created by him they are upheld and subject and all things disposed of according to his pleasure and therefore under his shadow under his protection they may quietly rest and none can hurt them And lastly adde one more that this King lives for ever and reignes for ever make him once a King over a people and hee will ever bee a King They who are once his Subjects will ever be his Subiects yea and while they are under his government his government shall grow more glorious more vict●●ious of the increase of his Government and Peace there shall be no end be shall sit upon the Throne of David his Father to order it and establish it the Lord hath spoken it and it must be so I hope this is now cleere that the setting up of Christ to bee Lord and King is the greatest happinesse that can beside any Nation The second is that such a concurrence to find Princes Nobles Captaines c. for all these are in my Text to find the heads of all the Tribes thus concurring to doe it is the most glorious amiable and desirable meanes for effecting this work which to make plaine I beseech you to consider it two wayes First looke upon it as it is signum what this concurrence holdeth forth as its a signe Secondly as causa look upon in that which it worketh for the effecting of it First as it is a signe and so it expresseth first the greatest love and favour of God to that people never did the Lord from Heaven expresse to any Nation a greater token of his owning that Nation and People then when he maketh such a concurrence in their Princes and Nobles and Leaders to set up the Lord Christ to be their King of God in the Prophesie of Ieremiah and Zephaniah that he would them one heart and one way all of them should agree in one to serve him subiect to him with one consent This made David so ravished in his spirit when there was such a union and unanimity in his Princes and Nobles to joine with in preparing for the Temple Who am I Lord and what i● my people that wee should be able to offer thus willingly after this sort now therfore O Lord we thank and blesse thy glorious Name for it and argues it there as one of the greatest pledges of Gods accepting them that there should bee such a concurrence in such a worke Secondly it 's also the greatest signe that can be of a peoples love to Christ and of the greatest glory which they can possibly put upon him to be such a willing people to set him up upon his Throne This was promised as the great glory of Christs Kingdom that Kings and Princes should bring his Children upon their shoulders that they should bring their own glory and lay it and then Scepters at his feet be nursing Fathers unto his Church that whole Nations should flow in unto him and certainly its the greatest expression they can make and the greatest glory which the Lord can receive from poore men to have the Heads of a people thus oind to set up Christ upon his Throne It was much more glorious to David to be crowned after this manner then to have conquerred them by his Sword and for Salomon to have all the Kings about him to offer themselves to be his Servants out of that inward reverence and love they bore unto him then to have subdued them as Ioshua did the Kings of Canaan and even so is it here it 's a great exaltation of Christs glory to find whole States thus willing to submit unto him Thus it doth it as signum 2 Book upon it ut causa as it works towards the effecting of it Nothing which men can doe carryes such an energie as this joynt consent doth and that 3. severall wayes First such a publique concurrence of all these is a marvellous engagement of that people to adhere to the Lord without sliding back When David had sworne unto the Lord to find out a place for the Lord an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob he would give no sleepe to his eyes nor slumber to his eye lids untill hee had done what he could to effect it So when they have sworne a Covenant and their Princes and Rulers and all of them joyne together with such an vnanimous consent it averreth holdeth out to the world their full and unchanged resolution to spend and to be spent and to do all that ever they are able for the promoting of this worke Now this ingageing of a Nation to the Lord is an infinite meanes of effecting it and ingaeth the Lord to sware to them as he did to David in the like case Secondly this concurrence in the Princes and Leaders of the people is a marvelous meanes to draw all the people on as one man without any opposition when they that are their Leaders doe thus goe before them there is a notable example in this Text of the Tirbe of Issachar v. 32. of the rest of the tribes it 's said how many there came of some Tribes 10 thousand of some 20. thousand of some 40. thousand but of the Tribe of Issachar it is not said how many came but only 200. that were the Leaders and Lords of that Tribe with perfect heart and the Text addeth all their Bretheren were at their command all the whole Tribe If the Tribe of Issachar were 40. 50. 100. thousand set but the 200. Leaders right and they cary all the rest right infallibly whether they will or no And you all know by experience the infinite power Leaders have to cary the people to any thing be it good or evill Jeroboam and his Princes may lead the people to worship golden calves Joash and his Princes may draw the people to forsake God And againe Jehosaphat Hezechiel Iosiah and their Princes and Rulers may draw the people of the Lord into a Covenant to serve the Lord That is the second way to effect it by leading the people to submit unto Christ also Thirdly this vnity and concurrence of heart and spirit doth infinitely daunt and dampe the spirit of their Enemies who would hinder the worke neither is any thing such a terrour to those that would destroy and hinder the setting up of Christ as to see an vnity and concurrence of heart and hand of those that are the prime Leading men to carie on the worke This is notably set forth in the Booke of Nehemiah when Tobias and Sanballat and the rest of them had tried all their wits to devide and scare them and yet saw they went on with

the worke that they would build though they built with the sword in one hand and a Trewell in the other and though they wrought both night and day and that some slept whilst others waked and on they would goe the Rulers and Heads being the forwardest of all when the enemie saw that the Text saith they were extreamly cast downe because they saw the worke was wrought by the hand of God So that enemies faile in their spirits when they see without changing the Nobles and Leaders are resoluedly set to carie on this worke That Christ shall be set vp for Lord and King And thus Beloved I have cleared the first Branch of this observation That the greatest joy that can be to any people is to see such a concurrence of heart to have the Lord Christ set vp for Lord King For the Application of it I shall insist only vpon two things First what infinite cause have all wee that are here gathered together to blesse the Lord for this day for this very day and all these dayes wherein we now live I confesse Beloved I discerne there are very many with whom you shall never talke but they are complaining of the miserablenesse of our dayes oh the times are miserable what glorious times had we three or four yeares or five or seaven yeares agoe for then they had trading plenty and ease and every one could sit vnder his owne vine and his figge tree no adversary nor evill occurrent and now they heare of nothing but warres and blood and exhausting of treasure and losse of their children and kinred and plundering their goods every where so that there is nothing but complaining amongst a world of people as if our dayes were most miserable Now Beloved give me leave to speake my thoughts freely I will set aside my Text and the matter I am in hand with and yet I will cofidently affirme that our dayes now are better then they were seaven yeares agoe Because it is better to see the Lord executing Judgment then to see men working wickednesse and to behold a people lye wallowing in their blood rather then apostating from God and embracing of Idolatry and superstition and banishing of the Lord Christ from amongst them Set the worke of this Text aside and the dayes are not so miserable now as they were then but take this in which I am handling and I will here in the wisest and greatest Auditory that any man in this Age hath preached unto not feare to say that since England was England since any Booke was written concerning England never was their that cause of joy and rejoyceing as there is this very day in England Was there ever a Parliament in England knowne which laid the cause of Christ and Religion so to heart as this Parliament hath done Did ever any Parliament till now with David sware as in the 132. Psalm That they will never give rest to their eyes nor slumber to their eye-lids till they have found out a place to set the Ark of Christ upon to set up Christ for their King Did ever Parliament call such an Assembly of Divines and make them by solemne Vow or Oath ingage themselves to present nothing to them but what should be to their best understanding the very will of the Lord God was there ever Parliament and Nobilitie and Ministers and Citizens and so many ten thousands of all sorts in England till now who did joyne in such a Covenant yea the two Nations together that they will to their uttermost indeavour the Reformation of Religion in the purity of it and preservation of it according to Gods Word Did ever when heretofore England hath been engaged in warre and blood the City of London the rest of the Tribes the Godly Party throughout England so willingly exhaust themselves only that Christ might be set up and willingly saying every day to the Lord God Lord take all so Christ may be but King Did ever any of you reade it to be thus with England till now My heart is towards the Governours of England which thus willingly offer themselves and I cannot but tell you that I think you should all doe as David and the Nobles did when they fetched up the Ark of God from Kiriath-Jearim And I the father instance in it because their case and ours were very like for there the Ark had been in Captivity amongst the Philistines and when it was brought out of Captivity and placed at Kiriath-Jearim ●it was but in Confinio Philisti●●●um neere the border of the Philistines whither when Gods people went to worship they went in danger they were sub●ect to the incursions of the Philistines and therefore it is said all Is●●el mourned after the Lord that is They could never goe to Worship but they went in fear of some mischief but now when David and the Nobles joyne together to bring up the Ark of God and to set it in a fit place for the glory of it they all danced and skipped for joy and King David the most joyfull Dauncer among them Though Michal scoffed at him and if this be to be vile saith hee I will be more vile then thus I will daunce againe before the Lord Thus should we doe When Jehoiada the high Priest on a suddaine brought out young King Joash when the people thought they should have alwayes laine under the Tyranny of Athalyah and never seen a Prince more of Davids race when such an unexpected favour was bestowed upon them how did they shout and joy Thus should our souls doe Honourable and Beloved had you ever more cause of joy Verily if there be any in this Assembly that thinks not this a sufficient retribution and satisfaction for all his Twentieth Part for all his Contributions for all his Payments and Hazards if he think himself not well appayed to see the Lord doing all this I say he is blinde I say his heart is not right with God hee hath no share in this present businesse But to the rest of you who know the glory and excellency of this worke which the Lord God is doing amongst us I beseech you rejoyce in it and goe your ways and eat the fat and drink the sweet praise the Lord for all the good he is doing to this our Israel and now that the walls are setting up doe as they did in Nehemiahs dayes when they had built them they shouted and rejoyced so that the noyse was heard I know not how many miles off so let all England Cry that our blood our Armies our Poverty our Millions wherein wee are ingaged are all abundantly repayed in this That there is such a Concurrence to set up the Lord Christ upon his Throne to be Lord and King over this our Israel And then Secondly Let me exhort you all to goe on in this Work which you have set your hearts and hands unto And wherein the Lord hath mercifully Carried you on thus farre and let

I beseech you brethren by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye all speak the same thing and that there be no division among you but that you be perfectly ioyned together in the same minde and in the same iudgement and whereto we have attained let us walk by the same Rule let us minde the same thing And so much for the first Branch of the matter of their joy they met together to set up David to be King that is David as he was a Type of our Lord Iesus Christ whom we are endeavouring to Exalt upon his Throne The time commands me to be very short in the other Branch and I may very well for if the Lord should not prosper us in this that we should not Ioyn togethee to set up Christ in vaine shall we attempt the other and if the Lord blesse this work in our hands this will either in due time bring about the other or infallibly supply the defect of it and make us happie without it Briefly the Lesson from it is this That such a concurrence as is aforementioned to set up a Prince in this Common-weal like to David is a matter of great ioy and reioycing I shall according to promise be very brief in it had not the time prevented I would have produced opened unto you divers examples out of the Scripture of the great content joy which hath bin where there hath met a concurrence of the Nobles Leaders of the people to set up a good Magistrate over them viz. in David in Solomon in Ioash in Nehemiahs and divers others where when good Governours and Governments have been set up the people have infinitly rejoyced But you 'l understand it fully by that time I have but a little shewed you the relation betwixt a Prince and his people he is their Head their Lord their Father they are his children he is so the Scripture cals it to be the light of their eyes the breath of their nostrils a kind of Fountaine to derive all good to them this he is ex Officio and therefore it follows that the goodnesse or ilnesse of Princes is not to themselves alone but all their people do share with them either in blessednesse or in misery according as the Prince is in goodnesse or in badnesse Let the Prince be a good man a David he is then like unto Nebuchadnezzars tree which he saw in his vision that had meat for all the fruit thereof much and boughs for birds to make their nests in and shelter for all beasts that they might dwell under it that is affording reliefe and comfort to all Hee is the light of the eyes to his people the breath of their nostrils he is worth 10000. of them And to such an one the people do most joyfully as they ought to do yeeld reverence even the greatest next unto God and allegiance to their person and authority subiection and obedience to their Laws maintenance out of their own estates and furnish them with counsell and all manner of Prayer cheerfully as they ought to do because under such a Prince religion is preserved if it be corrupt it is purged reformed iustice is administred without partiality good men are incouraged Peace is procured and preserved Trades are likewise enriched Learning and all such like promoted the Poor are relieved all made happy can you wonder then that where there is a concurrence to have such an one set up there is great Ioy on the other side let the Prince be either weak and foolish or wicked and ungodly riotous and luxurious let him be cruell and tyrannicall O how miserable are that people under him how great is the darknesse where the light is turned into darknesse how miserable is the body where the very Organs of their breathing the breath of their nostrils comes to be corrupted or taken from them how miserable are they when the very Fountain that should afford them comfort is Poysoned such a Prince is like to Ieroboam that compels the people to sin and misery like unto the Dragon who when he fell from heaven drew the very Starres from heaven to the ground with him like to great Cedars which when they fall break all the woods that are round about them thus by their Prince are a people made happy or miserable and so Solomon expresses it in his Ecclesiastes Happy art thou O Land if they Prince be thus Miserable art thou O Land if thy Prince be thus must you not then count it a matter of great joy to have a good King set up to rule over you I adde secondly that this is a greater matter of joy when the Nobles the Parliament the leading men of the Citie and Tribes concur to have such a one both because that is the most likely meanes to obtaine it God promising his blessings to such indeavours and they likewise having some beames of Gods authority put upon them may by their Councell and Example make the Prince to be good and inable him to carry out the publike good or if that cannot be attained through Gods mercy by their meanes there may be a supply of what is wanting in him to make the people happie though they faile of it in the other I shall make a brief application of this second Branch and so passe over it First if to have a David to be our King is such a blessednesse then how cursed and ten thousand times cursed are they who endeavour for ever to rob us of that happinesse who as they would rob us of Christ the greatest happinesse for our souls so they would for ever deprive us of having any hope to be blessed under a Prince that should be like unto David who have rent off the person and the affection of our Soveraign from us who endeavour to instill principles of crueltie into his breast against us and foment them in him who have provoked him to raise Armes to destroy his Nobles and Commons and Divines and this most honoured City and even all who have beene most faithfull have put him into Armes to ruin us and when we but stand up for our own defence represent us to him as Traytors and Rebells because we will not give up our Throates to be cut by them at their pleasure and our goods to be wholly possessed by them If I had all Rhetorick it would yet be short of speaking of these men what they do deserve I can more fitly compare them to none then to the Iewes long since in England who before they were banished hence threw bags of poison into the fountains and wells that the people were to drink of and so indeavoured to poison them all Accursed men there are who labour to make the breach so wide that we should never hope to sit under the shadow of our Prince with any hope and confidence who would rather have our streetes run with our blood and venture