item: #1 of 39
          id: A30262
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: Two sermons preached to the Honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament at their pvbliqve fast, Novem. 17, 1640 by Cornelius Burges ... and Stephen Marshall ...
        date: 1641.0
       words: 28075
      flesch: 71
     summary: This honourable Assembly having designed me to beare so great a share in this weightie Worke , I hold it my dutie to consider , that , how weake and unworthy so ever I my selfe be , yet I am now to speake to Wise Men , who need not so much to be Catechised touching the Nature , as to be incited and quickned to the principall Use of a Religious Fast , which consisteth not solely in such drawing neere to God by extraordinary Prayer and Humiliation as may produce a totall divorce from our deerest Lusts , but also ( and that more principally ) in a particular , formall , solemne , entire engaging and binding of our selves , by an indissoluble Covenant , to that God whose face and favour we seeke , and implore . And the restoring of the Church should produce a Covenant with God .
    keywords: babylon; church; covenant; day; deliverance; doe; fast; god; hath; heart; israel; lord; man; men; non; people; reformation; selves; set; solemne; solemne covenant; text; thing; time; vers; way; zion
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        item: #2 of 39
          id: A45421
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: Of resisting the lavvfull magistrate under colour of religion and appendant to it, of the word keima, rendred damnation, Rom. 13, reprinted : also, [brace] of zelots among the Jewes, of taking up the crosse, a vindication of Christs reprehending St. Peter, from the exceptions of Mr. Marshall.
        date: 1644.0
       words: 36448
      flesch: 47
     summary: Notes for div A45421e-5570 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} . Here , say they , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} judgement , is that that befalls the house of God , the godly ; therefore but temporall judgements .
    keywords: answer; case; christ; christians; doe; god; gods; hath; hee; himselfe; jewes; judgement; king; lawfull; liberty; man; marshall; master; men; new; non; peter; place; power; religion; resistance; saint; saith; sword; tertullian; thing; time; truth; use; vers; way; wee; words
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        item: #3 of 39
          id: A52035
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: The vvorks of Mr Stephen Marshall, late minister of the Gospel at Finching-Field in Essex. And since at Ipswitch in Suffolk. The first part. Viz. I. Of Christ's intercession. And of sins of infirmity. II. The high priviledge of beleevers. They are the sons of God. III. Faith the only means spiritually to feed on Christ. IV. Of self-denial. V. The saints duty to keep their heart in a good frame, etc. VI. The mystery of spiritual life. Attested by Ralph Venning. Thomas Lye. Thomas Jacomb.
        date: 1661.0
       words: 75598
      flesch: 55
     summary: Be pleased then to know thus much , that when the Scripture speakes so positivly and clearly , of the Children of God not sinning , that they cannot commit sin , the meaning is this , That whereas the way of sin ( mark it , the way of sin ) is the only way that al men walk in before they come to Christ , as conceive it thus , when men first fel from God , while he stood in his integrity God was his end , God was his portion , God was his rule , but when man fel from God , the whol corruption of mans nature stood in these two things , That now he was turned away from God , and fallen into the Creature , and there he continues til a new life be communicated , let him do what he will , let him pray , let him read , let him hear , let him walk in workes of justice and righteousness , and stil he is but within the compass of injoying the creature , and living to the creature , making himself and the good that he can find in the creature his portion , which is a turning off from God and this is one way of sin , and thus all the men in the world walk , that although it be true , yet some of their sins are greater then others , and aggrauated by some circumstances , yet look as it is with a man that is in prison , though the prison may be very large , and he may somtimes walk East , West , North , and South , and do some things more clean , and some things more gross , yet they are al done within that compass of the prison ; So take a man not in the state of Grace , the end he aimes at is himself , the rule he walks by is somwhat that may yeild contentment to him from the creature , and beyond al this no living man goes til God give him a new life . First , 1. The Heir while he is a Child is Lord of all , he is Lord of al before he comes to the injoyment of it , he is the Lord of it , so now while Gods Children are in their minority , while they are poor ones in this world , they are Heirs of the world , the Lord hath called his Children to be Heirs of the world , that is , whatsoever is in this world is for their sakes , the Angels , the World the Devils in Hel , in spite of their Hearts they are al under the Saints , and are compelled by the Lord , they against their wills , and the Angels with their good wils , they all of them are subservient to those that are the Sons of God by Adoption , and whatsoever is in the wide world , and may be enjoyed any waies for the good of his People , they are the Heirs of all ; this is their Portion while they are in this world ; the Scripture saith it plain , All is yours , and you are Christs , and Christ is Gods , and therefore Paul , and Apollo , or Cephas , or whatsoever is in the world , all is yours , the Saints of God have a real right to al by vertue of their Sonship , not in the Law of man but in the spirituall sense that the Scripture holds out .
    keywords: children; christ; christ wil; doth; faith; father; god; god wil; gods; good; grace; hath; heart; holy; jesus christ; life; lord; lord christ; man; men; people; self; sin; son; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; time; use; way; wil; work; world
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        item: #4 of 39
          id: A52038
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: An expedient to preserve peace and amity, among dissenting brethren. By a brother in Christ
        date: 1647.0
       words: 15645
      flesch: 43
     summary: To this I answer ▪ That for the substance of this government , wee have the infallible word of God , whereof neither part doubteth ; for the frame and circumstances thereof , we have also the word of man as infallible , as mans can be , for that we may take upon good trust , to be morally infallible , which proceeds from men , who neither deceive , nor are deceived . There were also other Lawes , which God prescribed by his servant Moses , to the people of Jsrael , politicke and Iudiciall Lawes , for preserving humane society , and governing the Common-wealth ; and Ceremoniall Lawes , for the outward manner and forme of his publike worship ; for performance whereof , he ordained divers Sacrifices and Sacrificers ; allotting maintainance for them both ▪ But when the time fore-appointed came , that God would restore man , to that happinesse , he had deservedly lost , by the sin of the first Adam ; he sent his onely Son Iesus Christ the second Adam , in the flesh ; who after he had manifested his divine power to the world , by his Doctrine and miracles , did by his last words on the Crosse , and by the first visible testimony of the power of his death finish and consummate the Law , and rent from the top to the bottome , the vaile of separation ; by both declaring , the necessity of types , and ceremonies , places and times of worship differences of people , Sacrifices and Sacrificers , fixed and impropriated maintainance ; for any of them , was no longer to bee continued strictly in the letter , although a morall equity shadowed by them was to be perpetuall .
    keywords: bee; brethren; christ; church; civill; conscience; god; government; hath; law; liberty; light; magistrate; man; peace; power; things; word; worship
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        item: #5 of 39
          id: A52039
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: A letter from Mr. Marshall and Mr. Nye, appointed assistants to the commissioners of Scotland to their brethren in England, concerning the successe of their affaires there, partly concerning the covenant.
        date: 1643.0
       words: 1458
      flesch: 67
     summary: A letter from Mr. Marshall and Mr. Nye, appointed assistants to the commissioners of Scotland to their brethren in England, concerning the successe of their affaires there, partly concerning the covenant. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 466:9) A letter from Mr. Marshall and Mr. Nye, appointed assistants to the commissioners of Scotland to their brethren in England, concerning the successe of their affaires there, partly concerning the covenant.
    keywords: marshall; text
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        item: #6 of 39
          id: A52041
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: A letter of spirituall advice written to Mr. Stephen Marshall in his sicknesse by one of his brethren in the clergy, Mart. I, M DC XLIII.
        date: 1643.0
       words: 7919
      flesch: 47
     summary: SIR , WHen I heard of your sicknesse , ( though considering the wofull miseries of the times I do usually rather congratulate with men their happinesse , whom God seemes to favour so much as to call to himselfe , and to his owne rest , from being spectators or actors or sufferers in these calamities wherin this Kingdome is involved , yet ) I assure you I found in my selfe such a different apprehension of your state , from that of other ordinary sick men , that I thinke you will not wonder , if all the Kings Subjects , who wish good successe unto His Majestie in this warre , cannot impute your visitation to any thing but to the just severity and revenge of Almighty God upon you , for having had so strong an influence upon the ruine of this Kingdome and Church . I pray you give mee leave to marshall in order before your eyes certaine accusing thoughts , and put it to the tryall of your owne heart whether they doe with any force or justice accuse you , I assure you I will take upon mee no further then to accuse you , for it is God onely must be your Judge , and I beseech him to prepare you for that judgement , and to performe it with all possible elemency and mercy .
    keywords: christian; church; god; gospell; king; marshall; owne; power; religion; selfe; sir; text; warre
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        item: #7 of 39
          id: A52042
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: Meroz curse for not helping the Lord against the mightie being the substance of a sermon, preached on a day of humiliation, at St. Sepulchers, London, Decemb. 2. 1641 / by that powerfull and Godly divine, Mr. Stephen Marshall ; published in one sheet of paper, (not by the author) but by a lover of the truth, for their good especially, that are not able to buy bigger bookes ; being a very seasonable subject, wherein all that either out of policie or sloth, rfuse to helpe the Lord, may see their danger, and they that are willing are called, and directions given to them both what manner of persons they ought to be, and what they ought to doe to help the Lord ; wherein also every true Christian may see, that though they be never so weake or poore, yet they may, and ought to helpe the Lord, and by what meanes.
        date: 1641.0
       words: 4000
      flesch: 74
     summary: Now , there is one talent which I am sure every childe of God that is effectually called hath , though they be never so poore , and that is the talent of prayer ; for indeed , it is the surest evidence to witnesse unto them , that the spirit of Christ is in them , when they can cry Abba Father : according to the lawes of our Kingdome , a child cannot be proved to be borne alive , except there be witnesse that it was heard to cry ; even so we say in Divinity , that every one that hath the new birth can cry to God his Father in prayer ; so that I say , every child of God hath this talent of prayer . 8. Salomon reckoneth up all the hard conditions that the Church of God can fall into , and alwayes concludes , then heare thou in heaven , &c. and then God answers , I have heard thy prayers and supplications that thou hast made before me ; with this talent of prayer the servants of God have overcome God , and held his hands , in so much that the Lord , if I may so speake , hath been glad to intreat them and command them to hold their tongues , and let him alone .
    keywords: church; god; gods; helpe; lord; people; prayer
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        item: #8 of 39
          id: A52043
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: Meroz cursed, or, A sermon preached to the honourable House of Commons, at their late solemn fast, Febr. 23, 1641 by Stephen Marshall ...
        date: 1641.0
       words: 17612
      flesch: 75
     summary: So theirs , Looke upon mee , and learne your owne duty , Looke upon me , and take heed of disserting the cause and Church of God , when they stand in neede of you . The Church is our Mother , and all the Saints are our Brethren , a Relation which all Lawes of God and man do fasten duty upon .
    keywords: bee; cause; christ; church; churches; curse; doe; god; gods; good; hath; hee; help; lord; man; men; owne; people; prayer; text; things; world
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        item: #9 of 39
          id: A52045
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: A peace-offering to God a sermon preached to the honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament at their publique thanksgiving, September 7, 1641 : for the peace concluded between England and Scotland / by Stephen Marshall ...
        date: 1641.0
       words: 17452
      flesch: 75
     summary: So likewise when they desired deliverance from their enemies , they used to beg in these termes , that God would not deliver the soul of his turtle unto the multitude of their enemies , accounting all to depend upon Gods act , if God refused to deliver up his turtle , they feared none others catching or shooting his turtle . And when he thought to do more against Gods people then God intended , God told him the Ax did but boast it self against him that hewed with it , and the sawe magnified it self against him that shaked it , and the staffe lifted up it self as if it forgot it self to be a piece of wood .
    keywords: church; day; duty; enemies; glory; god; gods; hath; heart; help; lord; man; men; mercies; people; praise; thankfulnesse; things; thou; time
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        item: #10 of 39
          id: A52047
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: A plea for defensive armes, or, A copy of a letter written by Mr. Stephen Marshall to a friend of his in the city, for the necessary vindication of himself and his ministerie, against that altogether groundlesse, most unjust and ungodly aspersion cast upon him by certain malignants in the city, and lately printed at Oxford, in their Mendacium aulicum, otherwise called, Mercurius Aulicus, and sent abroad into other nations to his perpetual infamie in which letter the accusation is fully answered, and together with that, the lawfulnesse of the Parliaments taking up defensive arms is briefly and learnedly asserted and demonstrated, texts of Scripture cleared, all objections to the contrary answered, to the full satisfaction of all those that desire to have their consciences informed in this great controversie.
        date: 1643.0
       words: 13338
      flesch: 47
     summary: So that if men would read this Text of the thirteenth to the Romans , in plain English it amounts directly to thus much , Let every soul in England be subject to King and Parliament , for they are the higher powers ordained unto you of God , whosoever therefore resisteth King and Parliament , resisteth the Ordinance of God , and they that resist shal receive to themselves damnation . It was very cleare , that the persons too much prevailing with his Majesty , had long before this Parliament , a designe for over-throwing our Laws , enslaving our Liberties , and altering our Religion ; and it had so far prevailed , that we were tantùm non swallowed up ; and when through the good providence of God , this Parliament was called , and many hopes conceived , that now his Majesty seeing the mischief of adhering to such ill counsellours , would for the time to come be wholly guided by the great Councell of his Kingdome : alas it soon appeared that the same kinde of Counsellours were still most prevailing , insomuch that ( soon after the pacification with Scotland ) the Northern Army should have been brought up to London , as appeares by the very oathes of some who should have acted it , a thing thou thought so pernicious , that not only the chief Actors fled beyond the Seas , but many reall Courtiers earnestly solicited their friends in both Houses , that this their inexcusable errour might be passed over , and now to begin upon a new score .
    keywords: cause; defensive; england; god; great; hath; king; law; laws; man; non; parliament; people; power; princes; reason; religion; subjects; text
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        item: #11 of 39
          id: A52048
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: The power of the civil magistrate in matters of religion vindicated the extent of his power determined in a sermon preached before the first Parliament on a monthly fast day / by ... Mr. Stephen Marshall ... / published by G. Firmin ... with notes upon the sermon.
        date: 1657.0
       words: 18834
      flesch: 69
     summary: True , If any will be Godly , the Magistrate must provide that they may live peaceably and quietly , as if men be married , Learned , &c. the Magistrate must provide , that such may live quietly : this is the meaning and no more . That which was once a Church-ordinance , remained ever so , unless God himself removed it ; but where men will prove the Translation of this Ordinance from the Church to the Civil Bench in case the Magistrate prove Christian , I cannot tell , One of our Magistrates did attempt to prove such a thing once to me by way of argument ; because there is no thing which falls under the Churches Cognizance as being an object for Church-Discipline , but falls under the Magistrates also .
    keywords: author; care; christ; church; churches; doe; doth; god; good; hath; law; magistrate; matters; men; ministers; non; ordinance; people; power; religion; things
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        item: #12 of 39
          id: A52049
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: Reformation and desolation, or, A sermon tending to the discovery of the symptomes of a people to whom God will by no meanes be reconciled preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, Decemb. 22, 1641 / by Stephen Marshall ...
        date: 1642.0
       words: 17964
      flesch: 72
     summary: Now what more effectuall motive , what Furies whip would more restraine from the practise of sin , or more drive to seek a shelter under the wing of Christ , and to get into the safe condition of the servants of God , than the beholding of this devouring fire , these everlasting burnings , which sinfull men will never be able to abide ? I know such is the depravation of mans nature , that if there were any possibility of avoiding Gods wrath without leaving their sinnes , many men would resolve with that wicked Cardinall not to leave their part in Paris , for their part in Paradise : And with that noble man ( which Luther speaks of ) who professed , that if this life of going from whore-house to whore-house might last ever , hee would not envie any mans going to heaven . As it stands in relation to the former description made of Iosiah , and the high praises which God there bestowes upon him , I thence observe , That when God raises up any excellent instruments to appear in his cause , they are most graciously accepted with him , though their endeavours should come to nothing : There shall be glory and honour , and immortality , and eternall life to themselves , though there be indignation , and wrath , tribulation , anguish and woe , upon the people whom they would willingly doe good unto .
    keywords: bee; day; doe; fire; god; gods; gods wrath; hath; hee; lord; man; men; nation; people; reformation; set; sinnes; things; thou; time; wee; wrath
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        item: #13 of 39
          id: A52050
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: The right vnderstanding of the times opened in a sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons, December 30, 1646, at Margaret Westminster, being the day of their solemne monethly fast / by Stephen Marshall ...
        date: 1647.0
       words: 17115
      flesch: 53
     summary: Fourthly , Severall times , I meane the severall compositions of times , or Scenes , or Junctures of times , have their severall and peculiar duties laid out for every man by God himselfe : my meaning is this , there is a time of youth , a time of age , a time of prosperitie , a time of adversitie , a time of comfort , a time of trouble ▪ a time of warre , a time of peace , and a hundred other severall frames , and compositions , and junctures of time . Secondly , God hath joyned time and dutie inseparably one to another ; so that there is no dutie , but it hath an appointed time for it , and there is no time , but it , hath an appointed dutie for it ; it 's disputable whether there bee a vacuum in nature or no , it is most certaine there is no vacuum in time : No man ever lives to see that minute of time , nor that ragge or cranny of time , of which hee may truely say at this time , I have nothing at all to doe ; but the Lord hath measured out to all times some dutie or other : this our Saviour saith expresly , Matth. 6.34 .
    keywords: bee; day; doe; duties; god; gods; hath; hee; knowledge; lord; man; men; people; reference; shall; things; times; understanding; wee; wisedome
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        item: #14 of 39
          id: A52051
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: A sermon of the baptizing of infants preached in the Abbey-Church at Westminster at the morning lecture, appointed by the honorable House of Commons / by Stephen Marshall ...
        date: 1644.0
       words: 22373
      flesch: 50
     summary: 2. God hath other ends and uses of applying the seale of the Covenant to them who are in Covenant with him , then their present gaine , it 's a Homage , Worship , and Honour to himself , and it behoves us even in that respect , to fulfill all righteousnesse : when Christ was baptized and circumcised , he was as unfit for the ordinance , through his perfection , as children through their imperfection , being as much above them , as children are below them . If it be said , though these things be not expressely , and in terminis in the New Testament , yet they are there v●rtually , and by undeniable consequence ; I confesse it is true , so have we vertually , and by undeniable consequence sufficient evidence for the baptizing of children , both commands and examples ; For first we have Gods command to Abraham , as he was the Father of all Covenanters , that he should seale his Children with the seale of the Covenant .
    keywords: abraham; argument; baptisme; bee; beleevers; children; christ; church; circumcision; covenant; god; grace; hath; infants; lord; men; parents; seale; seed; things; time
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        item: #15 of 39
          id: A52054
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: A sermon preached to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and Court of Aldermen of the city of London, at their anniversary meeting on Easter Monday April 1652, at the Spittle wherein the unity of the saints with Christ, the head, and especially with the church, the body, with the duties thence arising, are endeavoured to be cleared : tending to heale our rents and divisions / by Stephen Marshal ...
        date: 1653.0
       words: 19158
      flesch: 44
     summary: You all know there is at this day much disputing , about what things are requisite to make men Church-members ; some very learned men maintain , That to make a man admittable into Christs Church , or to make him a Church-member , no more is in the Scripture required , but only , that he give up his name , and professe , that he is willing to learne the wayes of Christ , and to walke in them ; the Church of Christ being , say they , appointed as a Schoole , to traine Schollars up , into which are admitted not only those that are Learned , but those who are willing to learne . Others say , That is too laxe , if you wil own a man , as a Church-member , he must be able to give you an account of his faith , and a promise of a voluntary subjection to the Gospel of Christ for time to come , and if they come to that , then you may take them in ; and owne them , as Church-members .
    keywords: body; christ; church; churches; communion; faith; god; hath; jesus; lord; man; members; people; saints; spirit; things; wil
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        item: #16 of 39
          id: A52055
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: Smectymnuus redivivus Being an answer to a book, entituled, An humble remonstrance. In which, the original of liturgy episcopacy is discussed, and quæries propounded concerning both. The parity of bishops and presbyters in scripture demonstrated. The occasion of the imparity in antiquity discovered. The disparity of the ancient and our moderne bishops manifested. The antiquity of ruling elders in the church vindicated. The prelaticall church bounded.
        date: 1654.0
       words: 38557
      flesch: 66
     summary: Ille qui antè p●dibus aut as●lloire consueverat , spumante equ● superbus inv●hitur ; parvâ priùs ac vili cellula contentus habitare , erigit celsa Laquearia , construit multa conclavia , sculpit p●stes , pingit a●maria , vestem respuit g●ossiorem , indumentum molle desiderat , &c. Which because the practice of our times hath already turned into English , we spare the labour to translate . But if this Remonstrant be in the right , concerning the Jewish Liturgies , then the Evangelical Church might better have improved her peace and happinesse , then in composing Models of Invocation and Thanksgiving , when there is one extant and ready to be produced , that was constantly used by Gods people ever since Moses dayes , and put over to the times of the Gospel , and confirmed by Apostolical practise : or else great is our losse , who are so unhappily deprived of the best improvement , the Church made of her peace and happinesse in the first 300. years : for rejecting those Liturgies that are confessed by the Learned to bee Spurious : we challenge this Remonstrant to produce any one Liturgie that was the issue of those times . And blessed Constantine was herein as unhappy as wee , who needed not have composed forms of prayer for his Guard to use upon the Lords day , but might and would have taken them out of former Liturgies , if there had been any ; And can ye with patience think that any ingenuous Christian should be so transported , as upon such weak and unproved premises to build such a Confident conclusi●n , as this Remonstrant doth ? and in that Conclusion forget the state of the controversie , sliding from the question of a prescribed and imposed Liturgy to an arbitrary book of prayer .
    keywords: angels; answer; antiquity; apostles; archbishop; authority; bishops; book; cap; cause; christ; christian; church; churches; difference; doth; elders; england; episcopacy; epistle; est; god; gods; good; government; hands; hath; holy; honours; king; leave; let; lib; liturgy; man; ministers; non; office; order; ordination; pag; paul; people; place; pope; power; prayer; presbyters; religion; remonstrant; rest; rome; saith; scripture; second; set; speed; text; things; times; timothy; titus; truth; way; word; ● ●
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        item: #17 of 39
          id: A52060
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: The true copy of the letter which was sent from divers ministers by Mr. Marshall, and Mr. Nye to the Generall Assembly of Scotland
        date: None
       words: 1439
      flesch: 70
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A52060 of text R984 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing M796). 87 D The rate of 87 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words.
    keywords: god; lord; text
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        item: #18 of 39
          id: A52970
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: New propositions propounded at the Kings royall court at Holmby, betwixt the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, and Mr. Marshall and Mr. Caryll concerning the presbyteriall government, the Booke of Common-Prayer, and the directory : also His Majesties severall reasons, concerning episcopacy, and Mr. Marshalls reply for the cleering His Majesties objections : together with divers remarkable passages of the Commissioners of the kingdome of Scotland, propounded to His Majesty for his royall assent to the propositions, and signing the Covenant : with another message from His Majesty at Holmby, to both Houses of Parliament.
        date: None
       words: 1633
      flesch: 63
     summary: New propositions propounded at the Kings royall court at Holmby, betwixt the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, and Mr. Marshall and Mr. Caryll concerning the presbyteriall government, the Booke of Common-Prayer, and the directory : also His Majesties severall reasons, concerning episcopacy, and Mr. Marshalls reply for the cleering His Majesties objections : together with divers remarkable passages of the Commissioners of the kingdome of Scotland, propounded to His Majesty for his royall assent to the propositions, and signing the Covenant : with another message from His Majesty at Holmby, to both Houses of Parliament. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 643:22) New propositions propounded at the Kings royall court at Holmby, betwixt the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, and Mr. Marshall and Mr. Caryll concerning the presbyteriall government, the Booke of Common-Prayer, and the directory : also His Majesties severall reasons, concerning episcopacy, and Mr. Marshalls reply for the cleering His Majesties objections : together with divers remarkable passages of the Commissioners of the kingdome of Scotland, propounded to His Majesty for his royall assent to the propositions, and signing the Covenant : with another message from His Majesty at Holmby, to both Houses of Parliament.
    keywords: majesty; propositions; royall
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        item: #19 of 39
          id: A65191
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: Two speeches spoken at a common hall Octob. 27. 1643 1. by Sir Henry Vane, 2. by Master Marshall; wherein is shew'd the readynesse of the Scots to assist the kingdome and Parliament of England to the vtmost of their power.
        date: 1643.0
       words: 4209
      flesch: 42
     summary: Beside , what this noble Gentleman hath further related concerning their temptations or allurements to desist from this worke , and the other difficulties they are like to meet with in carrying it on , I have nothing to adde , unlesse I should tell you how deeply they are affected with the Cessation in Ireland , and the great danger threatned to both Nations from it ; and the utter ruine of the remainder of our poore Brethren yet preserved from slaughter in that miserable Kingdome : For by this Cessation , they , and all others see , that these bloody Rebells , who have shed so much innocent blood , who boast that they have slaughtered 100000 Protestants , and that they will not leave one Protestant alive in that and this , Kingdome , and who have committed the most out ragious and most barbarous cruelties that have ever beene heard of in Christendome , are now ( notwithstanding all this ) without any either repentance or submission , acknowledged to be his Majesties subjects , and have leave to keepe and hold what they have ; to enjoy free passage , intercourse , commerce , and trafficke , with all other his Majesties good subjects by sea and land , and no interruption to be made to any ships which shall furnish them with Armes , Ammunition , or any thing whatsoever ; their prisoners released , and such as are indicted for any capitall offence to be set at liberty upon baile ; they may send to his Majesty such Agents as they please ; yea they have authority to prosecute all in that Kingdom who shall stand in opposition to this agreement , and all this to last for a whole yeare : in which time , our Brethren in Scotland easily discerne how these inhumane and bloody wretches , may from all other Popish Kingdomes be furnisht , both to root out the remainder of our distressed Brethren of that Nation , and enabled to come over and exercise the like butcheries upon our selves and them . MY Lord Major , and worthy Aldermen , and the rest of the Gentlemen of the Citie , In obedience to the Commands of both Houses , we that are lately come out of Scotland , and have been eye witnesses ( from the first time of our going over thither ) of the affection of that Nation to this cause and of the deep sence they have of the present state of Affaires here in this Kingdome , are willing at this time to make the same report , and give the same accompt to you of it , as hath been done to the Parliament , that you may take a right measure of the trueth of those things , and not be caried away with misapprehensions , and misinformations from those that disaffect the cause , and would willingly abuse your thoughts , and beleife herein ; and therefore as shortly as I am able , I shall be willing to give you the accompt of those things which I know , and which I have seen there , and which this other Gentleman , a rever●nd Minister , of your owne acquaintance , and of knowne integritie , hath been privie to , that I doe not doubt , what he likewise shall deliver in this businesse you will very readily give credit too , it being nothing but what will be found to be the trueth .
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        item: #20 of 39
          id: A70654
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: Threnodia, the churches lamentation for the good man his losse delivered in a sermon to the Right Honourable the two Houses of Parliament and the reverend Assembly of Divines at the funerall of that excellent man John Pym, Esquire, late a Member of the Honourable House of Commons : preached in the Abbey-Church of Westminster / by Stephen Marshall ...
        date: 1644.0
       words: 14415
      flesch: 61
     summary: There were Princes that were oppressours , Iudges who received bribes , great men uttering their mischievous desires , a world of people who lay in wait for bloud , who could hunt every man his brother with a net , that could doe evill with both hands earnestly , the best of them as a briar , the most upright sharper then a thorne hedge ; but such a thin scattering of men willing and fit for the service of God and his Church , that if one searched as diligently as Diogenes did in Athens at noon day for an honest man , hee was hardly to be found . Other Kings and Princes are compelled to preserve their chief Instruments , because when they are gone they know not where to find a supplie , but God ( as he needs none so ) when he pleaseth to use any , can raise up stones to be children , and children to doe the worke of men , and yet all these empty Pipes , further then he fills them , bubbles , easily broken , further then he supports them .
    keywords: bee; cause; church; death; doe; god; good; hath; heart; life; lord; man; men; owne; people; thee; things; thou; time; world
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        item: #21 of 39
          id: A75036
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: A brief apologie for the sequestred clergie. VVherein (among other things) this case of conscience is judiciously handled: whether any minister of the Church of England may (to avoid sequestration) omit the publike use of the liturgie, and submit to the directory. In a letter from a sequestred divine, to Mr. Stephen Marshall.
        date: 1649.0
       words: 11164
      flesch: 51
     summary: For my particular I conceive the glory of God attended , municipall Lawes ought rather to stoop then they to strain ; for Religion is so tender a Virgin , that she may not admit the least prostitution , and I am sure a conscientious breast feareth to pumple her very ornaments . An argument that makes me verily believe , those who for private interest , and meerly either for praise or profit throw off the Liturgy , forbeare their duties , and betray the muniments of Religion and the Church of Christ ; God will in his due time reward such into their owne bosomes , blasting that private interest for which they have betrayed his .
    keywords: christian; church; england; forme; glory; god; good; hath; jesus; liturgie; man; muniments; religion; set; spirituall; superstition; text; things; way; worship
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        item: #22 of 39
          id: A77856
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: The first sermon, preached to the Honourable House of Commons now assembled in Parliament at their publique fast. Novemb. 17. 1640. / By Cornelius Burges Doctor of Divinitie. Published by order of that House.
        date: 1641.0
       words: 28672
      flesch: 74
     summary: To strike a Covenant , is not , in a private or publique prayer only , to goe to God and say , Lord I will be thine , I here enter into a Covenant with thee , be thou a witnesse of it , &c. but it is , to stand and make it publiquely before the Lord , by some speciall solemnitie that may witnesse it to all the world , as Iosiah * , Asa , and all the Godly ever did ; ( even as in ●n entring into bonds , or as in solemnizing of matrimony , men use to doe ) Whether by the Sacrament of the Lords Supper , by fasting , or by ought else , whereby they may become so firmely and arctly joyned to the Lord , that they may not only be no longer sui jurls , to depart away from the Living God ; but , not so much as to sit loose from God , or to stand in any terme● of indifferency , which might leave them at libertie to serve , or not to serve God in any dutie , how difficult , or dangerous soever . As they soone forgot his workes , so it was not long ere they forgot God their Saviour himselfe too ; and then no marvaile , if , at the next bo●t , they forgot his Covenant also , Psal. 106.
    keywords: babylon; church; covenant; day; deliverance; doe; exhortation; fast; god; hath; heart; israel; lord; man; men; non; people; reformation; selves; set; solemne; text; time; vers; vse; way; zion; ● ●
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        item: #23 of 39
          id: A78955
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: His Maiesties paper containing severall questions propounded to the commissioners Divines touching Episcopacy. With an humble answer returned to his Majesty by Mr. Marshall, Mr. Vines, Mr. Carill, and Mr. Seaman 4. October 1648. Published by authority.
        date: None
       words: 4237
      flesch: 52
     summary: As doth not carry the fixing or constituting of a Bishop in a place as a perpetuall Governour : And it is as manifest , that they were both of them called away from these places , 2 Tim. 4. 9 Do thy diligence to come to me shortly , Titus , 3. 12. Be diligent to come to me to Nicapolis ; so that they may as well be called Bishops of other Citie , or Church where they had any considerable abode , as they are pretended to have beene of Ephesus and Creet , as they are called by the Postscripts of these Apostles , the credit of which Postscripts we cannot build upon in this point . Yours to Command : W. M. Charles R. I Conceive that Episcopall Government is most consonant to the Word of God , and of an Apostolicall institution , as it appeares by the Scripture , to have been practised by Apostles themselves , and by them committed , and derived to particular persons as their Substitutes or Successors therein ( as for ordaining Presbyters and Deacons , giving rules concerning Christian Discipline , and exercising Censures over Presbyters and others ) and hath ever since to these last times been exercised by Bishops in all the Churches of Christ , and therefore I cannot in Conscience consent to abolish the said Government ; notwithstanding this my perswasion I shall be glad to be informed , if our Saviour and the Apostles did so leave the Church at liberty as they might totally alter or change the Church Government at their pleasure : which if you can make appeare to me , then I will confesse that one of my great Scruples is cleane taken away :
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        item: #24 of 39
          id: A79056
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: His Maiesties reason vvhy he cannot in conscience consent to abolish the Episcopall government. Delivered by him in writing to the Divines that attend the Honorable Commissioners of Parliament at the Treaty at Newport Octob. 2. 1648. With the answer of the said Divines delivered to His Majestie in writing. October 3. 1648.
        date: 1648.0
       words: 4165
      flesch: 66
     summary: Charles R. I Conceive that Episcopall Government is most consonant to the word of God , and of an Apostolicall institution , as it appears by the Scripture to have bin practised by Apostles themselves , And by them committed , and derived , to perticular Persons , as their Substitutes , or Successors therein ( as for ordeyning Presbyters , & Deacons , giving rules concerning Christian Discipline , and exercising censurs over Presbyters and others ) And hath ever since till these last times been exercised by Bishops in all the Churches of Christ ; And therefore I cannot in conscience consent to abolish the sayd Government . But that either the Apostles , or Timothy and Titus , or the Angels of the Churches were Bishops , as Bishops are distinct from Presbyters , exercising Episcopall Government in that sense .
    keywords: apostles; bishops; church; episcopall; government; officers; presbyters
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        item: #25 of 39
          id: A89562
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: A copy of a letter written by Mr. Stephen Marshall to a friend of his in the city, for the necessary vindication of himself and his ministry, against that altogether groundlesse, most unjust, and ungodly aspersion cast upon him by certaine malignants in the city, and lately printed at Oxford, in their Mendacium Aulicum, otherwise called Mercurius Aulicus, and sent abroad into other nations to his perpetuall infamy. In which letter the accusation is fully answered. And together with that, the lawfulnesse of the Parliaments taking up defensive arms is briefly and learnedly asserted and demonstrated, texts of Scripture cleared, all objections to the contrary answered, to the full satisfaction of all those that desire to have their consciences informed in this great controversie.
        date: 1643.0
       words: 13543
      flesch: 53
     summary: The only Question now is about passive obedience ; they who cry down our defensive Arms , confesse that the Magistrate cannot require any thing but by Law , and that the subject need not yeeld up his right but by Law ; to tie lies upon the conscience of Naboth to let Ahab have his vineyard : but if a Saul will by force take away our sonnes to ea●e his ground , and our daughters to be his Confectioners , Cookes , and Bakers ; if he will by force take our fields , even the best of them , and give them their servants , we have no help in that day , but preces & lachrymae , to cry unto our God : but no liberty to defend our selves by Armes against such tyranni ; if we do ( Say they ) we resist the ordinance of God , and must receive to our selves damnation . 1. This is not a reproof of the sword taken for just defence , but of the sword taken for unjust oppression , and a comfort to those that ●…re oppressed by it ; for Origen , Theophylact , Titus , Euthimius , interp●●● the meaning to be , That Christ doth not rebuke Peter for using defensive Arms , but to let Peter know that he need not snatch Gods Work out of his hand ; for God would in due time punish those with the sword , that came thus with the sword against him ; and that these words are a Prophesie of the punishment which the Roman sword should enact of the bloudy Jewish Nation ; according with the like expression , Revel. 13. 10.
    keywords: answ; cause; england; god; hath; king; law; lawes; majesty; man; non; parliament; people; power; religion; subjects; text
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        item: #26 of 39
          id: A89564
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: A divine project to save a kingdome: Opened in a sermon to the Right Honorable the Lord Maior and court of aldermen, of the citie of London, at their anniversary meeting on Easter Munday, Apr. 22. 1644. at Christ-Church. By Stephen Marshall, B.D. Minister of Gods word at Finchingfield in Essex. Imprimatur, Charles Herle.
        date: 1644.0
       words: 17910
      flesch: 66
     summary: I confesse the Lord hath not onely by a mightie hand upheld us in the midst of all our tryalls these two or three last yeares , but hath of late since wee have owned him in a Covenant and sworne for reformation of Religion , and the Councells of such as seeke our ruine have more apparently owned Idolatry by joyning with the bloody Rebels of Ireland that are setting up popery , and rooting out our Religion in Ireland , and indeavouring the like against us , since that day I say the Lord hath most admirably gone on and owned us , and beene with our Armies , and hardly ( unlesse it were once ) given us any check , but all hath gone on very prosperously and through the goodnesse of God , to mans eye wee are in a better posture now then ever wee were since the beginning of our publike troubles . why , They locked to the armour of the House of the Forest , they repaired the breaches of the Citie of David , gathered the waters of the lower poole , they made a ditch between the two walls , they pulled down some houses to fortifie the wall , made all warlike preparation , and this God chid them for , what was their errour I pray you ? why , they begun at the wrong end , their maine worke lay with God against whom they had sinned , and hee expected weeping and mourning before him to regaine his favour , and that they neglected , and for that hee was more incensed against them ; and truely thus deale many of us , our worke lieth with God , and we looke to men , wee looke to Armies and associations , and in the meane time let the wrath of God kindled by our sinnes grow more hot against us ; but Oh that wee could now set upon this which is our most needfull and safest worke , to pacifie his indignation and prevaile with him to cause his face to shine upon us , and wee should soone bee safe :
    keywords: bee; cause; doe; doth; fire; god; gods; good; hath; heart; hee; like; lord; man; men; owne; people; plague; things; wee; wrath; zeale
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        item: #27 of 39
          id: A89565
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: Emmanuel: a thanksgiving-sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons upon their solemn day of praising God for the victory obtained by the Parliaments forces in Southvvales. In the church of Margarets Westminster, May 17. 1648. / By Stephen Marshall B.D. minister of Gods Word at Finchingfield in Essex.
        date: 1648.0
       words: 12946
      flesch: 50
     summary: This turning of his speech to Christ seems to be an indignity to Christ , that his land , under the notion of his land should be wasted by such a wicked King , but this appears to be added for two ends , one to signifie the certainty of the judgement , all that could possibly be pleaded , why there should be any hope of keeping off the judgement was Emmanuels title to this land , but it shall come though it be Emmanuels land ; secondly , this is added as a secret ground of comfort of deliverance , because it was the land of Emmanuel , the land and people where Emmanuel was to be borne , and where he was to reign , where he had and would have his fire and furnace , his seat ●nd habitation , therefore their faith may expect deliverance : these are the two first parts of the Chapter ; now my Text containes the third , which is the deliverance which the Lord would give them notwithstanding their great unworthinesse ; but before I come to that , let me name this one lesson , from the other two parts , namely , That it is ordinary with God , when his people doe forsake his promises , and trust to an arme of flesh , he makes that arme of flesh to bee their scourge , which they expected to be their helper ; they had nothing that they would trust to against these two neighbouring Kingdomes , but the power of the King of Assyria , and this King of Assyria shoud be their scourge to beat and almost to breake them in pieces : which is notably expressed 2 Chron. The true ground is onely that inbred enmity and opposition that is in the heart of all the seed of the Serpent against the seed of the woman , though no good reason at all , can be given why it should be so , yet non amote , nec possum dicere quare ; they doe not love them , they hate them , they must endevour to destroy them ; there is an enmity against them : but yet because no hatred found amongst rationall creatures , is without ( at least ) some pretence of Reason , know yee that the Reason of their hatred , is grounded upon such things as these ; the one is , That the Church of Christ , is a terrible plague and vexation to all the rest of the World ; I say , there is not such a plague to all the people of the world , as the Church of Christ is , and as Gods people are , because the lawes and rules by which they walke , doe threaten nothing but ruine and destruction , to all those that walke in other wayes ; other people in the severall wayes they walke in , if you let them alone in their wayes , they will allow you to promise your selfe what you will in your wayes , their religions , and courses are good fellowes one to another , they can beare with them in their principles ; but the people of God doe hold out that , which must bee the onely rule , and they tell all the world , that if they walke not according to their rule onely , they will be damned , and destroyed eternally , and so they vex them ; and therefore one notes well , that when Tiberius the Emperour of Rome , having heard of the miracles of Christ , did propound to the Senate of Rome , that Christ might bee worshipped as a God , as well as their other Gods were , the Senate upon serious consultation rejected it , because ( they said ) if they entertain'd him , they must cast out all the rest , hee would suffer none to bee God but himself ; and therefore in stead of owning him to bee one of theirs , they persecuted him , and owned all the rest : So it is , the two witnesses you read of , Revel. 11. vexed all the men that lived upon the earth , by their Prophesies , all the servants of God by their rules , their faith , their lives , their worship , &c. Throw fire and brimstone in the faces of others , and therefore no wonder though they bee so bitterly hated and opposed Againe , another ground is , That which Jesus Christ expresses , hee hath chosen his people out of the World , as out of a base , vile , and uncleane company , and upon his thus choosing , and calling , they in their whole conversation and garbe , doe leave the rest of the world , as unclean , vile and base ; and there can be nothing so odious to a people as to bee so left : If there were some amongst our selves whose whole worke and endeavour should bee to leave England , and carry away all that they have out of it , as from a base people , and unworthy to bee loved or dwels withall , and should seek their welfare in another Country , it were enough to turne the heart of all the Nation against them : this is the way of all Gods people , they cry down the glory of the world ; the pleasures of the world , the riches of the world , the honour and pompe of the world , they cry all down as a base thing , and they profesle , to lay up all their treasure elsewhere , and therefore the world cannot beare it : then add in the last place , That all that is excellent in the Church , is invisible and undiscernible by a carn all eye ; they have in them many things that will challenge respect and reverence , but they are not seen ; all the outside is poore , and base , and mean , and contemptible , unattended , unhonoured ; and for such a poore low sort of people to take so much upon them , who have no worth in them , that others can discern , is intolerable , no marvaile that the world bee against them ; this made the two Witnesses so hated , Revel. 11. that though they were but two , and they also cloathed in sackcloth , yet they durst undertake to throw fire in the faces of all men , who lived upon earth .
    keywords: bee; cause; christ; church; doe; enemies; god; gods; hath; hee; immanuel; jesus; lord; men; people; text; world
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        item: #28 of 39
          id: A89567
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: Gods master-piece. A sermon tending to manifest Gods glorious appearing in the building up of Zion: preached to the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in the Abbey Church of Westminster, March 26. 1645. Being the day of the monthly publike fast, / by Stephen Marshall, B.D. minister of Gods Word, at Finching-field in Essex. Published by order of the House of Peeres.
        date: 1645.0
       words: 18709
      flesch: 66
     summary: And truely their Tooles wherewith they work are no more promising then the Work-men ; The great Engine whereby Satan must be fetched from his strong hold , and made to fall like lightning downe from heaven , whereby captived souls shall be delivered from his power and snares , whereby the dead in sinne shall be raised , the prison doores opened , the blind made to see , the deafe to heare , the food whereby the Saints shall be nourished , the Rod whereby they shall be guided and ordered ; what are all these ? even the Foolishnesse of preaching shall doe all this , and washing with water , in name of the Father , Sonne , and holy Ghost ; Eating of Bread and drinking Wine in a Sacrament ; Praying to God : such kind of Tooles as these are , are the instruments wherewith these unlikely Work-men are furnished ; far more ludibrious things in reference to this work , then a Shepheards boy with his sling and his bag were to the Philistian Giant . Doth the Lord appeare in his glory when he builds up Zion ? then I beseech you all give God the glory of his worke : you can never grieve a man more , then to neglect him in that which he makes his glory ; to sleight or throw aside a Work-mans master-peece , as if it were a toy , is taken very heinously among men ; now I tell you , that although every work of God is excellent , and his praise may be found in it , the works of the Lord are all great , and worthy to be had in remembrance , yet this work of building the Church is his Master-peece , every pin , every stone , from the foundation to the cap-stone , is so enameld , and checkerd , with Rubies , Saphires , Emeralds , Chrysolites , Carbuncles , with all manner of precious stones , such admirable , curious workman-ship , that Ahabs Ivory Palace , and Solomons Cedar house , the Pyramids of Egypt , all humane Artifices , yea all the rarities and secrets of nature , have no glory , when compared with the glory of this one work , of Christs gathering , building , protecting , and beautifying of Zion ; this you would soon acknowledge , if you could look upon it with spirituall discerning eyes : get therefore your Bibles , and the Stories of the Church , and read them , and in reading labour to the utmost to understand this peece of Gods work ; consider , how ever since he hath had a Church upon earth , what a strange way he hath took to governe it , from what small beginnings he hath multiplied it , from what dead low ebbes he hath brought it , by what unlikely instruments he hath built it , what potent enemies he hath subdued before it , with what rare priviledges he hath enriched it , by what unthought of wayes and providences he hath done good it ; ponder these things , and you can hardly read one Paragraph of the Story of Gods Church , but you must with admiration cry out , This is the Lords doing , and it is wonderfull in my eyes ; O that there were in us such a heart , that could be thus raised up , thus inlightned , as to see nothing excellent , but onely Gods going in the Sanctuary ! they have seen the goings of my God and King in the Sanctuary : such an heart would be according to Gods own heart , a spirit which the Lord would delight in : more especially study and behold the glory of this last peece of his work , this new edition of the Church which he is now about to set forth , wherein I hope he will vouchsafe to make his Churches , even amongst us , a praise in the earth .
    keywords: appeare; building; christ; church; day; doe; doth; esa; glory; god; gods; hath; hee; house; lord; men; people; power; things; time; work; zion
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        item: #29 of 39
          id: A89572
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: A most true and succinct relation of the late battell neere Kineton in VVarwick-shire expressed in a letter from that godly and reverend divine Master Stephen Marshall, to his friend a worthy Member of the Honourable House of Commons.
        date: None
       words: 1058
      flesch: 68
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A89572 of text R212527 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.6[85]). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160946)
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        item: #30 of 39
          id: A89577
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: 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.
        date: 1644.0
       words: 16428
      flesch: 59
     summary: So that if Gold , or Silver , or Wealth , or ease . or pleasure , or liberty , or any of these things bee good for them the Subjects of Christ must needs injoy it from their beloved King : but these are scarce worth the naming ; The Glory of Christs Government to his People stands in this , that the maketh their souls their best part , their Spirituall-part , their Eternall part ; he maketh their soules I say , infinitly happy in being a King over them , which no other Government reacheth to , no not in any degree , further then it is in subordination to Christ , and endeth in him ; but now where Christ is set up to be King , he giveth his Subjects such things as these : The pardon and forgivenesse of all their sinnes ; the blood of Jesus Christ their King , wherein they are all washed cleanseth them from all their sinnes , so that not a man of them shall ever be called to an account before God for any thing they have done against him , He maketh all of them righteous , the Lord saith to him , thy people shall be all righteous He doth adopt them all to be His children ; all His subjects are His children , yea coheires ; yea they are all His brethren , they may all enjoy communion with his Father , and with himselfe , and with his holy Spirit ; all his Kingdome is his Court , all his subjects his Courtiers , they may all as his Favourites stand before him , and see his face , they may all present their supplications to him for themselves and others , with assurance to be heard and answered in all things according to his will : in one word , he is such a King who maketh all his Subjects to be Kings ; there is not one of all those where he is set up to be Lord and King over ; but he maketh them all to be Kings and Priests to God his Father : It is in fiers , in beginning and degree here in this world , but afterwards shall to all eternity bee manifested and made good of them all in the highest heavens ; where when they have overcome , they shall fit down with him on his throne , as hee hath sat down upon his Fathers Throne . 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 ?
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        item: #31 of 39
          id: A89578
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: 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. /
        date: 1645.0
       words: 12905
      flesch: 67
     summary: They have then nothing else to doe , but to make it the work of their life , to give praise , and glory to him ; This paying of the Rent-penny of praise to our God , this worke of Thankesgiving , which is the end God aimes at in all his workes ; which is the end why Man at first was created ; why the Church was redeemed ; why the Saints are called : This , that is the onely heavenly work that can bee done upon earth ; this , which is the onely joyfull imployment , that shall last to all Eternity in another life : This work which should ever waite for God in Zion , Praise waiteth for thee O God in Zion : This whereof the Church should bee the Magazine , the Store-house and Treasury , Unto him be Glory in the Church by Christ Jesus , throughout all ages , and the Church is therefore called his Glory , Israel my Glory : Not onely because hee glories in it ; but because it glorifies him : This Duty ( I say ) of Gods redeemed ones To praise him , can never be handled often enough , never pressed enough on Gods people . Another is , That when the Lord would engage his Servants to give him his praise and glory for their deliverance , hee chuses to call them by this Name , A people created : that is , reduced out of nothing , brought to a blessed state , from a low and meane condition , from a people whom God calls by this Name , hee promiseth himself his glory and praise ; whoever forget him , yet the people who shall thus bee Created will praise him :
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        item: #32 of 39
          id: A89580
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, now assembled in Parliament, at their publike fast, November 17. 1640. Upon 2 Chron. 15. 2. The Lord is with you, while yee bee with him: and if yee seek him, he will be found of you: but if yee forsake him, he will forsake you. / By Stephen Marshall, Batchelour in Divinity, minister of Finchingfield in Essex. Published by order of the said House.
        date: 1641.0
       words: 16278
      flesch: 77
     summary: A worke wherein not onely all mans happinesse lyes , and whence it flowes ; but wherein all Gods Attributes are glorified to the highest ; and for which the Church Triumphant shall thinke Eternity short enough to prayse God . Now this is the greatest happinesse , nothing can exceed it : It hath bin often questioned , what was the greatest favour that ever Almighty God did for man ? Some preferre Creation wherein man received his being , and excellent endowments : some Redemption , wherein man is recovered to a better and surer estate than hee injoyed in Creation : but out of question to be a Iedediah , beloved of God , to be neare to God as his Children , as his Spouse , is the comprehension of all that can be said or thought of the happinesse of a people .
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        item: #33 of 39
          id: A89582
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: 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.
        date: 1647.0
       words: 10167
      flesch: 52
     summary: But secondly , Looke upon civill wars , and you will judge them a greater judgement , when brethrens Swords come to bee drawne against their brethren ; when a mans deadly enemies must prove those that were his old companions , when Cities are divided among themselves , and Countries among themselves , and all the miseries of Warre come to bee inflicted by them that have beene acquaintance and deare to us , when safety and shelter may as soon be expected among enemies as old friends ; let all men that have understanding say whether this doth not double , or treble the miseries of warre ; had it been an enemy that had done mee this displeasure , I could have borne it , but tu Brute , thou my friend and companion , that these things should come from thy hand ! all men know how deepe this sinkes ; this teares the heart of man in peeces ; Solomon saith , that a brother offended is harder to bee wonne then a strong City , and they are like the barres of a strong Castle ; it 's hard breaking of them , but when once they are divided they are more hardly joyned : as wee say of a strong Cord made up of a great many threds , it is hard to bee broken , but when it is broken , you 'le hard ever sew it againe to make it strong ; by how many arguments any did perswade their hearts , that they should not receive plunder , or spoile , or mischiefe from such a man , or family , from so many arguments ariseth a difficulty , if not impossibility to be reconciled ; and hence arise lasting grounds of animositie , enmitie and hatred scarce ever to bee worne out , when upon every meeting this thought is suggested , This is the man who as an enemy entred my habitation and spoyled my wealth , it may bee murdered my children or parents , ravished my wife or daughter ; adde further , that frequently in these civill broyles the victory ends not the occasion or ground of the quarrell , nor takes away but increaseth the former misery , the conqueror commonly proving insolent , inhumane , cruell , and more grievous to the Common-wealth , then the thing or persons were against whom men have fought , that I may boldly set downe for a certaine the conclusion of a wise man , that civill warres are not onely a Malady , but a fiery sicknesse , even a Frenzie to a State ; and how ever God sometimes brings good out of them , ( as sometimes men have better health after a deadly sicknesse ) My Lords and Gentlemen , I Am not ignorant of the truth and weight of that speech of Pliny , Aliud est scribere uni , aliud omnibus : the same holds of Preaching , it 's one thing to Preach a Sermon to a Congregation , another thing to Preach it to all the world in Print ; especially upon such an occasion as this , and such a season as this , when the spirit of jealousie and mis-understanding is let loose , and mens hearts as tinder ready to catch and kindle at every sparke ; yet since you are pleased to conceive that this plaine Sermon may bee usefull to others , and thereupon to order my publication of it , I humbly obey your Order , desiring the Lords blessing to accompany it so farre as to make men wisely consider the wonderfull works of God , and returne to him the glory due unto his name ; The same Lord watch over you , sanctifie you and guide all your consultations , that you may bee his blessed instrustruments to make this Land a quiet habitation for his people , and a place which himselfe may delight in : This is the daily prayer Of your humble servant in the Lords work S. M. A THANKSGIVING-SERMON PREACHED To the Two Houses of Parliament , August 12. 1647.
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        item: #34 of 39
          id: A89583
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: A sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: at their late solemne fast, Januar. 26. 1647. at Margarets Westminster. / By Steven Marshall, B.D.
        date: None
       words: 15087
      flesch: 42
     summary: First , Who ever are instrumentall in advancing , and building up , and furthering the Kingdome of Heaven , the Lord gives them to partake with himself , in that which is his own greatest glory , and the greatest glory of his Son , the Lord Jesus Christ , when Satan had ruin'd mankind , and himself become the God upon earth , and drawn all men off from God to worship Devils , the great designe of God was to set up another Kingdome , that should bee called the Kingdome of God the Kingdome of his Christ , the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus , the Kingdome of Heaven ; and for the erecting of this , Christ did all his work , came from Heaven , became a man , died , rose again , sent out his Spirit , it is the great designe of Heaven , that this Kingdome should bee erected and advanced ; Now when any are found to help forward this , they are associated with the Lord Jesus , in this great Work ; and therefore you shall read in the Prophesie of Obadiah , the last verse of it , where the Lord speakes of winning both the Jews and other Nations home to Christ , Saviours shall come upon Mount Zion , Saviours shall be there ; Who are they ? the Jewish Interpreters say , that the Saviours there meant are , Rex Messias , & ejus socii ; these Saviours are , King Messiah and his Companions that should work with him ; and most interpreters do agree , that the Saviours are the Apostles , and the Apostolicall men , and others , that should bring the people homeagain to God , and help to convert the Nations , the Lord calls them by the name of Saviours , and many are said to be fellow-workers with Christ , and the Apostle saith of Timothy , See that Timoty bee without any molestation with you , ( in the ● . of the Cor. 16 ) for he works the Worke of God , as I doe ; and of Epaphroditus , it is said of him , that for the Work of Iesus Christ , hee was sick unto death ; the work then that they are imployed in , to build up the Kingdome of Heaven , is the same work that God and the Lord Iesus Christ work : and can there be a greater glory communicated unto any creature , then to bee tooke into association with God , in a service that is for his highest glory ? This Lesson is of excellent use , especially to two sorts of men , that are or may be publikely instrumentall in it , I mean Magistrates and Ministers , I am called at the present to speak onely to the first , therefore I 'le say nothing of the latter , but for you Honourable and beloved , that are the Patriots of the Kingdome , is it not in your heart , to do all the good that is possible to poor England ? I dare say you are deeply affected with the distresses of it , and would not count your lives deare , so you might but promote the good of it ; shall I tell you what that thing is , which above all things in the world , will be advantagious to England , and glorious to your selves , lay the cause of the Kingdome of Heaven to your hearts , more then ever you have done , endeavour to be instrumentall to make Religion thrive and prosper , that the Kingdome of Heaven may suffer violence under your service ; so shall your names bee ingraven with the name of God , and numbred among the Saviours of this Land : Let me speak freely to you , you have contended long and vehemently for rescuing the Kingdome of England from the bondage and pressures that it lay under , and that England might be a free people , herein you have wrought in the fire , and because the cure hath been hard & costly woe and alas ( I must speak it ) the Patients are weary of it , and could rather wish to bee under their old Soares , then under such Physitians , and are ready to say with the murmuring Israelites , Let us make us a Captain and return againe unto Egypt , would be againe at their flesh pots and onyons though under bondage : your selves doe know how much ingratitude is shewed , and all because there is not that event and successe that hath been hoped for , but would the Lord make you instrumentall to advance the Kingdome of Heaven really , there should never bee found one among those that should partake the benefit of it , that would be weary of you , but would for ever blesse the Lord for you .
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        item: #35 of 39
          id: A89585
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: The sinne of hardnesse of heart: the nature, danger, and remedy of it. Opened in a sermon, preached to the Honorable House of Commons, July 28. 1648. being the day of their solemne monethly fast. By Stephen Marshall, B.D. minister of Gods Word at Finchingfield in Essex. Published by order of that House.
        date: 1648.0
       words: 14961
      flesch: 56
     summary: What by hardnesse , or hardning ; Hardning in the naturall signification of it , is nothing but the withdrawing of moysture form any substance , whereby the parts come to bee condensed and made stiffe , so as not to yeeld to the touch ; Durum est quod non cedit tactui , that that will not receive any impression that is hard : this in a naturall sense ; but in a morall and spirituall sense , to harden the heart is nothing but to have the will resolutely and unchangeably set upon any purpose , not to be taken off from their enterprise by any meanes that can bee used to change them , that is to harden the heart ; and in the Scripture it is sometimes taken in a good sense , a mans heart may be harden'd in a very gratious manner , so Ezekiels was , when the Lord told him , the house of Israel will not hearken to thee , for they are impudent and hard hearted , but ( saith God ) I have made thy face strong against their faces , and thy forehead strong against their foreheads , thou shalt bee as impudent as they , as an Adamant , harder then flint , &c. thou shalt bee as much hardned in good as they in evill , I have given thee that grace ; that shall make thee resolute as they : Paul was , when they came , and wept , and prayed him hee would not goe to Ierusalem , ( saith he ) you weep in vaine I 'le goe though I die for it ; his heart was hardned : and so Luther ; when his friends would have perswaded him not to have gone to Wormes ; to the disputation there , If all the tiles of the houses in Wormes were Devils , I would goe ; that is to have a heart harden'd in a good cause ; but ordinarily in the Scripture , to harden the heart , or to have hardnesse of heart , is ordinarily meant in an evill sense ; hardening in sin , hardning against God : and so my Text hath it plainely , they made their heart as an Adamant stone , that they might not heare the word that God had sent to them : their heart was resolutely , and unchangeably bent to goe on in their wayes , say or doe what God would , or could to the contrary ; that is the sin that is here mentioned ; now from hence I shall take up this Lesson ; and it is the onely Lesson , which I shall by the Lords assistance handle this day ; and in it take in both the sinne , and the judgement together . Madam , YOu have been long taught of God , and therefore are not ignorant that spirituall sicknesses differ many wayes from bodily , this one is notable , The more any spirituall disease increaseth , the lesse it 's felt , and the more any soule is sensible of it , the lesse power it hath over him ; This is found most true of the greatest of spirituall plagues , the sinne of hardnesse of heart , none more confident of the goodnesse of their heart , then the most obstinate and rebellious sinner , where as the most tender-hearted Christian complaines most of hardnesse , the spirit that is most flexible to God , most laments its obstinacy ;
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        item: #36 of 39
          id: A89586
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: The song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lambe: opened in a sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons, at their late solemne day of thanksgiving, Iune 15. 1643. for the discovery of a dangerous, desperate, and bloudy designe, tending to the utter subversion of the Parliament, and of the famous city of London. / By Stephen Marshall, B.D. and Pastor of Finchingfield in Essex. Published by order of that House.
        date: 1643.0
       words: 15799
      flesch: 60
     summary: First , The behaviour of the true Church of Christ , during this time of the pouring out of the vialls , ver. 2 , 3 , 4. Secondly , The description of the seven Angels , the instruments who were to pour out these vialls , their apparatus , qualifications , and furniture , they come out of the temple , clothed in pure and white linnen , and having their breasts girded with golden girdles ; Habitu & cluctu sacerdotali ornati , like the Priests of God , Ezek. As first , that all which is done in the pouring out of the seven vialls , is the wrath of God upon the Antichristian faction ; so that however in the pouring out of every viall there is something which is grievous to the reformed Churches , to humble , purge , and quicken them , yet there is no wrath upon anywhere ever it is poured , but onely as there is something of Antichrist among them , which Christ will search for , find , and destroy , where-ever he finds it : Consider the whole work of the vialls , and you shall finde noysome and grievous sores upon them onely that have the mark of the Beast , the drinking of bloud , the scorching with heat , the gnawing of their tongues for paine , the being destroyed with hailstones , &c.
    keywords: christ; church; day; fear; god; hath; king; lord; men; power; saints; song; text; things; thou; thy; time; vialls; wonderfull; work
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        item: #37 of 39
          id: A89587
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: The strong helper or, The interest, and power of the prayers of the destitute, for the building up of Sion. Opened in a sermon before the Honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, upon the solemn day of their monethly fast, April 30. 1645. / By Stephen Marshall, B.D. minister of Gods Word, at Finching-field in Essex.
        date: 1645.0
       words: 20328
      flesch: 64
     summary: Moses , Elias , our Saviour , the great builders and repairers of the Church , are every one of them recorded to have fasted forty daies and nights , when they were upon that Worke , it much commends Prayer and Fasting to all who are at any time ingaged in a like service ; that was your businesse , when this Sermon was Preached , which , if either in the delivery it did any whit help your Spirits then in prayer , or in the publishing , it may now or hereafter , ingage you , when you most diligently look to your Work , more earnestly to look up to God in it , it will bee the joy , as it is the prayer of Your Servant in this great Work , STEPHEN MARSHALL . Which gracious promise of God , to regard the prayers of his people , hath in this place a threefold aspect ; First , Wee are to consider it in relation to the persons , whose prayers shall bee regarded , and that you have in this word , hee will regard the prayer of the destitute ; And Secondly , This regarding of prayer doth respect the Time , when hee will regard it ; When the Lord doth build up Zion , hee will regard the prayers of the destitute ; And Thirdly , This regarding of the prayers of his people , hath an aspect upon the matter , wherein hee will regard them ; when hee builds up Zion , hee will regard their prayer , that is , ( as God willing you shall heare anon ) that their prayers shall be the means of building Zion , he will build Zion , as that which their prayers have been the means of , and have drawn from him ; when the Lord shall build up Zion , hee will regard the prayers of the destitute ; I begin with the first of them : The persons , they are here called the destitute ; hee will regard the prayer of the destitute : the Hebrew word , which is here translated destitute , doth properly signifie Myrica , a low shrub , humilesque Myricae , low shrubs that grow in Wildernesses , some think they were Juniper shrubs , some a kinde of wilde Tamyris , but a base low shrub , that grew no where but in a desolate forlorn place ; and sometimes the word in the Text is used , to signifie the Deserts of Arabia , the sandy desert place of Arabia , which was a miserable wildernesse ; Now when this word is applyed to men , it always means , such as were forsaken men , despised men ; such men as are stripped of all that is comfortable to them , either they never had children , or else all their children are taken away from them , and all comforts banished , and themselves left utterly forlorne , like the barren heath in a desolate howling Wildernesse ; these are the people of whom my Text speaks , that the Lord will regard the prayer of the destitute : and this was now the state of the Church of God , when they offer'd up this prayer , and yet by faith did foretell that God would grant such a gratious answer .
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        item: #38 of 39
          id: A89588
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: A thanksgiving sermon: preached to the Right Honorable the Lord Maior, aldermen, and Common Councell of the Citie of London, upon occasion of the many late and signall victories, and deliverances vouchsafed to the Parliaments forces, in Pauls Church London, July 28. 1648. By Stephen Marshall, B.D. Minister of Gods Word at Finchingfield in Essex.
        date: 1648.0
       words: 11990
      flesch: 49
     summary: That the Lord doth sometimes leave his owne people to bee under the tyranny of them that hate them : I say his own people ( for this was Emanuels land , you 'l read it called by the very name of Emmanuel in the eighth chapter ) the Assyrian shall come and fill the breadth of thy land O Emmanuel ; they were Emmanuels people that should have these terrible yokes put upon them : to understand this lesson , bee pleased to premise thus much ; That it is of all judgements one of the most terrible and uncomfortable that ever a people can be exposed to , to have those that hate them to tyrannize over them , that was Davids prayer , I have done justice and judgement , give me not up to mine oppressors : O Lord deliver mee from that judgement , that I bee not left to wicked men , to put yokes upon my neck , to beate my shoulders ; and God used to threaten it as one of the severest plagues that ever should come upon his people , when hee was angry with them , that hee would give them up , that they that hated them should beare rule over them : and truely it will easily appeare to bee one of the terriblest judgements of all , because it is a misery that is opposite and contrary to the greatest mercy that can bee enjoyed upon earth ; which is to have rulers and governors , such as are over a people , to bee as a Sun or a Shield , as a Shepheard , as a Protector , as a Father , for these are names whereby the Spirit of God deseribes good Magistrates & rulers , to give such to a people as may defend every one in his own right , protect the fatherlesse and widow , and see that every one have justice and judgement , that there may be no complaining in the streets of a people ; but that they may live and serve God in godlinesse and honesty , in peace , to bee preserved in security and tranquillity , O happy are the people that are in such a case , faith the Spirit of God in the 144. Psalme ; now if this bee the greatest earthly mercy , then for God to give up a people , or to let them be given up to the judgement that is contrary to it , that their shepheards should bee like them in the 34. of Ezekiel , who should kill the fat , and tread under feet the leane , that should pluck off the wooll , and teare off the skinne ; that should bee as they are described in the 7. of Micah , as briars and thornes that should rend and teare the people that are under them , when the Lord shall give men up to such a condition , that those that should defend them , should enter into the field of the fatherlesse , and undoe a man and his neighbour , without mercy and compassion , this of all judgements in the world is one of the cruellest , and the heaviest that a people can bee given up to : now I tell you that God sometimes leaves his owne people to this condition , there are abundance of examples , and I should spend the time needlesly to receite them to you , because you cannot bee ignorant of them ; so they were in Egypt , when their lives were made burdensome to themselves , by reason of the heavy yoke of bondage that lay upon them ; so they were in the times of the Iudges , oftentimes an enemy comes in , carries away the harvest that they are ready to reape , sometimes carries away the corne they had gather'd into their barnes , mightily oppressed them , put heavy yokes upon them ; so was it in Babylon , if you reade but the fifth of Lamentations , it will make you weep to consider the sad complaint that the Church makes there , Our inheritance is turned to strangers , our houses to aliants , wee have drunke our water for money , our wood is sold unto us , our necks are under persecution , we labour and have no rest , servants rule over us ; wee eate our bread with the perill of our lives , Princes are hanged up by the hand , young men are taken to grinde , and the children fell under the wood , &c. such abundance of examples there are that I shall not need to prove it , onely let me a little discover to you out of the Word , for what causes the Lord uses to leave his owne people to this terrible judgement : I finde three cleer causes why God oftentimes hath left his own people to be given up to oppressors , to Tyrants , to put such heavy yokes upon their necks , their states , their consciences , their liberties , and the first & greatest & most frequent is when God himself offer'd to be the King and ruler of his people , to put the yoke of his government upon their necks , a yoke that should be sweet and easie , honorable & profitable , and his people cast off Gods yoke , would not be under that , then hath the Lord frequently let them fall under the yoke of some others , that they might know the difference betwixt being Gods servants , and the servants of other men ; take but two instances of this , one in the 2 Chronicles 12. This then for the meaning of it , That whatsoever enemies should rise up against the Church or people of God , however they may keepe them under for a while , Christ hath a purpose , and will in his owne due time break them , and their yokes in peeces , and he will doe it in a strange way , by his own hand , in a way that shall bee very easie to him to worke , but very hard for them ; either to resist or to beare .
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      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: A tvvo-edged svvord out of the mouth of babes, to execute vengeance upon the enemy and avenger. Presented in a sermon to the Right Honourable the House of Lords assembled in Parliament, in the Abbey-Church at Westminster, Octob. 28. 1646. the solemn day of their monthly fast. / By Stephen Marshall B.D. minister of Gods Word at Finchingfield in Essex.
        date: 1646.0
       words: 14907
      flesch: 60
     summary: And it fully manifests , that the whole scope of this Psalme is to glorifie God for the singular dignity that God hath put upon Man above all other Creatures ; and this dignity or glory of man is exemplified in Two particulars . The other Branch is , That God hath chosen this creature Man to be his Viceroy , his Deputy , to rule and govern all the workes of his hands : God hath trusted him so farre , as to put all that hee hath made under Mans feet ; and having done these two things for him , made him his Champion to conquer his enemies , and the Master of his house for the governing of his friends ; what remaines more to bee done for him , this is to bee a little inferiour to God himselfe ; Lord , what is man , that thou art thus mindfull of him ? or the sonne of man , that thou shouldest thus visit him ?
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