Gods Masterpiece, Title page – Dedication
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.
Eſa. 60. 14.
They ſhall call thee the City of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Iſrael.
Pſal. 68. 24.
They have ſeen thy goings, O God; the goings of my God, my King, in the Sanctuary.
LONDON, Printed by Richard Cotes, for Stephen Bowtell, and are to be ſold at the ſigne of the Bible in Popes-head Alley, 1645.
To the Right HONOVRABLE THE Houſe of Peeres Aſſembled in PARLIAMENT.
Right Honourable,
THis plain Sermon, when preached, was entertained by Your Lordſhips with ſingular attention; and now comes to publike view by Your command. I ſhall not preſume now to make another tryall of Your patience, by a long Epiſtle, as I did then in a long Sermon: I onelyonly preſent it unto You, and (ſince You pleaſe to have it ſo) to the eye of the World, humbly beſeeching the Lord to accompany it with his bleſſing, that all who read it, (eſpecially Your Lordſhips) may in it behold, as in a Glaſſe, the Glorie of the Lord, and be changed into the ſame Image by the Spirit of the Lord; thatſo they may account it their greateſt Honour to promote this Worke; to beautifie the place of Gods Sanctuary, Eſa. 60. 13.and to make the place of his feet glorious. So prayeth
Your unworthy Servant, Stephen Marſhall.