1645 STEPHEN MARSHALL. The Church, God's Masterpiece. A Spurgeon Puritan Favorite.

A very rare sermon by Puritan / Presbyterian divine, Stephen Marshall [1594-1655], an effective member of the Westminster Assembly and one of the authors of the Westminster Shorter Catechism. 

This sermon appears to have been a special favorite with Spurgeon. He quotes Marshall in general and this sermon in particular over and again in his Treasury of David. It could not help in some ways but by meaning to to the Pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle. It is a beautiful discourse on God's pleasure in establishing, blessing, and causing his Church to flourish by his many graces.

Preaching during the English Civil War, Marshall's tone is assuring and full of a profound trust in the architect and builder to establish his spiritual people and community. As timely now as it was then. 

Marshall, Stephen. God's 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. London. Printed by Richard Cotes. 1645. 34pp.

A good + copy, in wraps, nearly disbound and removed from an earlier sammelband; complete as issued with generally bright pages. Discrete ex library stamp.