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A81254	A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at Westminster, August 22. 1645. Being the day appointed for their solemn thanksgiving unto God for his several mercies to the forces of the Parliament in divers parts of the kingdome, in the gaining of the towns of Bath and Bridgewater, and of Scarborough-Castle, and Sherborn-Castle, and for the dispersing of the Clubmen, and the good successe in Pembroke-shire. By Thomas Case, preacher at Milkstreet, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Case, Thomas, 1598-1682.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1645 (1645)	Wing C842; Thomason E297_15; ESTC R200227	27,937	38

your souls bleed to look into the Countrey even those that are under the Parliaments command not to speak of those that lie under the Villanies and Violences of the enemy I say it would make your bowels ake and your hearts grieve to see what a face of things there is in the Countrey not so much truely as the face of a Church a Garden of God but the face of a Wildernesse not a faithfull Minister perhaps in twenty Congregations and where there is they know not what to do with their Congregations for want of a Government So that in the mean time the greatest part turn profane and if one or two here and there peep out of the dungeons of Ignorance and Atheism to enquire after the ways of God presently they are snapt up and seduced into some way or other of Heresie or Schism because there is neither hand nor instrument to take these Foxes Cant. 2.15 the little Foxes that spoil the Vines that now begin to have tender Grapes If you mean that England shall be turned into a wildernesse and be over-run with Atheism and Heresie and Prophanenesse and Blasphemy you may hold your hands and you need not do it long But better it were that England should be over-run with fire and sword better it should be devoured by plague and pestilence the Arrows whereof flie so thick abroad that they darken the very Heavens over our heads till man and beast were destroyed off the face of this good Land rather then this should come to passe Better judgement should turn us into a Wildernesse then sin should do it better welter in our blood then wallow in our lusts Therefore for the Lords sake for the Lords sake and again I say for the Lords sake make haste be through be speedy in your Reformation Would you not stay long for a Deliverance let not Christ stay long for a Reformation In both respects hear what an Heathen Emperour could advise and command Ezra 7 2●… Whatsoever is commanded by the God of Heaven let it be diligently done for the House of the God of Heaven for why should there be wrath against the Realm of the King and his sons I should come to the fourth particular but that there is one thing as a branch of this third which I desire leav cumbly to commend unto you and that is Concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Supper O if you would expresse your love and zeal and thankfulnesse to God in any thing If there be any thing wherein you would expresse your kindnesse and fidelity to the Lord Jesus do it in this There is not a neerer concernment wherein you can gratifie God if I may so say then this What hath God dearer to him then his Son And what hath his Son dearer to him then his Body and Blood Oh look to it I beseech you that that be not prophaned and troden under feet by any unworthy person so far as it is in your power to prevent it Herein you may do well to imitate the Bishops in building a Rail or if that word like you not change it a letter or two and make a Rule about the Lords Table But be sure make it so thick and so high that not a Dog may creep through or leap over to eat the Childrens Bread De occultis non judicat ecclesia not one I mean that appears to be so for secret things we must leave to the Lord to judge Let me humbly ask you one Question Are there any kinde of sinners think you that Jesus Christ would have excluded from that holy Mystery If any then all of the same Nature and Influence for what if you should keep out seventy yea seven thousand sins and sinners from the Sacrament 1 Cor. 11.27 and let but one scandalous sinner come would not he be found a Crucifier of the Son of God yea and let me speak freely you too if he come under your protection But if Jesus Christ would have all come promiscuously to his Board it is not in the power of Elderships nor Classes nor Assemblies or Parliaments nor any body in the World to suspend any one kinde of sin or sinner from that Holy Feast Honourable and Beloved Your blood and the blood of your sons and daughters hath been precious in Gods eyes O let the blood of the Son of God be precious in your eyes God hath not prostituted your flesh and your blood to any of your wicked enemies O suffer not the flesh and blood of the Lord Jesus to be prostituted to any of his wicked enemies For suppose God should say The Irish shall not spill your blood Prince Ruperts Army shall not drink your blood Hoptons Army shall not Gorings Army shall not Greenvils shall not the Clubmen shall not and so name seven yea seven times seven Armies and Nations and yet give Commission or leave but for one Army one Nation in all the world to eat your flesh and drink your blood what would it avail you that the rest were suspended and restrained O give not the Lord Jesus occasion to say of you 1 Sam. 25.21 as sometime David said of Nabal Surely In vain have I kept all that these men have I have been sparing of their blood and they have been prodigall of mine Now therefore go blasphemers go drunkards go Sabbath-breakers go ye worst of men and eat their flesh and drink their blood and the blood of their sons and daughters O deal not so unkindly with the Lord Jesus to provoke him to jealousie Purge the Sacrament and purge it throughly And then hasten the setting up of that Ordinance in all Congregations where there be a competent number fit for it Behold the children cry for this bread and there is none to give it unto them Behold The Spouse of Christ is sick of love and hunger and therefore hasten to stay her with this bread and comfort her with these flagons that she may eat and drink and her soul may blesse you before she die Fourthly For the Lords sake do execution upon all the professed and implacable enemies of the Lord Jesus who have said and sworn Luke 19.14 This man shall not reign over us Behold Christ commands you saying Verse 27. Bring them hither and slay them before me For your sake God hath sent to Babylon and brought down your enemies great and small and laid them dead at your feet What can you do more answerably by way of return for the Lords sake then to bring down his enemies and slay them before his face Behold shall God for your sake not suffer Parliament-Traitors and Parliament-Revilers to live and shall Christs Traitors and Trinity-blasphemers escape your just and severest vengeance God forbid You had need to do somewhat as in vindictam so interrorem For I tell you Blasphemy begins to be very bold and impudent Eccles 8. ●… Because sentence against evill doers is not speedily executed

Darling his Beloved in whom his soul delights and God looks upon his redeemed through Christ and his soul is delighted in them also Ephes 1.6 He hath made us accepted in the Beloved After he hath bestowed a Christ upon them he thinks nothing too good or too much for their sake He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things After he hath redeemed them from eternall death with the Blood of his Son he will not stick to redeem them from temporall Destruction with the blood of his and their enemies I will give men for thee and people for thy life For his Name His Name is called upon his people Isa 43.6 Bring my sons from far and my daughters from the ends of the earth Isa 43.7 7. Every one that is called by my Name for I have created him for my glory c. Their name is called upon God and Gods Name is called upon them If they perish his Name suffers his Glory suffers they bear his Name which is his Glory and therefore Joshua took the advantage of this argument when he pleaded for Israel Josh 7.9 What wilt thou do to thy great Name q. d. Though Israel deserves to suffer thy Name doth not deserve to suffer in saving Israel thou shalt preserve thine own Name and upon these terms God is resolved to save them Isa 48. 9. For my Names sake I will defer mine anger and for my praise will I refrain for thee that I cut thee not off 10. Behold I have refined thee but not with silver c. 11. For mine own sake even for mine own sake I will do it for how should my Name be polluted and I will not give my glory to another God destroys the enemie for his peoples sake because he hath loved and chosen them for his own sake his Names sake And thus I have shewed you the sense and meaning of this expression For your sake and the spring and fountain of that sense And this shall suffice for the Doctrinall part of my Text I come now to the Vse and Application Vses And there are but two Uses I will speak to 1. Information 2. Exhortation Vse It may serve first to inform us and that in divers particulars 1. Branch of Information First To discover to us the difference of mercies Some mercies you see there be which God bestows on his people for their sake Deliverances from and victories over their enemies God subdues and destroyes Armies and Countreys and Nations before them and all this he doth for his peoples sake he hath respect to them in such works as these be But some works there be which God doth onely for his own sake such as are Predestination Ephes 1.5 Having predestinated us to the Adoption of Children to himself according to the good pleasure of his will To himself and the good pleasure of his will The good pleasure of his will the ground and to himself the end Justification Tit. 3.7 Justified by his grace no other ingredient goes into Justification by way of Motive but onely Free-grace Isai 43.25 So Pardon of sin which is a part of Justification I even even I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for my own sake and so their everlasting salvation Ephes 2.5 By grace ye are saved In these mercies the people of God come not in so much as by way of motive much lesse by way of merit But God doth these meerly and immediately for his own sake The reason of this difference is because these temporall mercies and deliverances finde them the people of God but election justification c. make them the people of God those finde them qualified persons these bestow these qualifications upon them And therefore learn to distinguish of mercies and to prize and put in for your share in those mercies which purely and unmixtly are in and from and for and to himself Isai 55.3 The sure mercies of David Second branch of Information See and admire the love of God to his Church and people They were taken out of the same pit and hewn out of the same rock with the rest of the world they had all one Father and Mother and yet see what a difference God makes between them Surely as much as he makes between men and the beasts of the earth he gives them as bread to his people to feed upon he makes them as sacrifices for the expiation of his wrath towards his people when his wrath goes forth armed as it were against his people he commands it to turn aside and satisfie it self with the blood of mighty Nations and great ones of the world that rise up against the Church He makes them but as the Rams to be sacrificed to divine Justice in the room of his Isaacs And if this be such an honour What is it then that he gave his own onely Son not the Creature but the Creator Heb. 1.3 Isai 53.6 Rom. 8.32 John 6.55 The brightnesse of his glory and the expresse form of his person to be a Sacrifice of Expiation a Propitiation to be as it were a devotum Caput upon which he layes the iniquities of all his Elect to deliver him up to death for them and then to give his Body and Blood to be their spirituall meat and drink to life eternall Here is love indeed Love above all expression above all admiration John 3.26 So God loved the world c. Oh labour to get interest in this Love and you are made for ever Thirdly Take notice how vainly and ignorantly the Philosophers and other wisemen of the world have discoursed of the Rise and Ruine of the Nations and Kingdoms of the world They have dreamt of the periods of Monarchies and States Vid. Victor Strigel Aphoris Polit. Johan a Cokier Aphorism Polit. The 〈◊〉 whereof some make 50 some 100 some 300 the 〈◊〉 500 yeers the great Astrologers have consulted the Stars and the Influences and Houses of the Heavens But they have not consulted the God of the Stars the Maker and Upholder of Heaven and Earth They have not consulted Gods Oracles where this great Mystery is revealed and the Reasons and Causes of all these alterations and confusions that befall the great and mighty Empires and Dominions of the World discovered to the sons of men namely the deliverance and enlargement of the Church and therein the propagation and exaltation of the Kingdom of his dear Son the Lord Jesus Christ the great end of ends they have been ignorant of The wayes of God they have known And as blinde and ignorant are the Kings and Nations of the world who while they make war one with another pull down and destroy each other as here the Medes and Persians come to conquer and subdue the Babylonian Empire little know or consider who sets them on work as God speaks to