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A81241	Gods rising, his enemies scattering; delivered in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, at their solemne fast, 26. Octob. 1642. But, through many occasions and hinderances, not printed till this 25. of May 1644. By Thomas Case, preacher, at Milk-street, London, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Case, Thomas, 1598-1682.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1644 (1644)	Wing C830; Thomason E127_38; ESTC R4759	45,209	66

one anothers presence Therefore say they to the Almighty Job 21.15 depart from us for wee desire not the knowledge of thy wayes And if they cannot endure Gods presence as a Teacher how will they endure his presence as a Judge If they cannot abide his presence as a sin-reproving God how will they abide it as a sin-revenging God Surely that presence of God is so unsupportable that you may hear them willing to exchange it for the burden of rocks and mountains Revel 6.16 They said to the Mountains and Rocks Revel 6.16 fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. And as they cry to God Depart from us so God when he ariseth he answers them in their own language and speaks to them in his wrath Depart from mee and this is their misery they have the first word but God will have the last Matth. 7.23 Depart from me yee workers of iniquity Unhappy caitive that ever he was born unto whom that shall bee the last word God will say Object Depart from me You will say perhaps that is in the day of Judgement when Christ comes to reveal himself in flaming fire 2 Thess 1.7 8. rendring vengeance on them that do not know him c. Truely these Rising times of God are Gods Petty-Sessions Answ they bee little dayes of Judgement Psal 9.7 wherein the Thrones being prepared for Judgement hee will make inquisition for bloud for the bloud of his people causelesly Vers 12. and cruelly spilt by the enemies and surely even of these lesser dayes of Judgement the Psalmist speaks as well as of that last and great day The ungodly shall not stand in judgement Psal 1.7 nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous Gods rising time is their scattering their flying time But how do the enemies of God know when God ariseth Quest that they make such hast to flie from his presence Hee being the invisible God God makes them to perceive his rising and approach towards them sometimes in a secret Answ but alwayes in a very sensible and terrible manner And that partly by some Inward impressions upon their spirits and consciences Outward demonstrations apparent to their senses First Sometime by some inward and secret impressions Answ 1 upon their spirits and consciences by some secret convictions and self-condemnations seizing upon their consciences This being the unhappinesse of all wicked men and haters of God that though they have murthered their consciences in respect of the instigative and directive Office of conscience they cannot kill it in respect of the accusing condemning and executing office of conscience Though they have kil'd conscience as a Preacher they cannot kill conscience as a Judge and executioner or if they have wounded and seared conscience so that it seems to lie dead for a time yet this is their misery when God awakes conscience will awake too when God ariseth conscience revives to take Gods part against them and that in a double reference First In reference to their persons conscience will arise when God ariseth to tell them that they are none of Gods as you see in Cain conscience began to misgive sad and ominous forebodings there lay upon his spirit that God had chosen his brother and rejected him conscience began to tell him that God hated him and that was the ground of his malice against his brother and against God too And so it is with wicked men the haters of God when God ariseth against them As God gives his children some praelibations and praegustations of his love and of that glory to which he hath ordained them sealing them up to the day of redemption so God gives his enemies some prae-apprehensions and fore-tastings some secret earnests and impressions of his wrath and finall rejection sealing them as it were up to eternall perdition Oh saith their consciences God hates me Oh that I were above God c. Secondly In reference to their cause they that have shut their eyes against the light and would not be convinced by the Ministers of God of the wickednesse and hellishnesse of the cause they undertook when God awakes and conscience awakes then they begin to confesse it Oh saith Judas I have sinned in betraying innocent bloud and so will wicked men yea so have some of the enemies of God been heard to confesse when they have lien gasping of the wounds they have received in the Battell Oh we have a damn'd cause Oh said a poor dying wretch in the West to our Souldiers As soon as we saw you our hearts failed us for wee know our cause is damn'd There is an hand of divine truth and justice in it making good that threatning Isaiah 26.11 Lord when thine hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see and be ashamed They that will not see to timely repentance shall see to finall shame and confusion In a word this is the thing I say The enemies and haters of God may and do sin away a sin-preventing conscience but they cannot sin away a sin-condemning a self-executing conscience when the command cannot finde a conscience wrath will finde a conscience the curse will finde a conscience and this will bee the worm that never dies I have heard of a poor wretch that lived an Atheist all his life and when he came to die conscience began to revive and he to cry out Oh what will become of mee if there be a God Unhappy man is he that ever he was born who concludes himself undon if there be a God And thus God makes his enemies perceive his approach by some inward impressions upon their spirits Secondly he makes them perceive it Answ 2 by some outward demonstrations lyable to their very senses As 1. By the stupendious acts of his power and providence which God puts forth for his people before their eyes as the dividing of the Red-sea and cutting off the waters of Jordan c. See what tremblings and shaking terrors this caused in the hearts of the Canaanites Josh 2.9 10. 2. By some ominous forerunners of wrath upon the enemies sometimes making them to hear the noise of multitudes of horses and chariots as hee did the Syrians 2 Kings 7.6 Sometimes taking off their wheels and troubling their hoast as he dealt with the Egyptians in the Red-sea At other times smiting the enemies with blindnesse and madnesse as the Sodomites and threatned Zach. 12.4 3. Sometimes by putting a majesty and dreadfulnesse on his people Cant. 6.10 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning fair as the Moon clear as the Sunne and terrible as an army with banners If shee bee so Psal 14.5 when she is in her nuptiall habite her brides attire what when in her Martiall accoutrements There were they in great fear because God is in the generation of the righteous God let out some beam of glory upon his people and

damnation their power and policie their combinations and all their preparations cannot stand before you See them all sufficiently jeered by the people of God Isaiah 8.9 Associate your selves O ye people and ye shall be broken in pieces and give ear all ye of farre Countreys gird your selves and yee shall be broken in pieces gird your selves and yee shall bee broken in pieces why how comes it to passe that they are so contemptible the reason is given verse 10. Immanuel for God is with us God is Risen fear them not Truely all the counsels and conspiracies and tumult and rage of the enemies are no more then if you should see a mad man stand upon his head and shake his heels against the Sun Courage courage Noble Senators Worthy Commanders courage Christians God is risen and Gods rising time shall bee their scattering Psal 2. their flying time Then shall hee speak to them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure and make the proudest of them know that he hath set his Christ King upon his Holy Hill Alas what is the Chasse and the smoake when the winde riseth what the clouds when the Sun riseth What wax and stubble When the fire riseth Behold as smoake is driven away Psal 68.2 so the haters of God shall be driven away as the wax melteth before the fire so the wicked shall perish at the presence of God Arise in your courage and the Lord shall make good that prophesie Behold the people shall rise up as a great Lion Numb 23.24 and lift up himself as a young Lion he shall not lie down till he eat of the prey and drink of the blood of the slain Fourthly If God be Risen Rise in your zeal rise in your zeal A patcht pie'ct reformation will not answer Gods expectation Moses resolution was worthy your Imitation we will not leave an Hoof behinde us Exod. 10.25 In the building of the Temple there was not a board or a pin or a nail of the old Tabernacle vsed The Churches Reformation is called the New-heaven and the New-earth as for difficultie so for beauty and perfection Worthy Senators remember that caution of the Apostle Gal. 4.18 It is good to be zealously affected alwaies in a good thing if ever any work was worth your zeal the work you have in hand is Rise in your zeal zeal is good in a good cause Fifthly Rise in your bounty you have done much do more you have gone high goe higher still Say as David I will be more vile c. So you I will be yet more liberall I will be yet more for God Away with those shifts and carnall pretences what shall I leave for my wife and children I have so much owing me and cannot get in my debts trading is not as it hath been I am out thus much already They are for the most part but the Churles Instruments of which the Holy Ghost speaketh Isa 32.2 The Instruments of the Churle are cruell he deviseth wicked devises to destroy the poor with lying words Hear this Oh ye covetous Mammonists who withold your money and estates when it is in the power of your hands to help to help the Lord and the Kingdom against the mighty The holy Ghost puts you amongst Theeves and Murderers you are listed among the Anti-christian Enemies of Jesus Christ who destroy his poore people he that doth not save life when he may destroics it While in the mean time of the willing people hear what God speaks But the liberall man deviseth liberall things he deviseth how he may serve the Cavse he studies which way he may do most good You would think that were the next way to be undone but mark what followes by liberall things he shall stand c. Christians be of good cheere you that have been liberall to the Cause even not onely to your power 2. Cor. 8.3 but beyond your power This is not the way to undoe your families but to preserve them by liberall things shall England stand by liberall things shall London stand be of good cheere who ever thou art that hast spent thy self for God and his Cause you have not onely the publike faith of the Kingdome but the publike faith of Heaven also for repaiment with advantage by liberall things he shall stand time may come when what thou hast lent to Christ and his Cause may be all the livelyhood for thee and thy family to subsist on when the rest may bee plundered or burnt or taken away by violence this may be thy stocke and behold then it shall not repent thee of thy Liberality If the Parliament should never pay us a farthing yet if all that God is worth in heaven or earth be able to make thee satisfaction thou shalt not be a looser by thy bounty And truly if God by this Parliament will give us but a Reformation a through and setled Reformation these Worthies will not die in our debts yea though we should not live to see it yet if our little ones may be brought into that good land we shall have no cause to repent of our bargain I pray God while the poore well-affected inherit the Praise with the poore Widow some rich covetous Mammonists do not carry away the curse with Meroz If you would not Rise in your bounty Sixthly Let us Rise in our Patience we think perhaps we have waited long and yet our deliverance comes not but if God will have us wait longer and longer yet let us remember we wait not so long on God as God hath waited on us and if we have put God to his How-longs It is but a just and easie censure if God put us to our How-longs And yet beleeve it Cristians Ier. 30.18 this present time we do not so much waite for God as God waites for us The Lord waits to be gracious The Lord doth but waite for our faith and our humiliation and our reall Reformation were we fit for it Deliverance should not tarry an hour longer Let us not make more haste out of our troubles then good speed but remember who hath said Lam. 3.26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord It is good for a man and it is good for a Nation it is for a people to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord so did Jacob till his very dying day on his death-bed he could say Gene. 49.18 I have waited for thy salvation O Lord we say it is good to be delivered it is good to have peace it were good to have our trading again I but what saith God It is good to waite it is good to bear the yoke it is good to put ones mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope It is so indeed and a good reason is given of it Vers 25. The Lord is good to them that wait for him to the

change thy voice before I have done I will make thee know I am God and thou but man when thou shalt die a base and ignominious death the death of the uncircumcised A third Now is when the people of God are persecuted for Gods sake when God and truth and Religion is the onely quarrell Psal 44.22 and this Argument doth the Church plead for her selfe For thy sake are we killed all the day long we are counted as sheep for the slaughter as if they should have said it is true Lord we are not so good as we should be but truly the Enemies do not persecute us because we are so bad but because we are no worse The quarrell is That we are thine and desire to stand for thy Cause v. 23. v. 26. and for thy truth And therefore upon this consideration she bottoms her petition and doubles it verses 23 26. Awake why sleepest thou O Lord arise cast us not off for ever ver 26. Arise for our help and redeem us for thy mercies sake And as upon this ground the Church beggs Isaiah 66.5 so upon the same God promiseth her Deliverane Hear the Word of the Lord ye that tremble at his Word your brethren that hated you that cast you out for my Names sake said let the Lord be glorified but he shall appear to your joy and they shall be ashamed because they were excommunicated and exiled and reproachfully used for no other reason but because Gods Name was called upon them God promiseth to stir up himself and appear for their Redemption Psal 60.4 And this promise you finde made good Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee that it may be displayed because of thy truth Because the people of God stood up for the Truth of Doctrine and Discipline for the truth of Worship and pure Ordinances therefore God gave them a banner that is for deliverances and victories over their Enemies fresh and frequent occasions of triumph and joy Because the truth of God was precious in their eyes therefore their lives were precious in Gods eyes A fourth Now of Gods rising is when the Enemies grow outragious and unsatisfiable in cruelty See that place Isa 33.8 Isa 33.8 The high waies lye waste the wayfaring man ceaseth hee hath broken the covenant he hath despised the Cities he regardeth no man See there how the enemie in his pride and cruelty had laid all waste the land before him was a Garden of Eden Behinde him a desolate wildernesse there was no pity nor humanity left in him saith God it is time for me to arise If I sit still they will not leave me one that fears my Name alive to praise me I will hold no longer I will arise and that you may know God is in good earnest he trebles it Now will I arise Now will I be exalted Now will I lift up my self Esther 7.8 God seems to ask that angry question that Ahashuerus did concerning Haman What will he force the Queen before my face So saith God What will they plunder and burne and tear up women with childe and dash the childrens brains against the stones and devour all before my face and shall I let them alone Nay I will arise and cut them off in the midst of their rage and madnesse against my people Fifthly God doth rise when his Enemies daringly begin to open their mouthes in cursed plasphemies against him Psal 74.22 God usually suffers it not long at their hands therefore the Church takes that hint of calling out God to her succour Psal 74.22 arise Lord remember how the wicked men blaspheme thee daily three times this Argument is used in that Psalm q. d. Lord if our peace and lives and comforts were onely concerned in this matter we would have held our peace but lord thy Glory lies at stake wicked men take occasion from thy Patience and long-sufferance to blaspheme thee to thy face v. 18. dost thou not hear how the foolish men rail upon thy name and reproach thee daily And what wilt thou do for thy great Name Oh forget it not Lord Forget not the voice of thine Enemies v. 23. the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually Sixthly When he seeth his people in a helplesse condition and if he do not rise they must of necessity fall and if he do not appear they must perish Deut. 36.32 when he seeth their power is gone and there is none left and when he seeth they are like to be swallowed up by the devouring Enemie then he will arise Then the Lord shall Judge his people and repent himself concerning his servants Seventhly When God seeth his people deeply affected with and afflicted for the sufferings of the Saints when they lay to heart the sorrowes and sufferings of Zion This is an hour when God will arise Psal 102.17 Thou wilt arise and have mercy upon Zion Why Oh saith she the set time is come I but how knew she that She will tell you For thy Servants take pleasure in her stones and favour the dust thereof The prophet observ'd how the people of God behaved themselves when the Churches were in misery he could see them every where wringing their hands and mourning for Zion crying out alas for Zion this is Gods bebeloved Zion whose stones ly in the dust and she in her blood c. saith God I can forbear no longer If I hold my peace and do not arise and deliver them these poore children will cry their eyes out of their head and themselves to death Now I will arise c. But Eightly When gods people accept of their punishments that is Levit. 26.41 when under the afflictions that lie upon them they are sensible of divine displeasure * 1 King 8.47 turn in upon themselves labour to finde out the * Josh 17.17 accursed thing the Achan that troubles Israel acknowledge the equity of Gods dealings * Nehe. 9.33 justifying God and judging themselves Yea not the Equity onely but the * Ezra 9.13 moderation and indulgence of Gods proceedings in laying the affliction farre beneath the provocation and in conscience of offended justice labour to * Mich. 7.9 submit and ly down at Gods feet study Gods meaning and labour to answer his expectation to * Mich. 6.9 hear the rod and him that smites when I say God sees his people in such a posture God hath them where he would and then saith God I will remember my Covenant with Jacob Levit. 26.42 and also my Covenant with Israel and also my Covenant with Abraham will I remember and I will remember the land Gods remembrance is a part a degree of Gods Rising when God saies he remembers and sees the affliction of his people it will not be long before hee march forth for their Salvation as you saw before Ninthly When God seeth his people cordially and

to divide it self into these Ten distinct Branches whereof the two last shall bee the two Branches of the Doctrine that yet remains untoucht and we shall briefly winde up all in ten words First then If God be Risen then let us Rise in our Observations take notice what God is doing in the World and take notice what God is doing here in England For shame Sirs let not God arise and we lie sleeping in the bed of security and supine inadvertency Awake Barak awake thou sonne of Abinoam Awake Christians and observe diligently what God is doing either with us or for us It is that word which God himself causes to bee proclaimed before him when hee stirres up himself for the help of his Church Zach. 2.13 Bee silent all flesh before the Lord for the Lord is raised up out of his holy habitation Silence is the note or posture of exact diligent attention And this God expects from all the World Be silent oh all flesh much more from his own people when hee is risen out of his Sanctuary and gone forth for their Redemption as if he should say Peace be quiet stand still and behold the salvation of the Lord Observe diligently what God is doing How else shall wee bee able to pray As one sayes of Preachers they should take their Text from Gods works observe what God is doing and Preach upon that So I may say to Christians You should make Gods works abroad in the World the subject of your Prayers and Prayses at home observe what God is doing and pray upon it An Inadvertent Christian is an unpraying Christian How else shall you be able to know the Lord if you observe him not Isal 9.16 The Lord is known by the judgements which he executeth An unobservant Christian is an ignorant Christian Who so is wise Psal 107.1 and will observe these things they shall understand the loving kindnesse of the Lord. The Prophet had been discoursing of the works of Providence all the Psalm through and builds two Conclusions upon the Premisses First That it is a point of speciall wisdome to observe what God doth in the various and wonderfull dispensations of his providence Who so is wise will observe c. An unobserving man or woman is a fool Secondly That this observation is the next way to grow into the acquaintance with God and the knowledge of his loving kindnesse For By this means you may come to see all the Attributes of God his Wisdome Power Goodnesse Justice Unchangeablenesse shining forth in the wonderfull and miraculous deliverances of his Church and the stupendious destructions of the Enemies thereof By this means you may come to bee acquainted with the faithfulnesse of God in making good the promises And by this means you may come to bee acquainted with Gods love to you in the answers and returns of your prayers Wherefore since so much of Gods glory and your comfort is bound up in this duty let it be a mighty awakening call to your spirits to arise in your observations Secondly O ye people of God rise in your faith Is God up and shall our faith be down Is God risen out of his holy habitation and shall our faith lie in bed What a shame is it for Christians not to beleeve God further then we see him What a sad thing that after so many cleer discoveries of God in his word and works we should not to this day have faith enough to carry us from one miracle to another to bee tossed up and down in our hopes as if God were one day upon his Throne and the other day upon the threshold Christians let not the shield of faith hang by the walls any longer Behold the plots and conspiracies of your Enemies shall be given up to the hands of your faith there shall all your enemies be imprisoned more then in strong-holds and fenced Cities Let your faith bee fetters and prisons to your adversaries Do but study and observe what faith hath done and what Victories it hath been crowned withall in all Ages and your hands shall be strong God crowns faith because faith crowns God God loves faith above all other Graces because if God put a crown upon it Psal 115.1 the modesty of faith will come and lay it down at Gods feet Not unto us O Lord not unto us but to thy Name give the praise Why should your hearts fail you It is an awakening word and remember it I beseech you As for God his way is perfect Psal 18.30 hee is a buckler to all that trust in him q. d. Follow God in the way of his promises and providence and you shall finde no crooked turning in it from one end to another you shal not finde God stepping one foot awry The word of the Lord is tried there be millions of Saints that have tried it in all ages and will be ready to bring in their letters-testimoniall for the truth of it Hee is a buckler to all those that put their trust in him Hee hath been Armour of proof to all those that have trusted in his protection which hath rendred them invulnerable invincible against all the Gun-shot and Artillery of men and devills There is not a man to be found that can say I have trusted in God and hee deceived me no saith David Thou never failest them that seek thee Psal 9.10 The summe is thus much You may trug God if you will and be safe if not secure your selves better where you can Sirs I beseech you after so much experience of God both others and our own let not God have cause to complain of us as once of that people in the Wildernesse Numb 14.11 How long will this people provoke mee and how long will it be ere they beleeve mee for all the signes which I have shewed among them If after all this England should perish which God forbid this shall bee our Epitaph Matth. 13. ult Hee could not do many mighty works there because of their vnbelief Rise therefore in your faith Thirdly Rise in your courage and resolution for behold God is risen and seems to encourage us as once his Israel Fear not thou worm Jacob Isaiah 41.14 c. What can bee more inconsiderable then a worm and yet fear not thou worm Jacob fear not thou worm England A Worm and a God shall be hard enough for all the World Thou shalt thresh the mountains and beat them small and shalt make the hils as chaffe It is strange work that a Worm shall make with the Mountains when God stands by it It is the charge that God gives to all his Worthies and Commanders when they go out to Battell this is the Word FEAR NOT And indeed Brethren what is there in the Enemy that we should fear Why should we fear them that fear not God Their cause is damn'd there consciences are damn'd Do you not hear how they rave for their own