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A81239	Deliverance-obstruction: or, The set-backs of reformation. Discovered in a sermon before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in Parliament now assembled. Upon the monthly fast, March 25. 1646. / By Tho. Case, preacher in Milkstreet London, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Case, Thomas, 1598-1682.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.	1646 (1646)	Wing C827; Thomason E329_9; ESTC R200694	36,291	48

hundred times contented with all their hearts to have exchanged their New liberty for their Old bondage to have sold Canaan for Egypt again and have though they had made a good bargain Yea once more when now at length through innumerable dangers and deaths for Fourty yeers together they had set foot on the Borders of Canaan their terminus ad quem and one would have thought there had been nothing more to have been done but to have taken possession behold they meet with such a fresh unexpected discouragement their valley of Jericho is turned into a valley of Achor their fair fruitful meadows into another wildernesse where they were at such a plunge as not to Israel onely but unto their gallant General Joshua himself seems the losse of their designe Josh 7.5.6 makes him rend his clothes his heart being first rent Vers 7. and wish that they had taken up their Quarters on the other side Jordan It fared not much better with them upon their second Return out of Captivity their return out of Babylon I mean Indeed they met not with altogether so many difficult encounters and desperate obstructions in respect of the terminus a quo their getting loose from Babylon that came off better though it wanted not its discouragements but look upon the terminus ad quem and there you shall finde them oftener at the losse then when they came to take their first possession the Building of the Temple and the setting up of Religion and the Ordinances of God stuck more then thrice so long then their travel in the wildernesse It was about One hundred and eleven yeers after before the b In the 6 yeer of Darius Notho the Temple was finishe which was anno 3531. Temple was built Twenty yeers after that before the c In the 7 yeer of Artaxerxes Mnemon Ezra came from Babylon and set upon the Reformation of Church and State anno 3550. Reformation of their Ecclesiastical and Civil Policie was accomplisht by Ezra and Fourty five yeers after that before the d In the 20 yeer of his reign Nehemiah began to build the wall of Jerusalem which was anno 3564 and perfected them in 12 yeers wall of Jerusalem was perfected by Nehemiah So that from their coming out of Captivity to the completing of the work was not lesse then about One hundred seventy six yeers almost the length of the wildernesse-travel four times told All which time they meet with so many open oppositions and secret treacheries and plots that might well have made it seem a lost Designe no deliverance at all as you may finde in the Stories of Ezra and Nehemiah a They came out of Babylon 1 Cyri which was about the yeer of Creation 3420. While this Captivity was yet threatned the Church was in travel in Hezekiah's time and great hopes there was of a fair and speedie Deliverance Isa 37.3 The children were come to the birth i. e. every thing seemed to concur that might promise a desirable issue and yet you know whose complaint it was There is no strength to bring forth her strength failed Isa 37.3 her pangs left her and Sion was now like a woman laid by of her Midwives for death Hezekiah himself looks upon it as a LOST DESIGNE NO DELIVERANCE at all There is not strength to bring forth You know David long before him had the promise of the Kingdom he was anointed by Samuel at the special designement of GOD and yet how many Faith-shaking discouragements doth he meet withal every step he took he treads upon a thorn oftentimes more like to lose his head then to wear a Crown upon it Everywhere danger and death stares him in the face in the bed in the house in the wildernesse c. insomuch that at length he gives his hopes of a Kingdom and himself too for lost I shall one day perish by the hand of Saul 1 Sam. 27.1 and in his haste in his passion in his extasie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psal 116.11 as the Septuagint translate it gives the Lye to all the sons of men I said in my haste All men are Lyers even Samuel himself that made me believe I should be KING He did but deceive and flatter me with a prophecie of his own head Alas he despaired of life and what hopes then of a Crown It were easie to multiply instances How oft do you finde the Church giving her self for lost Isa 49.14 Psal 44.9 Jer. 14.19 21 15.18 20.7 8 c. and ready almost to accuse God of Forgetfulnesse and even breach of Covenant Take but one instance more for all The Deliverance of Deliverances the Redemption of the world by Jesus Christ how fiercely and furiously was it encountred by men and devils how long was it adjourn'd after it was in the promise how lowe was it brought after it was set on foot in the fulnesse of time Surely so lowe Luke 24.21 that at length the Disciples themselves give it for lost We trusted it had been he which should have redeemed Israel we trusted it had been He that implyes now they had given over the Hopes of it and look upon it as a lost designe no Redemption at all And so it fares with Believers in their Spiritual estate their soul condition alas how often even after they have received the promise yea have been sealed up to the day of Redemption are they at a losse before they come to heaven It fares with the Church in both these respects as it doth with travellers who are going toward a City or House peradventure they may have it in their eye Twenty or Thirty miles off yet by reason of Valleys and Woods thorow which they travel lose the sight of it Twenty times before they come at it yea perhaps their way too so that they even despair of coming safe to their journeys end So c. But I must hold you no longer in the Instances lest I fall short of mine own designe I hasten therefore to the Reasons or Grounds Wherein I must now as I said sever these Two branches and follow onely the account of the first viz. What the Reasons may be why a Deliverance of Gods own promising and setting on foot may meet with such desperate set-backs and nonplusses as may seem sometimes to give all for lost And you may please to observe a Fourfold Spring-head out of which several and various accounts do issue viz. 1. The Enemies of Deliverance 2. The Subjects of Deliverance 3. The Instruments of Deliverance 4. The Author of Deliverance GOD HIMSELF I begin with the first Spring head of accounts Sort of Reasons The enemies of the Churches Deliverance The ENEMIES of the Churches Deliverance Here you see was a Pharaoh and all his Malignant Courtiers and Subjects opposing and obstructing Israels deliverance yea when they had got loose arming all the Milicia of Egypt and putting them into Array to