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A81250	The root of apostacy, and fountain of true fortitude. Delivered in a sermon before rhe [sic] Honourable House of Commons, on their late day of thanks-giving for the great victory given to Sir William Waller and the forces with him, against the army of Sir Ralph Hopton. 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 C839; Thomason E46_11; ESTC R22888	28,474	40

in Christ They shall be strong and do exploits Not that a man cannot attain such an Heroicknesse of spirit without a pleriphorie or full assurance of Gods love Such a knowledge indeed is omnipotent but that even where the soul hath tasted and seen how good the Lord is in such a degree 1 Pet. v 3. that it hath chosen God and hath taken God for its portion as the Church saith The Lord is my portion saith my soul Lam. 3.24 He sees such things in God as will raise him above the flatteries and witchcrafts of a lying world and carry it out not only to Attempt but to Attchieve great things for God when it sees its call beyond it self See David going out against Goliah Asah with a small inconsiderable party against Zerah the Ethiopian and his army consisting of a Million of men a thousand thousand 2 Chron. 14.10 11. Abijah against a double proportion of Jeroboam Chap. 13. Jehoshaphat against a vast innumerable host of Moabites and Ammonites and others Chap. 20.1 2.12 And all of them returning with the Crown of Victory upon their heads by vertue of this knowledge of their God The reasons of this blessed truth are briefly these Reasons Reasons First This knowledg of God gives a man a bottome to stand upon a Rock a Rock that will stand when the earth is removed Psal 46.1 2. Isa 26.4 and the mountains be carried into the midst of the Sea when the foundations of Heaven and earth do sink under the waight The Rock of ages Ages passe away one after another but the Rock remains and therefore David desires no more but this in the greatest inundations of fears and dangers Psal 61.2 when his heart was overwhelmed Lead me to the Rock that is higher then I I said he desires no more and yet I must recall my self when he comes to the rock he hath another petition and he is very confident of speeding he shall set me upon the rock Psal 27. First Lord lead me to the Rock I cannot finde the way my self and then set me up my neighbour cannot set me up Psal 49.7 no man can redeem his brother I cannot set up my self if Reason or Sence give me their hand they will pull me down God must and God shall take me by main strength and set me upon the Rock that is higher then I. Reason 2 Secondly This knowledge sees enough in God to answer all objections you cannot fancy that objection which the knowledge of God cannot answer The enemies mighty but God Almighty they subtill and politique yet hee also is wise and will bring evill upon them Isa 31.2 and will not call back his words but will arise against the house of the evill doers and against the help of them that work iniquity they cannot out-wit God they treacherous but he faithfull sic in caet Brethren in a word you cannot dare a man that knows God with any objection when he sees his call because he feet enough in God to back him He will say as once Luther to Melanchton when hee began to create objections If the work bee of God what should we fear if not let us lay it down Reason 3 Thirdly This knowledge begets trust They that know thy Name Psal 9.10 will put their trust in thee for thou never forsakest them that seek thee There were many that said of Davids soul or to Davids soul for that is the malitious plot of wicked men and devils to drive the people of God to despair of Gods help they said to his soul when hee was flying before Absalom there is no help for him in God Psal 3.2 But David would not say so himself he knew God Ver. 3. and therefore hee would trust him But thou O Lord art a shield for me my glory and the lifter up of my head Reason 4 Fourthly It may well beget trust for it begets strength Oh it is a joyous knowledge and the joy of the Lord is your strength said holy Nehemiah Nehem. 8.10 and so saith my Text The people that know their God shall bee strong Oh it is a strength-communicating knowledge Joy is to the spirit that which marrow is to the bones bones full of marrow cannot easily be broken and a spirit full of joy cannot easily bee conquered the joy of the spirit works over strength into the body They got not the Land in possession by their own sword neither did their own arm save them Psal 44.3 What then why thy right hand and thine arm and the light of thy countenance The light of Gods countenance is the right hand and arm of the most High and the right hand of the Lord must needs do valiantly the right hand of the Lord brings mighty things to passe Psal 118.16 Truly the least glimpse of Gods favour in Christ will make a man as one once gave the Character of a gallant Souldier whom the most of you know to live like a Saint and pray like an Angel and fight like a Devill Zech. 12.8 or to use that better language of Scripture He that is weake to be as David and he that is as David to be like an Angel of God Reason 5 Fifthly yea in the fifth place It gives not onely strength but life A life above mortality This is life eternall Joh. 17.3 to know thee the onely true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent There is indeed no knowing of God after this manner in the Text but in Jesus Christ and this knowledge is eternall life That man hath begun his Heaven upon earth that thus knows God And this knowledge of God must needs heighten a people or person to do great things for it is all that the glorified Saints and holy Angels have to live upon in Heaven and it is enough for so farre as any one knows God so far he lives in God yea in some sence I may say so far he lives the life which God himself lives He is clothed with the Sun and hath the Moon under his feet the Churches Hieroglyphick Revel 12.1 Hee is clothed with Christ and tramples upon the World above fears and above hopes above threatnings and above flatteries above death and above life I had almost said above hell and above heaven therefore Habakkuk will not fear Hab. 3.17 18. though the fig-tree do not blossome neither fruit be in the vine the labour of the Olive fail and the fields yeeld no meat the flock be cut off from the fold and there bee no herd in the stall Why Hee knew though there should be a famine in earth there was none in heaven he knew God and had learn'd to live in God and therefore will rejoyce in the Lord and joy in the God of his salvation c. He lives an unchangeable life who lives in the unchangeable God Hee that lives in the dying creature dies a thousand deaths as oft as

because he came not forth to the helpe of the Lord against the mighty And hear it Oh ye Nobles and Senators and Commanders and Souldiers Cursed be he that doth the worke of the Lord deceitfully That pretends one thing and intends another That pretends for Christ and intends for Antichrist That pretends for GOD and his people but intends for their enemies or that doth the work of the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sig. fraudare proijcere Lord negligently that doth it by halfes and piece-meals that turns it off as if he cared not which end went forward And cursed bee hee that withholdeth his sword from bloud 1 King 20.40 that spares when God saith strike that suffers those to escape whom God hath appointed to utter destruction Behold this may startle But then on the other side Fourthly study GOD in the word of Promise the summe of all which you shall finde in that word God spake to Joshuah Fear not Josh 1.5 Heb. 13.5 I will never leave thee nor forsake thee And bee thou faithfull to the death Revel 2.10 and I will give thee the crown of life There is your promise for this life I will be with thee and your promise for the life to come I will give thee the Crown c. God with you here and you with God hereafter Christians what would you have more Fidelity shall wear the Crown This may strengthen Thirdly study to know God in his Names and in his Attributes and there if you be weak you shall finde strength If Nonplust Wisdome If beset with Treachery Faithfulnesse If Wronged Justice If under oppression goodnesse loving-kindnesse tender mercies In a word if you have nothing bee nothing there you shall finde all things I am God Alsufficient walk before me and bee thou perfect Gen. 17.1 You shall finde all in God and all this yours Especially if you will study God In the fourth place in his Relations look upon him as Master Friend Father Husband c. You know of what obligation and influence these are among men can a woman forget her sucking childe of how much infinitely more with God! Oh study your Evidences Isai 49.15 for interest in these Relations I tell you noble Patriots and honour'd Christians the time is comming and now is when one Evidence well cleer'd will bee a better security to you then a Million of Armed men then an whole Navy such as shall enable you to dare all the powers of the enemy I will not bee afraid of ten thousands of people Psal 3. that have set themselves against me round about Odds enough one would think ten thousand to one and to that one no way left for an escape beset round about with Hoasts and Myriades of enemies Why will hee not fear hear him hee will tell you Arise O Lord Save me oh my God I there it is Psal 61. Hee that can say and say it upon good grounds my God may say Psal 68.1 2. Arise O Lord and if God arise His enemies shall be scattered they that hate him shall flie before him let them bee never so many thousands One beleever and his God is good enough for all the world If God be thine his Wisdome is thine his Power is thine his faithfulnesse thine his mercy and loving-kindnesse thine All hee hath and all he is is thine Oh study God in his Relations and study his Relations in Evidences You have taken up God upon trust too long already and that 's the reason 2 Pet. 1.12 you dare not trust him now study interest study evidences Give all diligence to make your calling and election sure The studying of Evidences is an Evidence And let me tell you thus much for your comfort Not only Evidences but the very studying of your Evidences will minister an holy sweet boldness in the day of trouble and hour of temptation Isai 26.9 when the soul shall be able to say With my soul have I sought thee in the night yea with my spirit within me will I seek thee early Vers 12. You may say also as it there follows Lord thou wilt ordain peace for us c. See Honourable and beloved in all these here is both engagement and encouragement Engagement to do for God whatsoever is in the power of creatures Encouragement Psal 144.15 to expect from God whatsoever is within the power of a God you may be sure of it Blessed are the people that are in such a case yea blessed are the people that thus know and have the Lord for their God And thus much for the first branch of the Vse I come now to the second In all the honourable and worthy exploits that are done Second Branch of Exhortation or may be done let us study to carry our selves as a people that know their God And indeed Honourable and Beloved Exploits have been done both in Scotland and in England in these later dayes if ever any since the beginning of the world Thou shalt remember sayd God to Israel Deut. 8.2 all the way wherein I have led thee these fourty years Alas I have not time to remember to you the way wherein the Lord hath led us these five or six years At your leisure peruse your Journalls and you shall finde the way full of wonders almost miraculous which God hath done for and by a poor people that have known their God In Scotland The casting out of that Popish Service-book and Prelacy Their first and second unbloudy victories over those formidable preparations for warre which were brought to their very borders to have forced the yoke of both upon their necks That yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear Oh what exploits were these They will tell you more In England for I must touch but one of ten of an hundred That little Parliaments great fidelity to God and their brethren of Scotland in refusing to contribute a farthing to that unnaturall warre notwithstanding all the threats and flatteries used to have corrupted them truely it was an exploit full of so much power and goodnesse of God as that it turned that dissolution which formerly had been a plague into one of the greatest mercies that ever England received The sence whereof while others were mourning for that untimely breach fil'd me with so much joy as that I professe I felt not that day the ground I went on while I could blesse God and blesse that Parliament with the words of Phineas the son of Eleazar the Priest Josh 22.31 to the two Tribes and an half This day we perceive that the Lord is amongst us because you have not committed this trespasse against the Lord now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord. Ireland we may fear is even almost destroyed for that sin amongst others Certainly Brethren had they contributed but six-pence to that warre eo nomine