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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

6.14 pro confessione unitatis divinae Therefore thou mayest carry thy life in thy hand securely Words worthy to be engraven upon the palms of the hands of all those whither Commanders or Souldiers that fight the Lords battells But what shall I need to multiply words Sir you have exprest too much faith and resolution to bee out-dared by any difficulty in the cause of God and your Countrey Go therefore in this thy might thou mighty man have not I sent thee saith God And let the sword of the Lord and of Brereton be as dreadfull as once the sword of the Lord and of Gideon that you may smite your enemies as one man Sir while you are fighting abroad this shall be the prayer of him among thousands at home who humbly craves leave to let the World know he is Your humble servant in all Gospel-Offices Tho Case Gods Rising HIS Enemies Scattering PSAL. 68.1 2. Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered let them that hate him flee before him THis Psalm is a Song of triumph composed by David that is cleer from the Title To the chief Musitian or the Master of Musick a Psalm or Song of David composed and sung upon their day of Thanksgiving for the bringing home of the Ark that Sacrament of Gods presence from the house of Obcd-Edom and the setling and fixing of it in its own place in the midst of the Tabernacle which David had pitched for it of which you may read 2 Sam. 6.17 this is the most probable conjecture of the best Interpreters In this Psalm as he doth Historically celebrate the many famous victories and spoils wherewith God had gratiously and even miraculously crowned his Government and so the Argument of this Psalm is the same with the 60. Psalm So also Prophetically he doth celebrate the happinesse and glory of the Evangelicall Church under the government of the Lord Jesus Christ rising from the dead spoyling the Kingdom of sin and Satan and leading captivity captive for upon that triumph doth the Apostle expound some passages of this Psalm in Ephes 4.8 The Psalmist begins his Song with the words which Moses used Vers 35. when the Ark set forward Numb 10.35 36. And it came to passe when the Ark set forward that Moses said Rise up Lord and let thine enemies be scatter'd and let them that hate thee Vers 36 flee before thee And when it rested he said Return O Lord unto the many thousands of Israel Which words Moses leaving as a modell of prayer and a prop of faith to all succeeding generations were most proper for Davids purpose in bringing home the same Ark into its resting place And he useth these words by way of prayer and triumph petition and thanksgiving Wherein is contained such choise provision had I skill to dish it out unto you as though it be a fasting day would present you with a spirituall feast for soul repast I must not stand to Analyse the Psalm that which entertains us at the very threshold being of such fulnesse and variety as the straits into which the distractions of this day doth cast us will hardly suffer to take a taste of every particular There offer themselves to our view Doctrins these six Observations from the words First The Church of God ever had and will have enemies and haters For against these doth the Psalmist arm himself and the Church with this Prayer Secondly The Churches enemies are Gods enemies they that hate the Church hate God Thine enemies them that hate thee Thirdly God sometime seems to sleep or lie still and let these enemies and haters do what they will for a season this also is implied He to whom we say Arise is either asleep or lies still Fourthly There is a time when God will arise Fifthly Gods rising time is the enemies scattering time his haters flying time Sixthly It is the duty of Gods people to pray him up when he seems to bee down and to exalt him in their praises when hee doth arise to their rescue and redemption For these words are both a prayer and a triumph as they are used both by Moses and David You see I have prepared more work then I shall bee able to finish in the time allotted me for this service Give me leave therefore to preface but a little upon the three former And I will sit down upon the three latter in the main body of my discourse The Church of God hath Enemies Haters When she was in her Infancy and in so narrow a compasse Doctrin 1 that the two first Parents of the world had yet but two sonnes of whom the Scripture takes notice one was the Church the other an enemy the one a Saint the other a malignant 1 Joh. 3.13 an hater that hated him even to fratricide As the Church multiplied her enemies multiplied also yea so over-multiplied her that in the 74. Psalm ver 19. it is but one poor Turtle-dove against a multitude of wicked enemies haters Lo yonder you may see heapes of them gathered together Psal 83.6 7 8. The Tabernacles of Edom and Ishmaelites of Moab and the Hagarens Gebal and Ammon and Amaleck the Philistines with the Inhabitants of Tyre Assur and the children of Lot Evill Beasts enough one would think to have devoured one poor Turtle-dove In our Saviours time they were grown into a world-full of enemies Joh. 15.19 The world hateth you If any should demand with Pilate Why Ground what evill hath the Church done She may answer with David Psal 69.4 They hate me without a cause It is a causelesse enmity and hatred the Lord knows But if you will have a cause Reason Hee shall give it you that best knew what it was Christ himself Joh. 15.19 Because you are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you There is a secret malignancie in the men of the world as there was in Cain to see others chosen and beloved of Christ and themselves rejected Reason 2 If you would dig to the root of this venemous hatefull weed Gal. 3.16 you shall finde it to bee the same seed which the old Serpent hath spawned into the children of disobedience The true Church and the Malignant are begotten and born of a contrary seed the seed of the Serpent who is the Devill and the Seed of the Woman which is Christ and these hate one another with the purest hatred because their principles be most contrary and most active The one of God who is summe activus as the Schooles speak a pure simple act most vigorous and operative and the other of Satan who in the highest sphere of created beings is a most subtile and active Spirit The principles of hatred in all other creatures are of a far lower and duller mould and motion and their Antipathy and hatred is nothing so immortally mortall these hating and hated of one another not onely to death but in

death and beyond death to all Eternity Vse I would commend from this obeservation Vse this one Cavtion There is no time then for Gods people to be secure since they live among Enemies and Haters and the neerer they meet in their Relations the more is the enmity and hatred intended So you shall observe there is no such enmity between man and the Bruit Creatures as there is betweene man and man Among men there is no such enmity and hatred between Heathens and Christians as there is betweene Christians and Christians among Christians no such antipathy between Papists and Protestants as there is between Protestants and Protestants At this day no hatred so mortall no Enemies so Irreconcileable as the Malignant Protestants and those whom they scorne by that New-name Rowndhead that poor despised partie that stand up for Reformation The Protestant indeed The reason is because the neerer men meet in aliquo tertio in their relations or Profession and yet differ as in the Principles of their Natures as before so in the Nature of their Principles or opinions the more reproach and odium they conceive that difrence reflects one upon another and so the more impatient and implacable are they rendered Contraries the neerer they come together the more eminent is their difference and the greater their conflict and contention This puts the people of God into a dangerous posture the malignant partie alwaies having made the major part in the World in the Christian World and yet it is wonderfull to consider how hardly Gods people are brought to entertain reall and seasonable thoughts of the worlds desperate and devillish intentions towards them Is it not with them as it was once with Gedaliah when Intelligenct by Jonathan the son of Kareah of a bloody Massacre contrived against him and the poor Jewes under his command he would not beleeve it but for his paines gives him the lye Thou speakest falsly of Ishmael Ier. 40.13.16 Were it not a strange folly in a people to let Lions and Bears and Wolves and Leopards run up and down in the streets and high-waies unchain'd and unmuzled and say Ier. 5.6 they will do no harm And hath not God branded Malignant Spirits with these names in Scripture What a strange security hath seized upon us Surely the children of the world are wiser in their generations then the children of light would they have dealt so beleevingly with us had they had us at that advantage that we have had them Did they when they had it Innocence you know is credulous but credulity is not alwaies innocent It is a noxious weed though it grow upon a good soil I wish it may not be suffered to grow too ranke We do somewhat but it is not till our Enemies force us to it when we must either kill or be killed We do somewhat but it is by halfes and peece-meals what they do they do in earnest we do as if we were in jest Do we bestir our selves to save as the Enemies do to destroy It is well we have a God or else our security and slendernesse of spirit would certainly undoe us and had undone us long before this time Be instructed Oh England lest Gods Soul depart from thee Ier. 6.8 for if while we trust and spare them we be found to tempt and weary God we way expect to hear that sad Newes from heaven that Ahab did Because you have let go out of your hands a people whom I have appointed to destruction 1 Kings 20.24 Your Kingdome shall go for their Kingdome and your lives for their lives Now the Lord awaken our Spirits to a timely prevention of such a doom and divert it from us I come to the second Doctrine Doct. 2 The Churches Enemies are Gods Enemies they that hate Gods people hate God himself There is hardly any language more frequent in Scripture Psal Psal 21.8 21.8 thine hand shall finde out all thine Enemies thy right hand shall finde out those that hate thee Psal 83.2 Loe thine Enemies make a tumult and those that hate thee have lift up the head Why wherein did they shew themselves the Enemies and haters of God It followes ver the third They have taken crafty counsell against thy people consulted against thy Hidden ones and said Come let us cut them off from being a Nation c. Their Malignant Counsels against Gods people was nothing else but a paraphrase of their malice against God himself for so yet it followes more expressely vers the fifth They consult together with one consent they are confederate against thee thee and thine them and thee go hand in hand The Grounds of this may be Grounds First the mutuall interest that God and his people have one in another Master and Scrvant Father and Children Husband and Wife Head and Members these are the usuall titles by which this mutual relation is exprest in Scripture and among all the members of the body the tenderest is chosen to expresse the interest that Gods people have in his compassion and love The Eye Zech. 2.8 He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of mine eye The least violence will offend that member what is done to the Eye presently is at the Heart wicked men cannot hate gods people but God must needs be very sensible of it they canot be Enemies to them but they must be Enemies to God himself Especially since they are found by our Saviour not onely to hate them in these relations but for these relations not onely being the Servants and Children and Spouse and Members of Jesus Christ but because they are so because ye are not of this world but I have chosen you out of the world Iohn 15.19 therefore the world hateth you Because that is crime enough that they belong to Jesus Christ Secondly The Quarrell wherein God is as deeply interested as his people Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee that it may be displayed because of the Truth Psal 60.4 A Banner is the Embleme of Victory Victorie implies Battell but what was the Quarrell The truth The truth of Doctrine The truth of Religion The truth of Discipline The truth of Government in all these God is as much or more concerned then his people Truth is the Truth of God and God is the God of Truth and thefore they that are Enemies to Gods people for the truthes sake are Enemies to God himself they that hate them for the truths sake hate God also whose truth it is look into all the Battells of the Church since Christs time to this day and you shall finde the Quarrell to have been some-what about Christ himself While Christ was yet upon the Earth the Quarrell was about the Birth of Christ in the next ages the Quarrell was about the Person of Christ in the succeeding Age concerning the Natures of Christ then about the Offices of Christ And now in our dayes about the life and Government of

Christ In a word the first battell that ever was fought was in heaven Between Michael and his Angels and the Dragon and his Angels And look what the Quarrell was there the same you shall finde it ever since though fought in a lower ground and that is Who shall be God I will be God said the proud Angel my throne shall be above the Throne of God And so saith Antichrist unto this day I will be God t is his very Character in 2 Thes 2.4 He opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God And this is the language of every wicked man he that saith I will not when God saith do he that saith I will when God saith do not Oh do not this abominable thing that I hate he saith by interpretation I will be God Oh did you but understand the blasphemous language of sin you would not suffer it to harbour one hour longer in your bosoms the truth is the Enemies of Gods truth and people would not onely have the Sword off from Christ his thigh the Scepter out of his Hand the Crown off from his Head but his very life out of his heart not un-scepter him only but un-essence him If sin and sinners could helpe it God should be God no longer And now Christians they that are Enemies to Gods people upon these termes are they not Enemies to God himself They that thus hate the Saints do they not hate also the God of the Saints Vse Vse 1 If this be an invincible truth then First The more have they to answer for that shew mercy to these Enemies of the Church and people of God since God is concerned in the Quarrell more then they If the sons of Belial that are risen up against the peace and safety of the Kingdome were our Enemies onely we might use our discretion and make what accommodation we please 1 Kings 20.41 but if these be Sheba's the sons of Bichri who are risen up against David yea against him who is the Son and Lord of David in that obstinate and implacable rebellion crying Nolumus hunc regnare come what will on 't This man shall not raign over us then surely we cannot compound the matter as we please without wrong to Christs Crown and danger to our own Heads Secondly Vse 2 Are the Churches Enemies Gods Enemies Then the more hopes we have Job 9.4 they shall not stand long who hath hardned himself against God and prospered As Jezebel said when Jehu came in at the gates 2 Kings 9.31 Had Zimri peace who slew his master So may I say Had Cain peace who slew his Brother Did Pharaoh prosper who hardned himself against God Had Saul peace who persecuted righteous David Did Judas prosper who betrayed his Master Did Julian prosper who blasphemed Jesus Christ Have the Enemies of the Church prospered No surely Why because they be Gods Enemies as well as the Churches Enemies to Christ his Kingdome as well as the Churches peace whose doom is long since past and shall be in due time executed And those mine Enemies that would not have me reign over them Luke 19. ●● bring them hither and slay them before me Surely this day of vengeance is in Christs heart and their judgement slumbreth not is not the sound of its feet at the very dores They think they are wise and trust in their help Isa 31.2 But he also is wise and will bring evill and will not call back his word but will arise against the house of the evill doers and against the help of them that work iniquity Thirdly Vse 3 The more warrant and encouragement have we to set upon God for their destruction a mighty advantage in prayer There is a question Whether we may pray for the destruction of our Enemies or no This Doctrine will resolve it When they are our Enemies onely and sin Ignorantly seducedly then Father forgive them they know not what they do Luk. 23.34 Act. 7.60 2 Kings 6.17 And Lord lay not this sin to their charge Then Lord open the eyes of these men with the prophet that is Lord convince them Lord convert them is becomming langvage for Christians But when they discover their sins as Sodom when they make it apparent to all the world that if there be a God in heaven they hate him if a Christ and a Gospel they are sworne irreconcileable Enemies to both and that they sin Seducingly and out of malicious wickednesse Then O Lord God of hosts the God Israel awake to visit all the Heathen be not mercifull to them Psal 59.5 to them that sin of malicious wickednesse make their Nobles like Oreb and Zeeb Psal 83.11 12. yea all their Princes as Zeba and Zalmunna who said let us take to our selves the houses of God in possession O my God make them like a wheel 13. and as the stubble before the winde As the fire burneth the wood 14. and as the flame setteth the mountaines on fire So persecute them with thy tempest 15. and make them afraid with thy storm Fill their face with shame 16. that they may seek thy Name O Lord. Let them be confounded and troubled for ever 17. yea let them be put to shame and perish Pul them out like sheep for the slaughter Ier. 12.4 and prepare them for the day of slaughter Set thou a wicked man over him Psal 109.6 and let Satan stand at his right hand Where he shall be be Judged let him be condemned and let his praier be turned into sin though truly our Enemies will save us this labour for they pray not at all they deride and geere at prayer blaspheme the Spirit of prayer yea they themselves have turned their praiers into sin prayers into curses and forgive us our trespasses into fearfull and desperate invocations of Damnation in which case the Prophet feares not to follow them home with Curses 17. As he loved cursing so let it come unto him as he delighted not in blessing so let it be far from him 18. As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his Garment so let it come into his bowels like water and like oyle into his bones c. I say when they be Gods Enemies and professe themselves so to all the world then such expressions as these will be no breaches to the law of charity nor blemishes in the prayers of Gods people Provided that we look to our hearts that we be upright in this matter and that the enmity that these men bear and the blaspemy they belch out against God affect us more then the slaughter and persecution they breath out against our selves Peradventure said Jacob my father will feel me and if I seem to him as one that mocke I shall bring a Curse upon me instead of a blessing

presently the enemy fell a trembling 4. By arming the very inanimate creatures against them Sun Moon and Stars fire hail storms tempest earth water the whole Creation all prest to fight the battells of the Lord of Hoasts 5. By raising the spirits and courage of people above themselves to Lion-like Angel-like prowesse and unconquerablenesse of spirit so that he that is weak among them is as David who slew the Lion and the Bear and he that is as David becomes like the Angel of God who went out and slew an hundred fourscore and five thousand in one night Surely when the Spirit of God comes upon his people Armies and legions of Armies are not able to stand before them as you may see in Jephtah Gideon Samson David and other the Worthies of the Lord of Hoasts they cry Let us flee for the Lord fights for Israel against Egypt They perceive God filling the spirits of his people with invincible courage and taking their part and betook themselves to their heels Objection But is this all the effect of Gods Rising that the Enemies shall be scattered onely and his haters put to flight shall they escape by flying Answer No sure This expression implies more then a bare flight For you know in war the Routing of the Enemie is the first degree of their ruine when they begin to fly they begin to fall Psal 18.37 42. when once they turne the back and break their ranks they can make no resistance and then the Armies of God and the God of Armies pursues them slaying and beating them down with a great destruction as David describes it I have pursued mine Enemies and overtaken them neither did I turn again till they were consumed Vers 42. Then did I beat them as small as dust before the wind I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets And therefore David desires no more but to see his enemies retreat and loose ground and begin to flie he is then confident of the victory Psal Psal 9.3 9.3 When mine enemies are turned back they shall fall and perish at thy presence Do they fly Nay then I am confident they shall fall and never rise again So that in a word Hab. 3.8 flying is but put Synechdochically for their totall and finall perishing and destruction it must needs be so for sure they must fly fast whom God when he rides upon his Horses and Chariots of Salvation cannot overtake I come now to the Vse Vse 1 which shall be two-fold 1. Consolation or Encouragement 2. Exhortation or Engagement The first use shall be for Comfort or Encouragement for are these Gods Rising times and is Gods Rising time the Enemies flying time Then hence for our Encouragement we may take notice what time of day it is though as yet we cannot see the Sun of Righteousnesse fully risen in our horizon with healing in his wings yet we may make some hopefull conjecture and gvesse that it is about Sun-Rising Our God is Rising yea already upon his March Look over else all those ten Nowes or Times wherein God hath engaged himself to rise for his peoples Deliverance and tell me which of them do you finde wanting upon our Times 1. Doe not the people of God in divers places of the Kingdom as in other parts of the Christian world sigh and groan under their unsupportable burdens and oppressions Surely the cry of the poor and needy that are plundered and stript naked of their subsistence the crie of the poor captives that are made to serve the lusts and cruelty of the Enemies of God in their own houses the crie of the fatherlesse children and widdowes Lam. 5.9 who are wandring up and down in perill of their lives to seek bread to relieve their soules because of the sword of the wildernesse the cry of violence and oppression but above all the crie of Blood is gone up to heaven James 5.4 Gen. 4.10 and cries in the eares of the Lord of Sabbath For if of one righteous Abels blood God said unto Cain The voice of thy brothers blood bloods in the Hebrew cryeth unto me from the ground If every drop of Abels blood had a tongue to cry to God for vengeance then how much lowder doth the blood of more innocent persons then Abel had drops of blood in his body powred out in England and Ireland like water upon the ground crie in the eares of a righteous God against the Fratricidious yea and Parricidious Caines of our times Vengeance vengeance From heaven hath the Lord beheld the earth Psa 102.19.20 Our prisoners at Oxford even to hear the groaning of the prisoners c. his poor hunger-starved prisoners many of whom have given up the ghost for want of bread and others that surviue forced for hunger to rake the gutters and sinkes of their mercilesse enemies for a little stinking food to relieve their dying soules Surely all these sighs and groans have forced their way into Gods presence long before this time Though men do not hear friends cannot and Enemies will not yet God doth and will hear from the height of his Sanctuary Secondly In the mean time doth not the Enemy carry himself as if he were more then man Surely They are corrupt and speak wickedly concerning oppression they speak loftily they set their mouth against the heaven and their tongue walketh through the earth Psal 73.9 10. They will do this and they will do that and they will make the proudest of them stoop Yea have not some of them lately as if they had been God taken upon them to threaten the poor besieged people of God with Eternall fire Who yet within few houres after as the Psalmist speaks died like a man slain as it is conjectured by the hand of a childe Thirdly But thirdly are not these enemie and haters of God grown to a strange and unheard of height of cruelty Surly the very merceis of these wicked men ar cruell Plunderings and firings and down-right murders are mercies with this Generation of men shall I say or incarnate Divels Oh when the stories of these Warres in Ireland and England shall be reported to the world posterity shall read and look pale and be astonished and ready to give up the Ghost for anguish of spirit Yea Turkes and Infidels shall hear and be ashamed to see themselves so out-bid in cruelty by them that call themselves Christians and that one upon another The land before them is as the Garden of God and behinde them like a desolate Wildernesse Fourthly And weat is the Quarrell all this while is it not Religion and the Truth of God The truth of Doctrine the truth of Discipline the truth of Worship May not the Parliament and the Parliaments friends crie to God For thy names sake O Lord are we killed all the day long Surely had not the Gospel and the Government of Jesus Christ been precious in their eyes they might have compounded for

soul that seeketh him That is The Lord is better to such a people then victory The Lord is better then peace The Lord is better then trading c. The Lord is better to such a soul then a cure if they be sick Then enlargement if in prison then a Ransome if in the Enemies hand better then a Deliverance be they under what affliction soever Oh friends that you would study this Text that you knew experimentally this truth Yea Oh if you would but studie to know it truly well may the Lord himself be better for even a waiting frame of heart it self is better then any of these for all these are but gifts a waiting frame of spirit is a grace a people or person may have all these deliverances and perish never see Gods face but there is none that possesseth such a frame of Spirit but he hath God to be his portion it sprang from the fountain of Gods speciall love in Christ and it will carry the soul back thither again And therefore remember that counsell of the Apostle Iam. 1.4 Let patience have her perfect work There is a work of patience and there is a perfect work for to stay and waite a yeer or two for a deliverance is a work of patience to bear small trialls and great trials is a work of patience but to bear the greatest trials and to bear them as long as God will have them lie Chap. 5.7 8. to waite patiently till the coming of the Lord i. e. till he come and bring with him the mercie and Salvation prayed for and waited for this is a work and a perfect work of patience The Lord give us this and it will be the greatest kindnesse that God can do for us Well study it pray for it that as the trialls shall arise so our patience may arise also Psal 27. vlt. Let us be often renewing Davids charge upon our soules Wait thou on the Lord be of good courage and he shall strengthen thy heart wait I say on the Lord. Rise in your patience Seventhly Rise in your mutuall love one towards another God is Risen up against our Enemies shall we rise up one against another God forbid Hear the Apostle If ye bite and devour one another Gal. 5.15 take beed ye not consumed one of another Truly friends it were better the Cavaleeres should destroy us then ever it should be reported abroad in the world that praying Christians did destroy and devour one another it would be lesse scandall and reproach to Christ and his Gospell For the divisions of Reuben there are great thoughts of heart for the divisions of London and the Ministers and professors in London and elsewhere are great searchings of heart I professe to you Sirs I fear them more then I do all the power and policie of the blasphemous Enemie Yea I know they promise themselves more from our divisions then they do from all their own combinations Let us study I beseech you to disappoint and baffle their expectations To that end hear the Apostle most pathetically wooing of you Phil. 2.1 2. If there be any consolation in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the spirit if any bowels and mercies Fulfill ye my joy that ye be like minded having the same love being of one accord of one mind If you cannot hit it to be of one minde yet I beseech you labour to be of one heart why should we not One body one Spirit one Hope one Faith one Lord one Baptisme Ephes 4.4 5 6. one God one Father of all who is above all through all in all yea at this present One common Anti-christian Enemie One Cause one ende are not here Ones enough to make us one too I remember a sad complaint of Augustine of the Christians of his time and we are so unhappy as to revive it The Heathen saith he have many gods and false Gods and yet they can agree but Christians have but one God and the trve God and they fall together by the eares This was his Lamentation and this may be our Lamentation Christians you that love the peace and welfare of Sion labour to be healers of these breaches while too too many make it their designe to cast on ayle and I know from whence they are set on work even from Hell and Oxford make it your businesse to cast water on these coales least at length they break out into devouring-flames and there be none to quench them At least if the multitude should be so mad as to foment their own ruine yet let the leaders of the people studie to preserve the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace Oh that those Caelestiall Luminaries that shine upon inferiour bodies with so sweet and enlivening influence should look upon one another sometime with a Malignant aspect I could be contented with all my soul to give the best blood that runs next my heart for the reconciling of these uncomely unnaturall I had almost said unnecessary differences among Brethren were it not to widen that distance I would compose But there is better blood paid for this purchase already infinitely better blood and my prayer and hope shall be that that blood which hath been effectuall to the Reconciling of us to God the Father may be efficacious also to reconcile us one to another till we come into the unity of Faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto the perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ Well Arise in Love Eightly Arise in Holinesse Our Holy God is Risen let us arise in Holinesse let us labour to be holy as he is holy 1 Pet. 1.15 that an Holy God may finde us an holy people and take delight to walk in the midst of us and may not be ashamed to be called our God Heb. 11.16 we have contented our selves long enough with Formes Formes of prayer and formes of duties and * Rom. 2.20 formes of knowledge and a * 2 Tim. 1.5 forme of Godlinesse Let us now labour for the power of Godlinesse To be Christians in good earnest not in word only but in the purity and the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ Add to your faith vertue and to your vertue knowledge and to your knowledge temperance 2 Pet. 1.5 6 7. and to your temperance patience and to patience godlinesse and to godlinesse brotherly kindnesse and to brotherly kindnesse charity Christians study your additions be still adding duty to duty one grace to another one degree of grace to another and the exercise of one grace to another Content not your selves with your former stints in profession and with your wonted formes of godlinesse get Pauls ambition Psal 3.13 I forget the things that are behinde and I presse forward toward the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus Verse 11. If by any meanes I might attain to the