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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

the hand of Divine Justice doth so order the matter even here that it is the portion of base Apostats that while they betray their trusts they do more betray themselves That principle being written upon the breast of Tyrants though they love the Treason Amo proditionem odi proditorem they hate the Traytor while they cannot expect fidelity to their new Lords from them who came off with perfidiousnesse to their Olde But I shall not need to presse this Caution Remember the former and this will be ueselesse Fidelity in Covenant is the best Antidote against the Enchantments of Flatterers The Antithesis in the Text holds out so much to you which is the second main thing in the Text and comes now to be handled But the people that know their God shall be strong and do exploits from whence The second Doctrine is Doct. 2 Doct. 2 The right knowledge of God is the spring and fountain of all true Greatnesse and honourable worthy atchievements God himself hath sealed this truth with his own mouth while he hath made this knowledg of himself the ground work or foundation of all Glorying and rejoycing Thus saith the Lord Let not the wise man glory in his wisedome Jer. 9.23.24 neither let the mighty man glory in his might Let not the rich man glory in his riches but let him that glorieth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord which exercise loving kindnesse judgement and righteousnesse in the earth for in these things I delight saith the Lord Joshua and Gideon Barack Sampson Jeptah and David also Samuel and all the Prophets with all the worthies of God before and since Christ will come in like a cloude of witnesses to give in testimony to this Truth who by their knowledg of God Subdued Kingdomes wrought Righteousnesse obtained promises Heb. 11.32 33 34. stopped the mouthes of Lions quenched the violence of fire escaped the edge of the sword out of weaknesse were made strong waxed valiant in fight Put to flight the Armies of the Aliens But before I can demonstrate this truth unto you in the reasons of it I must of necessity cleer my way by satisfying these two Quaeres 1. How God may be known since he is said to dwell in an inaccessable light 2. What knowledge it is that will heighten a people to such atchievements For the first You may remember what Gods answer was to Moses his importunate desire that God would shew him his Glory Namely this Thou canst not see my face Exod. 33.18 for there shall no man see me and live Thou canst not see my face What is that Why the face you know Vers 20. is the clearest discouery we can take of a mans person the face is the full prospect of a man The seat of beauty his Glory And thus likewise by the face of God is understood the full and cleer discovery of God in his Nature Essence and Glory Now no man can thus see God or know God on this side Heaven it is an * Omne vehemens sensibile destruit sensum object of such transendent Majestie and Glory that the feeble eye of mortality is not able to bear it and therefore this faciall vision or knowledge of God is reserved for that time when mortality shall be swallowed up of immortality When the Organ shall be made strong and spirituall sutable in its proportion to such an excellent object then shall we see face to face then shall we know 1 Cor. 13.12 even as also we are known Aug. whereupon I remember Augustine hath this sweet rapture Ah Lord I can no man see thy face and live then Lord let me dye that I may see thy face In the mean time observe further what God tells Moses Thou shalt see my back-parts what are the back-parts of Jehovah Why you know Vers 23. that as the face is the full and cleer prospect of a man so his back-parts are but the darke and indistinct representation of him If I see but the back of a man I take but the confused and imperfect discoverie of his stature and proportion And such indeed is the best and cleerest knowledge of God that is attainable on this side Heaven we see but his back-parts as Divines say our knowledge of God here is rather Negatiue then Affirmative we know him rather by what he is not then by what he is This knowledge of God in his back-parts consists in these three things First In his Names Jehovah which implies as much as a Being consisting in it self and giving Being to every thing that hath a being Lord God c. which expresse his Greatnesse and Soveraignty and Supremacie over all the world Secondly In his Attributes whether 1. Incommunicable,2 Communicable as Almighty Omniscient Omnipresent immutable Wise Holy Faithfull Just Righteous Good Gracious c. Thirdly In his Relations as Creator Master Friend Father Husband c. All which I could shew you in Scripture but I must but touch these things in transitu Now this knowledge of God in his Names Attributes Relations Is threefold First Notionall or Historicall onely which consists onely in a bare intellectuall notion of a God whereby a man is able to discourse of such a Being as God is even no otherwise then of any other Being in the world although perhaps it have no existence in rerum natura as a Golden mountain or Elysium Fields c. Secondly There is a credentiall knowledge pardon the word James 2.9 I use it because a fitter offers not it self a beleeving knowledge and so the Divels beleeve and tremble Thirdly There is an Experimentall knowledge of God such as you saw described Jer. 9.23 When a man as he hath heard so in a proportion he hath seen Psal 48.8 what he hath heard and beleeved of God that he hath found by sweet and blessed experience to be in God namely that god is that glorious being and Soveraign Lord unspeakably full of Power Wisedome Holinesse Justice Faithfulnesse Goodnesse c. A Faithfull Creator an unfailing Friend a tender-hearted Father a never dying Husband this is scientia affectiva as the Schools call it an heart-affecting knowledge Quaere 2 Now for the second Quaere It must be a knowledge that hath all these heights and Gradations in it that must strengthen a people to do exploits Historicall or Notionall knowledge onely will not do it it is but a painted fire it hath no warmth or life in it Credentiall knowledge if it be but meerly an Historicall belief will indeed do somewhat it will dare a man much such an one will be afraid of doing against God But it is the Experimentall knowledge that will make a man a daring man to do great things for God and this is the knowledge in the Text The people that know their God know him and know him in his Relations know him and know him to be their God

of the state of the Battell whereby their brethren also were strengthened to returne and resist the rage and fury of the Enemie and to pursue it to a great slaughter and a totall routing and discomfiture of that proud daring Armie Well we may conclude That God was in that dayes worke of a certain and wrought wonderfully and immediately for the salvation of his people Surely so great a victory with so cheape a losse was more then Gods finger it was his Arme his right-hand that turnd the question of that day and the feares of his people into inconquerable courage and their mourning into triumph and rejoycings All that I have to do now is to bespeak you Honourable and Beloved that under this and other Deliverances and Victories we have and hope for as they were wrought by the knowledge of God so we would behave our selues as a people that know our God let us wear our deliverances as a people that are acquainted with God In the first place therefore 2 Sam. 12.27 28 29 30. let us carry it thankefully let us do with Christ as sometime Joab did with David who when he had taken Rabbah sent for David lest the City should have been called after Joabs Name and set the Kings Crowne very weighty and rich with precious stones upon the head of David Let us us this day bring in our Lord Jesus Christ and let not victory be called after our name but let His Name beset upon it The Lord our Righteousnesse and strength and the Crowne upon his head I have read of a King going by water who looking over the bardge his Crown fell into the water one of the Watermen leapes in dives takes up the Crowne and when he comes up above water puts the Crowne upon his head that he might use both hands to expedite his returne to the Boat The King proportions his reward thus for saving his Crown he allowes him a Talent but because be put it on he takes off his head thinking that head not fit to stand upon its shoulders that presumed to weare that Crown which was made onely for the head of a King my Politiques are not sufficient to Critick upon the Justice of such a censure Sure I am it will be the highest act of Treason in Vs if we shall put this Crown of victory upon our own head upon the head of our own strength or wisdome c. Which as it was wrought onely by the hand so it was made onely for the head of him who is the King of Saints and Lord of Hosts And the highest act of Justice in him if he take away not the Crown onely from our head in refusing to give us any more victories but our heads too from our shoulders by leaving us to their Execution whose mercies are cruelties Let us therefore with the Elders in the Revelation fall down before him that sits upon the Throne and worship him that liveth for ever and ever Reve. 4.10 11. and cast our Crowns down before him saying Thou art worthy O Lord to receive Glory and honour and power c. And therefore Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name give the praise if we stay till God come to demand his Crown woe unto us Secondly Let us carry it obediently Whoso offereth me praise Psal 50. last Glorifieth me It is some glory indeed to God and you have done well Noble Senators that you have set apart a day to praise God for this victorie wherein your resolutions have bin like that of David I will not offer to God that which cost me nothing 2 Sam. 24.24 You have not turned God off with a day that was his own before though it be a Sabbath dayes work to celebrate his praise for any Mercy or Deliverance being all the fruits of that grand Redemption which that day doth remember But you have sequestred a speciall day for a speciall Mercy and you have done well in it the Lord be blessed and the Lord blesse you for it but yet let me tell you from this Text This is not all nay this is the least part of that which God expects at your hands and at all our hands the main piece of praise is the Ordering of your conversations aright there is so much thankfulnesse in our hearts as there is holinesse and selfdeniall in our Conversations Without this Isa 58.5 Quasi sua offerent Deo seipsos Diabolo Bern. Infidelis disputat contra fidem Improbus Christianus vivit contra fidem c. as our Fastings are but the holding down of the head like a bulrush for a day so our thanksgivings are but the holding up of the head like a Reed for a day and wee are found guilty of that mockery Bennard speaks of to give our Sacrifices to God but Our selves to the Devill I remember Augustin comparing the prophane Heathen and vile Christian together makes onely this difference between them The Heatthen talketh against the faith but the Iewd Christian lives against the faith c. A poor difference wherein if either have the better it is the Heathen without doubt Let me invert it a little thus The wretched Cavalieres they swear against Christ The unholy Parliament-Protestant lives against Christ they blaspheme Christ in their mouthes these blaspheme Christ in their lives And tell mee Christians which dishonours God most their verball or our reall blasphemies and what do you think were it not better God should be dishonoured by a people that professe open enmity and warre against Christ and his Government then by a people that makes such profession of love to both Amos 3.2 You onely have I known of all the Nations of the earth therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities Surely our secret abominations are more hatefull to God then their open wickednesses which they commit in the face of the Sun And better truely were it for us to perish by the lusts of our enemies then to perish by our own lusts The lusts of our enemies can kill us but once our own lusts will kill us to the second death Christians our God doth not onely speak peace and speak mercies Psal 119.68 but he gives peace and doth good Thou art good and thou dost good In our returns of praise let us be like our God and not content our selves to speak our thankfulnesse and sing our thankfulnesse but let us live our thankfulnesse and do our thankfulnesse and be our thankfulnesse Let us take all from sinne and self and give all to Jesus Christ If this be our thankfulnesse I dare promise you in the Name of my God this shall not be the last Victory God will give us for so the Psalmist hath yet to tell you To him that orders his Conversation aright I will shew the salvation of God You shall have yet more salvations Psal 50. ult even on this side everlasting salvation Brethren look to your Conversations it is both your thankfulnesse and your salvation Thirdly Prayerfully This Victory hath been the return of prayer let prayer be the return of this Victory So David resolves Psal 116.13 17. I will take of the cup of salvation and call upon the Name of the Lord and verse 17. I will offer to the the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the Name of the Lord You that never prayed in all your lives now learn to pray and so help to fulfill that Prophesie Psal 65.2 Oh thou that hearest prayers to thee shall all flesh come God hath shewed himself willing to hear do you shew your selves willing to pray and you that have prayed double your prayers and with your Master Jesus Christ pray yet more earnestly Oh it is a sweet and a glorious thing when prayer begets deliverances and deliverances again beget prayer Fourthly and lastly Believingly Brethren let us lay up this fresh experience by us and learn to live by faith in the next tryall Shall wee yet distrust our God Shall wee yet make flesh our Arm The Lord forbid Surely the least that God expects and merits at our hands for this and all other miraculous Deliverances is this that wee should resolve with returning repenting Ephraim Ashur shall not save us Hos 14.3 we will not ride upon horses neither will we say any more to the work of our hands Yee are our gods for in thee the fatherlesse find mercie Christians let us remember this Deliverance and trust God as long as wee live God hath done these things of purpose to bribe and support our faith Psal 78 46 7. Brethren this will bee honour to our God when the Enemies shall see in our greatest disadvantages and dangers wee serve a God whom we dare trust And thus Brethren in carrying our Victories Thank fully Obedientially Prayerfully Beleevingly we shall behave our selves as a people that know their God and for whom God hath done so wonderfull things I could have been larger but that I was choicely prevented in the forenoon There is a gracious Promise made to Israel the Lord make it good upon England Israel shall cry unto me My God Hos 8.2 I know thee It is an harder matter it seems then ever Israel thought of or then we think of to know God And you have done well noble Senators that you have engaged your wisdome and zeal for the promoting of this blessed and blessing-knowledge of God in this * Westminster where is a Lecture every morning at six of the clock maintain'd by 7 godly able Divines place in the neighbouring City and in other places of the Kingdome so far as your power and opportunity have served you by removing those vile persons whose lives and preaching have tavght nothing but rebellion in Israel and putting such in their rooms that both in life and doctrine should teach people the good knowledge of the Lord. You have done well I say for you know him that hath said Wisdome and knowledge shall bee the stability of thy times and strength of Salvation Isai 33.6 And the good Lord so accompany his own Word and his own Works by both which hee now is teaching England with his own Spirit and presence that at length not onely these places but the whole Kingdome even all England may say My God I know thee Amen FINIS