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A81255	Spirituall vvhordome discovered in a sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, upon the solemn day of humiliation, May 26. 1647. / By Tho. Case, preacher in Milkstreet, London; and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Case, Thomas, 1598-1682.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1647 (1647)	Wing C843; Thomason E389_8; ESTC R201522	35,066	46

Parliament is trodden under foot the wall is broken down the destroyer comes in and without a rescuing arm of Omnipotence the Kingdom undone If the Lord wil give the Parliament an heart to be active for Christ and the Kingdom an heart to be active for the Parliament I hope yet to see it a flourishing Kingdom and you a flourishing Parliament The Lord Iesus ruling and triumphing in both which is and shal be the hearty and dayly prayer of Your unworthy yet faithful Servant in the Gospel THO CASE Reader thou art desired page 22. the last line but one in stead of conferring to write or read confessing of sin other mistakes there are not many unless they be literall SPIRITUAL WHOREDOM Discovered in a Sermon ON HOSEA 9.1 Rejoyce not O Israel for joy as other people for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God CALVIN conjectures that this Prophesie of Hosea as we now have it as the rest of the Prophesies was but the summary or brief heads of certain Sermons which at several times and upon several occasions were preach't unto the people of Israel and Iudah collected by himself and registred for the use and benefit of the Church of God This Sermon he conceives begins at my Text but the distinct time when it was preach't neither himself nor any other Expositor do hint That it was before the Babylonian Captivity is clear from the date of the Prophesie Chap. 1. Vers 1. Certain it is and that may content us saith he that the Prophet doth here bitterly reprove the extream obstinacy and desperate security of the people Calv. in locuen who by all the pains and unwearied labours of the Prophets could not be brought to repentance although their rebellions and apostacy were so visible that all the world might take notice of it However their incorrigibleness must not cause the Prophet to desist his duty therefore upon all occasions when call'd to preach before them he ceaseth not to reprove to convince to exhort if by any means he might happily awaken them to a timely discovery of their sin and prevention of approaching ruine and destruction Peoples obstinacy must not silence the Prophets fidelity Observ passion and short-spiritedness of all men in the world doth ill become them In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves if God peradventure wil give them repentance c. 2 Tim. 2.25.26 is the Apostles cannon to all the Ministers of the Gospel In the words therefore the Prophet doth call them to serious and seasonable humiliation and repentance for though the words seem to speak only a bare prohibition of joy and rejoycing yet 1. That was to convince them of reprove them for their unseasonable mirth and jollity that they should rejoyce when their God was so highly displeased with them for their manifold apostacies and the repetition of the words rejoyce not for joy or as the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hebrew rejoyce not to exultation is for the greater * Habet haec repetitio emphasin quandam i. e. majorem increpationem intempestive laetitiae Ribera in locum aggravation of their sin and the Prophets reproof 2. And again the words have a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in them they mean and import more then they speak out as it is usual in Scripture Rhetorick and so while they forbid joy i. e. carnal security and sensual rejoycing in creature-comforts they enjoyn the contrary sc mourning and weeping girding with sackcloth and rolling themselves in dust and ashes aversus es a deo ergo tibi lugendum est Jugiter non exultandum Corn. a Lap. in locum a constant and conscionable humiliation and walking humbly before their God And this is prest from a double Consideration Sin Wrath. Their sin against God Gods wrath against them The one expressed The other implyed Their sin expressed thou hast gone a whoring And Gods wrath implyed if thou hast gone a whoring God cannot choose but be highly displeased with your sin and yet more displeased with them for their security then for their sin And both these are yet further aggravated from the Relation which Israel had to God thy God which relation is set forth 1. Positively 2. Comparatively 1. Positively The relation of a spouse or wife and that is implyed in the sin which is called whoredom Whoredom or adultery you know is properly the sin against the marriage-relation Marriage is honourable in all and the bed undefiled but whoremongers and adulterers God wil judg Heb. 13.4 Adultery is the defiling of the marriage-bed and therefore some do etymon Adulterium quasi ad alterum the departure of the husband or wife into the bed and bosom of a stranger Here I say is the conjugal relation into which God had taken Israel implyed to the aggravation of her apostacy whereby her sin came to be Whoredom and Adultery against the Lord. 2. Comparatively With other Nations rejoyce not as other people Why Because though they have the relation of creatures unto God and of men and women yet they have not the relation of a spouse or wife Ye only have I known of all the families of the earth saith God to Israel Amos 3.2 i. e. with a conjugal knowledg other Nations may cal God Baali but they cannot cal him Ishi i.e. they may cal him my Lord and my Maker but not my Husband and my Redeemer they are his by Creation and common providence but not by Covenant and conjugal relation So that now here is the aggravation Other Nations may sin against God but they cannot commit adultery against God other Nations may rebell against the Lord but they cannot go a whoring from him This was Israels sin and the aggravation of it And as it was the aggravation of her sin so it was the aggravation of Gods wrath too that as I say is implyed for if Israels sin be the sin of adultery then Gods wrath must needs be the wrath of jealonsie and jealousie as it is the rage of a man Prov. 6.34 35 so it is the rage of a God anger red-hot wrath ad octo in the highest degree Therefore he wil not spare in the day of vengeance he wil not regard any ransom neither wil he rest content though thou givest many gifts Jealousie is as cruel as the grave the coals thereof are coals of fire which hath a most vehement flame c. Cant. 8.6 This therefore you see is the aggravation both of her sin and danger By all which the Prophet calls Israel now to sence of sin and humiliation for sin to be affected with and afflicted for her grievous departure from the Lord. And now the words thus opened would afford many serious and seasonable observations I shal resolve all into 4 Doctrines 1. A Nation or Kingdom in external Covenant with God stands in a conjugal relation unto God 2. A people thus related unto God may possibly go a whoring from