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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

to divide it self into these Ten distinct Branches whereof the two last shall bee the two Branches of the Doctrine that yet remains untoucht and we shall briefly winde up all in ten words First then If God be Risen then let us Rise in our Observations take notice what God is doing in the World and take notice what God is doing here in England For shame Sirs let not God arise and we lie sleeping in the bed of security and supine inadvertency Awake Barak awake thou sonne of Abinoam Awake Christians and observe diligently what God is doing either with us or for us It is that word which God himself causes to bee proclaimed before him when hee stirres up himself for the help of his Church Zach. 2.13 Bee silent all flesh before the Lord for the Lord is raised up out of his holy habitation Silence is the note or posture of exact diligent attention And this God expects from all the World Be silent oh all flesh much more from his own people when hee is risen out of his Sanctuary and gone forth for their Redemption as if he should say Peace be quiet stand still and behold the salvation of the Lord Observe diligently what God is doing How else shall wee bee able to pray As one sayes of Preachers they should take their Text from Gods works observe what God is doing and Preach upon that So I may say to Christians You should make Gods works abroad in the World the subject of your Prayers and Prayses at home observe what God is doing and pray upon it An Inadvertent Christian is an unpraying Christian How else shall you be able to know the Lord if you observe him not Isal 9.16 The Lord is known by the judgements which he executeth An unobservant Christian is an ignorant Christian Who so is wise Psal 107.1 and will observe these things they shall understand the loving kindnesse of the Lord. The Prophet had been discoursing of the works of Providence all the Psalm through and builds two Conclusions upon the Premisses First That it is a point of speciall wisdome to observe what God doth in the various and wonderfull dispensations of his providence Who so is wise will observe c. An unobserving man or woman is a fool Secondly That this observation is the next way to grow into the acquaintance with God and the knowledge of his loving kindnesse For By this means you may come to see all the Attributes of God his Wisdome Power Goodnesse Justice Unchangeablenesse shining forth in the wonderfull and miraculous deliverances of his Church and the stupendious destructions of the Enemies thereof By this means you may come to bee acquainted with the faithfulnesse of God in making good the promises And by this means you may come to bee acquainted with Gods love to you in the answers and returns of your prayers Wherefore since so much of Gods glory and your comfort is bound up in this duty let it be a mighty awakening call to your spirits to arise in your observations Secondly O ye people of God rise in your faith Is God up and shall our faith be down Is God risen out of his holy habitation and shall our faith lie in bed What a shame is it for Christians not to beleeve God further then we see him What a sad thing that after so many cleer discoveries of God in his word and works we should not to this day have faith enough to carry us from one miracle to another to bee tossed up and down in our hopes as if God were one day upon his Throne and the other day upon the threshold Christians let not the shield of faith hang by the walls any longer Behold the plots and conspiracies of your Enemies shall be given up to the hands of your faith there shall all your enemies be imprisoned more then in strong-holds and fenced Cities Let your faith bee fetters and prisons to your adversaries Do but study and observe what faith hath done and what Victories it hath been crowned withall in all Ages and your hands shall be strong God crowns faith because faith crowns God God loves faith above all other Graces because if God put a crown upon it Psal 115.1 the modesty of faith will come and lay it down at Gods feet Not unto us O Lord not unto us but to thy Name give the praise Why should your hearts fail you It is an awakening word and remember it I beseech you As for God his way is perfect Psal 18.30 hee is a buckler to all that trust in him q. d. Follow God in the way of his promises and providence and you shall finde no crooked turning in it from one end to another you shal not finde God stepping one foot awry The word of the Lord is tried there be millions of Saints that have tried it in all ages and will be ready to bring in their letters-testimoniall for the truth of it Hee is a buckler to all those that put their trust in him Hee hath been Armour of proof to all those that have trusted in his protection which hath rendred them invulnerable invincible against all the Gun-shot and Artillery of men and devills There is not a man to be found that can say I have trusted in God and hee deceived me no saith David Thou never failest them that seek thee Psal 9.10 The summe is thus much You may trug God if you will and be safe if not secure your selves better where you can Sirs I beseech you after so much experience of God both others and our own let not God have cause to complain of us as once of that people in the Wildernesse Numb 14.11 How long will this people provoke mee and how long will it be ere they beleeve mee for all the signes which I have shewed among them If after all this England should perish which God forbid this shall bee our Epitaph Matth. 13. ult Hee could not do many mighty works there because of their vnbelief Rise therefore in your faith Thirdly Rise in your courage and resolution for behold God is risen and seems to encourage us as once his Israel Fear not thou worm Jacob Isaiah 41.14 c. What can bee more inconsiderable then a worm and yet fear not thou worm Jacob fear not thou worm England A Worm and a God shall be hard enough for all the World Thou shalt thresh the mountains and beat them small and shalt make the hils as chaffe It is strange work that a Worm shall make with the Mountains when God stands by it It is the charge that God gives to all his Worthies and Commanders when they go out to Battell this is the Word FEAR NOT And indeed Brethren what is there in the Enemy that we should fear Why should we fear them that fear not God Their cause is damn'd there consciences are damn'd Do you not hear how they rave for their own