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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

and producing the same harvest In a word If you would in your greatest dangers but get so much leave and time of your Fears and Distractions as to read over these Psalmes the 104. the 146.147 and hear what stories of providence are told there to wonder and delight and then sit down and work the consideration of them upon your hearts Surely in spight of all the ods and disadvantages you meet with in the world and in your work and way whether publike or personall you might be able to come off with the Gallant Psalmist pardon the Epethite The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever Psal 104.31 the Lord shall rejoyce in his works and not only God will rejoyce but I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live I will sing praise to my God while I have my being Vers 33. Psal 146.10 My meditation of him shall be sweet I will be glad in the Lord c. And again The Lord shall reign for ever even thy God O Sion unto all generations praise ye the Lord. It is a very taking consideration to observe how in the midst of straits wherein the Church or the Psalmist himself was at the times of penning these Psalms He doth discourse himself into Faith from the very misteries of providence 2. But then contemplate God in his extraordinary works of providence towards his Church and people and from thence you might collect these six Observations Obser 1 First That the Churches despairing times have been Gods helping times Obser 2 Secondly That God carries on his designes not onely against but by the opposition and conspiracies of his cursed Enemies Obser 3 Thirdly That the Enemies have been neerest their downfall when they have held up their heads highest Obser 4 Fourthly That you never heard God complaining of too few you have heard him sometimes complainig of too many Judges 7.2 Obser 5 Fifthly That every turne-back in a deliverance is not the losse of the Designe Israel had many a turn-back in Egypt and in the Wildernesse and yet their deliverance was carried on Obser 6 Sixthly That even in these passages of Providence wherein God seems to fight against his people he is fighting for them Psal 31.22 and while he seems to reject their praiers he is answering them Honored Worthies and beloved Christians what strength would these and the like considerations well wrought in by meditation contribute to your weak hands and feeble knees But above all Thirdly If you would study to know God in the glorious work and misterie of Redemption by Jesus Christ there you shall finde these Heart-strengthening Soul-raysing wonders First The greatest enemies that ever the Church had conquered As 1. A Malignant World 2. An Enraged Devill 3. A violate Law 4. The violenced Justice of God and Lastly man himself afraid of nothing so much as of his own Salvation All these taken off and conquer'd Secondly The hardest difficulties that ever were heard of reconciled sc how Justice and Mercy might be both satisfied in mans recovery how the curse might be both removed and executed A Mother and yet a Virgin God and yet die Thirdly God at the greatest charges that ever was heard of to bring this about it cost him the thoughts of his heart from all Eternity before time and the beloved Son out of his bosome and Him the dearest blood out of his heart in the fulnesse of time all these were laid out upon this purchase Christians consider Hath the Church yet such Enemies to conquer hath God yet such difficulties to reconcile will it cost God so much now to redeem his Church people from death the wrath of men as did from Hell and the wrath of God And yet if it should I am perswaded God would not stick at it to do it the second time rather then his Church and people should perish But it needs not the price of all the Churches deliverances was paid in at the first purchase then it cost him the blood of his beloved Son Now it will but cost him the blood of his cursed Enemies upon whom the sentence is already past Those mine enemies that would not have me raign over them Luke 19.27 bring them hither and slay them before me The consideration of this work of God is of such a cordiall Influence that God stopt the mouthes and quieted the hearts of his people with the mention of it even when their hearts have been moved with fear as the trees of the wood are moved with the winde even with this word Vers 14. Behold a Virgin shall conceive and bare a Son and so again Isa 7.2 Mich. 5.5 This man shall be peace when the Assyrian come into the land c. And all this while this word was but yet in the promise a far off a Mistery a Riddle Oh what life and strength would it put into a languishing Spirit well chafed in by meditation * Now we see it in the full accomplishment Rom. 8.32 Isa 43.34 whereby the Soul come to it self again might resolve with the Apostle he that spared not his own Son but gave him up for us how shall he not with him also freely give us all things Surely he that Spared not his Son for the Churches Redemption will not now stick to say I will give men for thy life and people for thy ransome for certainly all other deliuerances are not worthy to be mentioned on the same day with this Deliverance of Deliverances Secondly As you should study God in his works so study him in his Word His Word of 1. Truth 2. Command 3. Threatning 4. Promise First The word of Truth Isa 40.15 and there you shall finde all Nations as the drop of the Bucket and the dust of the Ballance Alas what is lesse considerable then a drop of a Bucket for what is the Bucket to the Well and what is the drop to the Bucket behold the Well is neither fuller nor emptier for the bucket nor the Bucket for the drop Or what of lesse moment then the dust the small dust of the Ballance which turnes the ballance neither this way nor that way which is blown off with the least breath Now if all Nations be no more Then what is one Nation What is a wretched partie or a Faction in a Nation in an house Surely not a drop of a drop not the least imaginable part of a small dust Secondly Know God in the word of Command the sum whereof is be thou faithfull to the death Sirs Revel 2.16 God desires no more of you but fidelity look to duty and leave successe to God Thirdly Else hear the word of Threatning and behold it is set on with a Curse hear it Oh ye people a Curse not from the mouth of a passionate Preacher but an Angel from heaven the Angel of the Covenant Curse ye Meroz Judges 5.23 said the Angel of the Lord Curse him bitterly

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