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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

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

Seducers There is a people that are strong to do Eploites Seventhly It is the true saving Knowledge of God that keeps Christians true and faithfull to God and his cause The people that know their God You see all these flow naturally from the words but I must not follow them all I shall contract what I have to say into these two main Doctrines which ly in the face of the Text leaving you to improve the other in your own private thoughts Doct. 1. That a people or person who ever they be that live and allow themselves in any known wickednesse against their Solemne Covenants made with God will easily be seduced and corrupted by Flatteries to desert and betray both Church and and state Or thus more briefly Wickednesse against the Covenant will upon sutable temptations end in Apostacie from the Covenant Or yet shorter Covenant breach is the root of Apostacy Doct. 2. The true saving knowledge of God is the fountain and spring of all true gallantnesse of spirit and honourable Atchievements For the first wherein I shall be the briefer that I may have the more time to enlarge my self in the latter The Epitome whereof is Doct. 1 Covenant-wickednesse is the root of Apostacie You remember what treachery or cowardize I know not whether there was in a Battell or two or more what laying down of weapons what running away what a dishonourable Composition and Articles I remember not the day of the Moneth it was nor yeer of our Lord but I can shew you upon Record Psal 78.9 Psal 78.9 The children of Ephraim being armed and carrying Bowes turned their back in the day of Battell What was the matter Truly you cannot misse of it it stands on both sides the Text They were a generation that set not their heart aright and whose spirit was not stedfast with God so verse 8. that were enough but the 10. verse is more expresse They kept not the Covenant of God and refused to walke in his Statutes See Covenant-wickednesse was at the bottome of this base desertion and Apostacy I must not stand to multiply Instances you can tell where to furnish your selves with enough How can it bee otherwise Reasons 1 For first How shall they be faithfull with men that are not faithfull with God Will not he break with men that first took the boldnesse to break with God Will hee think you value other mens bodies and estates that puts no price upon his own soul I know in point of honour A Roman spirit may go far and do gallant service But I must tell you this withall I do verily think such a spirit was easier found in Rome then in Christendome my reason is because the principles of Christianity being purer and more active they will either build or blast what therefore such spirits do that love not and live not up with these principles for the most part it is but so long as their own ends and the service may stand together But bring them to a turning where they must part or bait such an one with a suitable temptation To which purpose seducers have learned of their father the Devill that great seducer to observe the complexions and dispositions of men and to suit the flattery to the affection Be it Lust bait it with Beauty Be it Covetousnesse with Gold Ambition with Preferments Timorousnesse with Threatnings Pride with Praise c. And boyle up the temptation high enough put ingredients enough into the golden Cup of Flattery let it sparkle in the glasse let it be as vigorous and rich as the mans spirit is and it is not one of ten thousand but with skilfull sollicitation observing of opportunities and a little patience especially if there appear advantage on the enemies side and fair probabilities of possessing the golden apple of temptation will bee wrought off to base and treacherous compliances with the enemies of Religion and civill Liberties All the while the man is higher then the Temptation he stands and doth you it may be as good service as the man after Gods own heart but let the Temptation be above him flatter him high enough and upon a deliberate act of Judgement he shall betray all the trust that Church or State hath committed to him I say for the most part you shall find it so For secondly How should he be able to stand at such a time since he wants a bottom Our Saviour hath exprest it under a double Metaphor of a Root Matth. 13.6 of a Foundation Matth. 7.25 26. He is not well earth't he must needs wither when the beams of temptation do scorch hee is built upon the sand of his own Resolutions or Imitation of others or Self-ends when storms beat and winds blow when all these out-bid this mans principles hee must needs come down with a vengeance Thirdly With a vengeance indeed for for the most part there is divine vengeance in it there is a poenall hand of divine Justice in it 2 Thess 12.11 punishing sin with sin want of love to the truth with giving up to beleeve lies unsoundnesse in profession with apostacy from profession wickednesse against the Covenant with rejection of and defection from the Covenant The saddest judgement of all the dregs of the cup an infallible forerunner of finall rejection without speedy and mighty repentance Would you know how to improve this truth Vse 1 Vse First then it may serve to discover the cause of so much Apostacy and treachery as may be beheld in the world Mark Apostates observe them whom you see fall like lightning from heaven or like the Angels that kept not their first estates for the most part ye shall find them a wicked prophane generation that did wickedly against the Covenant whom no oaths nor protestations nor covenants could bind to their good behaviour they lived in a continuall contradiction to their Vows and Covenants Psal 50.16 They took the Covenant of God into their mouthes but they hated to be reformed 2 Pet. 2.17 Or if they seemed to be Cedars they wanted root if they appeared as stars they were not fixt but wandring stars Jude 13. blazing Comets that make a blaze for a time but go out in a smoak yea without repentance in utter darknesse Vse 2 Secondly The more wary had you need bee in your elections who are trusted to make choice of those persons that are to bee employed in places of Publike trust and employment whether for Church or State They that in such Elections Martiall Magisteriall Ministesteriall or what else you can think on Chuse for honour greatnesse relations or any other private interests and advantages and lay Religion aside they chuse not as God chuseth who in his choice of a Governour over his people chose for nothing in the world but for fidelity 1 Sam. 13.14 Hee sought him a man after his own heart that should performe all his counsell It is a thousand pities that the hearts of

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

they had envolved the Land in guilt the guilt of blood and brought God as an enemie upon us I could tell you more of this but I must proceed The calling of this Parliamont which like another Phoenix sprang out of the others ashes Your pulling down of the Star-Chansber and high-Inquisition that Mizpah and Tabor those Mountains of prey Hosea 5.1 and Dens of Theeves Your casting out of the Prelacie first out of the House of Lords and now we hope out of the Lords House The unburthening of the back of the State and neck of the Church of unsupportable Monopolies Slavery and Superstition The dispossessing of many Places and Offices both in Church and State of enemies to both and placing faithfull men in their rooms especially in this City The famous atchievements in your Martiall affairs at Edge-hill Gloucester Newbery * Neer Stafford Salt-heath Cheshire Lancashire York-shire and now of late in Pembrokeshire and other places thereabouts with this late victory in the West for which wee are met together this day to praise God These and many more for as I said I can touch but one of ten of an hundred Oh what exploits have they been of all which we may truely say as that our Noble and worthily honour'd Generall spake of that one at Edge-hill Never was there lesse seen of man nor more of God Surely our salvation hath been of the Lord his blessing hath been upon his people The Wonder-working God hath done all these works of wonder and mercy for us Witnesse these five Demonstrations First That we never came off with more losse and shame then when our expectations soared highest upon the wings of our own strength and preparations Secondly Nor ever had greater deliverances and enlargements then when in our apprehensions and in the probability of second Causes we gave all for lost God hath fashion'd all our deliverances and victories upon the Modell he shewed to Abraham what time he made a Covenant with him Gen. 15.17 The smoaking fornace hath usher'd in the burning lamp that is dark and sad and gloomy dispensations of providence have let in the bright and cheerfull heart-raising and soul-ravishing goings forth of our God for the redemption and deliverance of a poor languishing people Thirdly That all our deliverances and victories have been the birth of prayer Never did any designe of the Church ride more visibly and triumphantly upon the wheels of prayer wee may sing of prayer and the sword in this day of our rejoycing as they did of Saul and David in their triumphs The sword hath slain its Thousands but prayer its Ten thousands Fourthly That in all that hath been done both in your Parliamentary and Martiall exploits there hath been no lesse then a miraculous raising up of the spirits of men above their own naturall proportion so that as it was with the worthies whose Monuments stand in Scripture unto this day The Spirit of the Lord came upon Samson and the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephta and David c. So hath it been in our conflicts the Spirit of the Lord hath come upon our Noble Generall Commanders The Spirit of the Lord hath come upon our Gallant Gentlemen Young men faithfull Countrey men Renowned Citizens so that he that was weak among them is as David and he that was as David hath been as the Angel of the Lord. Even then when our Armies have been weary and tyred feeble and faint as once David himself was Some have retreated others it may be fled and the state of the Battell very doubtfull and dangerous yet even then hath the Spirit of God come upon them Zach. 4.6 In all which that word hath been made good Not by might nor power but by my Spirit saith the Lord. Fifthly That whereas the counsells of the Enemy run all in one channell with one free and unanimous Vote against Christ and his people You have strugled and I wish I might say onely you have not only against a torrent of opposition from the open professed Enemy but with the secret tides and streams of crosse Malignant Councells and projects among your selves almost in all your Motions and Preparations throughout the Kingdome which when I seriously consider in my private thoughts I wonder not as some do that more is not don but am fil'd rather with wonder and astonishment that so much is done as is done and must needs break out with the Churches admiration and acknowledgment It is the Lords mercies we are not consumed because his compassions fail-not Lam. 3.22 23. They are renewed every morning great is thy faithfulnesse Had I not named this last of crosse Counsels I could have shewed you all these impressions of God upon the Deliverance and victory which we this day celebrate For first was it not in our despairing time when our hands were weak and our knees feeble Oh the opportunity of this mercy how seasonably it came in to refresh and revive our drooping spirits after that sad blow in the North wherein the hand of our God was stretched out against us how seasonably I say to stop the mouth of reproach and blasphemie in our insulting adversaries whom if God had suffered to have seconded their former successe with this dayes Victorie also surely the earth had not been able to have borne their words As with a sword in our Bowels Psal 42.10 they would have doubled and heightned their reproaches what is become of your fastings and prayers yea where is your God Yea Oh the patience and free-grace of our God which hath triumphed in this deliverance who when he saw us in our despondencies and despairings and might have destroyed us for our murmure and infidelity as he did the Israelites hath not only look't upon our affliction but pitied and help't our unbelief by so wonderfull and unexpected a reviving Secondly Look upon it under another advantage of the season namely as treading upon the heels of our humiliations and so you may behold it a double mercy A victory and the return of prayer which we may celebrate in Davids rapture Psal 31.22 I said in my haste I am cut off from before thine eyes neverthelesse thou heardest the voice of my supplication when I cried unto thee Vers 23. Oh let us follow it on with his O love the Lord all you his saints and I love the Lord because he hath heard my voyce and my supplication Psal 116 1. The hearing of prayer should marveilously endear our hearts to God And thirdly was there not a miraculous effusion of Gods Spirit seen in this Criticall day wherein the Enemies came in like a flood began to crie victorie our hands began to hang down our hearts to faint within us the day was well nigh lost Isa 59.19 and even then did the Spirit of the Lord lift up a standard against them by raising up the spirits of some that day to work with God for the turning