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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

to the ground Are these smal things in your eyes 4. Self engagements Surely they cannot 4. What say ye to the Engagements which you have layd upon your own soules by your enquiry at Gods oracles Declarations Sacraments vows the Solemn league and Covenant Oh wilnot these speak lowd in Gods eares I and in your eares one day in case of neglect 5. Iustice executed on delinquents 5. The judgment of God executed by you upon offenders for their delinquencies against the state against religion I should be sorry their bloud should ever cry against you Yet I must tel you Jehu carryed the matter so in destroying the house of Ahab though God commanded it that while Jehu writes Justice God writes down murder I wil avenge the bloud of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu Hosea 1 4. Jeroboam rescues ten tribes and an half out of the Tyranny of Rehoboam and then betrays them to Idolatry he sins and makes Israel to sin Amaziah destroys the Edomites for their Idolatry and then worships their Idols 2 Chro 25 14. In all these you shal find it was not love of justice that did edg their sword but self-interests Reformation was not indeed their end but the setting up of themselves upon the ruin of an opposite party so dangerous a thing is it to dally with God 6. And lastly What say ye to your prayers 6. Prayers and in special to your late day of Humiliation for the spreading of Heresies and Blasphemies in Print now to all the world Wil ye fast for Heresies and spare them when ye have done Wil ye humble your selves for Blasphemies against God and Christ and the whole blessed Trinity and suffer men to blaspheme on What wil this be when it is interpreted Surely though fear may make men mince it at home the Churches abroad wil not be afraid to call it hypocrisie and mocking of God And be not deceived saith the Apostle God is not mocked Not mocked What is that That is 1. Not undiscovered Gal 6 7. There is neither clouds nor darkness wherein treachery or prevarication can hide it self from the piercing eye of God There is no imposing upon the Almighty And 2. God is not mocked impune No man shal mock God and scape scot-free What a man sows that shal he reap it is the Apostles own exposition of the place Fathers and Brethren let me not be mistaken I come not this day as your Accuser but as your humble remembrancer I am jealous over you with a godly jealousie the Lord knows you are dearer to me then that blood which runs next my heart and might it do Christ and you any service I could I hope as freely sacrifice it as eat my bread when I am hungry I know you have had many obstructions and hinderances But now I beseech ye gird up the loyns of your mind set your selves with all your counsel and strength to the staying and stoping of the grievous apostacy and whorish departure from God in the Kingdom and to reducing of it back again to the Commands Worship Truths and Government of the Lord Iesus Conclude this with your selves there is no work lies upon your hands of such concemment as this And for your encouragement know that though your troubles and distractions be great yet you have a mighty God to stand by you who hath promised that Jerusalem shal be built and the wall shal be raised Dan. 9 25. even in troublous times It relates as wel to Gospel-Reformation as to the full and final return of the Jews and the Lord make it good to you and by you 2 Branch of Exbortation to Ministers I would speak a word in the second place to the faithful Ministry of England Do you set your selves with the Prophets of old to the bringing back of this poor Kingdom so fearfully gone a whoring from God To that end 1. Take heed of healing the hurt of the daughter of this people sleightly by crying peace peace where there is no peace Take heed of daubing with untempered morter Take heed of false visions and causes of banishment but be faithful in discovering the iniquities and whoredoms of the Land If they had stood in my counsel and had caused my people to hear my words Ior 23 22. then they should have turned my people from their evil way and from the evil of their doings Behold this is the way to save the Land speak while ye may speak and I pray God it be not ultimus singultus morientis libertatis 2. Stand in the gap with Moses plead with Elijah pray and cry with Jeremy God hath not yet said to us pray not for this people if he had surely with reverence be it spoken we should not beleeve him Jeremy would not but even after the Lord had enjoyned him silence * Ier 14 11. pray not for this people he is at his intercessions again and again in the 13.19 20 21 22. Verses and all over his Prophesie Oh therefore Ye that make mention of the Lord ye that are the Lords remembrancers by special office and designement give him no rest till he establish and make this our Jerusalem a praise in the earth Thirdly and lastly 3 Branch of Exhortat to all Here is a word of Exhortation to all the people of the Land and that in the language of the Apostle Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief Heb 3 12 in departing from the living God In departing from the living God in his Truths Worship Commands Promises But in all these respects let us say with repenting returning Israel I wil go and return to my first husband for then it was better with me then it is now And for the encouragement of Parliament Ministers People let me remember you of that gracious invitation and promise They say if a man put away his wife and she go from him Ier 3 1. and become another mans shal not that land be greatly polluted but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers yet return unto me saith the Lord. There is much treasure in the place but the summa totalis is this God wil accept of a returning people or person upon those terms that the dearest husband in the world wil not It is very observable that when Christ was withdrawn from the spouse Cant. 2.17 she cries but once to him Turn my beloved but when she was gone from him he cries four times return to her Chap. 6.13 Return return O Shulamite return return Christ is four times as desirous and glad of our return to him as we are or can be of his return to us The Lord speak effectually to us that we may know and all the Churches may know that he is the Lord God 2 Kings 18 37 and that he hath turned our heart back again Amen FINIS

absurdity to say that Adams family was both a family and a nation and a world and all vertually so neither is there any false Doctrine in it to say that the first Gospel-Church was both Congregational and national and Catholique or Vniversal 4. Surely a national Church in our sence hath bin a truth about which there hath bin little dispute among the Reformed Churches even among them that have opposed Episcopacy there are many that have not so much as questioned a national Church Mr. Cartwright not only dedicates part of his labours against the Hierarchy to the Church of England but in his Catech. Ch. 3. Which treats of the Church having spoken of the Vniversal Church propounds this question What is the Church of one nation and answers it thus It is that which is gathered under one politique or civil government Mr. * He dedicates his whole book on the Rev. Sanctis Reformatis Britannicis Germanicis Gallicis Ecclesiis Brightman in his exposition upon Revelations 3. in his application of the Church of Laodiàea to the State of our Church speaks of it as one Ecclesia nostra Anglicana But time wil not suffer me to engage further in this controversie nor need I stand to make conjectures why some of later times do so strenuously deny such a thing as a national Church the reasons begin to discover themselves every day more apparently then other to all the world 5. And lastly This is plain enough to any that are not wilfully blind that where the partes constituentes of a thing do meet there you have the thing it self where God holds forth his Covenant to a Nation or Kingdom and they generally embrace and profess it there is a Church in a Gospel-sence and a Church thus covenanted stands in conjugal relation unto God 1. The greater is the honour which God doth put upon such a Nation or People Vse He hath not done so with any Nation Psa 147 20. sang David once of Israel before Christ he hath not done so with every Nation may England sing and what ever other Nation God hath or shal cause to approach so neer unto himself since Christ 2. And secondly the more sacred and invincible obligation lieth upon such a people to maintain spouse-like affection and to yeeld spouse-like obedience unto God to stir up and provoke themselves to be faithful in Covenant with the Lord to take heed lest there should be any root of bitterness springing up an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God Deut 29. which was the sin here charged upon Israel Heb 3 12. She went a whoring from the Lord And brings me to the second Doctrine Doct. 2 A Kingdom or people thus related unto God may possibly go a whoring from him commit adultery against him Witness the complaints of God concerning this people thus in Covenant with him in this Prophesie Chap. 4.12 Chap. 5.3 4. Chap. 7.4 with divers other per totum Yea all the Prophets bring in their inditements against this people under this notion and metaphor of adultery and wheredom There were no end of quotations Two things I would briefly speak to 1. What this whoredom is of which they stand indited 2. How it comes to pass that a people so neerly related unto God may become guilty of so great a wickedness For the first 1. All manner of sin is a kind of spiritual adultery against God What whordom against God in Scripture-sense is sin qua sin hath the nature of whoredom in it sin being nothing else as the Schools define it but a turning away from God and a turning to the creature Peccatum est everflo a deo et conversso ad creaturam Gen 1. ult Rom 6. ult Heb 3 12. a taking of that love and affection which is due to God and bestowing it upon the creature yea the Devils creature for sin is none of Gods creature God made neither sin nor death all that he made was very good but the Devil brought in sin and sin brought in death Sin I say is a departing from God to the the creature to a base lust Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband so have you dealt treacherously with we Ier 3 20 O house of Israel saith the Lord. It is an inditement layd in in reference to their sin and apostacy in general And thus corporal whoredom against the Covenant of marriage is also spiritual whoredom against the Covenant of God and pride is whoredom and drunkenness whoredom indeed they seldom are separated in the very letter and Sabbath-breaking is whoredom and all manner of prophaness is whoredom against the Lord. So it runs in this peoples charge by this Prophet * Hosea 4.11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart The spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err in the very next verse * Chap 5 5. The pride of Israel testifies to his face that 's branded with the infamy of whoredom too vers 4. * Verse 4. The spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them All manner of prophaness are but streams that flow from the poysoned fountain of an whorish heart an heart turned away from God and refusing to turn unto him again And therefore in reference to all these and more it is demanded with astonishment Isa 1 21 23. How is the faithful City become an harlot Wherein It follows it was full of judgment righteousness lodged in it but now murderers Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of theeves every one loveth gifts and followeth after rewards they judg not the fatherless neither doth the cause of the widdow come unto them See perverting of justice rebellion robbery covetousness bribery mercilesness all these are Whoredom But there are some special sins Special sins called whoredom in Scripture which eminenter and above all other are branded with this mark of whorish departure from God First 1 Idolatry Ier 20 20. Ezek 16 per tetum Idolatry is all over the Prophets stigmatized with the infamy of Wheredom and Adultery against the Lord not only because for the most part they go together but especially as this is indeed a proper whoredom against the Lord in as much as it is the taking in of another lover into the bosome the setting up of a Rival God those expressions have much of the metaphor in them where the Lord speaking of their Idols lays this to their charge Thou hast discovered thy self to another then me Isa 57.8 thou lovedst their bed and thou hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by Ezek. 16 25. and multiplyed thy whoredoms i. e. Committed Idolatry with all the false gods of the heathen round about Idolatry is the taking in of a strange god as it were into the bed of loves therefore hath God set his name of jealousie upon that Command which forbids Idolatry 2 Command because it is the proper

repented for the plague of grashoppers And the Lord repented for the fire Yea how often is it repeated Ezek. 20. I lifted up my hand i. e. as if he were fetching his blow to smite them and to smite but once or as if he had sworn their destruction lifting up of the hand signifies both But I wrought for my name Ver. 14. Mine eye spared them from destroying them Vers 17. I withdrew my hand Vers 22. c. Now brethren to see a God repenting over a people and to see a people not repenting before their God to see God repenting of the evil of punishment and a people not repenting of the evil of sin Gods repentings are Israels revivings Ezra 9.8 and when he revives comforts to their spirits for them to revive grief to his spirit oh who can take the demensions of this aggravation 4. Israel sins against Gods pardoning love Mich 7,18 He pardons the mixt multitude in the Church with a passing-by-pardon a pardon of forbearance he pardons his own in Covenant of grace with a blotting-out-pardon a pardon of forgetfulness I wil be merciful to their sins and remember their iniquities no more Ier 31 34. Psa 78 38. But he being ful of mercy forgave their iniquity Oh now to sin against this love while God is ful of mercy for Israel to be ful of sin God pardons and they sin they sin and God pardons and again pardons and they again sin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Multiplicabit ad parcendum Isa 55 7. For God to add to multiply pardons and they to add to multiply sin for this indeed rejoyce not Oh Israel with joy as other nations They sin not against Gods pardoning love 5. Israel sins against Gods parental love Ier 31 20. Is Ephraim my dear son is he a pleasant child Therest of the world sin but in the capacity of bastards slaves creatures at best Ephraim sins in the capacity of a child a son a dear son a pleasant child the child hath more cause to mourn and lament then the stranger this is an aggravation that heaven and earth must hear of Esa 1 2 Hear O heavens and give ear O earth for the Lord hath spoken I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me 6. Yea Israel all this while sins against Gods conjugal love Turn Ier 3 14 O back-sliding children for I am married to you saith the Lord. Behold a Father married to his Children behold God stands to his Church in relation of both Father and Husband and yet she rebels hath any Nation such cause to mourn I could tell you moreover of 7. Gods protecting love 8. His providing love he provides like a Father like an Husband for his Church and people c. Against all which Israel sins But I must hasten Consult in the second place the Danger The danger of Israels sin and that also will tell you Israel hath more cause to mourn for her adulterous departures from God then any nation upon the earth What Danger Why Brethren Israel playing the Harlot is in danger of God jealousie 2 Command I the Lord thy God am a jealous God other nations sinning are in danger of Gods anger but Israel of Gods jealousie And jealousie is the rage of a man vt supra Is it nothing my Brethren to have a God angry yea even to Jealousie Consider I beseech you Gods Jealousie is 1. A stripping-jealousie Ezek 16 38 I wil judg thee as women that break wedlock saith God to adulterous Israel how is that Vers 37. I wil discover thy nakedness to thy lovers and they shall strip thee of thy clothes and take away all thy jewels all her Church-ornaments all her Bride-glory and bravery not only her silver and gold peace and plenty but Word and Sacraments c. Alas the Nations have none of these to lose 2. It is a withdrawing-jealousie the husband withdraws from the wife when he is jealous of her and wo unto thee saith God when I depart from thee Hose 9 12 3. It is a divorcing-jealousie a discovenanting-jealousie God said here to this whorish people Lo-ammi and Loruhamah Hosea 1 6 9 not my people not having obtained mercy they discovenanted God and God discovenanted them they cast off God and God and God discovenanted them they cast off God and God cast off them Many more particulars might be added but these must suffice And now tell me I beseech you hath not Israel think ye under whorish departures more cause to mourn and lament then any people under heaven Do any of the Nations sin against so much light Do any of the Nations sin against so much love Hath any Nation under heaven so much to forfeit by their sin as Israel hath They may feel his wrath but they are not liable to his jealousie The Nations may lose their flax and their wool their silver and their gold but they have no Ordinances to lose they have no Gospel to lose no Word no Sacrament to forfeit The Nations have no God to lose at least no God-a-father no God-an-husband to lose they may be unpeopled but they cannot be unchurched They may know what sword and famine is but they cannot know what it is to be divorced Rejoyce not O Israel for joy c. I but Gentiles are capable of hell are they not and is there any state worse then that Object 1. We speak of Israel especially in reference to her Church-state and condition of which she is capable in this life Answ 2. If we speak of hell Israel that is the generality of the visible Church are in as much danger of that as the Gentiles yea more tribulation and anguish Rom 2 8 9. indignation and wrath to the Iew first and also to the Gentile Yea certainly a deeper place in Tophet is reserved for apostate Israel then for the poor pur-blind Gentiles when the Gentiles shal but swim upon the surface of that burning lake Israel shal be sunk into the midst of those devouring flames It shal be easier for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of Judgment then for Capernaum 3. And lastly Even the very Elect of God Israel according to the spirit and promise if they be defiled with the pollutions and whoredoms of the rest and carryed down the stream of apostacy whether in Doctrine or Conversation it may cost them dear God may put such a cup into their hand to drink a cup of trembling and spiritual desertion which for a time may be worse then all the plagues of Aegypt and as it were the very skimmings of the bottomless pit VSE First It may inform us what an horrid and hateful sin Adultery is before God in as much as of all sins the wisdom of God hath made choyce of that sin for a type and metaphor of the great sin of apostacy from God the greatest of sins next the sin against the Holy Ghost and

is not only a degree to it but a spice of it In all the bed-roll of sins there is none found vile enough to make a shadow or representation of departing from God but this sin of whoredom the fittest emblem for that purpose in as much as it is a base and treacherous apostacy from the marriage-bed and the Covenant of God for so is the adulteress described Prov 2 17. She forsaketh the guide of her youth and forgetteth the Covenant of God Oh that as God hath set such a brand of abomination in the forehead of this sin this peccatum non nominandum this sin that should not be so much as named among Christians i. e. with complacency or delight Ephes 5 3 there should not be so much as word-obscenity among Christians I say oh that as God hath set his brand upon it so Authority would set their brand upon it too and make it as odious and formidable in the punishment as it is and should be to us in its own nature When the government was immediately in Gods hands he punish't it with death and why it should not be so in our polity I know not I am confident that law as it hath been often propounded so it had been long since established in this Kingdom had not guilt and love of that abominable filthiness stood in the way But 2. Hence we have to confute that lewd opinion that the Saints according to the new stile which all new opinions do write need not mourn for sin need not be humbled for nor troubled with any sin if at lest they can sin which is improved to that height that conferring of sin and mourning for sin is the greatest sin a Saint can be guilty of When alas the Spirit of God tels us here that no people in the world have so much cause to mourn and lament for sin as they have and you have seen the Doctrine made good by Scripture grounds and demonstrations As for those that can wipe off all this with the jeer and blasphemy of an old Testament Spirit I dare be bold to say and fear not the breach of charity in it let them be who they wil whether Teachers or Taught Doctors or Disciples they be of the number of the Apostles Separatists Iude 18. mockers walking after their own lusts sensual having not the Spirit they have not the Spirit neither old-Testament-Spirit nor new-Testament-Spirit for it was but one and the same Spirit of God that dictated both Testaments to the pen-men thereof all Scripture is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 given by inspiration 2 Tim 3 16 the breathing of God even the old as wel as the new For Prophesie came not of old time by the wil of man but holy men of God spake as they were inspired by the holy Ghost As for them that can wipe out an whole Testament of divine truth 2 Pet 1 21 with a wet finger without which the other may wel suffer a deleatur also the punishment of their blasphemy is Prophesied before hand without repentance God shal blot out their name out of the book of life Rev 22 19 I should talk more with these men who thus boldly and blasphemously deny humiliation for sin but that it would keep us too long from the work it self which is the work of the day and the Third Vse An use for humiliation 3. Vse Hunuliation Have not the Prophets of England as much cause to cry in the eares not of this Congregation only Englands Whoredoms 1. All sin and the improvements thereof whoredom drunkenness swearing Sabbath prophanation but of the whole nation Rejoyce not oh England for joy as other people for thou hast gon a whoring from thy God Surely they have witness first not only the continuance but the monstrous improvement of all manner of sin among us whoredom and drunkeness and swearing and Sabbath breaking and all kinds of prophaness is broken in upon us like another deluge and a worse deluge then that of water for better it is a thousand times better to see a people lie drown'd in waters then to see a people lie drown'd in sin yea better to see a people lie weltring in their blood then to behold them lie wallowing in their lusts Did the pride of Israel testifie to his face and doth not the pride of England testifie to its face Pride of Men Surely it testifies to the faces of men in that gallantry and bravery sumptuousness and gaudiness of apparrel that scurrility of hair I may truly call it loftiness and wantonness of gesture and that in these sad times of Jacob-troubles that England never equall'd in her most peaceable and prosperous days I say it testifies to the faces of men Women And it testifies in the faces of our women the Gentry and Ladies of our times I cannot say they are Black-Mores or Ethiopians Ier 13 23. for they can change their skins they can change their skins by painting but I may justifiably cal them Leopards for they wil not change their Spotts Spotted beasts they are and are not afrayd to come with their Spotts into the Congregations of God yea to bring them to these days of solemn humiliation wherein they should rather come Sprinckled with ashes and girded with Sackcloth Surely as an ancient Divine was wont to say they cannot expect that God should know them they do so un-make themselves from what he made them and if God shal say to them hereafter depart from me I know ye not these are not the faces which I made they are undone for ever Interim God may in a just judgment smite them with a Spot that cannot indeed be changed or healed with all the art of the Physitian and rend their faces and skins with an incureable scab as they now rend their faces with painting It is threatned by a God able to make his Word good for this sin of pride Isa 3.17 Therefore the Lord wil smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion and the Lord will discover their secret parts And what shal we say for other sins doth not robbery and oppression cruelty and injustice cry in the ears of the Lord of Sabbath Iames 5 4. Surely there is such an increase of all manner of sin and prophaness as if the windows of hell were opened and the flood-gates of the bottomless pit were pull'd up hell it self broke loose But alas if we look upon those sins which more properly and peculiarly are branded in the shoulder with the mark of whoredom How may we take up the Prophet Isaiah's lamentation and wonder How is the faithful City the faithful Kingdom become an harlot Isa 1.21 She that was accounted the chastest among the Churches for fidelity to the worship and doctrine of the Lord Jesus how is she degenerated into an Adulteress For 1. is there not Idolatry found among us Ye have pul'd down Idols