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

The Root of Apostacy AND Fountain of true Fortitude Delivered in a SERMON Before the 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 Psal 9.10 They that know thy Name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord never failest them that seek thee London Printed by J. R. for Luke Fawne and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Churchyard at the signe of the Parrot 1644. Die Martis 9. April 1644. IT is this day Ordered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament that Sir William Brereton do give thanks from the House to Mr. Thomas Case for the great pains hee took in the Sermon he preached this day at St. Margarets Westminster at the intreaty of the House It being a day of publique Thanksgiving for the great Victory the Forces under the Command of Sir William Waller and Sir William Balfore had against the Forces under the Command of Sir Ralph Hopton And hee is to desire him from this House to Print his Sermon And it is Ordered that no man shall presume to Print his Sermon without being authorized under his hand-writing H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I. Authorize Luke Fawne to Print my Sermon Tho Case TO THE HONORABLE and his highly Honour'd Friend Sir William Waller Knight Commander in Chief of the Parliaments Forces in the West Noble Sir TO whom more properly under that Grand Councell of the Kingdome whereof you are a Member doth the Dedication of these sudden thoughts belong then to your Worthy self who wrought with God on that day the Salvation whereof these poor labours together with a more skilfull hand were called in to celebrate in the great Congregation Sir I may truly say you made a great part of my Sermon and the better part too for while thousands there are of all sizes whose treacherous dealing in the Covenant of God comes in to bear sad witnesse to the former part of my Text and Sermon Free-grace hath so lookt upon you that you stand in the first division of those Worthies to whose fidelity GOD hath given ample testimony what exploits a people can do that know their God for certainly either you know God or else we know not you Darius once opening a pomgranate and being askt by a standerby of what he would desire to have so many as there were kernels in the pomgranate answered So many Zopyrusses Zopyrus was that valiant Knight and Commander who to get the City of Babylon possest by the Assyrians and besieged by his Mr. Darius caused his own nose ears and lips to bee cut off and his whole face and body so wounded and mangled all over that running to the enemies and making them beleeve hee was so used by Darius for perswading him to raise his Siege and remove his Army They easily giving credit to a relation that seemed to speak truth with so many mouthes as they saw wounds admitted him into the City and made him their Governour by means whereof hee got opportunity to deliver it and them up to his Master Sir If in the behalf of this poor bleeding Kingdom I might have my wish I would turn Darius his choice into so many Wallers You having run many as desperate though more innocent hazzards for the rescue of the Safety and Liberties thereof now captived by vile persons And this hath been your Honor God hath been with you and with those gallant * Noble Sir William Balfore worthy Collonell Brown c. Commanders and Souldiers that have accompanied you in this Service to whose Fidelity and Resolutions Parliament and Kingdome stand much indebted The Lord be with you still make you prosperous whithersoever you turn and cause his dread to fall upon his and your enemies that they may not be able to stand before you And when you have done your share in this great Service of God and the Kingdom He bring you back into the embraces of your Friends crown'd with Honour and Victory Interim if your grand employments allow you not time to read a period or two of this poor Sermon sometime do but cast your eyes I beseech you upon the Text and when you go forth to encounter the enemy lay it next your heart I dare say through the power of that Lord of Hoasts in whose Army you serve it will beyond all the witchcrafts and enchantments which some of your enemies are said to use render you invulnerable invincible in the day of battell which therefore as the richest present I can send you I humbly desire you would please to accept from him Sir whom your merits and love have made Yours Obliged to honour and serve you in all Gospell Offices THO CASE The Root of Apostacy AND Fountain of true Fortitude DAMIEL 11.32 And such as do wickedly against the Covenant shall be corrupt by flatteries but the people that know their God shall be strong and do exploits THe words hold forth a plot or practice wherein these particulars are considerable 1. The person practizing He he shall corrupt 2. The persons that are practized upon and they were of two sorts 1. Some prophane or rotten whose Character is They do wickedly against the Covenant 2. Others sincere and truely Godly and their Character is They are a people that know their God 3. The Engine vsed in this practise that is Flatteries 4. The success of this practice and that is different according to the disposition of the parties charactred before The prophane or rotten hearted party they were wrought upon corrupted by these subtile Artifices to betray their Religion and their Country The Well-affected and Godly party that are described to us by the knowledge of their God they remain'd not only vnconquerable but conquerors they were strong and did exploits Give me leave the Text thus resolved into its parts to open them unto you as they lie in this Analysis and I shall then close with those doctrinall observations that do naturally offer themselues to us out of the words I will be brief in the opening of them First then here you have the person practizing He And this take him literally or Historically was Antiochus Epiphanes younger son to Antiochus Magnus that vile person verse 21. where you have the first mention of him There shall stand up a vile person to whom c. Whom for his vile and bruitish turbulent and treacherous disposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 infanus furiosus Athen lib. 2. Polybius with the change of a letter or two wittily nick-names Antiochus Epimanes Antiochus the Furious or mad This vile person as he obtained the Kingdom of Syria which by right belonged to his Nephew Demetrius Vers 21. then but young by flatteries and treacherous insinuations pretending that he designed nothing but the care and protection of