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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

spouse-like embraces and obedience of their first Husband Hose 2.8 Vse However the Contemplation of both these may be 1. A Startling and an awakening Consideration to all Christian Magistrates and governours to look about them that they do not suffer Churches and states under their hand to turn Apostate and go a whoring from their God as much as in them lies 2. A Caution to all in the words of the Apostle 1 Cor 10 12. He that thinketh he standeth let him take heed lest he fall But I shal have more ful occasion to speak to both these in the fourth Doct. And therefore I shall leave this and hasten in a word to the third Doctrine Doct. 3 Many times it comes to pass that Gods Israel lying under the deep guilt of whorish departures from her God in stead of being affected with and afflicted for her whoredoms doth securely and sinfully let out her heart to carnal jollity and contentments It was the condition of Israel here which the Prophet doth severely reprove and condemn and this was not the first time they did so was it not the complaint of the Prophets * Isa 22 12 13. Isaiah and * Amos 6 3 4 5 6. Amos And last of all Luk 17 26 Reasons the complaint of the Lord of the Prophets Iesus Christ himself What might the Reason be 1. Surely first there is desperate security at the bottom of it people in this case do wilfully shut their eyes against the discoveries and convictions of sin and wrath They lie in a deep sleep of security and take no notice how the things of their peace are passing by them Luke 19 42. 2. There is a mixture likewise of desperate unbeleif Behold I work a work in your days which you wil not beleeve though it be told you Hab 1 5. people do harden their hearts against all the predictions and intimations of approaching ruin 3. People do flatter themselves extreamly with their present prosperity and deliverances It was the Lullabie of this people here as Interpreters observe because garners were ful and wine-fatts ran over because they had great peace and rich plenty therefore they thought all was wel As long as people heare not from God in thundring and lightning they reckon themselves safe enough Wil ye steal murder and commit adultery Ier 7 9 10. and swear falsly and burn incense to Baal and walk after other Gods whom ye know not and come and stand before me in this house which is called by my name and say we are delivered to do all these abominations Behold theft and murder and adultery and perjury and Idolatry all put upon the score of deliverances Thou hast found the life of thy hand Isa 57 10. therefore thou wast not greived As long as people can live of themselves they wil lay neither sin nor wrath to heart Carnal minds take Gods silence for Gods consent his patience for his approbation these things hast thou done Psa 50 21. and I kept silence thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy self 4. A fourth ground or cause of it may be trusting to outward Church-priviledges placing confidence in the very being in external Covenant with God Behold ye trust in lying words that cannot profit Ier 7 10 vers 4. what were they why The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord are these Foolish people content themselves to hang on the outside of the Ark and think that shal save them from wrath both present and to come There is a dreadful Catalogue of sins brought in by the Prophet Micah against the Rulers and Teachers of this people They build Zion with bloud and Jerusalem with iniquity The heads thereof judg for reward and the Priests thereof teach for here Mic 3 10 11 and the Prophets thereof divine for money horrid Apostacy And could they hold up their heads under all these abominations yes as high as ever and overlook and scorn all the threatnings of the true Prophets no evil can come upon us they may tel us strange tales to make us afrayd if they could but we are safe enough evil wil not evil cannot come upon us why they lean upon the Lord and say is not the Lord among us Mark I beseech you because they had yet the presence of the ordinances of God they concluded they had also the presence of the God of the ordinances and thus they deceived and cousen'd themselves Vse Is not here more soul-humbling work for us Lord what is man left to himself But of this also in the next Doctrine which is the fourth and last Doctrine Doct. 4 Gods Israel under adulterous departures from him have less cause to rejoyce and more cause to morn and lament then any people or nation under heaven Rejoyce not O Israel for joy as other nations for c. There is a two-fold ground of it 1. In reference to their sin 2. In reference to their danger There is no people under heaven that can sin as Israel sins no people under heaven that can smart so for sin as Israel may smart first for their sin Israels sin hath more aggravation upon it then the sin of all the world besides There is a two-fold aggravation upon Israels sin of which the sin of other nations is not capable 1. An aggravation of light 2. An aggravation of love Gods Israel sins against more light and Gods Israel sins against more love then all the earth besides First Israel sins against more light they know more then all the world knows 1. Of God God reveals more of himself unto his Church Israel knows more God then he doth to all the nations upon the earth In Iudah is God known c. Psa 76 1 2. His attributes They know more of his names and attributes then the rest of the world do his name is great in Israel his holyness his justice his mercy his faithfulness his omnipotence his omnipresence his omniscience c. These he makes known to and in his Church more then to any of or all the nations in the world God mentions it as an high favour unto Abraham Isaac and Iacob I appeared unto them by the name of God Almighty an higher favour that he made himself known to his seed by the name Iehovah Exod 6 3. God shines forth in his Church in the brightness and deerness of all his glorious attributes and this is an high aggravation of Israels sin and Apostacy Howbeit then when ye knew not God ye did service to them which by nature are no Gods Gal 4 9. But now after that ye have known God how turn ye again c. This was a defection for which there could be no Apology made for if the knowledg of God by the book of the creature where Gods name is to be spel'd out but by dark and broken Characters be sufficient to leave the Gentiles

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

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without Apology or excuse Rom 1 20 how much more wil that knowledg of God held forth so distinctly and fully in the Church leave Israel without a word to speak for it self in the day of her Apostacy and revoltings from the Lord her God 2. Israel hath more knowledg of Gods wil His wil Rom 12 2 Israel knows or may know what that good and acceptable and perfect wil of God is Israel is the servant that knows his masters wil if he do it not this aggravates deeply 3. Israel knows more of the evil of sin The evil of sin Rom 3 20. Rom 7. by the law is the knowledg of sin yea the law makes sin appear exceeding sinful the Gentiles scarce know what sin is but in some very obscure and confused notions and yet sin is sin in them surely where it appears exceeding sinful there it must needs be exceeding sin 4. Israel knows more of Gods hatred of sin Gods hatred of sin Ier 44 4. how much his soul loaths it oh do not this abominable thing saith God to Israel which I hate And therefore if Idolatry be a sin in the Gentiles who think it to be a worship which God loves what is it in Israel to whom God hath expresly sayd my soul hates it If any man draw back draw back from my truths draw back from my worship draw back from my Commands c. my soul shal have no pleasure in him Heb. 10 38. Now Israel to the attaining of this knowledg of God hath a three-fold advantage Israel hath the book of the Word Psal 19 1. Verse 7 Ps 147 19 20 Psal 19 7 8. 1. Whereas other nations have but what knowledg the book of * works can dictate to them Israel hath the book of the * word He sheweth his word unto Iacob his statutes and judgments unto Israel And the testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple the Commandement of the Lord is pure enlightning the eyes The word doth not only give light but gives eyes too He hath not dealt so with any nation And if God hath not dealt so with any nation as with his Israel in dispensing light then can no nation deal so with God as Israel in sining against it 2. A second advantage that Israel hath above nations to know God is his works his works of special Providence The book of special Providence In Iudah is God known c. how by what mediums Why there brake he the arrows of the how the sheild the sword and the battel All the power Psal 76 3. and artillery of the enemys that came against his Church though upon mighty advantage There is more of God manifested in the goings forth of his power and wisdom for the preservation of his Church and the ruin and destruction of the enemys thereof then in all the world besides So that in reference to this the Psalmist sings Psal 31 19. oh how great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sonnes of men what goodness why his preserving goodness to his Church and people Verse 20. thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion c. Oh the ways of God in preserving and hiding his Church from the pride and power of men are secret mysterious ways which the world cannot discover 3. And then the third and last Advantage is The Spirit as an Interpreter Israel hath an Interpreter greater then one of a thousand to expound both these books unto her even the Spirit of God which the world knows not We have received 1 Cor 2 12. not the Spirit of the world but the Spirit that is of God that we may know the things that are freely given unto us of God And again eye hath not seen c. i.e. the natural eye Verse 9 10. the natural eare c. But God hath revealed them to us by the Spirit Indeed the word expounds the works and the works of God do interpret the word it is a fine skil to make works and word face one another and answer over one to another but this cannot be done without an Interpreter that is a secretioribus dei Gods privy-Counceller and that is the Spirit which the world knoweth not and receiveth not and therefore is both the book of the word some fragments whereof the Gentiles light upon sometimes and the book of the works a sealed book which they cannot open or not read if they could open Now therefore the Church and people of God having this three-fold advantage to a more cleer and ful discovery of God and his wil of sin and his hatred thereof then all the world besides Israels sin hath hereby an aggravation upon it of which theirs is uncapable an aggravation of light If ye were blind ye should have no sin Iohn 9.41 no sin Comparative but now ye say we see therefore your sin remaineth i.e. it remaineth inexcusable it remains aggravated And this is the first aggravation The second aggravation that Israels sin is Capable of is An aggravation of love a manifold love First Israel sins against Gods distinguishing his separating love Members of the Visible Church they sin against that love of God which distinguish'd them from the rest of the * Deut. 32 7 8 world members of the invisible Church they sin against that love which distinguish'd them from the rest of the Church his electing-love his Adopting-love his effectually-calling-love Oh this must needs go deep in sin You only have I known of all the families of the earth Amos 3 2. i. e. Known with a Conjugal distinguishing knowledg I have known you of all the families of the earth to distinguish you from all the families of the earth this makes their sin become exceeding sinful it is the other branch of the Apostles argument Gal 4 9. or rather are known of God Know God there is their light known of God there is Gods love his distinguishing love sins against distinguishing love are distinguishing sins 2. Israel sins against his correcting love which is allways managed with the wisedom and moderation of a father In measure c. And for profit Isa 27 8. Heb 12 10. that we might be partakers of his holyness The thought of sinning against this love melts down holy Ezra to the very bottom And after all this is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass Ezra 9 13 14 seeing thou our God hast punish't us less then our iniquities deserve should we again break thy Commandements c. And so it should do with every ingenuous heart 3. Israel sins against Gods repenting-love Psa 106.45 He remembred for them his Covenant and repented c. Amos 7.3 6. The Lord