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A81241	Gods rising, his enemies scattering; delivered in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, at their solemne fast, 26. Octob. 1642. But, through many occasions and hinderances, not printed till this 25. of May 1644. 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 C830; Thomason E127_38; ESTC R4759	45,209	66

God I will praise thee O my God our affections to solace them in the contemplation of the wonders of mercy done for us Oh that we could Work our hearts so into the thoughts of God and his Workes that we could say with David How precious are thy thoughts to me O God Psal 139.17 19 How great is the summe of them they are more in number then the sand when I awake I am still with thee Secondly Let us exalt him in our mouthes Psal 66.17 I cryed to him with my mouth and hee was extolled with my tongue If we have cried to him with our mouthes and he hath heard and answered it is but our duty we should extoll him with our tongve and we may say so Wee have called and hee hath answered We have cried and he hath said here I am Yea behold while this day wee have been presenting our supplications unto him he hath sent in a speedy and a rich return of prayer in vouchsafing a wonderfull and stupendious Deliverance and Victorie to our Noble Gencrall and the Forces with him yonder at Edge-Hill the certainty and some prticulars whereof at this instant God hath sent me hither by an * At this moment the Lord Wharton sent up to me in the pulpit the first relation of the victory at Edge Hill which then I read to the great satisfaction and admiration of the whole Congregation abundance of teares being shed for joy Psal 65.5 Honourable hand God herein having done himself and us that honour that he did to Danicl Dan. 9.23 At the beginning of thy supplication the command came forth Yea before we were preparing our prayers God hath been preparing an answer full of wonder and mercy By terrible things in Righteousnesse hast thou answered us O God of our salvation Christians God you see is Risen he hath stirr'd up his glory let us awake our Glory our tongus to trumpet forth his praises Awake my glory awake Psalterie and Harp I my self will awake right early Behold God hath turnd our day of Hmiliation into a day of Thanksgiving and so hath fulfilled that promise Psal 125.6 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy c. We that sowed in tears in the morning do reap in joy in this our evening A quick return Shall not wee for this go on with the Psalmists resolution Psal 57.9 10 11. I will praise thee O Lord among the people I will sing to thee among the nations For thy mercy is great unto the heavens and thy truth unto the cloudes Bee thou exalted O God above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth O that the fathers would be telling their children and one Christian be making over the report unto another of the righteous Acts of the Lord Oh that to the perpetuating of the memory of Gods loving kindenesse wee would all put our selves under the Prophet Isaiahs Engagement Isa 63.7 I will mention the loving kindnesse of the Lord and the prayses of the Lord according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us and the great goodnesse towards the house of Israel which hee hath bestowed on them according to his mercies and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses And again Psal 71.15 that of the Psalmist My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousnesse and holy salvation all the day for I know not the numbers thereof Rejoyce in the Lord Psal 33.1 O ye righteous for praise is comely for the upright c. Thirdly and lastly Let us exalt God in our lives Take heed I beseech you of honouring God in our duties and dishonouring of him in our conversations of exalting of him with our tongues and casting him down in our lives This were to imitate those wretched Iews who carried up our Saviour to the top of the Mountain that they might throw him down the pracipice and break his neck Let not our lives give the lie to our duties Walk becommingly to your mercies and becommingly to your duties Let an holy sweet gracious conversation be the Paraphrase of our duties and a Comment upon our dayes of Humiliation and Thanksgiving I will conclude with that earnest obsecration and obtestation of the Apostle I beseech you therefore brethren Rom. 12.1 by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service It is unreasonable as well as irreligious to give God our mouthes and sinne our lives to give the dead sacrifice to God and the living sacrifice to the devill God hath done all let him have all Our Hearts Mouthes Lives When God doth great things for us hee expects great things from us and if wee labour not to answer his expectations wee are undone Consider what I say 2 Tim 2.7 and the Lord give you a right understanding in all things Amen FINIS November 17. 1640 Doctor Burgesse Jer. 50.5 November 17. 1640 Master Marshall 2 Chron. 15.2 Before the recieving of the Sacrament Novemb. 29. Mr. Gauden Zach. 8.19 At the thanksgiving of the Vnion betwixt England and Scotland September 7. 1641 Mr. Marshall Psal 124.6 7 8. September 7. 1641 Mr. Burroughs Isai 66.10 November 5. Dr. Burgesse Psal 76.10 Decemb. 22. 1641 Mr. Calamy Jerem. 18.7 8. Decemb. 22. 1641 Mr. Marshall 2 Kings 23.25 26. February 23. 1641 Mr. Calamy Ezek 36.32 February 23. 1641 Mr. Marshall Judg. 5.23 March 30. 1642 Dr. Burgesse not Printed Jerem. 4.14 March 30. 1642 Mr. Ash Psalm 9.9 Aprill 27. 1642 Mr. Thomas Goodwyn Zach. 4.6 7 8. Aprill 27. 1642 Mr. Carryll Revel 2.2 3. May 25. 1642 Mr. Harris Luke 18.6 7 8. May 25. 1642 Mr. Ob. Sedgwich Jerem. 4.3 June 29. 1642 Dr. Gouge Nehem. 5.19 June 29. 1642 Mr. William Sedgwich Isaiah 62.7 July 27. 1642. Mr. Reynolds Hosea 14.8 July 27. 1642. Mr. Hill Proverbs 23.23 August 31. 1642 Dr. Downing not Printed 2 Thes 3.2 August 31. 1642 Mr. Carter Judges 20.26 27 28. Septemb. 28. 1642. Mr. Hodges Psalm 113.5 6. Septemb. 28. 1642. Mr. Wilson Hebrews 11.30 October 26. 1642. Dr. Temple Psalm 2.6 October 26. 1642. Mr. Case Psalm 68.1 Novemb. 5. M. Newcomen Nehem. 4.11 Novemb. 28. 1642 Mr. Herle Zachary 8.19 Novemb. 28. 1642 Mr. Vines Numb 14.24 Decemb. 28. 1642 Mr. Valentine Zepha 3.8 Decemb. 28. 1642 Mr. Corbet 1. Corinthians 1.27 Ianuary 25. 1642. Mr. Arrowsmith Leviticus 26.25 Ianuary 25. 1642. Mr. Whittaker Haggai 2.7 February 22. 1642. Mr. Bridges 2 Sam. 19 5 6 7 8. February 22. 1642. Mr. Ellis Micah 5.5 March 29. 1643 Mr. Gibons not Printed March 29. 1643 Mr. Lightfoot Luke 1.14 April 26. 1643 Mr. Ley Ieremy 4.21.22 April 26. 1643 Mr. Greenhill Matthew 3.10 May 31. 1643 Mr. Perne Micah 4.5 May 31. 1643 Mr. Cheinell Zachary 2.7 Thanksgiving Sermons for the discovery of a dangerous and bloody Designe tending to the utter subversion of the Parliament and the Famous City of London Before the Lords Iune 15. 1643 Mr. Calamy Ioshua 24.15 Iune 15. 1643 Mr. Herle Psalm 95.1 Before the Commons Iune 15. 1643 Mr. Marshall Revelation 15.2 3 4. Iune 15. 1643 Mr. Obadiah Sedgwick Ester 9.1 Iune 28. 1643 Mr. Carter Exodus 32.9 10. Iune 28. 1643 Mr. Palmer Esther 4.13 14. At a Fast before both Houses and the Assembly of Divines Iuly 7. 1644 Mr. Bowles Iohn 2.7 Iuly 7. 1644 Mr. Newcomen Isaiah 62.67 At an extraordinary Fast Iuly 21. 1643 Mr. Hill Revelation 12.11 Iuly 21. 1643 Mr. Spurstow 1 Samuel 7.6 Iuly 21. 1643 Mr. Vines not Printed Iuly 26. 1643 Mr. Conant Jer. 30.7 Iuly 26. 1643 Mr. Sympson Isaiah 4.5 August 30 1643 Mr. Tuckney Jerem. 8.22 August 30 1643 Mr. Coleman Jerem. 8.20 September 27 1643 Mr. Chambers Zach. 7.5 6. September 27 1643 Mr. Anthony Burges Mark 1.2 3. At the taking of the Covenant of the three Kingdomes September 29. Mr. Coleman Jer. 30.21 October 6. Mr. Carill Nehem. 9.38 October 25. 1643 Mr. Wilkinson Zach. 1.18 19 20 21. October 25. 1643 Mr. Salwey 1 King 18.21 Novemb. 29. 1643 Mr. Mew Isaiah 42.24 25. Novemb. 29. 1643 Mr. Bridge Zach. 1.18 19 30 21. and Chap. 2.1 At the Funerall of Mr. Pym. December 15. Mr. Marshall Mich. 7.1 2. Decemb. 27 1643 Mr. Henderson Ezra 7.23 Decemb. 27 1643 Mr. Strickland Isaiah 10.12 January 31 1643 Mr. Cawdrey Prov. 29.8 January 31 1643 Mr. Rutherfurd Dan. 6.26 February 28. 1643 Mr. Baylie Zach. 3.1 2. February 28. 1643 Mr. Young Psal 31.24 March 27 1644 Mr. Gillespie Ezek. 43.11 March 27 1644 Mr. Bond Isaiah 45.15 At the Thanksgiving for the Victory given to our Forces under Sir William Waller and Sir William Balfore over Sir Ralph Hoptons Army April 9. 1644 Mr. Sedgwick Psalm 3.8 April 9. 1644 Mr. Case Daniel 11 32. At the thanksgiving for the Victory given to the forces under the Command of the Noble Lord Fairfax at Selby in Yorke Shire Aprill 23. 1644 Mr. Perne Exodus 34.6 Aprill 23. 1644 Mr. Carryl Revelations 11.16 17. Aprill 24. 1644. Dr. Staunton Deut. 32.31 Aprill 24. 1644. Mr. Greene Nehemiah 1.3 4. FINIS

which David spake unto the Generall Arise and pursue him lest he get him walled Cities and escape us c. 2 Sam. 20.6 And this is the word that is proclaimed before the Lord of Hoasts Be silent O all ye Nations for God is raised up Zach. 2. ult out of his holy habitation c. It is not said God is risen up in his holy habitation he had done this before but the Lord is raised up out c. Hee is gone forth hee is upon the March going towards the Enemy Thou didst march through the Land in indignation and then is he risen indeed Hab. 3.12 There is but one gradation more to perfect it Seventhly And that is a Joyning with and encountring of the Enemie in Battell and this is attributed unto God also He will arise against the house of the wicked Isaiah 31.2 And if God and the enemie be once at it you may easily know who will have the best What David sung of Jonathans Bow and Sauls sword may much more be celebrated of God 2 Sam. 1.22 From the bloud of the slain and the fat of the mighty the Bow of Jonathan turned not back and the sword of Saul returned not empty When once God hath drawn his sword hee will not put it up before he hath drawn the bloud of his Enemies Isaiah 27.1 In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan c. When God hath drawn this Sword and closeth and fighteth with his enemies then there is nothing to bee expected but the execution of that vengeance threatned Therefore thus saith the Lord Ezek. 25.13 I will stretch out my hand against Edom and will cut off man and beast from it and make it desolate c. Thou didst march through the Land in indignation Hab. 3.12 thou didst thresh the heathen in anger This is the highest and last step in Gods rising when he hath made all preparations and marcheth towards them and not onely faceth them but joynes battell with them Now all these things God doth two wayes First when he doth it by second causes as in the place last quoted I will execute all my vengeance by the hand of Israel c. and when God doth a waken his people and furnish them with weapons of war for their own defence and for the executing of his vengeance upon their enemies what they do God himself is said to do because it is both by his Commission and in his strength Secondly God doth all this immediatly himself by his own Arm. Isaiah 59.17 I looked and behold there was no man so mine own Arm brought salvation and my righteousnesse that sustained me c. So did God arise and go forth for the deliverance of his people when by one Angel he slew a hundred fourscore and four thousand Isaiah 37.36 in one night of his enemies Thus you see in part what it is for God to arise and what it doth import namely The opening of the eyes The taking of counsell The putting on of resolution The preparing of Artillery and weapons of death The putting on of Armour The marching towards the Enemie and The closing with them in Battell All which God doth either by his people when hee fills them with resolution and strength or when he doth it by his own more immediate Arm. Now for the second Quaere sc what those nows be Quaere 2 or what be those times when God will thus arise and exalt himself in the scattering of his enemies I finde in Scripture ten speciall nows or seasons when God will thus arise First When God hears his people sigh and groan under the tyranny of their oppressours As at such times they do call and cry Awake why sleepest thou arise O Lord Psal 44.23 cast us not off for ever Wherefore hidest thou thy face c. ut sup So God hath engaged himself by promise to arise for their rescue Psal 12.5 For the oppression of the poor and sighing of the needy Now will I arise saith the Lord and set him in safety from him that puffeth at him The people of God sigh and cry under their insupportable burdens in the mean time their oppressours puffe at them and laugh them to scorn and think to swallow them up with open mouth saith God Now will I arise and set them in safety c. Isa 52.5 6. And again Now therefore what have I here saith the Lord that my people is taken away for nought and they that rule over them make them to howl saith the Lord c. Therefore my people shall know my Name I le bear it no longer Secondly Another now when God will arise is When the enemy doth arise in his pride and begins in his own conceit to bee more then man When Pharaoh asked Who is the Lord that I should let Israel go then God arose and made him know to his cost who he was Pharaoh knew no God but himself but saith God I will make him know another God above him before he and I have done For this very purpose God is said to bee terrible to the Kings of the earth and cuts off the spirits of Princes The Kings of the earth and Princes of the world if God let them go on and prosper in their desperate designes for a time they will not acknowledge him to be God but think to carry out with an arme of omnipotence till God comes upon them Dan. 4.31 in a terrible manner and cuts off their spirits and layes them for dead at his feet that they may know that the most high God ruleth in the Kingdom of men The Church was glad of such an opportunity to awaken God up to her aid * Psal 9. vlt. Arise O Lord that the Heathen may know themselves to be but men as if he should have said Lord these proud Heathenish Tyrants think they are so many gods they know no God but their own strength and their own wisdome c But Lord do thou arise and make them know that they are but dying men and that thou onely art the living God And so elsewere God in this case sensible of this affront how emphatically and angerly he speakes to that proud Prince of Tyrus Eze. 28.6.9 When his heart began to swell above the thoughts of a man thus saith the Lord God because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God behold therefore I will bring strangers upon thee and they shall draw the sword against thee v. 9. thy beauty and thy wisdome shall depart c. And in vers 9. God jeers the Tyrant thus wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee v. 10. I am God but thou shalt be a man and no God in the hand of him that slayeth thee When the sword of the Executioners of my vengeance is in thy bowels wilt thou say I am God I will make thee

damnation their power and policie their combinations and all their preparations cannot stand before you See them all sufficiently jeered by the people of God Isaiah 8.9 Associate your selves O ye people and ye shall be broken in pieces and give ear all ye of farre Countreys gird your selves and yee shall be broken in pieces gird your selves and yee shall bee broken in pieces why how comes it to passe that they are so contemptible the reason is given verse 10. Immanuel for God is with us God is Risen fear them not Truely all the counsels and conspiracies and tumult and rage of the enemies are no more then if you should see a mad man stand upon his head and shake his heels against the Sun Courage courage Noble Senators Worthy Commanders courage Christians God is risen and Gods rising time shall bee their scattering Psal 2. their flying time Then shall hee speak to them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure and make the proudest of them know that he hath set his Christ King upon his Holy Hill Alas what is the Chasse and the smoake when the winde riseth what the clouds when the Sun riseth What wax and stubble When the fire riseth Behold as smoake is driven away Psal 68.2 so the haters of God shall be driven away as the wax melteth before the fire so the wicked shall perish at the presence of God Arise in your courage and the Lord shall make good that prophesie Behold the people shall rise up as a great Lion Numb 23.24 and lift up himself as a young Lion he shall not lie down till he eat of the prey and drink of the blood of the slain Fourthly If God be Risen Rise in your zeal rise in your zeal A patcht pie'ct reformation will not answer Gods expectation Moses resolution was worthy your Imitation we will not leave an Hoof behinde us Exod. 10.25 In the building of the Temple there was not a board or a pin or a nail of the old Tabernacle vsed The Churches Reformation is called the New-heaven and the New-earth as for difficultie so for beauty and perfection Worthy Senators remember that caution of the Apostle Gal. 4.18 It is good to be zealously affected alwaies in a good thing if ever any work was worth your zeal the work you have in hand is Rise in your zeal zeal is good in a good cause Fifthly Rise in your bounty you have done much do more you have gone high goe higher still Say as David I will be more vile c. So you I will be yet more liberall I will be yet more for God Away with those shifts and carnall pretences what shall I leave for my wife and children I have so much owing me and cannot get in my debts trading is not as it hath been I am out thus much already They are for the most part but the Churles Instruments of which the Holy Ghost speaketh Isa 32.2 The Instruments of the Churle are cruell he deviseth wicked devises to destroy the poor with lying words Hear this Oh ye covetous Mammonists who withold your money and estates when it is in the power of your hands to help to help the Lord and the Kingdom against the mighty The holy Ghost puts you amongst Theeves and Murderers you are listed among the Anti-christian Enemies of Jesus Christ who destroy his poore people he that doth not save life when he may destroics it While in the mean time of the willing people hear what God speaks But the liberall man deviseth liberall things he deviseth how he may serve the Cavse he studies which way he may do most good You would think that were the next way to be undone but mark what followes by liberall things he shall stand c. Christians be of good cheere you that have been liberall to the Cause even not onely to your power 2. Cor. 8.3 but beyond your power This is not the way to undoe your families but to preserve them by liberall things shall England stand by liberall things shall London stand be of good cheere who ever thou art that hast spent thy self for God and his Cause you have not onely the publike faith of the Kingdome but the publike faith of Heaven also for repaiment with advantage by liberall things he shall stand time may come when what thou hast lent to Christ and his Cause may be all the livelyhood for thee and thy family to subsist on when the rest may bee plundered or burnt or taken away by violence this may be thy stocke and behold then it shall not repent thee of thy Liberality If the Parliament should never pay us a farthing yet if all that God is worth in heaven or earth be able to make thee satisfaction thou shalt not be a looser by thy bounty And truly if God by this Parliament will give us but a Reformation a through and setled Reformation these Worthies will not die in our debts yea though we should not live to see it yet if our little ones may be brought into that good land we shall have no cause to repent of our bargain I pray God while the poore well-affected inherit the Praise with the poore Widow some rich covetous Mammonists do not carry away the curse with Meroz If you would not Rise in your bounty Sixthly Let us Rise in our Patience we think perhaps we have waited long and yet our deliverance comes not but if God will have us wait longer and longer yet let us remember we wait not so long on God as God hath waited on us and if we have put God to his How-longs It is but a just and easie censure if God put us to our How-longs And yet beleeve it Cristians Ier. 30.18 this present time we do not so much waite for God as God waites for us The Lord waits to be gracious The Lord doth but waite for our faith and our humiliation and our reall Reformation were we fit for it Deliverance should not tarry an hour longer Let us not make more haste out of our troubles then good speed but remember who hath said Lam. 3.26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord It is good for a man and it is good for a Nation it is for a people to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord so did Jacob till his very dying day on his death-bed he could say Gene. 49.18 I have waited for thy salvation O Lord we say it is good to be delivered it is good to have peace it were good to have our trading again I but what saith God It is good to waite it is good to bear the yoke it is good to put ones mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope It is so indeed and a good reason is given of it Vers 25. The Lord is good to them that wait for him to the