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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81239	Deliverance-obstruction: or, The set-backs of reformation. Discovered in a sermon before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in Parliament now assembled. Upon the monthly fast, March 25. 1646. / By Tho. Case, preacher in Milkstreet London, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Case, Thomas, 1598-1682.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.	1646 (1646)	Wing C827; Thomason E329_9; ESTC R200694	36,291	48

Fourthly Vnprayerfulnesse in Reformers and Deliverers is a great Obstruction and Set-back to their work when relying upon the goodnesse of their Cause they withdraw prayer and leave all to God It is Master Calvins observation upon Psal 17. vers 1. Hear the right O Lord attend unto my cry Psal 71.1 give EAR UNTO MY prayer Though David was sure he was in the Right yet he goes to God by prayer to own both it and him Hear attend give ear Saepe contingit prophanos quoque homines jure gloriari de bona cousa quia tamen non agroscunt mundum divinitus gubernari subsidunt in conscientiae suae theatro a● fraenum rodentes contumaciter magis quam constanter ferunt injurias quia ex fide invocatione Dei nullam perunt consolationem At fideles non tantum nitumur causae suae bonitate c. Calv. in Psal 17.1 Judg. 20. he prays and multiplies prayer He prays and Jacob like wrestles with God in prayer so the repetition of the words implies Calvin I say observes that the children of God do not trust meerly to the goodnesse of their Cause but make their continual addresses to God by prayer for his counsel and patronage in the managing of it The neglect hereof was the miscarriage of Two famous Battels wherein God himself sent the children of Israel to do execution upon their Brethren the children of Benjamin who refused to give up their Delinquents to the hand of Justice in the first whereof they lost Two and twenty thousand in the second Eighteen thousand men and all because they went out to the work full of carnal confidence trusting to the goodnesse of their Cause their Commission in their hand with the broad Seal of heaven to it but did not go forth with that fear and trembling with that humiliation and seeking of God by prayer as became a Service of that nature and importance You may know what the cause of their miscarriage was by their Recovery for when in the 26 verse you finde them going up to the House of the Lord with FASTING and WEEPING and SUPPLICATIONS c. then they go forth and prosper Oh God takes it very ill when men think they can do their work alone without God and leaves them to encounter with desperate difficulties and opposition to convince them of their follie while he may justly say unto them Nay if you have done praying I have done helping A Fifth Cause of miscarriage or obstruction 5. Self-ends on the Deliverers part is When they are acted by personal interests self-ends when they seek their own not the things of Jesus Christ as the Apostle complains Phil. 2.21 Oh when the enemies of the Churches Peace and Reformation can spie such tempers and dispositions among the Heads of the Tribes they will be sure to be tampering with and operating upon them ply them with sutable and powerful temtations Dan. 11.32 Just the Kings plot KING ANTIOCHUS Such as deal treacherously against the Covenant he shall corrupt by flatteries Observe mens tempers and boyl up your temptation to the height spice it well with rich and sparkling ingredients an hundred to one but it will take promise Offices Honours Estates Pleasures you may easily make your party strong they shall warp cool grow flat be no more like the men they were then if they were not the same Others that will not serve the designe let them be discountenanc'd cross'd obscur'd unlesse they be men of high principles and ponderous spirits in time they will be discouraged and if they do not come up to act with you they will have no great stomack to act against you they will sit still and let things work as they may I do not know I Cease ye indeed from man c. Aaron himself hath a spice of this disease He and his sister the Prophetesse speak against Moses Num. 12. Num. 12.1 Why what is the matter the Ethiopian woman is laid in his dish I but that was but the pretence there lay somewhat else at the bottom Self was at the bottom Moses his GLORY obscured theirs he had more respect then came to his share they are no-body now Hath the Lord indeed onely spoken by Moses Vers 2. and hath he not also spoken by us This breeds ill blood they care not for stirring any further in the work if Moses must have all the honour let him do all the work What an Obstruction was this like to prove I Ah Lord what influence self-ends and interests may have upon the very godly to publike prejudice if they do not narrowly watch their own hearts I Oh it is extremely sad and ominous when men come once to drive private Designes in stead of a Reformation 6. Over-credulity Sixthly not lesse mischief may come to Publike designes by Over-credulity in them that manage them to the fair and specious Overtures of Accommodations and Peace made by the Enemies It cost his Excellencie dear Gedaliah the General of the Jews Forces and I know not how many hundreds or thousands of Jews and men of War lost their lives by his too easie belief of PRINCE ISHMAEL'S FLATTERIES Jer. 41.14 15 16. with Chap. 42.1 2 3 though he were sufficiently caution'd of his bloody intentions And so it had fared with them at their return from Babylon the Adversaries of Judah pretend to build but intend to slay an Accommodation at the top Ezra 4.1 2 but a Massacre at the bottom Nehem. 4.11 and it had taken as sure as can be had not God given Zerubbabel and Jehoshuah a singular spirit of providence and discerning Oh the mischiefs that have redounded to the Church and her Reformation by unwary Treaties all the Massacres and bloody treacheries which you read of in Ecclesiastical histories almost Dan. 11.25 have been ushered in by Treaties witnesse king Antiochus KING CHARLES the ninth of France that bloody Massacre of above Sixty thousand Protestants was nothing but a covered dish served in under the pretence of Peace and Marriage confirm'd by Oaths and Sacraments The Church never got by Treaties how should she since not love of Peace but want of Power brings the enemy to Articles which he will keep no longer then he wants opportunity and advantage to break them 7. Preposterous methods Seventhly Preposterous methods have been mighty Set-backs to Reformation when Reformers begin at the wrong end As long as they cried Hagg. 1.2 4. The time is not come the time that the Lords House should be built is not yet come and began with their own houses the work stuck they made no earnings of it they put their wages into a broken bag Vers 6. you cry saith the Prophet It is not time it is not time the truth is saith he if you had not wanted hearts more then time the work had been done before now half so much time and cost on Gods house as on your own on the