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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

soul that seeketh him That is The Lord is better to such a people then victory The Lord is better then peace The Lord is better then trading c. The Lord is better to such a soul then a cure if they be sick Then enlargement if in prison then a Ransome if in the Enemies hand better then a Deliverance be they under what affliction soever Oh friends that you would study this Text that you knew experimentally this truth Yea Oh if you would but studie to know it truly well may the Lord himself be better for even a waiting frame of heart it self is better then any of these for all these are but gifts a waiting frame of spirit is a grace a people or person may have all these deliverances and perish never see Gods face but there is none that possesseth such a frame of Spirit but he hath God to be his portion it sprang from the fountain of Gods speciall love in Christ and it will carry the soul back thither again And therefore remember that counsell of the Apostle Iam. 1.4 Let patience have her perfect work There is a work of patience and there is a perfect work for to stay and waite a yeer or two for a deliverance is a work of patience to bear small trialls and great trials is a work of patience but to bear the greatest trials and to bear them as long as God will have them lie Chap. 5.7 8. to waite patiently till the coming of the Lord i. e. till he come and bring with him the mercie and Salvation prayed for and waited for this is a work and a perfect work of patience The Lord give us this and it will be the greatest kindnesse that God can do for us Well study it pray for it that as the trialls shall arise so our patience may arise also Psal 27. vlt. Let us be often renewing Davids charge upon our soules Wait thou on the Lord be of good courage and he shall strengthen thy heart wait I say on the Lord. Rise in your patience Seventhly Rise in your mutuall love one towards another God is Risen up against our Enemies shall we rise up one against another God forbid Hear the Apostle If ye bite and devour one another Gal. 5.15 take beed ye not consumed one of another Truly friends it were better the Cavaleeres should destroy us then ever it should be reported abroad in the world that praying Christians did destroy and devour one another it would be lesse scandall and reproach to Christ and his Gospell For the divisions of Reuben there are great thoughts of heart for the divisions of London and the Ministers and professors in London and elsewhere are great searchings of heart I professe to you Sirs I fear them more then I do all the power and policie of the blasphemous Enemie Yea I know they promise themselves more from our divisions then they do from all their own combinations Let us study I beseech you to disappoint and baffle their expectations To that end hear the Apostle most pathetically wooing of you Phil. 2.1 2. If there be any consolation in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the spirit if any bowels and mercies Fulfill ye my joy that ye be like minded having the same love being of one accord of one mind If you cannot hit it to be of one minde yet I beseech you labour to be of one heart why should we not One body one Spirit one Hope one Faith one Lord one Baptisme Ephes 4.4 5 6. one God one Father of all who is above all through all in all yea at this present One common Anti-christian Enemie One Cause one ende are not here Ones enough to make us one too I remember a sad complaint of Augustine of the Christians of his time and we are so unhappy as to revive it The Heathen saith he have many gods and false Gods and yet they can agree but Christians have but one God and the trve God and they fall together by the eares This was his Lamentation and this may be our Lamentation Christians you that love the peace and welfare of Sion labour to be healers of these breaches while too too many make it their designe to cast on ayle and I know from whence they are set on work even from Hell and Oxford make it your businesse to cast water on these coales least at length they break out into devouring-flames and there be none to quench them At least if the multitude should be so mad as to foment their own ruine yet let the leaders of the people studie to preserve the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace Oh that those Caelestiall Luminaries that shine upon inferiour bodies with so sweet and enlivening influence should look upon one another sometime with a Malignant aspect I could be contented with all my soul to give the best blood that runs next my heart for the reconciling of these uncomely unnaturall I had almost said unnecessary differences among Brethren were it not to widen that distance I would compose But there is better blood paid for this purchase already infinitely better blood and my prayer and hope shall be that that blood which hath been effectuall to the Reconciling of us to God the Father may be efficacious also to reconcile us one to another till we come into the unity of Faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto the perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ Well Arise in Love Eightly Arise in Holinesse Our Holy God is Risen let us arise in Holinesse let us labour to be holy as he is holy 1 Pet. 1.15 that an Holy God may finde us an holy people and take delight to walk in the midst of us and may not be ashamed to be called our God Heb. 11.16 we have contented our selves long enough with Formes Formes of prayer and formes of duties and * Rom. 2.20 formes of knowledge and a * 2 Tim. 1.5 forme of Godlinesse Let us now labour for the power of Godlinesse To be Christians in good earnest not in word only but in the purity and the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ Add to your faith vertue and to your vertue knowledge and to your knowledge temperance 2 Pet. 1.5 6 7. and to your temperance patience and to patience godlinesse and to godlinesse brotherly kindnesse and to brotherly kindnesse charity Christians study your additions be still adding duty to duty one grace to another one degree of grace to another and the exercise of one grace to another Content not your selves with your former stints in profession and with your wonted formes of godlinesse get Pauls ambition Psal 3.13 I forget the things that are behinde and I presse forward toward the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus Verse 11. If by any meanes I might attain to the

death and beyond death to all Eternity Vse I would commend from this obeservation Vse this one Cavtion There is no time then for Gods people to be secure since they live among Enemies and Haters and the neerer they meet in their Relations the more is the enmity and hatred intended So you shall observe there is no such enmity between man and the Bruit Creatures as there is betweene man and man Among men there is no such enmity and hatred between Heathens and Christians as there is betweene Christians and Christians among Christians no such antipathy between Papists and Protestants as there is between Protestants and Protestants At this day no hatred so mortall no Enemies so Irreconcileable as the Malignant Protestants and those whom they scorne by that New-name Rowndhead that poor despised partie that stand up for Reformation The Protestant indeed The reason is because the neerer men meet in aliquo tertio in their relations or Profession and yet differ as in the Principles of their Natures as before so in the Nature of their Principles or opinions the more reproach and odium they conceive that difrence reflects one upon another and so the more impatient and implacable are they rendered Contraries the neerer they come together the more eminent is their difference and the greater their conflict and contention This puts the people of God into a dangerous posture the malignant partie alwaies having made the major part in the World in the Christian World and yet it is wonderfull to consider how hardly Gods people are brought to entertain reall and seasonable thoughts of the worlds desperate and devillish intentions towards them Is it not with them as it was once with Gedaliah when Intelligenct by Jonathan the son of Kareah of a bloody Massacre contrived against him and the poor Jewes under his command he would not beleeve it but for his paines gives him the lye Thou speakest falsly of Ishmael Ier. 40.13.16 Were it not a strange folly in a people to let Lions and Bears and Wolves and Leopards run up and down in the streets and high-waies unchain'd and unmuzled and say Ier. 5.6 they will do no harm And hath not God branded Malignant Spirits with these names in Scripture What a strange security hath seized upon us Surely the children of the world are wiser in their generations then the children of light would they have dealt so beleevingly with us had they had us at that advantage that we have had them Did they when they had it Innocence you know is credulous but credulity is not alwaies innocent It is a noxious weed though it grow upon a good soil I wish it may not be suffered to grow too ranke We do somewhat but it is not till our Enemies force us to it when we must either kill or be killed We do somewhat but it is by halfes and peece-meals what they do they do in earnest we do as if we were in jest Do we bestir our selves to save as the Enemies do to destroy It is well we have a God or else our security and slendernesse of spirit would certainly undoe us and had undone us long before this time Be instructed Oh England lest Gods Soul depart from thee Ier. 6.8 for if while we trust and spare them we be found to tempt and weary God we way expect to hear that sad Newes from heaven that Ahab did Because you have let go out of your hands a people whom I have appointed to destruction 1 Kings 20.24 Your Kingdome shall go for their Kingdome and your lives for their lives Now the Lord awaken our Spirits to a timely prevention of such a doom and divert it from us I come to the second Doctrine Doct. 2 The Churches Enemies are Gods Enemies they that hate Gods people hate God himself There is hardly any language more frequent in Scripture Psal Psal 21.8 21.8 thine hand shall finde out all thine Enemies thy right hand shall finde out those that hate thee Psal 83.2 Loe thine Enemies make a tumult and those that hate thee have lift up the head Why wherein did they shew themselves the Enemies and haters of God It followes ver the third They have taken crafty counsell against thy people consulted against thy Hidden ones and said Come let us cut them off from being a Nation c. Their Malignant Counsels against Gods people was nothing else but a paraphrase of their malice against God himself for so yet it followes more expressely vers the fifth They consult together with one consent they are confederate against thee thee and thine them and thee go hand in hand The Grounds of this may be Grounds First the mutuall interest that God and his people have one in another Master and Scrvant Father and Children Husband and Wife Head and Members these are the usuall titles by which this mutual relation is exprest in Scripture and among all the members of the body the tenderest is chosen to expresse the interest that Gods people have in his compassion and love The Eye Zech. 2.8 He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of mine eye The least violence will offend that member what is done to the Eye presently is at the Heart wicked men cannot hate gods people but God must needs be very sensible of it they canot be Enemies to them but they must be Enemies to God himself Especially since they are found by our Saviour not onely to hate them in these relations but for these relations not onely being the Servants and Children and Spouse and Members of Jesus Christ but because they are so because ye are not of this world but I have chosen you out of the world Iohn 15.19 therefore the world hateth you Because that is crime enough that they belong to Jesus Christ Secondly The Quarrell wherein God is as deeply interested as his people Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee that it may be displayed because of the Truth Psal 60.4 A Banner is the Embleme of Victory Victorie implies Battell but what was the Quarrell The truth The truth of Doctrine The truth of Religion The truth of Discipline The truth of Government in all these God is as much or more concerned then his people Truth is the Truth of God and God is the God of Truth and thefore they that are Enemies to Gods people for the truthes sake are Enemies to God himself they that hate them for the truths sake hate God also whose truth it is look into all the Battells of the Church since Christs time to this day and you shall finde the Quarrell to have been some-what about Christ himself While Christ was yet upon the Earth the Quarrell was about the Birth of Christ in the next ages the Quarrell was about the Person of Christ in the succeeding Age concerning the Natures of Christ then about the Offices of Christ And now in our dayes about the life and Government of