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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

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 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

passion which is irritated by the adulterous departures or the suspition of it of the yoke-fellow from the other party in conjugal Covenant and relation The second sin branded with whoredom in Scripture is 2 Sin Refusing and opposing of Reformation Hosea 7.1 the refusing and opposing of Reformation When I would have healed Israel then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered and the wickedness of Samaria i. e. In a time of reformation they were worse then ever What are they called for this See vers 4. They are all adulterers c. Idolatry is whoredom in as much as it is a turning away from God and opposition to reformation is whoredom because it is a refusing to return to God They wil not frame their doings or as the Hebrew may be rendred their doings wil not suffer them to return to their God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Non sinent opera corum ut revertantur Hosea 5.4 i. e. Reformation was not consistent with the designs they drave it was not compatible with their lusts and private interests What follows The spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them Opposition of Reformation is spiritual adultery So are false doctrines and heretical opinions taken up and maintained by a people or person 2 Sin False doctrine they are spiritual wickedness and whoredom against God The false Prophers prophesied lyes in Jeremiah's time Ier. 23.26 31 32. they are censured as Adulterers for it Vers 14. I have seen also in the Prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing they commit adultery and walk in lyes And so in this Prophesie Hosea 7.3 4. They make the King glad with their wickedness and the Princes with their lyes i. e. They found our false doctrine to palliate and justifie Jeroboams and his Princes false worship of which you may read 1 King 12.26 it follows vers 4. They are all adulterers c. The truth is indeed false doctrine is the pander to all manner of prophaness it is the cover-sin in the world Antichrist himself had never been a man of so many errors and blasphemies had he not been first the man of sin Vain man would fain sin by Authority and therefore finds out falshoods and lyes and then fathers them upon the Word that he may sin by Scripture And that would make Error to be whoredom if there were no more in a people that have known and embraced the truth as it is in Jesus in as much as it is the Cord to keep a people down in the bed of Whoredoms of all manner of wickedness for so it is added in the inditement of the false Prophets They walk in lyes they strengthen also the hands of evil doers Ier 23 14. that none doth return from his wickedness for this they commit adultery But that is not all It is not only whoredom by consequence but perse in its own nature God is the God of Truth and Scripture is the Truth of God They therefore that depart from God and his Truth to embrace and beleeve lyes stand guilty of whoredom in words at length and not in figures only Inordinat love of the world 4 Sin is specially pointed at by the finger of Gods spirit as an Adultery * Iames 4.4 Ye Adulterers and Adulteresses know ye not that the freindship of this world is enmity against God c. This is so apparent an whoredome that the Spirit of God makes it matter of shame and astonishment that any man should be ignorant of it know ye not Therefore is the covetous man sayd to be an Idolater because he adores every Cross of his corn i. e. Eph 5 5. He layeth out that love and zeal and confidence and trust which is due to God upon his Cash he sayth to * Iob 31 24. Gold thou art my hope and to his fine gold thou art my confidence That is the last sin the last I shal name which Scripture makes Adultery against God 5 Sin Gornal confidence trusting in the Creature It is the sin immediatly going before my text Isreal buildeth Temples so in Dan and Bathel Hosea 8 〈◊〉 for the worship of the Calves And * Calv in loc Non quod per se hoc coram deo sit damnabile sed quia videbat propheta tranferri in illas urbes populi fiduciam Ier 17 5. Iudah hath multiplyed fenced Cities both for the securing of themselvs against danger it is called a forgetting God Israel hath forgotten his maker in the beginning of the verse When a people trust in man and make flesh their arm their heart is departed from God they are gone a whoring from him And thus you see what whoredom against God is First all sin in general lived in and allowed but more especially 1. Idolatry 2. Opposing of Reformation 3. Heresie 4. Inordinate love of the world 5. Carnal confidence all these are whordome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adultery of the first magnitude Breifly now 2 Quest How comes the faithful City to be an Harlot how comes it to pass that a people so neerly related to God may become guilty of so great a wickedness For is there indeed such a thing in Scripture as falling away from grace and the Divines of England would never let us know of it Is there indeed such a thing as the dissolution of the marriage knot between God and his people Surely no. But 1. Answ we are speaking here but of a visible Church a people or kingdom in external Communion with God a mixt multitude of professors the major part whereof for want of root in themselves with the stony ground may make a total and final Apostacy from the worship truths and commands of the living God to Idolatry Heresie and Prophaness and go a whoring from God so as never to return to him again Formal and ungrounded profession is the road to final defection and Apostacy 2. Yea secondly even of them who are living members of the invisible Church who are betrothed unto Iesus Christ in an everlasting Covenant even among these may be some who for want of a discerning eye of Spirituall watchfulness may for a time and in some degree be carried away with the error of the wicked Ephes 4.14 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and by the cunning craftiness the sleight of hand or cheatry of them that lie in wait to deceive be carried down the stream and torrent of error and the Apostacy of the times Oh Christians had need of good eyes and critical inspection and circumspection to discern the fallacies and frauds of seducers for want whereof they may be I say greatly not unsetled only and troubled but even ensnared and misled into dangerous principles and ways but there is a Spirit of truth and love that acts and animates them at the bottom which shal preserve them from total and final Apostacy and recover them to the acknowledgment of the truth and into the chast and

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

temporal judgments Unbeleif hardness of heart contempt of the word and ordinances mocking of the messengers of God c. When so it was in Israel the text tels us there was no remedy a Spirit of delusions to beleeve lies and that which is the perfection of all 2 Chron 36 16 2 Thes 2 10 a Spirit of slumber a deep sleep of security doth possess us who is there that fears and trembles who is there that takes notice of these things to lay them to heart the whole nation is a sleep with the kingdom on sire about their eares Wel Honorable Is 42 1. and Beloved Christians this is our estate I may say to you as Iosiah did once to Isaiah Enquire of the Lord for us for great is the wrath of the Lord that is gon out against us What is to be done 1. Why rejoyce not O England i. e. Weep and mourn it is the work we are about this day O that we would do it to purpose O that this day we could do as Israel did 1 Sam 7 6. draw water and powre it out before the Lord. O that we could make the place where we are a Bachim And oh that the Lord would powre out upon us a Spirit of grace and supplication that we might look upon him whom we have pierced and mourn for him as one mourneth for his only sonne Zech 12 10 and be in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his first born We have trflied with God in these days of publick Humiliation so that we may fear he takes them us more with good wil at our hands Mal 2 13 Truly we may fear lest our solemn humiliations be not become solemn provocations and our very prayers turned into sin Our fasts have not bin altogether so good as Israels bulrush humiliations Isa 58.5 We are impatient of bowing down our heads for a day O let us cry mightily to God and with Iacob-like importunity resolve not to let him go til be bless us 2. Yea secondly let us mourn in secret as Ieremiah did I sate not in the assembly of the mockers nor rejoyced I sate alone because of thy hand for thou hast filledme with indignation O that God would teach us to make good that Prophesy surely it hath an eye to Gospel-times Zech. 12.11 12 13 14. In that day shal there be a great mourning in Jerusalem as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon And the land shal mourn every family apart the family of the house of David apart and their wives apart the family of of the house of Nathan apart and their wives apars The family of the house of Levi apart and their wives apart the family of Shimei apart and their wives apart All the families that remain every family apart and their wives apart The family of the house of David i. e. the royal family the house of the Prince The family of the house of Nathan i. e. the Prophets families The family of the house of Levi i. e. the Preists families the family of the house of Shimei i. e. the families of private men in their several callings O that God would indeed poure out from on high such a Spirit upon England that the King and Queen might humble themselves sit down Ier 13 18. and lie in the dust before the Lord that the Princes and Nobles Magistrates and Ministers with the whole people of the land from the highest to the lowest would humble themselves greatly before the Lord and cry mightily to him every family apart and their wives apart who knows whether the Lord might not repent of the fiereness of his wrath Ioel 2 14. and return and leave a blessing behind him 3. Labour to possess a mourning frame of Spirit take heed of letting out your hearts to take your fill of creature-comforts take heed how you give up your selves to carnal mirth and rejoycing It was Israels sin here in the text and a posture ill becoming a people that have gone a whoring from their God It is a sin at any time to feed our selves without fear much more when God is angry Jude 12. It was a seasonable and severe check God by the Prophet Ezekiel gave unto the unseasonable mirth of that besotted people Ezek. 21.9 10. Thus saith the Lord say a sword a sword is sharpned and also fourbished it is sharp to make a sore slaughter it is fourbished that it may glitter should we then make mirth And I could wish that as Jerome sayd of his surgite mortui c. so this voyce might sound continually in our eares to check and restrain our vain and unseasonable rejoycings in the creature yea in our sins for what doth the Lord require at our hands but to do justly and love mercy Mich 6 8. and walk humbly with our God Else wicked * 1 King 21 27. Ahab and heathen * Ionah 3 5 to the end Nineveh shal rise up in judgment with this generation and shal condemn it The Lord awaken us and teach us to behave our selves as a people whose God is angry angry even to jealousy to know in this our day the things which belong to our peace before they be hid from our eyes 2. Vse Exhortation Vse Exhortation There is a word of Exhortation behind and I beseech you suffer it First to you Honorable and Noble Patriots 1. Branch to the Honorable Parliament who are called to be the Reformers and Healers of a poor broken kingdome I would humbly move these 2. things First that you would exert that power and authority which God hath given you to the punishing and suppressing of the Adulteries and whoredoms of the land which do stare heaven and earth in the face and do provoke the jealousy of God even to give England a bil of divorce and put us away arise I say oh ye Rulers and Governors of England Psa 45 4 gird your sword upon your thigh and ride on prosperously because of truth and righteousness and let your right hand teach you terrible things You know what Phineas did in the case of Corporal whoredom committed in the face of God and the Congregation Psa 106 30 Then stood up Phineas and executed vengeance or judgment and you remember how wel the Lord took it at his hands The plague was stayed and it was imputed to him for righteousness 31 Oh that the Spirit of Phineas may come upon you that you may sheath your sword in the bowels of these monstrous whoredoms of all sorts Corporal and Spiritual which are committed in the sight of all Israel yea in the sight of all the Churches round about us that the blessing of Phineas may come upon you and the plague may be stayed Doth not indeed the punishing and suppressing of Spiritual whoredoms against God Idolatry Heresie Blasphemie and the rest doth it not belong unto you as welas the