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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

absurdity to say that Adams family was both a family and a nation and a world and all vertually so neither is there any false Doctrine in it to say that the first gospel-Gospel-Church was both Congregational and national and Catholique or Vniversal 4. Surely a national Church in our sence hath bin a truth about which there hath bin little dispute among the Reformed Churches even among them that have opposed Episcopacy there are many that have not so much as questioned a national Church Mr. Cartwright not only dedicates part of his labours against the Hierarchy to the Church of England but in his Catech. Ch. 3. Which treats of the Church having spoken of the Vniversal Church propounds this question What is the Church of one nation and answers it thus It is that which is gathered under one politique or civil government Mr. * He dedicates his whole book on the Rev. Sanctis Reformatis Britannicis Germanicis Gallicis Ecclesiis Brightman in his exposition upon Revelations 3. in his application of the Church of Laodiàea to the State of our Church speaks of it as one Ecclesia nostra Anglicana But time wil not suffer me to engage further in this controversie nor need I stand to make conjectures why some of later times do so strenuously deny such a thing as a national Church the reasons begin to discover themselves every day more apparently then other to all the world 5. And lastly This is plain enough to any that are not wilfully blind that where the partes constituentes of a thing do meet there you have the thing it self where God holds forth his Covenant to a Nation or Kingdom and they generally embrace and profess it there is a Church in a Gospel-sence and a Church thus covenanted stands in conjugal relation unto God 1. The greater is the honour which God doth put upon such a Nation or People Vse He hath not done so with any Nation Psa 147 20. sang David once of Israel before Christ he hath not done so with every Nation may England sing and what ever other Nation God hath or shal cause to approach so neer unto himself since Christ 2. And secondly the more sacred and invincible obligation lieth upon such a people to maintain spouse-like affection and to yeeld spouse-like obedience unto God to stir up and provoke themselves to be faithful in Covenant with the Lord to take heed lest there should be any root of bitterness springing up an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God Deut 29. which was the sin here charged upon Israel Heb 3 12. She went a whoring from the Lord And brings me to the second Doctrine Doct. 2 A Kingdom or people thus related unto God may possibly go a whoring from him commit adultery against him Witness the complaints of God concerning this people thus in Covenant with him in this Prophesie Chap. 4.12 Chap. 5.3 4. Chap. 7.4 with divers other per totum Yea all the Prophets bring in their inditements against this people under this notion and metaphor of adultery and wheredom There were no end of quotations Two things I would briefly speak to 1. What this whoredom is of which they stand indited 2. How it comes to pass that a people so neerly related unto God may become guilty of so great a wickedness For the first 1. All manner of sin is a kind of spiritual adultery against God What whordom against God in Scripture-sense is sin qua sin hath the nature of whoredom in it sin being nothing else as the Schools define it but a turning away from God and a turning to the creature Peccatum est everflo a deo et conversso ad creaturam Gen 1. ult Rom 6. ult Heb 3 12. a taking of that love and affection which is due to God and bestowing it upon the creature yea the Devils creature for sin is none of Gods creature God made neither sin nor death all that he made was very good but the Devil brought in sin and sin brought in death Sin I say is a departing from God to the the creature to a base lust Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband so have you dealt treacherously with we Ier 3 20 O house of Israel saith the Lord. It is an inditement layd in in reference to their sin and apostacy in general And thus corporal whoredom against the Covenant of marriage is also spiritual whoredom against the Covenant of God and pride is whoredom and drunkenness whoredom indeed they seldom are separated in the very letter and Sabbath-breaking is whoredom and all manner of prophaness is whoredom against the Lord. So it runs in this peoples charge by this Prophet * Hosea 4.11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart The spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err in the very next verse * Chap 5 5. The pride of Israel testifies to his face that 's branded with the infamy of whoredom too vers 4. * Verse 4. The spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them All manner of prophaness are but streams that flow from the poysoned fountain of an whorish heart an heart turned away from God and refusing to turn unto him again And therefore in reference to all these and more it is demanded with astonishment Isa 1 21 23. How is the faithful City become an harlot Wherein It follows it was full of judgment righteousness lodged in it but now murderers Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of theeves every one loveth gifts and followeth after rewards they judg not the fatherless neither doth the cause of the widdow come unto them See perverting of justice rebellion robbery covetousness bribery mercilesness all these are Whoredom But there are some special sins Special sins called whoredom in Scripture which eminenter and above all other are branded with this mark of whorish departure from God First 1 Idolatry Ier 20 20. Ezek 16 per tetum Idolatry is all over the Prophets stigmatized with the infamy of Wheredom and Adultery against the Lord not only because for the most part they go together but especially as this is indeed a proper whoredom against the Lord in as much as it is the taking in of another lover into the bosome the setting up of a Rival God those expressions have much of the metaphor in them where the Lord speaking of their Idols lays this to their charge Thou hast discovered thy self to another then me Isa 57.8 thou lovedst their bed and thou hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by Ezek. 16 25. and multiplyed thy whoredoms i. e. Committed Idolatry with all the false gods of the heathen round about Idolatry is the taking in of a strange god as it were into the bed of loves therefore hath God set his name of jealousie upon that Command which forbids Idolatry 2 Command because it is the proper

Die Mercurii 26 Maii 1647. ORdered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament That Sir William Brereton do from this House give thanks unto Mr Thomas Case for the great pains he took in the Sermon he Preached on this day at Margarets Westminster before the House of Commons it being a day of publike Humiliation and that he do desire him to Print his Sermon wherein he is to have the like priviledge of Printing thereof as others in like kind usually have had H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I appoint LUKE FAVVNE and none other to Print my Sermon Tho. Case 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 LONDON Printed by J. Macock for LUKE FAVVNE and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Parrot in Pauls-Church-yard 1647. To the Honorable the House of Commons in Parliament assembled IT is a ponderous speech of the wise man and worthy of all wise mens deepest consideration * Eccles 8.6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment therefore the misery of man is great upon him Jerom tels us that the Septuagint and Theodotio did read in stead of therefore the misery of man is great because the knowledg of man is great upon him and he conjectures the difference to arise from the likeness of the two Hebrew words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the one signifying knowledg the other evil or misery but the truth is the want of this knowledge or wisdome to know and judg of times and seasons is that which brings great misery upon the sons of men And so is the true sense of the words because there is time and judgment for every purpose and but a time And men have not judgment to discern and take that time therefore the misery of man is great upon him men bring upon themselves and others extream trouble and misery because they do not wisely discern Opportunity is time fitted and framed by God for the accomplishment of his designs and lay hold on the time and opportunity for so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies opportunum tempus which God doth give them for the bringing about of all lawfull and righteous purposes and designs Therefore it was the wisdom of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ that when he came about that great design of saving souls he took his fathers time So you hear his father bespeaking of him In an acceptable time have I heard thee Isa 49.8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In tempare opportuno voluntatis vel placito and in the day of salvation have I helped thee therefore it was a day of salvation because it was an acceptable time the time which his father set him for the work oh how acceptable a Redeemer was Christ to his father because his fathers time was acceptable to him Noble Senators how much you are concern'd in these texts I leave to your selves to judg There is a complaint made by God Jer. 8.6 I hearkned and heard but they spake not aright no man repented him of his wickedness saying what have I done I beseech you as you love Christ this poor Kingdom and your own souls let not this complaint be verified of any one of you Turn in upon your selves and bring to remembrance commune with your own heart upon your bed and every one ask your selves this question What have I done Ask your selves what you have done as men What you have done as Parliament-men what you have done in reference to the first table in reference to the second table What you have done in reference to Christ his Truths Worship Government Ministry Ordinances People What you have done in your Covenant with God and your Declarations to the world Yea oh that you would alter the question a little on the negative part and ask your selves what you have not done in reference to all these Whether indeed you have taken the accepted time which God hath fashioned and prepared by his own hand for the accomplishing of the great work of Reformation wherewith God hath entrusted and honoured you By the improvement whereof you might have been so many Ioshuahs Saviours and Redeemers to have restored the preserved of England Whether you have gone about the work in Gods strength in Gods methods and to Gods ends Surely never had Parliament fairer opportunities better helps greater encouragements to have set up Jesus Christ in his Throne the greatest honor and interest that States Kingdoms are capable of then you have had I humbly hope we shal not have cause to say only have had but that God wil stil entrust you with the work and bless you in it and renew upon you all those glorious advantages whereby you shal be encouraged and enabled to carry it on against all oppositions of men and Divels We cannot but take notice with much thankfulness to God and you rejoycing in the Lord greatly that now at last to use the Apostles words your care for the Publique good hath flourished again in those self-denying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod jam tandem reviruistis Phil. 4.10 and Kingdom-refreshing-votes which have lately past your Honourable House which we look upon as the fruit of your late Serious and extraordinary humiliation within your own walles and an answer of Prayer your own and the rest of Gods people's who lifted up their hands and voices to God with you and for you on the same day Only I beseech you Honorable and much Honoured Patriots give out now real and lasting Demonstrations that this motion of yours is not meetly ab extrinseco but that it flows from inward principles and gracious impressions of God upon your Spirits Go on and do worthily in the eyes of all the Kingdom and at home the Churches abroad and though you are taught of God to be humbled for your failings yet let no discouragements enfeeble your hands in the work of God and the Kingdom but with David encourage your selves in the Lord your God 1 Sam. 30.6 And though you know how to be vile before God yet assert your Honor and glory before men by being zealous and expeditious stedfast and unmoveable in the work of the Lord Gen. 49.24 and the Blessing of Joseph be upon your heads whereby your bow may abide in strength and the arms of your hands may be made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Iacob from whom you are the shepherd and the stone of England And the Lord undeceive this poor people and open their eyes that they may see their peace to be bound up in your safetie and that the best way to secure their own Rights and Liberties is to assert and vindicate your Priviledges This I am confident of when ever the Power and Authority of