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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

to the ground Are these smal things in your eyes 4. Self engagements Surely they cannot 4. What say ye to the Engagements which you have layd upon your own soules by your enquiry at Gods oracles Declarations Sacraments vows the Solemn league and Covenant Oh wilnot these speak lowd in Gods eares I and in your eares one day in case of neglect 5. Iustice executed on delinquents 5. The judgment of God executed by you upon offenders for their delinquencies against the state against religion I should be sorry their bloud should ever cry against you Yet I must tel you Jehu carryed the matter so in destroying the house of Ahab though God commanded it that while Jehu writes Justice God writes down murder I wil avenge the bloud of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu Hosea 1 4. Jeroboam rescues ten tribes and an half out of the Tyranny of Rehoboam and then betrays them to Idolatry he sins and makes Israel to sin Amaziah destroys the Edomites for their Idolatry and then worships their Idols 2 Chro 25 14. In all these you shal find it was not love of justice that did edg their sword but self-interests Reformation was not indeed their end but the setting up of themselves upon the ruin of an opposite party so dangerous a thing is it to dally with God 6. And lastly What say ye to your prayers 6. Prayers and in special to your late day of Humiliation for the spreading of Heresies and Blasphemies in Print now to all the world Wil ye fast for Heresies and spare them when ye have done Wil ye humble your selves for Blasphemies against God and Christ and the whole blessed Trinity and suffer men to blaspheme on What wil this be when it is interpreted Surely though fear may make men mince it at home the Churches abroad wil not be afraid to call it hypocrisie and mocking of God And be not deceived saith the Apostle God is not mocked Not mocked What is that That is 1. Not undiscovered Gal 6 7. There is neither clouds nor darkness wherein treachery or prevarication can hide it self from the piercing eye of God There is no imposing upon the Almighty And 2. God is not mocked impune No man shal mock God and scape scot-free What a man sows that shal he reap it is the Apostles own exposition of the place Fathers and Brethren let me not be mistaken I come not this day as your Accuser but as your humble remembrancer I am jealous over you with a godly jealousie the Lord knows you are dearer to me then that blood which runs next my heart and might it do Christ and you any service I could I hope as freely sacrifice it as eat my bread when I am hungry I know you have had many obstructions and hinderances But now I beseech ye gird up the loyns of your mind set your selves with all your counsel and strength to the staying and stoping of the grievous apostacy and whorish departure from God in the Kingdom and to reducing of it back again to the Commands Worship Truths and Government of the Lord Iesus Conclude this with your selves there is no work lies upon your hands of such concemment as this And for your encouragement know that though your troubles and distractions be great yet you have a mighty God to stand by you who hath promised that Jerusalem shal be built and the wall shal be raised Dan. 9 25. even in troublous times It relates as wel to Gospel-Reformation as to the full and final return of the Jews and the Lord make it good to you and by you 2 Branch of Exbortation to Ministers I would speak a word in the second place to the faithful Ministry of England Do you set your selves with the Prophets of old to the bringing back of this poor Kingdom so fearfully gone a whoring from God To that end 1. Take heed of healing the hurt of the daughter of this people sleightly by crying peace peace where there is no peace Take heed of daubing with untempered morter Take heed of false visions and causes of banishment but be faithful in discovering the iniquities and whoredoms of the Land If they had stood in my counsel and had caused my people to hear my words Ior 23 22. then they should have turned my people from their evil way and from the evil of their doings Behold this is the way to save the Land speak while ye may speak and I pray God it be not ultimus singultus morientis libertatis 2. Stand in the gap with Moses plead with Elijah pray and cry with Jeremy God hath not yet said to us pray not for this people if he had surely with reverence be it spoken we should not beleeve him Jeremy would not but even after the Lord had enjoyned him silence * Ier 14 11. pray not for this people he is at his intercessions again and again in the 13.19 20 21 22. Verses and all over his Prophesie Oh therefore Ye that make mention of the Lord ye that are the Lords remembrancers by special office and designement give him no rest till he establish and make this our Jerusalem a praise in the earth Thirdly and lastly 3 Branch of Exhortat to all Here is a word of Exhortation to all the people of the Land and that in the language of the Apostle Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief Heb 3 12 in departing from the living God In departing from the living God in his Truths Worship Commands Promises But in all these respects let us say with repenting returning Israel I wil go and return to my first husband for then it was better with me then it is now And for the encouragement of Parliament Ministers People let me remember you of that gracious invitation and promise They say if a man put away his wife and she go from him Ier 3 1. and become another mans shal not that land be greatly polluted but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers yet return unto me saith the Lord. There is much treasure in the place but the summa totalis is this God wil accept of a returning people or person upon those terms that the dearest husband in the world wil not It is very observable that when Christ was withdrawn from the spouse Cant. 2.17 she cries but once to him Turn my beloved but when she was gone from him he cries four times return to her Chap. 6.13 Return return O Shulamite return return Christ is four times as desirous and glad of our return to him as we are or can be of his return to us The Lord speak effectually to us that we may know and all the Churches may know that he is the Lord God 2 Kings 18 37 and that he hath turned our heart back again Amen FINIS

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