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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

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

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

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 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