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woman_n	enmity_n	seed_n	serpent_n	8,737	5	10.2957	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

If God see us pretending his wrongs but intending our own cursing them as his Enemis but hating them onely as our own we shall translate their curse upon our own heads Otherwise if God see our hearts deeply affected with and bitterly afflicted for the Insolencies and Violences done to his Name and Glory as we need not be afraid to pour out such vials of wrath upon them for the vials of wrath are nothing else but the praiers of the Saints showred down in stormes of vengeance upon the head of the wicked so there cannot Revel 8.4 5. be an argument of greater advantage to prevail with God for their destruction then when a people or person can demonstrate this to God in their prayers that whom they pray against are Gods Eenemies as well as their own that their hatred is not so much against them as against God Psal 44 22. and that for his Names sake they are killed all the day long Truely make this appear and we may be silent in our own Cause God is concernd in it more then our selves And truly our Enemies themselves will teach us this wisedome It is and hath been from Ancient times the cursed policy of desperate Malignant Courtiers and Counsellours when they would Arme Princes and Potentates against the poor people of God to possesse their ears and hearts with this prejudice That they are Enemies to Monarchy Traytors and Rebels to the Crown and Dignity of Kings and Princes So did of old Rehum the Chancellour and Shimshie the Scribe a couple of Arch Malignants labour to bring the Jews into disfavour and odium with Attaxerxes as you may read in that Scandalous Libell or letter Ezra 4.8 they writ to Babylon Be it known unto the King said they that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come to Jerusalem 12. building the rebellious and bad City c. Be it known now to the King that if this City be builded 13. and the wall set up again then will they not pay toll tribute and Custome and so thou shalt endamage the Revenue of the King And so again Let search be made in the book of the Records of thy fathers Vers 15. so shalt thou finde in the book of the Records and know that this is a rebellious city and hurtfull to Kings and Provinces and that they have moved Sedition within the same of old time for which cause was this city destroyed We certifie the King that if this city be built again c. 16. by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side the River With such jealousies did the Enemies of God and his people in the neighbour nation of Scotland labourd to possesse his Majesty towards those his loyall Subjects there They were represented to his Majesty as Traitors and Rebels that intended nothing else but to un-crown and un-King him when power should be in their own hand And is not the same Designe practised upon his faithfull Parliament and Subjects here in England Do not these Rehums and Shimshies fill his Royall ears with this odium That the Parliament and the Puritans are enemies to Monarchy and intend nothing but to bring all into a Parity and after they have pulled down Bishops then down with King too with a world of such calumnies invented by the father of lies Truely the land is not able to bear their words This is their policie for these mediums they know are most proper to render themselves gracious to Soveraignty and the people whom they would trample under feet odious and unsufferable Kings being jealous enough of what ever may endanger their Crowns limit their Power or eclypse their Glory But as it is the policy of malignants so it is their wickednesse too they lie when they use these Arguments to Kings and Princes The God of truth knows they lie And the Father of lights open the eyes of the Kings and Princes of the Earth in his good time to see how much they are abused as well as their subjects that that prophesie and promise may once be made good The Governours of Judah shall say in their heart Zach. 12.5 the Inhabitants of Jerusalem shall bee my strength in the Lord of Hoasts their God Those that I had once thought had been my worst enemies and traitors I see now are my best friends and subjects The Lord hasten this in his time But Brethren in the mean time though the enemies of Gods people lie when they use this argument to Kings and Princes Gods people shall not need to fear the lie when they use this argument against their enemies to God for they be Gods encmies as well as the Churches and they hate God as much and more then they hate his people Enemies to the Crown and dignity of the Lord Jesus King of the Church himself being witnesse they strike at God through his peoples sides And therefore if you shall plead this Argument with sutable affections you may with an humble considence expect that God will take it well at your hands and take such order with your enemies as shall make for your security and the advancement of his own Soveraignty God being more jealous and more righteously of his crown and dignity then any of the Monarchs of the Earth can be of theirs who are but his Deputies hear him else I am the Lord that is my Name Isa 42.8 and my glory will I not give to another God cannot endure a Rival in his Kingdome But I have staid too long upon this I must hasten forward to the third Doctrine God for a season seems sometimes to liE still and sleep Doct. 3 This is the occasion of all those awakening cries which Gods people make in his ears Awake why steepest thou arise cast us not off for over Psal 44.23 Arise O Lord let not man prevail Psal 9.19 Arise O Lord save me O my God Psal 3.7 And arise O Lord plead thine own cause Psal 74.22 So here Let God arise c. These expressions bee so frequent in the Psalms and else where that they need no Quotation The Church comes to God as the Disciples once came to Christ when he was asleep in the ship Awake Master why sleepest thou Mark 4.38 carest thou not that wee porish God hath his Ends in it and these may bee some of them briefly Reasons 1 First That hee may see what his enemies will do we speak after the manner of men The Master sometimes makes as if he slept to see what the servant will do when such and such advantages lie before him If God were alwayes up and discovering himself in the world the thousandth part of that rage and enmity that is in the seed of the Serpent against the seed of the Woman Christ and his members would not shew it self they would certainly bite it in But let God hold his peace and make as if he did not see let him suspend the