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A81250	The root of apostacy, and fountain of true fortitude. Delivered in a sermon before rhe [sic] Honourable House of Commons, on their late day of thanks-giving for the great victory given to Sir William Waller and the forces with him, against the army of Sir Ralph Hopton. 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 C839; Thomason E46_11; ESTC R22888	28,474	40

men I would not of Christians are not Biast another way in their choice Israel would needs have a King over them 1 Sam. 8.9 though for no other reason but that they might bee like other Nations c. And hereby the people of God do not a little trouble and plague themselves and crosse their own designes by committing the managing of their affairs into the hands of such it may bee sometimes that think it no point of valour to scruple at so small a matter as breaking of a Covenant with God And no wonder if God crosse them since in such Elections they crosse God who in his designes singles out the called and faithfull and chosen Revel 17.14 yea they crosse his great designe which is Revel 17.14 That no flesh shall glory in his sight Therefore doth he chuse the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weak things of the world 1 Cor. 1.27 28. to confound the things which are mighty And base things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen c. Honour'd Senators let me ask you one question I blesse God I can do it without flattery If God had not stir'd up the hearts of people in the most parts of the Kingdome at what time you were singled out of thousands of England for this great and blessed Service in which you have sate now above these three yeers blessed be God to make a better choise then they did in many places of the Land What had become of poor England before this time Surely had not the Spirit of God gone forth and wrought to a wonder of wisdome and power in bespeaking the Votes of the people for a major part of men whose spirits were above fears and above flatteries c. We might have sate down long before this time and made our wills and bequeath'd our poor children every one of them Popery and Slavery for their sorrowfull patrimony And now Honour'd Senators and Honourable Commanders let it be your honour and piety to recompence this care and prudence into the bosome of this now poor bleeding Kingdome with answerable vigilance even to a Criticisme in your Elections of those in whose hands you trust the managing of so great and important concernments as have wrapt up in them the honour of Christ and the safety and the very being of the Kingdom Will you give me leave to speak a word in plain English I know you will If you do not purge your Armies as well as recrute them you may recrute them to your own and the Kingdoms confusion Vse 3 Your Armies are reforming Armies let it bee your care to make them reformed Armies and you may humbly expect that God will go out with them to enable them to do Exploits But thirdly to come a little nearer Is Covenant treachery the root of Apostacy Then Christians look to your Covenants so solemnly made and so often renewed What conscienciousnesse canst plead before God in the Civill and Politike reference of thy Covenants What command have these solemn Covenants had over your Estates Interests Persons in all these severall and successive Emergencies which have call'd upon thee to come forth to the help of the Lord against the mighty What vigilance and circumspection in the religious part What power have your Covenants had over your conversation in adorning that according to the rule Sit down I beseech you and set up a Tribunall in your own Consciences and let Christ sit as Judge And let me tell thee this That according to the accompt thou canst bring in concerning this matter thou art like to stand or fall in the hour of temptation I arraigne thee not for thy slips and failings Every trespasse against the Covenant is not a breach of the Covenant provided thou dost bewail thy failings watch against temptations and own thy Covenant I speak of the habituall and generall frame of thy heart and stream and course of thy Conversation wherein if thy care be to say with David Thy vows are upon me I will render praise unto thee Psal Psal 119.106 56.12 And I have sworn and I will performe it that I will keep thy righteous Judgements If thou canst answer old temptations as He did with Ego non sum ego I am not the man I was If thou canst approve thy self to God for a conscientious respect to all his Commandements Psal 119.6 and thy Engagements fear not thy standing thou shalt not be ashamed David assures thee so much in his own person Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect to all thy Commandements But if thou beest one of Solomons fools Prov. 14.9 who make a mock of sin If thou allowest thy self in known habituall wickednesse against the Covenant if thou canst sin in the face of the Covenant and not shrink at it Pval 50. Hast taken the Covenant of God into thy mouth and yet hatest to be reformed Fear and tremble I will not limit God but this I dare say it is a thousand to one but that when God and the Kingdom should have most need of thee thou wilt then turn Apostate My reason is because If Religion and a Covenant upon it cannot prevail with thee to forsake thy lust It is a mighty odds if thy lust do not prevail with thee to forsake thy Religion and the Covenant If thou art not true to God and thine own soul how canst thou think to be true to Church and State He that will sell his soul for a lust will sell a Kingdom if need be for a morsell of bread He that thinketh he standeth let him take heed lest he fall 1 Cor. 10.12 Vse 4 Fourthly I should in the fourth place lay in Cautions to all to take heed of Flatteries Religion Flatteries State Flatteries Personall Flatteries since these be the Baits wherewith politike Seducers beguile vnstable and unwary soules Prov. 14.15 1 Cor. 10.15 that would be thought of Prov. 14.15 The simple beleeveth every word but the prudent looketh well to his going And I may say with the Apostle I speak unto wise men you are prudent be not deceived with a parcell of fair words but look well to your goings Had I an Enemy whom I might lawfully curse I would wish him no greater plagve then to be given up to beleeve the flatteries and witchcrafts of men that lie in wait to deceive and destroy doubtlesse those who by such Artifices and Engines for their own private Interest shall be corrupted and wrought off to betray their publike Trusts and Depositums may speed as well as many of those in the Text did * Alcimus Simon Jason Menelaus c. who for their service they did to the Tyrant were preferred some to Banishment others to Butchery Nec lex est Justior ulla c. There is nothing more just and proper then that Treachery should be rewarded with Treachery And indeed

the creature dies or changes he dies his hope dies his heart dies within him like the heart of Nabal Reason 6 Sixthly Give me leave but to adde one reason more to support this blessed truth and that is this This knowledge of God hath the promise of Gods presence and Gods assistance This is a promise in the Text The people that know their God shall bee strong they shall do Exploits And there is a gracious promise in the Psalms that will both second and Paraphrase it Because he hath set his love upon me therefore I will deliver him I will set him on high Psal 91.14 15. because he hath known my Name Hee shall call upon me and I will answer him I will be with him in trouble I will deliver him and honour him No wonder the knowledge of God doth enable a people to do wonders since by vertue of promise upon which a man may set heaven and earth and it will bear them up I say since by vertue of promise it brings in the wonder-working God to the businesse The knowledge of God brings in God into the Counsell It brings in God into the Field and then what shall bee impossible or difficult Thus I have shewen you the Pillars upon which this blessed truth is supported Question There is a Question that would be resolved on both sides before we can freely proceed to improve this truth It is this First may not a people or person yea have not some done gallantly that never had this knowledge of God Secondly have not many that have known God come off with shame and losse and done no exploits Answer 1 To the first I Answer Providence works for the carrying on of Gods designes amongst and by the bad and as well as the good What wicked men do that know not God they do by Providence what they do that know God they do by Promise and let me tell you thus much They that know God would not fell this distinction for a thousand worlds Answer 2 To the second I Answer 1. They that know God may possibly lay obstructions in their own way The Lords hand is not shortned Isaiah 49.1 2. but your iniquities have separated between you and your God Some accursed thing in the camp some Achans and if Joshuah should have refused to have cast him out this must needs have estranged God from the Army Secondly a people or person may know God and yet sometimes not Act their knowledge their knowledge is out of the way they may know God habitually but not acknowledge him actually to live upon him and act in him but go out it may bee in their own strength and in their own wisdome c. and then no wonder if God do shrink up their sinews and they go halting Thirdly a people may know God and yet God may tempt them and try them that they may know him better and that Hee may know them better or rather that they may know themselves better and the world may know them better that God and man may see they are a people that will pray and wait and trust in their God with Job although he kill them Vse All the Vse that I will make of this precious truth I will reduce to these two Heads in one word of Exhortation Exhortation Is the knowledge of God the fountain of all true fidelity gallantnesse of spirit and heroick atchievements Then first if you would be strong and do Exploits Labour to know God Secondly when you have been strong and done Exploits carry your selves as a people that do know their God Lend me a little of your patience to speak somewhat to either of these First if you would be strong and do Exploits Labour to know God study God more and the second Causes lesse beleeve it you will finde life and strength in it And here I beseech you fellow me with your patience and yet truely I shall not need do not misconstrue this confidence of mine if I say I shall not need to beg your patience I shall lead you a long way indeed but it will be through green pastures by the rivers of living waters I shall lead you as it were through the milkie way of heaven where you shall behold visions of life as you go and look into the store-houses of heaven where are laid up the treasures of strength and of all holy courage and resolution while I shall invite you to study God In his 1. Works 2. Word 3. Names and Attributes 4. Relations First study God I beseech you in his Works which divide themselves and your contemplation into his Works of Creation Providence Redemption First Therefore study God in his works of Creation and there you shall finde him bringing light out of darknesse this beautifull structure of heaven and earth 2 Cor. 4.6 out of a confused Chaos and that Chaos out of nothing Christians when you see second causes at a dead-low-water and your Creature-hopes ready to give up the Ghost if you would but remember the Creation it would put life into you heark how God chides because you do not Isa 51.12 13. Who art thou that art afraid of a man that shall die and forgettest the Lord thy Maker Who art thou Art thou a son of Abraham Canst thou call Jacob Father They would have scorn'd to have dealt so with me to be afraid of a dying man and forget that I am the the living God thy Maker and the worlds Maker who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth and hast feared continually c. See Christians the very remembrance and contemplation of God in the works of Creation would have cured them of their fears while they might have reasoned themselves thus into an holy security He that made the world is not he able to conquer an Armie He that made his Enemies of nothing is not he able as easily to reduce them into their first nothing again sic in ca lt Secondly Study God in his works of providence Ordinary Extraoxdinary Study God in his ordinary works of Providence in the Government of the whole world and there contemplate some such things as these What an House God keeps how many * Psal 145.15 mouthes God hath to feed every day How many * Psal 147.4 Stars in the Heaven and yet he calls them all by their Names how many men in the world and infinitely how many more haires upon every one of their heads and yet * Matth. 10.30 all these men yea all these haires numbred What antipathy and fightings between the Creatures of all rancks and classes from Angels down to wormes and yet the world kept in Order What Combat between the Elements and yet the Creation not set all into a Combustion What Contrariety in the Seasons and Complexions of the yeer Summer Winter Hot Cold Wet Drie c. and yet all these sweetly and harmoniously Coordinated to the service of man