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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

6.14 pro confessione unitatis divinae Therefore thou mayest carry thy life in thy hand securely Words worthy to be engraven upon the palms of the hands of all those whither Commanders or Souldiers that fight the Lords battells But what shall I need to multiply words Sir you have exprest too much faith and resolution to bee out-dared by any difficulty in the cause of God and your Countrey Go therefore in this thy might thou mighty man have not I sent thee saith God And let the sword of the Lord and of Brereton be as dreadfull as once the sword of the Lord and of Gideon that you may smite your enemies as one man Sir while you are fighting abroad this shall be the prayer of him among thousands at home who humbly craves leave to let the World know he is Your humble servant in all Gospel-Offices Tho Case Gods Rising HIS Enemies Scattering PSAL. 68.1 2. Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered let them that hate him flee before him THis Psalm is a Song of triumph composed by David that is cleer from the Title To the chief Musitian or the Master of Musick a Psalm or Song of David composed and sung upon their day of Thanksgiving for the bringing home of the Ark that Sacrament of Gods presence from the house of Obcd-Edom and the setling and fixing of it in its own place in the midst of the Tabernacle which David had pitched for it of which you may read 2 Sam. 6.17 this is the most probable conjecture of the best Interpreters In this Psalm as he doth Historically celebrate the many famous victories and spoils wherewith God had gratiously and even miraculously crowned his Government and so the Argument of this Psalm is the same with the 60. Psalm So also Prophetically he doth celebrate the happinesse and glory of the Evangelicall Church under the government of the Lord Jesus Christ rising from the dead spoyling the Kingdom of sin and Satan and leading captivity captive for upon that triumph doth the Apostle expound some passages of this Psalm in Ephes 4.8 The Psalmist begins his Song with the words which Moses used Vers 35. when the Ark set forward Numb 10.35 36. And it came to passe when the Ark set forward that Moses said Rise up Lord and let thine enemies be scatter'd and let them that hate thee Vers 36 flee before thee And when it rested he said Return O Lord unto the many thousands of Israel Which words Moses leaving as a modell of prayer and a prop of faith to all succeeding generations were most proper for Davids purpose in bringing home the same Ark into its resting place And he useth these words by way of prayer and triumph petition and thanksgiving Wherein is contained such choise provision had I skill to dish it out unto you as though it be a fasting day would present you with a spirituall feast for soul repast I must not stand to Analyse the Psalm that which entertains us at the very threshold being of such fulnesse and variety as the straits into which the distractions of this day doth cast us will hardly suffer to take a taste of every particular There offer themselves to our view Doctrins these six Observations from the words First The Church of God ever had and will have enemies and haters For against these doth the Psalmist arm himself and the Church with this Prayer Secondly The Churches enemies are Gods enemies they that hate the Church hate God Thine enemies them that hate thee Thirdly God sometime seems to sleep or lie still and let these enemies and haters do what they will for a season this also is implied He to whom we say Arise is either asleep or lies still Fourthly There is a time when God will arise Fifthly Gods rising time is the enemies scattering time his haters flying time Sixthly It is the duty of Gods people to pray him up when he seems to bee down and to exalt him in their praises when hee doth arise to their rescue and redemption For these words are both a prayer and a triumph as they are used both by Moses and David You see I have prepared more work then I shall bee able to finish in the time allotted me for this service Give me leave therefore to preface but a little upon the three former And I will sit down upon the three latter in the main body of my discourse The Church of God hath Enemies Haters When she was in her Infancy and in so narrow a compasse Doctrin 1 that the two first Parents of the world had yet but two sonnes of whom the Scripture takes notice one was the Church the other an enemy the one a Saint the other a malignant 1 Joh. 3.13 an hater that hated him even to fratricide As the Church multiplied her enemies multiplied also yea so over-multiplied her that in the 74. Psalm ver 19. it is but one poor Turtle-dove against a multitude of wicked enemies haters Lo yonder you may see heapes of them gathered together Psal 83.6 7 8. The Tabernacles of Edom and Ishmaelites of Moab and the Hagarens Gebal and Ammon and Amaleck the Philistines with the Inhabitants of Tyre Assur and the children of Lot Evill Beasts enough one would think to have devoured one poor Turtle-dove In our Saviours time they were grown into a world-full of enemies Joh. 15.19 The world hateth you If any should demand with Pilate Why Ground what evill hath the Church done She may answer with David Psal 69.4 They hate me without a cause It is a causelesse enmity and hatred the Lord knows But if you will have a cause Reason Hee shall give it you that best knew what it was Christ himself Joh. 15.19 Because you are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you There is a secret malignancie in the men of the world as there was in Cain to see others chosen and beloved of Christ and themselves rejected Reason 2 If you would dig to the root of this venemous hatefull weed Gal. 3.16 you shall finde it to bee the same seed which the old Serpent hath spawned into the children of disobedience The true Church and the Malignant are begotten and born of a contrary seed the seed of the Serpent who is the Devill and the Seed of the Woman which is Christ and these hate one another with the purest hatred because their principles be most contrary and most active The one of God who is summe activus as the Schooles speak a pure simple act most vigorous and operative and the other of Satan who in the highest sphere of created beings is a most subtile and active Spirit The principles of hatred in all other creatures are of a far lower and duller mould and motion and their Antipathy and hatred is nothing so immortally mortall these hating and hated of one another not onely to death but in