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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

repented for the plague of grashoppers And the Lord repented for the fire Yea how often is it repeated Ezek. 20. I lifted up my hand i. e. as if he were fetching his blow to smite them and to smite but once or as if he had sworn their destruction lifting up of the hand signifies both But I wrought for my name Ver. 14. Mine eye spared them from destroying them Vers 17. I withdrew my hand Vers 22. c. Now brethren to see a God repenting over a people and to see a people not repenting before their God to see God repenting of the evil of punishment and a people not repenting of the evil of sin Gods repentings are Israels revivings Ezra 9.8 and when he revives comforts to their spirits for them to revive grief to his spirit oh who can take the demensions of this aggravation 4. Israel sins against Gods pardoning love Mich 7,18 He pardons the mixt multitude in the Church with a passing-by-pardon a pardon of forbearance he pardons his own in Covenant of grace with a blotting-out-pardon a pardon of forgetfulness I wil be merciful to their sins and remember their iniquities no more Ier 31 34. Psa 78 38. But he being ful of mercy forgave their iniquity Oh now to sin against this love while God is ful of mercy for Israel to be ful of sin God pardons and they sin they sin and God pardons and again pardons and they again sin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Multiplicabit ad parcendum Isa 55 7. For God to add to multiply pardons and they to add to multiply sin for this indeed rejoyce not Oh Israel with joy as other nations They sin not against Gods pardoning love 5. Israel sins against Gods parental love Ier 31 20. Is Ephraim my dear son is he a pleasant child Therest of the world sin but in the capacity of bastards slaves creatures at best Ephraim sins in the capacity of a child a son a dear son a pleasant child the child hath more cause to mourn and lament then the stranger this is an aggravation that heaven and earth must hear of Esa 1 2 Hear O heavens and give ear O earth for the Lord hath spoken I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me 6. Yea Israel all this while sins against Gods conjugal love Turn Ier 3 14 O back-sliding children for I am married to you saith the Lord. Behold a Father married to his Children behold God stands to his Church in relation of both Father and Husband and yet she rebels hath any Nation such cause to mourn I could tell you moreover of 7. Gods protecting love 8. His providing love he provides like a Father like an Husband for his Church and people c. Against all which Israel sins But I must hasten Consult in the second place the Danger The danger of Israels sin and that also will tell you Israel hath more cause to mourn for her adulterous departures from God then any nation upon the earth What Danger Why Brethren Israel playing the Harlot is in danger of God jealousie 2 Command I the Lord thy God am a jealous God other nations sinning are in danger of Gods anger but Israel of Gods jealousie And jealousie is the rage of a man vt supra Is it nothing my Brethren to have a God angry yea even to Jealousie Consider I beseech you Gods Jealousie is 1. A stripping-jealousie Ezek 16 38 I wil judg thee as women that break wedlock saith God to adulterous Israel how is that Vers 37. I wil discover thy nakedness to thy lovers and they shall strip thee of thy clothes and take away all thy jewels all her Church-ornaments all her Bride-glory and bravery not only her silver and gold peace and plenty but Word and Sacraments c. Alas the Nations have none of these to lose 2. It is a withdrawing-jealousie the husband withdraws from the wife when he is jealous of her and wo unto thee saith God when I depart from thee Hose 9 12 3. It is a divorcing-jealousie a discovenanting-jealousie God said here to this whorish people Lo-ammi and Loruhamah Hosea 1 6 9 not my people not having obtained mercy they discovenanted God and God discovenanted them they cast off God and God and God discovenanted them they cast off God and God cast off them Many more particulars might be added but these must suffice And now tell me I beseech you hath not Israel think ye under whorish departures more cause to mourn and lament then any people under heaven Do any of the Nations sin against so much light Do any of the Nations sin against so much love Hath any Nation under heaven so much to forfeit by their sin as Israel hath They may feel his wrath but they are not liable to his jealousie The Nations may lose their flax and their wool their silver and their gold but they have no Ordinances to lose they have no Gospel to lose no Word no Sacrament to forfeit The Nations have no God to lose at least no God-a-father no God-an-husband to lose they may be unpeopled but they cannot be unchurched They may know what sword and famine is but they cannot know what it is to be divorced Rejoyce not O Israel for joy c. I but Gentiles are capable of hell are they not and is there any state worse then that Object 1. We speak of Israel especially in reference to her Church-state and condition of which she is capable in this life Answ 2. If we speak of hell Israel that is the generality of the visible Church are in as much danger of that as the Gentiles yea more tribulation and anguish Rom 2 8 9. indignation and wrath to the Iew first and also to the Gentile Yea certainly a deeper place in Tophet is reserved for apostate Israel then for the poor pur-blind Gentiles when the Gentiles shal but swim upon the surface of that burning lake Israel shal be sunk into the midst of those devouring flames It shal be easier for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of Judgment then for Capernaum 3. And lastly Even the very Elect of God Israel according to the spirit and promise if they be defiled with the pollutions and whoredoms of the rest and carryed down the stream of apostacy whether in Doctrine or Conversation it may cost them dear God may put such a cup into their hand to drink a cup of trembling and spiritual desertion which for a time may be worse then all the plagues of Aegypt and as it were the very skimmings of the bottomless pit VSE First It may inform us what an horrid and hateful sin Adultery is before God in as much as of all sins the wisdom of God hath made choyce of that sin for a type and metaphor of the great sin of apostacy from God the greatest of sins next the sin against the Holy Ghost and

Parliament is trodden under foot the wall is broken down the destroyer comes in and without a rescuing arm of Omnipotence the Kingdom undone If the Lord wil give the Parliament an heart to be active for Christ and the Kingdom an heart to be active for the Parliament I hope yet to see it a flourishing Kingdom and you a flourishing Parliament The Lord Iesus ruling and triumphing in both which is and shal be the hearty and dayly prayer of Your unworthy yet faithful Servant in the Gospel THO CASE Reader thou art desired page 22. the last line but one in stead of conferring to write or read confessing of sin other mistakes there are not many unless they be literall SPIRITUAL WHOREDOM Discovered in a Sermon ON HOSEA 9.1 Rejoyce not O Israel for joy as other people for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God CALVIN conjectures that this Prophesie of Hosea as we now have it as the rest of the Prophesies was but the summary or brief heads of certain Sermons which at several times and upon several occasions were preach't unto the people of Israel and Iudah collected by himself and registred for the use and benefit of the Church of God This Sermon he conceives begins at my Text but the distinct time when it was preach't neither himself nor any other Expositor do hint That it was before the Babylonian Captivity is clear from the date of the Prophesie Chap. 1. Vers 1. Certain it is and that may content us saith he that the Prophet doth here bitterly reprove the extream obstinacy and desperate security of the people Calv. in locuen who by all the pains and unwearied labours of the Prophets could not be brought to repentance although their rebellions and apostacy were so visible that all the world might take notice of it However their incorrigibleness must not cause the Prophet to desist his duty therefore upon all occasions when call'd to preach before them he ceaseth not to reprove to convince to exhort if by any means he might happily awaken them to a timely discovery of their sin and prevention of approaching ruine and destruction Peoples obstinacy must not silence the Prophets fidelity Observ passion and short-spiritedness of all men in the world doth ill become them In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves if God peradventure wil give them repentance c. 2 Tim. 2.25.26 is the Apostles cannon to all the Ministers of the Gospel In the words therefore the Prophet doth call them to serious and seasonable humiliation and repentance for though the words seem to speak only a bare prohibition of joy and rejoycing yet 1. That was to convince them of reprove them for their unseasonable mirth and jollity that they should rejoyce when their God was so highly displeased with them for their manifold apostacies and the repetition of the words rejoyce not for joy or as the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hebrew rejoyce not to exultation is for the greater * Habet haec repetitio emphasin quandam i. e. majorem increpationem intempestive laetitiae Ribera in locum aggravation of their sin and the Prophets reproof 2. And again the words have a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in them they mean and import more then they speak out as it is usual in Scripture Rhetorick and so while they forbid joy i. e. carnal security and sensual rejoycing in creature-comforts they enjoyn the contrary sc mourning and weeping girding with sackcloth and rolling themselves in dust and ashes aversus es a deo ergo tibi lugendum est Jugiter non exultandum Corn. a Lap. in locum a constant and conscionable humiliation and walking humbly before their God And this is prest from a double Consideration Sin Wrath. Their sin against God Gods wrath against them The one expressed The other implyed Their sin expressed thou hast gone a whoring And Gods wrath implyed if thou hast gone a whoring God cannot choose but be highly displeased with your sin and yet more displeased with them for their security then for their sin And both these are yet further aggravated from the Relation which Israel had to God thy God which relation is set forth 1. Positively 2. Comparatively 1. Positively The relation of a spouse or wife and that is implyed in the sin which is called whoredom Whoredom or adultery you know is properly the sin against the marriage-relation Marriage is honourable in all and the bed undefiled but whoremongers and adulterers God wil judg Heb. 13.4 Adultery is the defiling of the marriage-bed and therefore some do etymon Adulterium quasi ad alterum the departure of the husband or wife into the bed and bosom of a stranger Here I say is the conjugal relation into which God had taken Israel implyed to the aggravation of her apostacy whereby her sin came to be Whoredom and Adultery against the Lord. 2. Comparatively With other Nations rejoyce not as other people Why Because though they have the relation of creatures unto God and of men and women yet they have not the relation of a spouse or wife Ye only have I known of all the families of the earth saith God to Israel Amos 3.2 i. e. with a conjugal knowledg other Nations may cal God Baali but they cannot cal him Ishi i.e. they may cal him my Lord and my Maker but not my Husband and my Redeemer they are his by Creation and common providence but not by Covenant and conjugal relation So that now here is the aggravation Other Nations may sin against God but they cannot commit adultery against God other Nations may rebell against the Lord but they cannot go a whoring from him This was Israels sin and the aggravation of it And as it was the aggravation of her sin so it was the aggravation of Gods wrath too that as I say is implyed for if Israels sin be the sin of adultery then Gods wrath must needs be the wrath of jealonsie and jealousie as it is the rage of a man Prov. 6.34 35 so it is the rage of a God anger red-hot wrath ad octo in the highest degree Therefore he wil not spare in the day of vengeance he wil not regard any ransom neither wil he rest content though thou givest many gifts Jealousie is as cruel as the grave the coals thereof are coals of fire which hath a most vehement flame c. Cant. 8.6 This therefore you see is the aggravation both of her sin and danger By all which the Prophet calls Israel now to sence of sin and humiliation for sin to be affected with and afflicted for her grievous departure from the Lord. And now the words thus opened would afford many serious and seasonable observations I shal resolve all into 4 Doctrines 1. A Nation or Kingdom in external Covenant with God stands in a conjugal relation unto God 2. A people thus related unto God may possibly go a whoring from

spouse-like embraces and obedience of their first Husband Hose 2.8 Vse However the Contemplation of both these may be 1. A Startling and an awakening Consideration to all Christian Magistrates and governours to look about them that they do not suffer Churches and states under their hand to turn Apostate and go a whoring from their God as much as in them lies 2. A Caution to all in the words of the Apostle 1 Cor 10 12. He that thinketh he standeth let him take heed lest he fall But I shal have more ful occasion to speak to both these in the fourth Doct. And therefore I shall leave this and hasten in a word to the third Doctrine Doct. 3 Many times it comes to pass that Gods Israel lying under the deep guilt of whorish departures from her God in stead of being affected with and afflicted for her whoredoms doth securely and sinfully let out her heart to carnal jollity and contentments It was the condition of Israel here which the Prophet doth severely reprove and condemn and this was not the first time they did so was it not the complaint of the Prophets * Isa 22 12 13. Isaiah and * Amos 6 3 4 5 6. Amos And last of all Luk 17 26 Reasons the complaint of the Lord of the Prophets Iesus Christ himself What might the Reason be 1. Surely first there is desperate security at the bottom of it people in this case do wilfully shut their eyes against the discoveries and convictions of sin and wrath They lie in a deep sleep of security and take no notice how the things of their peace are passing by them Luke 19 42. 2. There is a mixture likewise of desperate unbeleif Behold I work a work in your days which you wil not beleeve though it be told you Hab 1 5. people do harden their hearts against all the predictions and intimations of approaching ruin 3. People do flatter themselves extreamly with their present prosperity and deliverances It was the Lullabie of this people here as Interpreters observe because garners were ful and wine-fatts ran over because they had great peace and rich plenty therefore they thought all was wel As long as people heare not from God in thundring and lightning they reckon themselves safe enough Wil ye steal murder and commit adultery Ier 7 9 10. and swear falsly and burn incense to Baal and walk after other Gods whom ye know not and come and stand before me in this house which is called by my name and say we are delivered to do all these abominations Behold theft and murder and adultery and perjury and Idolatry all put upon the score of deliverances Thou hast found the life of thy hand Isa 57 10. therefore thou wast not greived As long as people can live of themselves they wil lay neither sin nor wrath to heart Carnal minds take Gods silence for Gods consent his patience for his approbation these things hast thou done Psa 50 21. and I kept silence thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy self 4. A fourth ground or cause of it may be trusting to outward Church-priviledges placing confidence in the very being in external Covenant with God Behold ye trust in lying words that cannot profit Ier 7 10 vers 4. what were they why The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord are these Foolish people content themselves to hang on the outside of the Ark and think that shal save them from wrath both present and to come There is a dreadful Catalogue of sins brought in by the Prophet Micah against the Rulers and Teachers of this people They build Zion with bloud and Jerusalem with iniquity The heads thereof judg for reward and the Priests thereof teach for here Mic 3 10 11 and the Prophets thereof divine for money horrid Apostacy And could they hold up their heads under all these abominations yes as high as ever and overlook and scorn all the threatnings of the true Prophets no evil can come upon us they may tel us strange tales to make us afrayd if they could but we are safe enough evil wil not evil cannot come upon us why they lean upon the Lord and say is not the Lord among us Mark I beseech you because they had yet the presence of the ordinances of God they concluded they had also the presence of the God of the ordinances and thus they deceived and cousen'd themselves Vse Is not here more soul-humbling work for us Lord what is man left to himself But of this also in the next Doctrine which is the fourth and last Doctrine Doct. 4 Gods Israel under adulterous departures from him have less cause to rejoyce and more cause to morn and lament then any people or nation under heaven Rejoyce not O Israel for joy as other nations for c. There is a two-fold ground of it 1. In reference to their sin 2. In reference to their danger There is no people under heaven that can sin as Israel sins no people under heaven that can smart so for sin as Israel may smart first for their sin Israels sin hath more aggravation upon it then the sin of all the world besides There is a two-fold aggravation upon Israels sin of which the sin of other nations is not capable 1. An aggravation of light 2. An aggravation of love Gods Israel sins against more light and Gods Israel sins against more love then all the earth besides First Israel sins against more light they know more then all the world knows 1. Of God God reveals more of himself unto his Church Israel knows more God then he doth to all the nations upon the earth In Iudah is God known c. Psa 76 1 2. His attributes They know more of his names and attributes then the rest of the world do his name is great in Israel his holyness his justice his mercy his faithfulness his omnipotence his omnipresence his omniscience c. These he makes known to and in his Church more then to any of or all the nations in the world God mentions it as an high favour unto Abraham Isaac and Iacob I appeared unto them by the name of God Almighty an higher favour that he made himself known to his seed by the name Iehovah Exod 6 3. God shines forth in his Church in the brightness and deerness of all his glorious attributes and this is an high aggravation of Israels sin and Apostacy Howbeit then when ye knew not God ye did service to them which by nature are no Gods Gal 4 9. But now after that ye have known God how turn ye again c. This was a defection for which there could be no Apology made for if the knowledg of God by the book of the creature where Gods name is to be spel'd out but by dark and broken Characters be sufficient to leave the Gentiles