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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

in Christ They shall be strong and do exploits Not that a man cannot attain such an Heroicknesse of spirit without a pleriphorie or full assurance of Gods love Such a knowledge indeed is omnipotent but that even where the soul hath tasted and seen how good the Lord is in such a degree 1 Pet. v 3. that it hath chosen God and hath taken God for its portion as the Church saith The Lord is my portion saith my soul Lam. 3.24 He sees such things in God as will raise him above the flatteries and witchcrafts of a lying world and carry it out not only to Attempt but to Attchieve great things for God when it sees its call beyond it self See David going out against Goliah Asah with a small inconsiderable party against Zerah the Ethiopian and his army consisting of a Million of men a thousand thousand 2 Chron. 14.10 11. Abijah against a double proportion of Jeroboam Chap. 13. Jehoshaphat against a vast innumerable host of Moabites and Ammonites and others Chap. 20.1 2.12 And all of them returning with the Crown of Victory upon their heads by vertue of this knowledge of their God The reasons of this blessed truth are briefly these Reasons Reasons First This knowledg of God gives a man a bottome to stand upon a Rock a Rock that will stand when the earth is removed Psal 46.1 2. Isa 26.4 and the mountains be carried into the midst of the Sea when the foundations of Heaven and earth do sink under the waight The Rock of ages Ages passe away one after another but the Rock remains and therefore David desires no more but this in the greatest inundations of fears and dangers Psal 61.2 when his heart was overwhelmed Lead me to the Rock that is higher then I I said he desires no more and yet I must recall my self when he comes to the rock he hath another petition and he is very confident of speeding he shall set me upon the rock Psal 27. First Lord lead me to the Rock I cannot finde the way my self and then set me up my neighbour cannot set me up Psal 49.7 no man can redeem his brother I cannot set up my self if Reason or Sence give me their hand they will pull me down God must and God shall take me by main strength and set me upon the Rock that is higher then I. Reason 2 Secondly This knowledge sees enough in God to answer all objections you cannot fancy that objection which the knowledge of God cannot answer The enemies mighty but God Almighty they subtill and politique yet hee also is wise and will bring evill upon them Isa 31.2 and will not call back his words but will arise against the house of the evill doers and against the help of them that work iniquity they cannot out-wit God they treacherous but he faithfull sic in caet Brethren in a word you cannot dare a man that knows God with any objection when he sees his call because he feet enough in God to back him He will say as once Luther to Melanchton when hee began to create objections If the work bee of God what should we fear if not let us lay it down Reason 3 Thirdly This knowledge begets trust They that know thy Name Psal 9.10 will put their trust in thee for thou never forsakest them that seek thee There were many that said of Davids soul or to Davids soul for that is the malitious plot of wicked men and devils to drive the people of God to despair of Gods help they said to his soul when hee was flying before Absalom there is no help for him in God Psal 3.2 But David would not say so himself he knew God Ver. 3. and therefore hee would trust him But thou O Lord art a shield for me my glory and the lifter up of my head Reason 4 Fourthly It may well beget trust for it begets strength Oh it is a joyous knowledge and the joy of the Lord is your strength said holy Nehemiah Nehem. 8.10 and so saith my Text The people that know their God shall bee strong Oh it is a strength-communicating knowledge Joy is to the spirit that which marrow is to the bones bones full of marrow cannot easily be broken and a spirit full of joy cannot easily bee conquered the joy of the spirit works over strength into the body They got not the Land in possession by their own sword neither did their own arm save them Psal 44.3 What then why thy right hand and thine arm and the light of thy countenance The light of Gods countenance is the right hand and arm of the most High and the right hand of the Lord must needs do valiantly the right hand of the Lord brings mighty things to passe Psal 118.16 Truly the least glimpse of Gods favour in Christ will make a man as one once gave the Character of a gallant Souldier whom the most of you know to live like a Saint and pray like an Angel and fight like a Devill Zech. 12.8 or to use that better language of Scripture He that is weake to be as David and he that is as David to be like an Angel of God Reason 5 Fifthly yea in the fifth place It gives not onely strength but life A life above mortality This is life eternall Joh. 17.3 to know thee the onely true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent There is indeed no knowing of God after this manner in the Text but in Jesus Christ and this knowledge is eternall life That man hath begun his Heaven upon earth that thus knows God And this knowledge of God must needs heighten a people or person to do great things for it is all that the glorified Saints and holy Angels have to live upon in Heaven and it is enough for so farre as any one knows God so far he lives in God yea in some sence I may say so far he lives the life which God himself lives He is clothed with the Sun and hath the Moon under his feet the Churches Hieroglyphick Revel 12.1 Hee is clothed with Christ and tramples upon the World above fears and above hopes above threatnings and above flatteries above death and above life I had almost said above hell and above heaven therefore Habakkuk will not fear Hab. 3.17 18. though the fig-tree do not blossome neither fruit be in the vine the labour of the Olive fail and the fields yeeld no meat the flock be cut off from the fold and there bee no herd in the stall Why Hee knew though there should be a famine in earth there was none in heaven he knew God and had learn'd to live in God and therefore will rejoyce in the Lord and joy in the God of his salvation c. He lives an unchangeable life who lives in the unchangeable God Hee that lives in the dying creature dies a thousand deaths as oft as

and producing the same harvest In a word If you would in your greatest dangers but get so much leave and time of your Fears and Distractions as to read over these Psalmes the 104. the 146.147 and hear what stories of providence are told there to wonder and delight and then sit down and work the consideration of them upon your hearts Surely in spight of all the ods and disadvantages you meet with in the world and in your work and way whether publike or personall you might be able to come off with the Gallant Psalmist pardon the Epethite The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever Psal 104.31 the Lord shall rejoyce in his works and not only God will rejoyce but I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live I will sing praise to my God while I have my being Vers 33. Psal 146.10 My meditation of him shall be sweet I will be glad in the Lord c. And again The Lord shall reign for ever even thy God O Sion unto all generations praise ye the Lord. It is a very taking consideration to observe how in the midst of straits wherein the Church or the Psalmist himself was at the times of penning these Psalms He doth discourse himself into Faith from the very misteries of providence 2. But then contemplate God in his extraordinary works of providence towards his Church and people and from thence you might collect these six Observations Obser 1 First That the Churches despairing times have been Gods helping times Obser 2 Secondly That God carries on his designes not onely against but by the opposition and conspiracies of his cursed Enemies Obser 3 Thirdly That the Enemies have been neerest their downfall when they have held up their heads highest Obser 4 Fourthly That you never heard God complaining of too few you have heard him sometimes complainig of too many Judges 7.2 Obser 5 Fifthly That every turne-back in a deliverance is not the losse of the Designe Israel had many a turn-back in Egypt and in the Wildernesse and yet their deliverance was carried on Obser 6 Sixthly That even in these passages of Providence wherein God seems to fight against his people he is fighting for them Psal 31.22 and while he seems to reject their praiers he is answering them Honored Worthies and beloved Christians what strength would these and the like considerations well wrought in by meditation contribute to your weak hands and feeble knees But above all Thirdly If you would study to know God in the glorious work and misterie of Redemption by Jesus Christ there you shall finde these Heart-strengthening Soul-raysing wonders First The greatest enemies that ever the Church had conquered As 1. A Malignant World 2. An Enraged Devill 3. A violate Law 4. The violenced Justice of God and Lastly man himself afraid of nothing so much as of his own Salvation All these taken off and conquer'd Secondly The hardest difficulties that ever were heard of reconciled sc how Justice and Mercy might be both satisfied in mans recovery how the curse might be both removed and executed A Mother and yet a Virgin God and yet die Thirdly God at the greatest charges that ever was heard of to bring this about it cost him the thoughts of his heart from all Eternity before time and the beloved Son out of his bosome and Him the dearest blood out of his heart in the fulnesse of time all these were laid out upon this purchase Christians consider Hath the Church yet such Enemies to conquer hath God yet such difficulties to reconcile will it cost God so much now to redeem his Church people from death the wrath of men as did from Hell and the wrath of God And yet if it should I am perswaded God would not stick at it to do it the second time rather then his Church and people should perish But it needs not the price of all the Churches deliverances was paid in at the first purchase then it cost him the blood of his beloved Son Now it will but cost him the blood of his cursed Enemies upon whom the sentence is already past Those mine enemies that would not have me raign over them Luke 19.27 bring them hither and slay them before me The consideration of this work of God is of such a cordiall Influence that God stopt the mouthes and quieted the hearts of his people with the mention of it even when their hearts have been moved with fear as the trees of the wood are moved with the winde even with this word Vers 14. Behold a Virgin shall conceive and bare a Son and so again Isa 7.2 Mich. 5.5 This man shall be peace when the Assyrian come into the land c. And all this while this word was but yet in the promise a far off a Mistery a Riddle Oh what life and strength would it put into a languishing Spirit well chafed in by meditation * Now we see it in the full accomplishment Rom. 8.32 Isa 43.34 whereby the Soul come to it self again might resolve with the Apostle he that spared not his own Son but gave him up for us how shall he not with him also freely give us all things Surely he that Spared not his Son for the Churches Redemption will not now stick to say I will give men for thy life and people for thy ransome for certainly all other deliuerances are not worthy to be mentioned on the same day with this Deliverance of Deliverances Secondly As you should study God in his works so study him in his Word His Word of 1. Truth 2. Command 3. Threatning 4. Promise First The word of Truth Isa 40.15 and there you shall finde all Nations as the drop of the Bucket and the dust of the Ballance Alas what is lesse considerable then a drop of a Bucket for what is the Bucket to the Well and what is the drop to the Bucket behold the Well is neither fuller nor emptier for the bucket nor the Bucket for the drop Or what of lesse moment then the dust the small dust of the Ballance which turnes the ballance neither this way nor that way which is blown off with the least breath Now if all Nations be no more Then what is one Nation What is a wretched partie or a Faction in a Nation in an house Surely not a drop of a drop not the least imaginable part of a small dust Secondly Know God in the word of Command the sum whereof is be thou faithfull to the death Sirs Revel 2.16 God desires no more of you but fidelity look to duty and leave successe to God Thirdly Else hear the word of Threatning and behold it is set on with a Curse hear it Oh ye people a Curse not from the mouth of a passionate Preacher but an Angel from heaven the Angel of the Covenant Curse ye Meroz Judges 5.23 said the Angel of the Lord Curse him bitterly