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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

The Root of Apostacy AND Fountain of true Fortitude Delivered in a SERMON Before the 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 Psal 9.10 They that know thy Name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord never failest them that seek thee London Printed by J. R. for Luke Fawne and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Churchyard at the signe of the Parrot 1644. Die Martis 9. April 1644. IT is this day Ordered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament that Sir William Brereton do give thanks from the House to Mr. Thomas Case for the great pains hee took in the Sermon he preached this day at St. Margarets Westminster at the intreaty of the House It being a day of publique Thanksgiving for the great Victory the Forces under the Command of Sir William Waller and Sir William Balfore had against the Forces under the Command of Sir Ralph Hopton And hee is to desire him from this House to Print his Sermon And it is Ordered that no man shall presume to Print his Sermon without being authorized under his hand-writing H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I. Authorize Luke Fawne to Print my Sermon Tho Case TO THE HONORABLE and his highly Honour'd Friend Sir William Waller Knight Commander in Chief of the Parliaments Forces in the West Noble Sir TO whom more properly under that Grand Councell of the Kingdome whereof you are a Member doth the Dedication of these sudden thoughts belong then to your Worthy self who wrought with God on that day the Salvation whereof these poor labours together with a more skilfull hand were called in to celebrate in the great Congregation Sir I may truly say you made a great part of my Sermon and the better part too for while thousands there are of all sizes whose treacherous dealing in the Covenant of God comes in to bear sad witnesse to the former part of my Text and Sermon Free-grace hath so lookt upon you that you stand in the first division of those Worthies to whose fidelity GOD hath given ample testimony what exploits a people can do that know their God for certainly either you know God or else we know not you Darius once opening a pomgranate and being askt by a standerby of what he would desire to have so many as there were kernels in the pomgranate answered So many Zopyrusses Zopyrus was that valiant Knight and Commander who to get the City of Babylon possest by the Assyrians and besieged by his Mr. Darius caused his own nose ears and lips to bee cut off and his whole face and body so wounded and mangled all over that running to the enemies and making them beleeve hee was so used by Darius for perswading him to raise his Siege and remove his Army They easily giving credit to a relation that seemed to speak truth with so many mouthes as they saw wounds admitted him into the City and made him their Governour by means whereof hee got opportunity to deliver it and them up to his Master Sir If in the behalf of this poor bleeding Kingdom I might have my wish I would turn Darius his choice into so many Wallers You having run many as desperate though more innocent hazzards for the rescue of the Safety and Liberties thereof now captived by vile persons And this hath been your Honor God hath been with you and with those gallant * Noble Sir William Balfore worthy Collonell Brown c. Commanders and Souldiers that have accompanied you in this Service to whose Fidelity and Resolutions Parliament and Kingdome stand much indebted The Lord be with you still make you prosperous whithersoever you turn and cause his dread to fall upon his and your enemies that they may not be able to stand before you And when you have done your share in this great Service of God and the Kingdom He bring you back into the embraces of your Friends crown'd with Honour and Victory Interim if your grand employments allow you not time to read a period or two of this poor Sermon sometime do but cast your eyes I beseech you upon the Text and when you go forth to encounter the enemy lay it next your heart I dare say through the power of that Lord of Hoasts in whose Army you serve it will beyond all the witchcrafts and enchantments which some of your enemies are said to use render you invulnerable invincible in the day of battell which therefore as the richest present I can send you I humbly desire you would please to accept from him Sir whom your merits and love have made Yours Obliged to honour and serve you in all Gospell Offices THO CASE The Root of Apostacy AND Fountain of true Fortitude DAMIEL 11.32 And such as do wickedly against the Covenant shall be corrupt by flatteries but the people that know their God shall be strong and do exploits THe words hold forth a plot or practice wherein these particulars are considerable 1. The person practizing He he shall corrupt 2. The persons that are practized upon and they were of two sorts 1. Some prophane or rotten whose Character is They do wickedly against the Covenant 2. Others sincere and truely Godly and their Character is They are a people that know their God 3. The Engine vsed in this practise that is Flatteries 4. The success of this practice and that is different according to the disposition of the parties charactred before The prophane or rotten hearted party they were wrought upon corrupted by these subtile Artifices to betray their Religion and their Country The Well-affected and Godly party that are described to us by the knowledge of their God they remain'd not only vnconquerable but conquerors they were strong and did exploits Give me leave the Text thus resolved into its parts to open them unto you as they lie in this Analysis and I shall then close with those doctrinall observations that do naturally offer themselues to us out of the words I will be brief in the opening of them First then here you have the person practizing He And this take him literally or Historically was Antiochus Epiphanes younger son to Antiochus Magnus that vile person verse 21. where you have the first mention of him There shall stand up a vile person to whom c. Whom for his vile and bruitish turbulent and treacherous disposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 infanus furiosus Athen lib. 2. Polybius with the change of a letter or two wittily nick-names Antiochus Epimanes Antiochus the Furious or mad This vile person as he obtained the Kingdom of Syria which by right belonged to his Nephew Demetrius Vers 21. then but young by flatteries and treacherous insinuations pretending that he designed nothing but the care and protection of

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