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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

damnation their power and policie their combinations and all their preparations cannot stand before you See them all sufficiently jeered by the people of God Isaiah 8.9 Associate your selves O ye people and ye shall be broken in pieces and give ear all ye of farre Countreys gird your selves and yee shall be broken in pieces gird your selves and yee shall bee broken in pieces why how comes it to passe that they are so contemptible the reason is given verse 10. Immanuel for God is with us God is Risen fear them not Truely all the counsels and conspiracies and tumult and rage of the enemies are no more then if you should see a mad man stand upon his head and shake his heels against the Sun Courage courage Noble Senators Worthy Commanders courage Christians God is risen and Gods rising time shall bee their scattering Psal 2. their flying time Then shall hee speak to them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure and make the proudest of them know that he hath set his Christ King upon his Holy Hill Alas what is the Chasse and the smoake when the winde riseth what the clouds when the Sun riseth What wax and stubble When the fire riseth Behold as smoake is driven away Psal 68.2 so the haters of God shall be driven away as the wax melteth before the fire so the wicked shall perish at the presence of God Arise in your courage and the Lord shall make good that prophesie Behold the people shall rise up as a great Lion Numb 23.24 and lift up himself as a young Lion he shall not lie down till he eat of the prey and drink of the blood of the slain Fourthly If God be Risen Rise in your zeal rise in your zeal A patcht pie'ct reformation will not answer Gods expectation Moses resolution was worthy your Imitation we will not leave an Hoof behinde us Exod. 10.25 In the building of the Temple there was not a board or a pin or a nail of the old Tabernacle vsed The Churches Reformation is called the New-heaven and the New-earth as for difficultie so for beauty and perfection Worthy Senators remember that caution of the Apostle Gal. 4.18 It is good to be zealously affected alwaies in a good thing if ever any work was worth your zeal the work you have in hand is Rise in your zeal zeal is good in a good cause Fifthly Rise in your bounty you have done much do more you have gone high goe higher still Say as David I will be more vile c. So you I will be yet more liberall I will be yet more for God Away with those shifts and carnall pretences what shall I leave for my wife and children I have so much owing me and cannot get in my debts trading is not as it hath been I am out thus much already They are for the most part but the Churles Instruments of which the Holy Ghost speaketh Isa 32.2 The Instruments of the Churle are cruell he deviseth wicked devises to destroy the poor with lying words Hear this Oh ye covetous Mammonists who withold your money and estates when it is in the power of your hands to help to help the Lord and the Kingdom against the mighty The holy Ghost puts you amongst Theeves and Murderers you are listed among the Anti-christian Enemies of Jesus Christ who destroy his poore people he that doth not save life when he may destroics it While in the mean time of the willing people hear what God speaks But the liberall man deviseth liberall things he deviseth how he may serve the Cavse he studies which way he may do most good You would think that were the next way to be undone but mark what followes by liberall things he shall stand c. Christians be of good cheere you that have been liberall to the Cause even not onely to your power 2. Cor. 8.3 but beyond your power This is not the way to undoe your families but to preserve them by liberall things shall England stand by liberall things shall London stand be of good cheere who ever thou art that hast spent thy self for God and his Cause you have not onely the publike faith of the Kingdome but the publike faith of Heaven also for repaiment with advantage by liberall things he shall stand time may come when what thou hast lent to Christ and his Cause may be all the livelyhood for thee and thy family to subsist on when the rest may bee plundered or burnt or taken away by violence this may be thy stocke and behold then it shall not repent thee of thy Liberality If the Parliament should never pay us a farthing yet if all that God is worth in heaven or earth be able to make thee satisfaction thou shalt not be a looser by thy bounty And truly if God by this Parliament will give us but a Reformation a through and setled Reformation these Worthies will not die in our debts yea though we should not live to see it yet if our little ones may be brought into that good land we shall have no cause to repent of our bargain I pray God while the poore well-affected inherit the Praise with the poore Widow some rich covetous Mammonists do not carry away the curse with Meroz If you would not Rise in your bounty Sixthly Let us Rise in our Patience we think perhaps we have waited long and yet our deliverance comes not but if God will have us wait longer and longer yet let us remember we wait not so long on God as God hath waited on us and if we have put God to his How-longs It is but a just and easie censure if God put us to our How-longs And yet beleeve it Cristians Ier. 30.18 this present time we do not so much waite for God as God waites for us The Lord waits to be gracious The Lord doth but waite for our faith and our humiliation and our reall Reformation were we fit for it Deliverance should not tarry an hour longer Let us not make more haste out of our troubles then good speed but remember who hath said Lam. 3.26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord It is good for a man and it is good for a Nation it is for a people to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord so did Jacob till his very dying day on his death-bed he could say Gene. 49.18 I have waited for thy salvation O Lord we say it is good to be delivered it is good to have peace it were good to have our trading again I but what saith God It is good to waite it is good to bear the yoke it is good to put ones mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope It is so indeed and a good reason is given of it Vers 25. The Lord is good to them that wait for him to the

Christ In a word the first battell that ever was fought was in heaven Between Michael and his Angels and the Dragon and his Angels And look what the Quarrell was there the same you shall finde it ever since though fought in a lower ground and that is Who shall be God I will be God said the proud Angel my throne shall be above the Throne of God And so saith Antichrist unto this day I will be God t is his very Character in 2 Thes 2.4 He opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God And this is the language of every wicked man he that saith I will not when God saith do he that saith I will when God saith do not Oh do not this abominable thing that I hate he saith by interpretation I will be God Oh did you but understand the blasphemous language of sin you would not suffer it to harbour one hour longer in your bosoms the truth is the Enemies of Gods truth and people would not onely have the Sword off from Christ his thigh the Scepter out of his Hand the Crown off from his Head but his very life out of his heart not un-scepter him only but un-essence him If sin and sinners could helpe it God should be God no longer And now Christians they that are Enemies to Gods people upon these termes are they not Enemies to God himself They that thus hate the Saints do they not hate also the God of the Saints Vse Vse 1 If this be an invincible truth then First The more have they to answer for that shew mercy to these Enemies of the Church and people of God since God is concerned in the Quarrell more then they If the sons of Belial that are risen up against the peace and safety of the Kingdome were our Enemies onely we might use our discretion and make what accommodation we please 1 Kings 20.41 but if these be Sheba's the sons of Bichri who are risen up against David yea against him who is the Son and Lord of David in that obstinate and implacable rebellion crying Nolumus hunc regnare come what will on 't This man shall not raign over us then surely we cannot compound the matter as we please without wrong to Christs Crown and danger to our own Heads Secondly Vse 2 Are the Churches Enemies Gods Enemies Then the more hopes we have Job 9.4 they shall not stand long who hath hardned himself against God and prospered As Jezebel said when Jehu came in at the gates 2 Kings 9.31 Had Zimri peace who slew his master So may I say Had Cain peace who slew his Brother Did Pharaoh prosper who hardned himself against God Had Saul peace who persecuted righteous David Did Judas prosper who betrayed his Master Did Julian prosper who blasphemed Jesus Christ Have the Enemies of the Church prospered No surely Why because they be Gods Enemies as well as the Churches Enemies to Christ his Kingdome as well as the Churches peace whose doom is long since past and shall be in due time executed And those mine Enemies that would not have me reign over them Luke 19. ●● bring them hither and slay them before me Surely this day of vengeance is in Christs heart and their judgement slumbreth not is not the sound of its feet at the very dores They think they are wise and trust in their help Isa 31.2 But he also is wise and will bring evill and will not call back his word but will arise against the house of the evill doers and against the help of them that work iniquity Thirdly Vse 3 The more warrant and encouragement have we to set upon God for their destruction a mighty advantage in prayer There is a question Whether we may pray for the destruction of our Enemies or no This Doctrine will resolve it When they are our Enemies onely and sin Ignorantly seducedly then Father forgive them they know not what they do Luk. 23.34 Act. 7.60 2 Kings 6.17 And Lord lay not this sin to their charge Then Lord open the eyes of these men with the prophet that is Lord convince them Lord convert them is becomming langvage for Christians But when they discover their sins as Sodom when they make it apparent to all the world that if there be a God in heaven they hate him if a Christ and a Gospel they are sworne irreconcileable Enemies to both and that they sin Seducingly and out of malicious wickednesse Then O Lord God of hosts the God Israel awake to visit all the Heathen be not mercifull to them Psal 59.5 to them that sin of malicious wickednesse make their Nobles like Oreb and Zeeb Psal 83.11 12. yea all their Princes as Zeba and Zalmunna who said let us take to our selves the houses of God in possession O my God make them like a wheel 13. and as the stubble before the winde As the fire burneth the wood 14. and as the flame setteth the mountaines on fire So persecute them with thy tempest 15. and make them afraid with thy storm Fill their face with shame 16. that they may seek thy Name O Lord. Let them be confounded and troubled for ever 17. yea let them be put to shame and perish Pul them out like sheep for the slaughter Ier. 12.4 and prepare them for the day of slaughter Set thou a wicked man over him Psal 109.6 and let Satan stand at his right hand Where he shall be be Judged let him be condemned and let his praier be turned into sin though truly our Enemies will save us this labour for they pray not at all they deride and geere at prayer blaspheme the Spirit of prayer yea they themselves have turned their praiers into sin prayers into curses and forgive us our trespasses into fearfull and desperate invocations of Damnation in which case the Prophet feares not to follow them home with Curses 17. As he loved cursing so let it come unto him as he delighted not in blessing so let it be far from him 18. As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his Garment so let it come into his bowels like water and like oyle into his bones c. I say when they be Gods Enemies and professe themselves so to all the world then such expressions as these will be no breaches to the law of charity nor blemishes in the prayers of Gods people Provided that we look to our hearts that we be upright in this matter and that the enmity that these men bear and the blaspemy they belch out against God affect us more then the slaughter and persecution they breath out against our selves Peradventure said Jacob my father will feel me and if I seem to him as one that mocke I shall bring a Curse upon me instead of a blessing

God I will praise thee O my God our affections to solace them in the contemplation of the wonders of mercy done for us Oh that we could Work our hearts so into the thoughts of God and his Workes that we could say with David How precious are thy thoughts to me O God Psal 139.17 19 How great is the summe of them they are more in number then the sand when I awake I am still with thee Secondly Let us exalt him in our mouthes Psal 66.17 I cryed to him with my mouth and hee was extolled with my tongue If we have cried to him with our mouthes and he hath heard and answered it is but our duty we should extoll him with our tongve and we may say so Wee have called and hee hath answered We have cried and he hath said here I am Yea behold while this day wee have been presenting our supplications unto him he hath sent in a speedy and a rich return of prayer in vouchsafing a wonderfull and stupendious Deliverance and Victorie to our Noble Gencrall and the Forces with him yonder at Edge-Hill the certainty and some prticulars whereof at this instant God hath sent me hither by an * At this moment the Lord Wharton sent up to me in the pulpit the first relation of the victory at Edge Hill which then I read to the great satisfaction and admiration of the whole Congregation abundance of teares being shed for joy Psal 65.5 Honourable hand God herein having done himself and us that honour that he did to Danicl Dan. 9.23 At the beginning of thy supplication the command came forth Yea before we were preparing our prayers God hath been preparing an answer full of wonder and mercy By terrible things in Righteousnesse hast thou answered us O God of our salvation Christians God you see is Risen he hath stirr'd up his glory let us awake our Glory our tongus to trumpet forth his praises Awake my glory awake Psalterie and Harp I my self will awake right early Behold God hath turnd our day of Hmiliation into a day of Thanksgiving and so hath fulfilled that promise Psal 125.6 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy c. We that sowed in tears in the morning do reap in joy in this our evening A quick return Shall not wee for this go on with the Psalmists resolution Psal 57.9 10 11. I will praise thee O Lord among the people I will sing to thee among the nations For thy mercy is great unto the heavens and thy truth unto the cloudes Bee thou exalted O God above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth O that the fathers would be telling their children and one Christian be making over the report unto another of the righteous Acts of the Lord Oh that to the perpetuating of the memory of Gods loving kindenesse wee would all put our selves under the Prophet Isaiahs Engagement Isa 63.7 I will mention the loving kindnesse of the Lord and the prayses of the Lord according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us and the great goodnesse towards the house of Israel which hee hath bestowed on them according to his mercies and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses And again Psal 71.15 that of the Psalmist My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousnesse and holy salvation all the day for I know not the numbers thereof Rejoyce in the Lord Psal 33.1 O ye righteous for praise is comely for the upright c. Thirdly and lastly Let us exalt God in our lives Take heed I beseech you of honouring God in our duties and dishonouring of him in our conversations of exalting of him with our tongues and casting him down in our lives This were to imitate those wretched Iews who carried up our Saviour to the top of the Mountain that they might throw him down the pracipice and break his neck Let not our lives give the lie to our duties Walk becommingly to your mercies and becommingly to your duties Let an holy sweet gracious conversation be the Paraphrase of our duties and a Comment upon our dayes of Humiliation and Thanksgiving I will conclude with that earnest obsecration and obtestation of the Apostle I beseech you therefore brethren Rom. 12.1 by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service It is unreasonable as well as irreligious to give God our mouthes and sinne our lives to give the dead sacrifice to God and the living sacrifice to the devill God hath done all let him have all Our Hearts Mouthes Lives When God doth great things for us hee expects great things from us and if wee labour not to answer his expectations wee are undone Consider what I say 2 Tim 2.7 and the Lord give you a right understanding in all things Amen FINIS November 17. 1640 Doctor Burgesse Jer. 50.5 November 17. 1640 Master Marshall 2 Chron. 15.2 Before the recieving of the Sacrament Novemb. 29. Mr. Gauden Zach. 8.19 At the thanksgiving of the Vnion betwixt England and Scotland September 7. 1641 Mr. Marshall Psal 124.6 7 8. September 7. 1641 Mr. Burroughs Isai 66.10 November 5. Dr. Burgesse Psal 76.10 Decemb. 22. 1641 Mr. Calamy Jerem. 18.7 8. Decemb. 22. 1641 Mr. Marshall 2 Kings 23.25 26. February 23. 1641 Mr. Calamy Ezek 36.32 February 23. 1641 Mr. Marshall Judg. 5.23 March 30. 1642 Dr. Burgesse not Printed Jerem. 4.14 March 30. 1642 Mr. Ash Psalm 9.9 Aprill 27. 1642 Mr. Thomas Goodwyn Zach. 4.6 7 8. Aprill 27. 1642 Mr. Carryll Revel 2.2 3. May 25. 1642 Mr. Harris Luke 18.6 7 8. May 25. 1642 Mr. Ob. Sedgwich Jerem. 4.3 June 29. 1642 Dr. Gouge Nehem. 5.19 June 29. 1642 Mr. William Sedgwich Isaiah 62.7 July 27. 1642. Mr. Reynolds Hosea 14.8 July 27. 1642. Mr. Hill Proverbs 23.23 August 31. 1642 Dr. Downing not Printed 2 Thes 3.2 August 31. 1642 Mr. Carter Judges 20.26 27 28. Septemb. 28. 1642. Mr. Hodges Psalm 113.5 6. Septemb. 28. 1642. Mr. Wilson Hebrews 11.30 October 26. 1642. Dr. Temple Psalm 2.6 October 26. 1642. Mr. Case Psalm 68.1 Novemb. 5. M. Newcomen Nehem. 4.11 Novemb. 28. 1642 Mr. Herle Zachary 8.19 Novemb. 28. 1642 Mr. Vines Numb 14.24 Decemb. 28. 1642 Mr. Valentine Zepha 3.8 Decemb. 28. 1642 Mr. Corbet 1. Corinthians 1.27 Ianuary 25. 1642. Mr. Arrowsmith Leviticus 26.25 Ianuary 25. 1642. Mr. Whittaker Haggai 2.7 February 22. 1642. Mr. Bridges 2 Sam. 19 5 6 7 8. February 22. 1642. Mr. Ellis Micah 5.5 March 29. 1643 Mr. Gibons not Printed March 29. 1643 Mr. Lightfoot Luke 1.14 April 26. 1643 Mr. Ley Ieremy 4.21.22 April 26. 1643 Mr. Greenhill Matthew 3.10 May 31. 1643 Mr. Perne Micah 4.5 May 31. 1643 Mr. Cheinell Zachary 2.7 Thanksgiving Sermons for the discovery of a dangerous and bloody Designe tending to the utter subversion of the Parliament and the Famous City of London Before the Lords Iune 15. 1643 Mr. Calamy Ioshua 24.15 Iune 15. 1643 Mr. Herle Psalm 95.1 Before the Commons Iune 15. 1643 Mr. Marshall Revelation 15.2 3 4. Iune 15. 1643 Mr. Obadiah Sedgwick Ester 9.1 Iune 28. 1643 Mr. Carter Exodus 32.9 10. Iune 28. 1643 Mr. Palmer Esther 4.13 14. At a Fast before both Houses and the Assembly of Divines Iuly 7. 1644 Mr. Bowles Iohn 2.7 Iuly 7. 1644 Mr. Newcomen Isaiah 62.67 At an extraordinary Fast Iuly 21. 1643 Mr. Hill Revelation 12.11 Iuly 21. 1643 Mr. Spurstow 1 Samuel 7.6 Iuly 21. 1643 Mr. Vines not Printed Iuly 26. 1643 Mr. Conant Jer. 30.7 Iuly 26. 1643 Mr. Sympson Isaiah 4.5 August 30 1643 Mr. Tuckney Jerem. 8.22 August 30 1643 Mr. Coleman Jerem. 8.20 September 27 1643 Mr. Chambers Zach. 7.5 6. September 27 1643 Mr. Anthony Burges Mark 1.2 3. At the taking of the Covenant of the three Kingdomes September 29. Mr. Coleman Jer. 30.21 October 6. Mr. Carill Nehem. 9.38 October 25. 1643 Mr. Wilkinson Zach. 1.18 19 20 21. October 25. 1643 Mr. Salwey 1 King 18.21 Novemb. 29. 1643 Mr. Mew Isaiah 42.24 25. Novemb. 29. 1643 Mr. Bridge Zach. 1.18 19 30 21. and Chap. 2.1 At the Funerall of Mr. Pym. December 15. Mr. Marshall Mich. 7.1 2. Decemb. 27 1643 Mr. Henderson Ezra 7.23 Decemb. 27 1643 Mr. Strickland Isaiah 10.12 January 31 1643 Mr. Cawdrey Prov. 29.8 January 31 1643 Mr. Rutherfurd Dan. 6.26 February 28. 1643 Mr. Baylie Zach. 3.1 2. February 28. 1643 Mr. Young Psal 31.24 March 27 1644 Mr. Gillespie Ezek. 43.11 March 27 1644 Mr. Bond Isaiah 45.15 At the Thanksgiving for the Victory given to our Forces under Sir William Waller and Sir William Balfore over Sir Ralph Hoptons Army April 9. 1644 Mr. Sedgwick Psalm 3.8 April 9. 1644 Mr. Case Daniel 11 32. At the thanksgiving for the Victory given to the forces under the Command of the Noble Lord Fairfax at Selby in Yorke Shire Aprill 23. 1644 Mr. Perne Exodus 34.6 Aprill 23. 1644 Mr. Carryl Revelations 11.16 17. Aprill 24. 1644. Dr. Staunton Deut. 32.31 Aprill 24. 1644. Mr. Greene Nehemiah 1.3 4. FINIS