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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

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