A81239:195
Deliverance-obstruction
Deliverance-obstruction: or, The set-backs of reformation. Discovered in a sermon before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in Parliament now assembled. Upon the monthly fast, March 25. 1646. / By Tho. Case, preacher in Milkstreet London, and one of the Assembly of Divines.
London: printed by Ruth Raworth for Luke Fawne, 1646
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3. Observe Gods goings forth, and then bestir your selves. Saith God to David, When thou hearest the sound of a going in the top of the Mulberry-trees, then bestir thy self; for then shall the Lord go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines. My Lords, God hath smitten the Host of the Philistines; is not this his walking on the top of the Mulberry-trees? Are not these the signals of Gods presence? O bestir your selves now to do something worthy of God, and worthy of these wonders, in the work of Reformation. When God doth great things for a people. He looks for great things from a people; and if they answer not his expectation,1 they are und one. What singular thing do you do?
14. Take heed of Tolerations: do you know what they are? Truly in the latitude as they are cried up; and contended for, they are nothing else but a Gunpowder-Treason to blow up Religion; a Balaam's plot to bring God in an enemy upon us: and I am confident the hand of the Romish Balaam is in it: as sure as you are there,2 my Lords, Priests and Jesuits are working these fire-works under-ground, and put them into the hands of active Engineers to throw them abroad. Oh that you could take us those foxes that spoil the Vines, now that the tender grapes are sprouting forth: Methinks it were not a matter of impossibility to earth them; to follow them by the print of their feet, to their burrows, where they skulk up and down in every place both in City and Country. What engines did Julian the Apostate and Valens the Emperor use,3 when they would undermine and ruin Christian Religion, but a Toleration of all Religions, Liberty of Conscience, as we call it; but Libertatem