Deliverance-obstruction

Name: Deliverance-obstruction
Author: Thomas Case

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.

Thomas Case 1598–1682London: printed by Ruth Raworth for Luke Fawne, 1646

[6], 42 p. · 17k words · Wing C827 · ESTC R200694

Title page typeset from the transcription.

A SERMON Preached before the Right Honourable House of PEERS.A SERMON Preached before the Right Honorable House of PEERS.

Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.

[ Earlier:200–215 of 223

:200p. 38

Let me speak one word, not only to you the Nobles and Princes of this Land, but to both Kingdoms; I would I could speak so that all might hear: God hath brought us into the Bond of the Covenant, to Himself, to One another: THAT NATION THAT BREAKS FIRST, WILL BE A SCORN, and (that which is worse) A CURSE TO ALL THE WORLD: It is not all the Militia nor Provisions in the world, that can secure their Peace and Safety. Shall he prosper? ¹shall he escape that doth such things? or shall he break the Covenant and be delivered? You know who said so, and upon what occasion.

Let me speak one word, not onely to you the Nobles and Princes of this Land, but to both Kingdoms; I would I could speak so that all might hear: God hath brought us into the Boad of the Covenant, to Himself, to One another: THAT NATION THAT BREAKS FIRST, WILL BE A SCORN, and (that which is worse) A CURSE TO ALL THE WORLD: It is not all the Militia nor Provisions in the world, that can secure their Peace and Safety. Shall he prosper? ¹shall he escape that doth such things? or shall he break the Covenant and be delivered? You know who said so, and upon what occasion.

1Ezek. 17.15.

:201p. 38

¹Eighthly, Be humbled, I beseech you, for former Superstitions: It concerns you that are the Nobles of the Land, and all that are called to be our Reformers, as well as the Ministers of the Gospel, to be deeply sensible of your former Compliances with Episcopal Superstitions and Idolatrous mixtures in the Worship of God. It is the very Law, upon which God hath engaged himself to take off the veil from before Reformers eyes:²

[ Earlier passages Later passages ]

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36