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Gods rising, his enemies scattering
Gods rising, his enemies scattering; delivered in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, at their solemn 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.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.
London: printed by J. R. for Luke Fawne, 1644
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For God and wicked men cannot endure one another, Reasons. they hate God, as you see in the Text, and God *hates them; As God once said of the three wicked shepherds.
My. 1soul loathed them, and their soul loathed me. As the proud Angel turned Devil, got as far from God as he could go, so do wicked men: There is that Antipathy between them, that cannot bear one another's presence; Therefore say they to the Almighty, 2depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways: And if they cannot endure Gods presence, as a Teacher, how will they endure his presence as a Judge? If they cannot abide his presence, as a sin-reproving God, how will they abide it as a sin-revenging God? Surely that presence of God is so unsupportable, that you may hear them willing to exchange it for the burden of rocks and mountains, Revel. 6.16. They said to the Mountains and Rocks, 3fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. And as they cry to God, Depart from us, so God, when he ariseth, he answers them in their own language, and speaks to them in his wrath; Depart from me: and this is their misery, they have the first word, but God will have the last: 4Depart from me ye workers of iniquity. Unhappy caitive that ever he was born, unto whom that shall be the last word God will say, Object. Depart from me.