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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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Provided that we look to our hearts, that we be upright in this matter, and that the enmity that these men bear, and the blasphemy 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 mock, I shall bring a Curse upon me instead of a blessing.
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.
If God see us pretending his wrongs, but intending our own, cursing them as his Enemies, but hating them only as our own, we shall translate their curse upon our own heads.
If God see us pretending his wrongs, but intending our own, cursing them as his Enemis, but hating them onely as our own, we shall translate their curse upon our own heads.
Otherwise, if God see our hearts deeply affected with, and bitterly afflicted for the Insolencies and Violences done to his Name and Glory; as we need not be afraid to pour out such vials of wrath upon them (for the vials of wrath are nothing else but the prayers of the Saints, showered down in storms of vengeance upon the head of the wicked) ⟨p. 11⟩so, there cannot,