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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70812	The glasse of Gods providence towards his faithfvll ones held forth in a sermon preached to the two Houses of Parliament at Margarets Westminster, Aug. 13, 1644, being an extraordinary day of humiliation : wherein is discovered the great failings that the best are liable unto, upon which God is provoked sometimes to take vengeance : the whole is applyed specially to a more carefull observation of our late covenant, and particularly against the ungodly toleration pleaded for under pretence of liberty of conscience / by Herbert Palmer ...	Palmer, Herbert, 1601-1647.	1644 (1644)	Wing P235; ESTC R5391	64,078	71

of GOD Rom. 13. 1. may say something of it Namely That the Ground of Humane Authority is that GOD is pleased to print some Characters of the Image of His Majestie in the faces of Superiours and stamp the counter-part of it upon the hearts of the Inferiours Whereby it comes to passe that they Reverence even a Wom●n and sometimes an Infant in a Cradle as GODS Deputy and Vicegerent among them and so all Others that have Authoritie in their Proportion And if it please GOD as sometimes it doth for the just punishment of abused Authoritie to blot out that stamp which was upon Inferiours hearts they presently withdraw all r●spect from such Superiours how high soever they were before and make no more reckoning of them then of the most ordinary person among themselves Which therefore should be of marvellous Operation upon the spirits of all that have any Authoritie that as they are wholly beholden to GOD for it so they would wholly imploy it for GOD and particularly to set up so farre as their Authoritie can command whatsoever Command of GOD they can find in His Word and to set it up as His Command as hath been said 7. Another thing which I would also recommend from our Covenant is in the second Article out of which as my Reverend Brother singled out the Mention of Popery and Prelacy so doe I specially of Heresie and Schisme taking in whatsoever shall be found contrary to sound Doctrine the Power of Godlinesse Remember I beseech you that we have Covenanted with GOD and Men to extirpate these without respect of Persons And thou let us but think in our Consciences what we judge to be Heresie or Schisme Is Antinomianisme at least as it is professed preached and maintain'd by some according as it hath been publikely proved any thing lesse then Heresie and however is it not apparently most contrary to the Power of Godlinesse And is not Anabaptisma at least as maintain'd by divers Schisme and contrary to sound Doctrine What greate● Schisme can there be then to deny both you your selves and all the Land besides to be Christians or that there is any Ministery or Church among us because none rightly baptised by their saying And how can these then be tolerated without Breach of Covenant If GOD were so angry with Moses for a single neglect of Circumcision and you your selves beleeve that He hath put Baptisme in the roome of it and commanded Children to be baptised now as well as to be circumcised then Will not doth not not only the neglect but so outragious a contempt of it as administred to Children provoke Him even against you if you connive at such reproach of His Ordinancs If Christ himselfe hath so threatned all those that breake one of the least Commandements of the Law and teach men so as you reade Matt. 5. 19. Will He endure that those should be let alone that Preach against the Whole Law all and every one of the Commandements of the MORALL Law and say That Christians are freed from the Mandatory Power of it and that It is no Rule for a Beleever to Walke by or examine his life by even that it is of no use at all to a Beleever Will Christ I say endure these things Or may We endure them without His displeasure against our selves I know a difference is to be put when we come to deale with persons tainted with these dangerous opinions Some are to be handled with all compassionate tendernesse as being scrupuled through Weaknesse and Infirmity But others who are not only obstinate but active to seduce and breed confusion must be saved with Feare as pulling them out of the fire and that they may not set others afire also Though still a spirit of Meeknesse is requisite even toward such in regard to their Persons But the Spirit of Judgement and of Burning that is Holy Zeale promised by GOD to His People Isai. 4. 4. against their endangering Doctrines and Practises Hearken not then I earnestly exhort every one that intends to have any regard at all to his solemne Covenant and Oath in this second Article to those that offer to plead for Tolerations which I wonder how any one dare write or speake for as they doe that have themselves taken the Covenant or know that you have The Arguments that are used in some bookes well worthy to be publikely burnt plead for Popery Judaisme Turcisme Paganisme and all manner of false Religions under pretence of Liberty of Conscience Which if they can make good or have then surely We and You specially have need to repent of that solemne Covenant and recant it before all the World to whom you have publisht it But if not then surely even that Covenant will enforce you to shew your steadinesse in unpartiall extirpating without respect of persons all such most pernicious and pestiferous books and opinions which if they might once take place among us would more advance Satans kingdome then any booke hath done that hath been written this 1000. yeeres Surely the Extirpation of Heresie and Schisme besides that Popery is abjured by name and such an universall Toleration and pretended Liberty of Conscience are as diametrically opposite and contradictory one to the other as Light is to darknesse and strict Justice to licentious lawlesnesse If therefore you be true to your Covenant your hand must needs be against such Doctrines and the Promoters of them And those Clauses of Whatsoever shall be found contrary to found Doctrine and the Power of Godlinesse doe lay yet a stricter bond upon you to make you take great heed how you beare with any opinion or opinionist altogether Though if any such be found differing from the received opinions and practises that are neither Schismaticall in disturbing the Churches Peace nor Opposite to sound Doctrine or the Power of Godlinesse they may be borne with notwithstanding the Covenant But I see not how it allowes any more Onely still the Wayes of dealing with opinions and opinionists who are not altogether to be borne must be sutable to the Nature of the opinions and of those also that hold them and not in all matters nor to all persons alike as was noted before But against a Toleration in generall even the Covenant it selfe in that very Article hath a Reason sutable to the Text Lest we partake of other mens sins and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues saith the Covenant which in the Language of the Text is Lest GOD take Vengeance on their Inventions and ours together It is true that the name of Conscience hath an awfull sound unto a Conscientious Eare But I pray judge but in a few Instances whether all pretence of Conscience ought to be a sufficient plea for Toleration and Liberty 1. There be those that say their Conscience is against all taking of an Oath before a Magistrate Will you allow an Vniversall Liberty