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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

they begge his Prayers with great Submission and Importunity 1 Sam. 12. 19. And both he and Moses are remembred long after by GOD as two of the greatest Favourites that ever He had in this kind when He tels Jeremy He would not heare even them if they were now alive Jerem. 15. 1. Though Moses and Samuel stood before me yet my mind could not be to this people Cast them out of my sight If He would have heard any body it should have been Moses and Samuel Whom He was wont so constantly to Heare and Answer Withall we have manifest assurance of His Forgiving them notwithstanding the Vengeance He tooke on those faults of theirs which we even now mentioned besides all other times He that remembers that GOD had a better place to which He removed Moses and Aaron when He tooke them from the earth and an heavenly Canaan into which GOD received them when He denied them entrance into the earthly Canaan And that this must needs be that recompence of Reward which Moses had an eye to when he esteemed the reproch of Christ greater riches then the Treasures of Egypt Heb. 11. 26. And that Moses is after his death often owned by GOD as His Servant as His Chosen and Aaron is named Psal. 106. 16. the Saint of the Lord He I say that remembers these things cannot doubt of GODS Forgiving them Considering also how Moses appeared in Glory with Elias at Christs Transfiguration Luke 9. 30 31. And for Samuel he was not quite put from his Office of Judge for it is said 1 Sam. 7. 15. that he Judged Israel all the Dayes of his Life and besides GOD often imployed him as a Prophet in most remarkable Services which proclaime GODS Graciousnesse to him also and forgiving him as well as the Others And so you have the Story of the Text set before you and the Doctrines observed out of it confirmed each of them by this Historicall Exemplification Of their Behaviours and GODS Dealings I come now to a more generall handling of them And the 1. of them is this That even the Faithfull Servants of God may so provoke Him that they may neede His pardon and even give Him Occasion to Take Vengeance on their Inventions and Practises For the further proofe of this I may say as indeed of the other points also though specially of the middlemost which holds forth GODS Answering and Pardoning Mercy to His Faithfull Ones that there is scarce any Record of any of the Servants of GOD even the most eminent but there is somewhat or other of this kind noted of them But for the further Evidencing of it and Affecting every one of us with it it being a point of very great concernment and use to us all You may take notice but of these generall Reasons 1. That the very best Servants of GOD have the very same corruption by nature that the worst have It is all alike in the one sort and in the other There is no difference naturally betweene the one and the other That place Prov. 27. 19. deserves to be remembred for this purpose As in water face answers to face so doth the heart of man to man They then used to view their faces much in Water as we now doe in Glasses and as in Water or in a Glasse the Image of the true face represents all the features lineaments moles spots deformities that are in the face it selfe and the one answers the other exactly what is in one is in the other So is it with the heart of one Man naturally answering to another There are the same spots and wrinckles and blemishes in every heart that is in any one and to have a true representation of the evill that is in any one heart We must looke upon all the evill that is in all other hearts naturally The Apostle Ephes. 2. 2 3. makes himselfe and the now Christian Ephesians and the Unconverted Impenitent Unbeleevers all alike by Nature 2. In the best Servants of GOD this corrupted Nature is not utterly abolished The Grace which they have received and which makes them to differ from other men doth not so farre sanctifie them but that the Seeds and Roots of sinne of all sinne doth still remaine in them A Flesh they have which though Crucified with the aff●ctions and lusts in all that are Christs is not quite dead not altogether mortified but that lies upon them as a daily and perpetuall dutie to mortifie their earthly members and to be cutting off of hands and feet and pulling out of Eyes which yet contrary to the course of Common Nature will be growing againe or others in the roome of them There is a continuall danger of Rootes of bitternesse of any kind springing up to trouble and defile even them The Apostle you know complaines of his flesh that he could not do the Good he would and that he did the evill he would not due and was carried captive unto the Law of sinne and had a body of death which he carried about him and grones and cryes out to be delivered from and tels the Galathians that the flesh in them did lust against the Spirit so that they could not doe the things they would And this corruption alwayes dwelling even in the best and too often prevailing is that which not only ever needs pardon but oftentimes greatly provokes GOD to take vengeance upon their misbehaviours 1. This Corruption may yet be further apprehended by us by this one Observation following That as there is scarce any of the servants of GOD storied of in the Word but with their faithfulness their failings are enrolled as was intimated before Paul himselfe not excepted So which is very remarkeable and deserving most serious consideration That scarce any of them is noted to be eminent for any vertue or Grace but somewhat of the contrary is observed in them some failing even in that very particular 1. Noah is owned by GOD Himselfe to be eminently righteous in his generation Gen. 7. 1. in a generation that abounded with luxury eating and drinking and jollity as our Saviour assures us Mat. 24. 38. and so Noah was a patterne of Temperance and sobrietie and yet we find even Noah once overtaken and making himselfe drunke with his owne wine 2. Lot is praised by the Spirit of GOD guiding St Peters pen 2. Pet. 2. 5. for a Righteous man preserved safe by GODS Grace in the midst of filthy Sodome and yet you know what befell him afterward when Sodome was destroyed and himselfe delivered out of it 3. We reade that Abraham is called the Father the Patterne of the Faithfull It is said he staggered not at the Promise of GOD through unbeleefe but was strong in Faith giving Glory to GOD Rom. 4. 20. and yet Faithfull Abraham twice for feare denies his Wife and pretends her to be his sister Gen. 12. and Gen. 10. 2. 4. So of Moses one

the rock he strikes the rock and that twice vers. 11. And this GOD takes so hainously that He charges him with not sanctifying Him before the children of Israel and not beleeving Him and that therefore he should not goe into the promised Land So that here is a three-fold fault noted in Moses in the story written by himselfe and in the Psalme 1. Some unbeliefe and distrusting that speaking to the rock would not suffice to fetch water thence notwithstanding GODS Word 2. Some impatience of spirit against the peoples untoward murmurings His spirit was provoked by them more and otherwise then it should have been 3. This exprest by unfitting and unadvised speech the story saith he call'd them Rebels and saith Must we fetch you water c. which language though they well enough deserved and worse yet it appeared GOD was not pleased with it in Moses And so you have the account of his faults as the Scripture registers them Then for Aaron 1. This we find in him throughout that what is noted of him is being a second in evill an accessary consenter and actor with others but never alone in any remarkeable fault But particularly three speciall failings are recorded of him 1. Exod. 32 1 4. there is a very great fault that at the peoples sollicitation and importunity he made them an Idol a Golden Calfe and joyned with them in the honouring of it for which GOD was exceeding angry with him to have destroyed him but that Moses interceded for him Deut. 9. 20. A second is Numb. 12. Where he joynes with his sister Miriam who is first named and noted ver. 1. in murmuring against Moses It was strange that he should speake against his own brother so whom he saw GOD had so honoured above him and who had before as was observed but now been a meanes to save him from GODS wrath by his prayers And yet by his sister is he drawne away and become a partner with her in this unnaturall Mutiny And for this GOD is againe angry with him though he layed then no punishment upon his Person yet Aaron confesses himselfe stricken in the leprosie suddenly inflicted for this upon Miriam ver. 10. and 11. His third fault was in consenting to Moses his Distrust and Passion in that 20. of Numb. The Charge was given to both together and GOD blames and threatens them both and accordingly soone after took Vengeance upon Aarons offence and he dies before the end of that Chapter as He did after upon Moses his Of which we have divers Memorandums afterwards shewing the more GODS displeasure against him for this Transgression and of this specially the Text we have in hand speakes This GOD remembers Numb. 27. 12 13 14. And Moses afterward speakes of it with sorrow Deut. 1. 37. and againe Deut. 3. 23 c. where he tels the people how he made a solemne sute of it and prayed earnestly to GOD that He would spare him and shew him that favour that he might goe into the Land of Promise and that GOD would not grant his sute and forbids him to mention it any more to Him ver. 26 27. and once more Moses speakes to Israel of it Deut. 4. 21 22. as shewing how neere it was to him and how great a Judgement he tooke it to be And so we see GODS taking Vengeance upon his inventions also as well as upon Aarons and the Text verified of two of those it speakes of We have a third to looke after whom we must not forget and that is Samuel He was the Judge of Israel by GODS appointment and trained up to be a Prophet from his childhood under the Wing of GOD in Shiloh and he was a very faithfull Servant of GOD Yet there is a fault of his insinuated 1 Sam. 8. that When he was growne old he was partiall towards his children he made his Sons Judges over Israel and they walked not in his wayes but tooke bribes and perverted Justice and it appeares by the sequele that Samuel was too indulgent and favourable to them and therefore the people tooke such a discontent that they would not have his Sons nor himselfe neither rule any more over them but would needs have a King to rule over them and though this was ill done of the people to reject Samuel himselfe and specially to aske a King as appeares by GODS words in that Chapter and by His Displeasure manifested from Heaven 1 Sam. 12. Yet we may read in it GODS Just Vengeance on the misbehaviour of Samuels sons and so of his partialitie toward them and we may see in both places that it struck Samuel very deeply 1 Sam. 8. 6. in reference to Himselfe and Chap. 12. 2. he cannot forbeare mention of his Sons who were wholly laid aside ever after though himselfe was not altogether And thus we see all these three faithfull men Moses Aaron and Samuel made Examples of Justice in some Vengeance taken on their Inventions and offences notwithstanding GODS favour to them Now we must adde a word how notwithstanding their failings and GODS severity yet He was a GOD answering and forgiving them 1. For Moses he is so famous for GODS answering him that GOD once doth as it were sue to Moses to forbeare Praying for Israel as implying that He could not but answer Moses if he did Pray Let me alone that I may consume them Exod. 32. 10. and accordingly when Moses for all this did pray GOD did answer and spare Israel upon his request ver. 14. and many other times Moses his Prayers were heard and answered 2. Moses and Aaron together in the universall Murmuring and Mutiny Numb. 14. 5. And Aaron specially when after the Rebellion of Corah Dathan and Abiram and the horrible Judgement of GOD upon them the earth swallowing them up alive and fire from GOD breaking out and burning up the 250 Princes that stood to be Priests in opposition to Aarons Calling and the next day all the Congregation murmured and mutined againe against Moses and Aaron as if they had been in fault for the death of those outragious sinners Aaron then at Moses his direction runs to the Altar and fetches fire thence and puts on incense and with that runs among the people and though the wrath of GOD were so hot against them as that while he was hasting to the Altar and coming backe againe 14700. were dead of the Plague yet as soone as he comes among them and as a Priest offers incense and so Prayers for them suddenly the plague ceases Numb. 16. 47 48. 3. For Samuel he was a knowne favourite in the Court of Heaven so that the Israelites ranne to him when the Philistines came against them and they put more confidence in his Prayers alone for them 1 Sam. 7. 8. then in all theirs and GOD then answered him with Thunder from heaven against the Philistines ver. 10. and again after the Israelites had rejected him yet