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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

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

of this What then will become of all our Legall and Judiciall proceedings which are confined to this Way of proofe and so it was by GOD appointed and hath been by all Nations practised 2. There be some that pretend Liberty of Conscience to Equivocate in an Oath even before a Magistrate and to elude all Examinations by Mentall Reservations will you grant them this Liberty Or can you without destraying all bonds of Civill Converse and wholly overthrow of all Humane Judicature 3. If any plead Conscience for the Lawfulnesse of Polygamy or for divorce for other causes then Christ and His Apostles mention Of which a wicked booke is abroad and uncensured though deserving to be burnt whose Author hath been so impudent as to set his Name to it and dedicate it to your selves or for Liberty to marry incestuously will you grant a Toleration for all this 4. If any say Their Conscience allowes them not to Contribute to your Just and Necessary Defence shall they be allowed this Liberty Where then will your Armies be paid 5. If others say their Consciences allow not them to beare Armes for you shall they have altogether their Liberty every one that will say so How then shall your Armies be made up 6. If any goe further as some doe in effect even in print and say their Consciences allow not any Magistrates at all nor 7. Propriety of goods Will you afford them their Liberty herein What would become then of all your own Authority and of all Lawes and Liberties of the Kingdome Or what Bounds or Limits can there be set to men any way if this opinion of Liberty of Conscience as it is pleaded for shall be admitted Object If any say these all or most of them are belonging to the Second Table and the Liberty pleaded for is onely in matters of the First Table Ans. To this I answer 1. The Arguments if strong for the One will be no lesse for the other The Conscience must have regard to the second Table as well as the first and must not be violated nor forced in matters of the second Table no more then of the First And in all the Instances formentioned it is certaine some have heretofore if not also now pretended Conscience about them Also Equivocation in an Oath will concerne the 1. Table the third Commandement and yet I dare say you will not Tolerate that Ans. 2. Are mens matters worthy more regard then GODS that the pretence of Conscience shall claime a Liberty in that which concernes GODS Honour and not in that which concernes men Or are not mens Souls both theirs that are first in the Errour and theirs also whom they endevour and endanger the infection of more to be regarded then any thing that meerly concernes civill matters Also are not mens Souls in greater Hazard rather then lesse in sins against the 1. Table Idolatries Blasphemies Heresies c. then in those against the second How then shall it be more allowable to give Liberty and Toleration against the 1. Table then against the second And what Idolater or seduced Prophet might not or may not plead his Conscience And yet you know GODS Sentences of old against such even to extremities extirpation Deut. 13. throughout the whole Chapter and elsewhere and so against other breaches of the first Table The Baalites whom Elijah caused to be put to death according to the Law of GOD 1 Kings 18. did certainly thinke in their Consciences that Baal was a true GOD and theirs the true Religion And so those that caused their children to passe through the fire to Molech which GOD expresly commands to be punisht with death even though they were Strangers and Sojourners in Israel and not of GODS professed people Lev. 20. 2 c did what they did out of Conscience And these Lawes of GOD never were repealed as yet and therefore they will bind all His Servants still His Honour requires still the same Severity against such kind of Offenders And what can it be lesse then to betray such to damnation who are Tolerated to professe and promote those opinions or practises that are absolutely destructive unto their owne or others Soules And if it be objected as it is that no punishment or Restraint can work upon men to convert them Ans. It is true No more can Exhortation or Preaching Arguments in Word or Writing convert men without GODS Blessing But yet they must be used as meanes appointed by GOD and sanctified and accordingly Blest when He sees fit even to convert men and so are Restraints and Punishments too proportionable to Mens Errours and Practises appointed of GOD and sanctified also and often even in experience blest to make men who before were misled or perhaps mis-leaders of others to consider and hea●ken and learne and be willing to embrace and cleave to the Truth And I doubt not but if we be all carefull in our places to performe our Covenant in this Article we shall find a blessed effect of it in our three Kingdomes as the Conclusion of it speakes That the LORD may be One and His Name One in the three Kingdomes 8. The last particular I would offer to you at this time is that for all these things you would get hearts armed with Trust in GOD and so with Courage and Zeale for GOD and that there may be no Cowardly spirits among us Every Ruler should be a man of Courage and specially when he hath enemies to encounter Josh. 1. GOD and men there ver. 6 7 9 18. call upon him for it And so when ever Reformation is undertaken there is speciall need of Courage See the Instance of Hezekiah His father had been a most desperate wicked man and corrupted Religion worse then all that were before him Yet Hezekiah made the greatest Reformation that had been since Solomons time and lost not a day after he came to the Crowne for he begun in the first yeere of his reigne in the first Month and as it appears by a Chron. 29. v. 17. the very first day of the month and carried all before him Now what was that which made him doe thus See 1 Kings 18. v. 5. He trusted in the LORD GOD of Israel so that after him there was none like him among all the Kings of Judah nor any that were before him This was that which made him not Feare the peoples discontent nor the great Ones nor the Priests neither whom he found universally drencht over head and eares in superstition and idolatry Oh that we who have much more strength of men to stand by us then he had had but halfe his Courage Or rather that we would remember that when many of Israel mocked and laughed His Messengers to scorne whom he sent to invite them to the Passeover yet not only divers others came in and submitted themselves But that in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart