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A55028	The necessity and encouragement, of utmost venturing for the churches help together with the sin, folly, and mischief of self-idolizing applyed by a representation of 1. some of the most notorious nationall sins endangering us, 2. the heavy weight of wrath manifested in our present calamities, yet withall, grounds of 3. confidence, that our church shall obtain deliverance in the issue, 4. hopes that the present Parliament shall be still imployed in the working of it : all set forth in a sermon, preached to the honorable House of Commons, on the day of the monethly solemn fast, 28. June, 1643 / by Herbert Palmer ...	Palmer, Herbert, 1601-1647.	1643 (1643)	Wing P243; ESTC R21704	67,757	76

30. 19. And for any thing I know or any man else as we that are here before God this day do chuse even this day we may fare our selves and all our Israel with us at least in the Good the Blessing held forth But I Preface no longer THe words contain summarily The necessity and encouragement of utmost venturing for the Churches help in time of danger The Jews at this time Gods onely visible Church on earth were now in one of the greatest dangers that ever threatned a Nation The story is well known I cannot spend time to decipher it It is my great comfort in that and the whole of my Discourse that I speak to wise men else the multitude of matters to be crowded together within the allotted compasse of time for this holy Exercise would suffer prejudice among us by my necessary hast Therefore also I shall give you no other division of the Text then into the Points that thence offer themselves to our present instruction I will name them all together and shew you the Rise of the severalls as we go along The first Doctrine is Every one of Gods professed people owe their endeavours with the utmost hazard of themselves to help the Church in time of danger The second this Private self-respects prove great hinderances to most necessary duties The third Those whom private and self-respects hinder from the Churches help can have no assurance what ever seeming advantages they may hope upon that they shall escape more then others The fourth is Though those who are most hopefull to be instruments of the Churches help fail her in time of need yet deliverance shall not fail her some way or other according to Gods promises The fifth is Though the Church be delivered another way yet a destruction is owing to them and theirs that have neglected their utmost endeavour for her help The sixth is There is great hopes that those who are extraordinarily raised up to a speciall opportunity of serviceablenesse to the Church are intended by God to procure her help if they will themselves and be faithfull All these Points will appear to be most naturally raised from the scope and words of the Text and all of singular use for our edification according to the present condition of things among us As the sequell will shew The first Doctrin is this Every one of Gods professed people owe their endeavours with the utmost hazard of themselves to help the Church in time of danger Mordecai's former charge to Esther and this re-inforcement in the Text supposes this Doctrin fully It had been too presumptuous to put so great a Person too injurious to presse so dear a Friend to so desperate a piece of service if upon this generall ground it had not been a certain and indispensable duty It was hers therefore all others respectively all ours particularly Nothing could discharge her nothing can acquit us Consider and compare 1. Her Person and ours 2. Her perill 3. Her small likelihood of prevailing 4. And the certainty of the businesse to be done without her 1. Her Person Which of us even the highest matches her greatnesse how extreamly below are the most who hath so much to lose if we lose all as she Those we venture for are our equalls or neer it some of them and many are superiours to the most She was far above all her Nation of whom the best were distressed tributaries and multitudes little better then slaves She ventured alone none with her none for her wee have many engaged as well as far as we and we have cause to be glad of them as well as they of us If then it were her duty to endeavour and venture it is ours without all peradventure 2. What was the hazard she must rush upon or what is the utmost venture Death This was hers And what death more certain or usually more reproachfull then for breaking through the known Law of an Imperious Monarch This she must expose her self to While yet this charge and threatning of her tells us that it is no sinne but a duty of necessity to prefer the regard of a peoples of Gods peoples safety before any such formality of a humane Law Yet contrarily had she forborn this her danger in humane appearance had been none at all because though she were a Jewesse yet not known to be such And now can our hazard by endeavor be worse at the worst or more certain or more reproachfull though the reproach lesse just then hers or to any of us can there be lesse hazard if we forbear altogether any endeavour If then she must not forbear because of perill no more may we without the greatest perill of sinne 3. How unlikely was it she should prevail with one who in thirty dayes had not called for her though his wife and now pressing upon him against his Law and appearing in opposition to his so doted on Darling Haman and of a Decree already sent forth into all his Dominions which also by the Law of the Medes and Persians seemed unalterable and so the Case remedilesse altogether this way Is there any thing we are to Endeavour let it be what it will so unlikely to prosper as this undertaking of hers yet for this must she pawn her life And what may we then refuse 4. Was it not pity to drive her forward against such a Canons-mouth when though she sate still the Businesse should be done himself tells her so in which she might be lost and do nothing at all to it What greater certainty can we have or what equall that what we are called to Endeavour and Venture for will prosper if we do altogether nothing How many would then indeed resolve to do nothing and think themselves excusable too But so might not she nor so may not we without sin can be excused For it appears that according to the Doctrin Every one of Gods professed people owes c. Let us confirm it by a few other Examples and then by some Reasons 1 Joh. 3 16 We ought to lay down our lives for the Brethren Here is the Doctrin and Duty fully asserted The Brethren the Church have a right to our utmost endeavour with what hazard soever we owe it to them we ought to venture our lives and when the pinch comes actually part with them And here is an example beyond example in the words foregoing of God himself Christ God and Man both laid down His humane life for His Church Hereby perceive we the love of God towards us in that he layd down his life for us This ought to be Reason sufficient to us to hold our selves obliged to the same hazard in our measure in thankefulnesse to Him and imitation of Him and to testifie the truth of our love which we professe to bear to the Church as the Apostle was now exhorting to love Love denies nothing of endeavours ventures all things of

of danger to be undergone for the Church would provoke God against them to their destruction Revel. 21. 8. The fearfull are in the forefront of those that shall be cast into hell And Mark 8. 35. Whosoever will save his life shall lose it And Phil. 3. 19. Their end is destruction who minde earthly things And 1 Tim. 6. 9. Covetousnesse drowns men in destruction and perdition So ambition sensuality envie and self-love have all their severall brands and threatnings sufficiently The refusall to have Christ to reign over them which is in the advancement of his Church himself calls enmity and dooms to damnation Luk. 19. 27. And plainly The Nation and Kingdom that will not serve the Church in prosperity shall perish Yea that Nation shall be utterly wasted Isa. 60. 12. How much more then any particular person and specially that will not venture themselves for her help in danger For also 4. Their fairest excuses The improbability of doing any good to the Church by their endeavaurs and probability of prejudicing themselves if stood upon are nothing but the sprouts of cursed unbelief dishonourable to God and to his Promises made to his Church and her helpers as the following Points will help to illustrate Mean time 5. This will particularly adde a confirmation That no man goeth at any time under so strong a guard as when he ventures himself to the utmost of duty for the Church They are then questionlesse in their way and He shall give his Angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy wayes in their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone Ps. 91. 11 12. And Ps. 34. 7. The Angel of the Lord encamps round about those that fear the Lord and delivers them To end this consider I pray what occasion was it that brought Elisha in danger for which he had an host of Angels to guard him 2 King 6. 17. The mountain full of horses and chariots of fire round about him But when he had done the people of Israel speciall service thereby had provoked the King of Syria namely by warning of his secret plots ambushes against Gods people for which he sent an Army to apprehend him Not but that after all a man may lose his life in the Churches Cause else also it were no such vertue or valour but as he is not hurt by that a Christian is not so may he as soon die in his bed and sooner which makes his sinne in refusing to venture his life so much the greater and his danger in time of danger so much the more deadly Besides a further danger afterward though both he and the Church escape for the present as our fist Point gives us to understand and to which I shall now proceed leaving the fourth till afterward because I will make the application of the second and third already dispatcht and of the fist all together and reserve the two other Points as the comfortablest parts with their Applications to the close of all The Point then to be now handled is this yet a destruction is owing to them and theirs that have neglected their utmost endeavour for her help This is a second blast of judgment against ungodly neglect of so necessary duty Before we heard That if the Church or any of her members fall such are in danger more then others rather then lesse to perish too But this is worse The Church may escape and shall infallibly to the utmost extent of Gods promises but however they and theirs shall perish that have been wanting to her This is most plain in the Text Plainly ratified by the curse denounced against Meroz Judg. 5. 22 even after the victory gotten and the enemies destroyed And by the vengeance executed on the Elders of Succeth and the Inhabitants of Penuel Judg. 8. also after the victory and deliverance And once more upon the Inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead for not helping in the execution of justice against the wicked delinquents of Gibeah and their abettors of Benjamin Judg. 21. and this also after the work done In this latter I deny not but there was too much cruelty used to the women and male children of Jabesh Gilead But all was just with God as besides that he never punishes any too much and yet he rules and over rules all the reasons of the Point will presently clear But first I must interpose a few words of Explication The 1. 1 is that by saying Destruction is owing to them Nothing hinders but God may take his own time for payment He may justly do it presently and is ever able when he hath a will to it and so in any time of their lives Or he may stay till their death and reckon with them once for ever which is worst of all for them according to 2 Pet. 3. 9. The Lord knows how to reserve the unjust to the day of judgment to be punished 2. 2 This as all other sins is pardonable and actually pardoned upon true repentance and faith in Christ our Surety and so the destruction may be altogether avoyded 3. 3 But if God do afford pardon he usually makes such who have been in any punishable degree guilty feel some smart of their untowardnesse whereby also he makes way for their repentance and warns others as he did for their neglect of building the Temple Hag. 1. 2. 4. 4 The destruction that the Familie and Friends of the offenders are enwrapped in is onely temporall unlesse they be guilty of the same sinne or the vengeance of God reckon with them also for their ungodlinesse in other respects And now the Reasons of the Point will set it out fully 1. The sins of those that have neglected to help the Church are no way lessened by Gods over-ruling grace delivering his Church another way nor by others faithfulnesse whom he hath made use of to deliver it Indeed upon repentance either and both are matters of comfort as Ioseph speaks of Gods over-ruling his brethrens wicked malice against him which was worse then neglect can be Gen. 45. 50. but both set out the more the shame of such neglect in it self because God meant to deliver his Church and others ventured themselves for it but they would not And so their destruction is a due debt to them who would not pay the debt of their endeavours 2. The Parable of the Vnprofitable servant dooms such most dreadfully Matth. 25. The Master lost nothing and the fellow-servants were diligent and gained with their talents yet his neglect cast him into utter-darknesse notwithstanding the imputation upon his Master of being an austere man which is retorted upon him and made an aggravation of his fault We shewed in the first Point that all gifts and abilities and authority and all are all Gods and are disposed by him and intended for his Churches