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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

Nation any more except they found him out and punisht him accordingly 4. When the Lawes are too weak and slack or altogether silent in the restraint of wickednesse This could not indeed be in the Jewish common-wealth because they had lawes of Gods own making to punish all manner of transgressions that God would have to be punisht But since other Common-wealths have taken to themselves I am afraid farther then God allowes a Liberty to count themselves free from his penal laws it is manifestly possible that they may be wanting in necessary laws to suppresse ungodlinesse then they make the Nation guilty of such sins as for want of good laws are practised In that the Authority that God hath given in a Nation to make laws for the observation of His divine Lawes is not put in execution sufficiently Authority I say sins in not making such necessary lawes and inferiours sin in not following them with petitions and importunities for the making of them And so all are sinfull the Nation is sinfull 5. Much more when any sin hath any kinde of countenance and allowance from Authority and specially from lawes and that offenders against Gods commandements can pleadmans approbation if not command in some sort of their practises This is the highest and worst degree of all not onely because it doth immediately taint the generality in point of practice but layes a cursed foundation of vilifying all Gods lawes in any thing when it appears to inferiours that superiours though men like themselves dare take upon them so to crosse Gods Authority with theirs And now if in all these respects our Nation is greatly guilty of transgression and sinne against our God and Heavenly King we are beyond all peradventure a sinfull Nation and a people laden with iniquity and for this for the present I onely appeale to every ones conscience that seemes to have any sense of conscience and to the generall complaint that there is every where of something or other in all these kindes Even they oft times that notoriously help to fill up the measure of a Nations wickednesse doe yet themselves complain aloud of the universality of corruption and sin of all sorts and in all sorts Let me then take them and all others at their own words in this and judge them out of their own mouths God will be sure to doe so one day that they have acknowledged our Land and Church to be not only a greatly endangered but a deeply guilty people and so in both respects needing abundance of help even the utmost that can possibly be afforded by any by all of us And that is the other consideration belonging to this Use what help is propor and possible to be afforded to the Church in this her need 1. Against the outward danger outward help is needed for our Nation and Church and Ireland also Counsels purses persons whatsoever is ours or can be justly procured by us is owing as the doctrine hath shewed us because it may be helpfull and may be needed one time or other for the Churches help 2. Against the whole of the danger Prayer may be helpfull and is altogether needfull constant humble penitent faithfull fervent prayer I need not insist on this you have heard it already this day abundantly and powerfully But of Humiliation not only as a companion of Prayer but also as a Parent or Nurse of it and so as a distinct means of help for the Church I must a little particularly speak specially this being a solemne day of Humiliation wherein both God and man require of us to urge this which I shall doe by shewing first what is the nature of it and then secondly the object of it to what it extends both as a duty and as a meanes For the nature of it Humiliation is a lying low and being abased at Gods feet for mercy making first a hearty confession and acknowledgement to God of 4. things 1. Of naturall extreame sinfulnesse and corruption and particular sins as many as are knowne or by enquiry can be found out with their aggravations 2. Of extremity of punishment thereby deserved 3. Of impossibility of escaping such punishment without Gods favour 4. Of impossibility of obtaining Gods favour without repentance and faith in Christ our surety 2. From all this making also an entire submission and yeelding to any temporall correction which God layes or continues without murmuring or offering to free our selves by sinning againe in any kinde All this is included within the nature of true humiliation Which as it is often called for in Scripture1 as a duty giving glory to God in all his providence and particularly in his Judgements mixed with mercies according to his Word and all his soveraigne dignities and titles of Creatour Preserver Ruler and King of all men and Creatures and all his glorious attributes of Just Holy Wise Gracious Powerfull True So2 is it also frequently both in generall and in the particular parts of it made and appointed a necessary meanes of helping a Nation one place shall now suffice for many Lev. 26. 40 41. If they shall confesse their iniquities and the iniquity of their Fathers with their trespasse whereby they have trespassed against me and that also they have walked contrary unto me and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity Then will I remember c. And all this the rather because3 such a Humiliation is both most necessary and most effectuall to make us endeavour what ever else is conducible toward the Churches help as specially a holy Example and activity for Reformation of which afterwards Now for the object of Humiliation It concernes and would though we our selves were both altogether innocent and free from all personall danger 1. The sins of the Nation we live amongst endangered also by his judgements felt or feared But much more when our own being sensibly in danger as well as others calls us to remember our own sins and be humbled for them specially being some way guilty also even of the Nations sins as we shall see anon 2. This Humiliation for the sins of our Nation must extend to the sins of our Forefathers this we finde commanded by way of condition to a promise Lev. 26. 49. and every where practised in solemn Humiliations referring to a Nations good as Ezr. 9. Nehemiah 1. 9. Daniel 9. Ierem. 3. And the reasons of this are cleare 1. In that we as their heires are justly lyable to punishments temporall for their sins in former times Mens Justice requires debts of Heires namely the Landlords rents and for wastes committed against their leases God may much more This broke good Iosiahs heart melted it into teares when by the reading of the book of the Law

Church door How many are there whose servants notoriously scorn that holinesse their Governours seem to professe or at least make not so much as a shew of regarding it Who have some Family-duties when they are at leisure and half their family absent and at such unseasonable times at night as more then half that half are asleep most of the time How many that never think of being so much angry that their servants offend God in any thing as when they offend them or putting so much weight upon Gods commands in any thing as they do upon their own How many whose children are very very little different in outward behaviour from those whose parents make no such shew of piety as they do in any sort The Daughters in idlenesse boldnesse pride and pomp The Sons in licentiousnesse according as their fancy leads them How exceeding few are otherwise I tremble to think and dare not because of the time enlarge my self to expresse what wofull deformities there are in Christians families and therefore how little help such afford the Church and specially what will become of the next generation if things hold on as they do But yet though but a little anywhere yet some there is doubtlesse of care to reforme families and keep sin under there But 2 May we hope the like of any endeavours towards friends We should have shewed the truest friendship to the soul not to suffer sin upon them at least have shewed our selves grieved to see them sin But will our consciences say we have done this Can we name those that have in this kinde been the better for us Or if some are had we power with no more Have we so much as tried in any whether they would endure a reproof Have we ever ventured to lose them rather then they should lose Gods favour or their souls or the comforts of a good conscience Have we ventured to have them say We hate them because we would not could not forbear to crosse them in their wayes of evill Alas alas where is this to be found And how little help hath the Church had from us in this regard Israel in their good temper would even fight with their brethren that had a great while fought for them rather then their sin should endanger the Church generally and offer also to give them a fifth part of their lands to hire them not to sin 3 3. What shall I say for my own profession God be mercifull unto us to the most zealous of us that we have afforded no more help publikely by crying down all sinne in our own Congregations or others Even upon dayes of Publike humiliations how little do we preach against sin And then for private Oh the wofull neglect among our own people at home or friends abroad We are afraid to provoke them to lose them to be losers by their disfavour to incur danger by their displeasure We are afraid to discourage men now if we should denounce Gods judgments for their sins and to arm Malignants with reproaches if specially we preach against the sins of Professors But did Gods Prophets for bear ever for either or both these causes Or is the Church helped by the courage of those against whom God is angry for their unreformed lives or credited by our silence when their misbehaviours make a loud noise I must say as he When we all have preached Repentance as much as we have preacht first Confidence and then Faith we shal be reformed and saved and I doubt not till then And that men receive it so ill from some few or are displeased with some few words from any it is because we all use them to so little and in all help the Church little whereas we of all others should be ever her principall helpers against sin 4 4. Finally Magistrates should have used their utmost Authority to suppresse sin which oppresses the Church I need not ask in most places whether this have been done I fall rather upon the second part of the necessary Application of our foregoing Doctrins concerning the duty of helping the Church and the sin and danger of neglecting it which is to call us all to a serious and sad Humiliation as many as have been remembred by their consciences of any neglects specially willing and most of all customary To humiliation I say as for our own most secret and personall sins so for all our guilt of not helping the Church as we might and ought and for all our Nations sins even those of our forefathers together with the judgments lying upon the Church and Nation and hanging over us We are to be humbled this day even for our want of humiliation hitherto wherein I much fear the best of us have been too defective This is a day of learning it God and man have commanded the preaching of it specially on these dayes as well as practising it and of practising it as well as learning it I have a little taught it this day and would now fain work the practise of it upon my own heart and yours Let us then I beseech you fix our mindes upon our sins personall and nationall and the desert of them that Gods glory may now be advanced by our thoughts of both quickned by the apprehension of our calamities as it hath been dishonoured by our former sinfulnesse Remembring specially the Apostles argument 1 Cor. 1. 31 32. spoken indeed of a particular case but one more neerly concerning our Nation then any other Reformed Church perhaps in all the Christian world as I shall touch by and by as undoubtedly appliable generally to all sins If we would judge our selves we should not be judged But when we are judged we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world Let us then acknowledge for our selves and our Nation that according to the late Covenant ordered to passe through the Kingdom Our own sins and the sins of this Nation have deserved the judgments and calamities that lie upon it Which that we all may do the more heartily and humbly let me now present you with a brief Catalogue of some more capitall Nationall sins among us and then once more minde you somewhat further of Gods heavy wrath greatly declared against us in his judgment for these sins And then see whether we can chuse but be exceedingly humbled both for the one and the other now and hereafter Here I reckon to begin with against the first Commandement Idolatry Ignorance and Atheisticall scorning of all Religion conscience and civill honesty The first of these Idolatry the sinne that is most formall high treason against God is aggravated in our Nation and Kingdom since the Reformation by the continuall plottings of idolatrous Pa●ists traytors unto our Kingdom which together with the great danger we have been in and are specially now at this day by their conspiracies are at

I mean the Chancellours and Commissaries c. who managed all Men that usually bought their Offices and so most likely to sell the sinnes of the people And who had more reason for their gains-sake to be skilfull in the Popes Canon Law then in Gods Canonicall Scripture And who might usually do what they lift securely because all appeals were for the most part made to men of their own profession and like themselves and yet they had not so much power to do good as to do evill Finally the want of a publike care to breed up children the poor specially and neglect of visiting Schools and Vniversities whereby a seed of evill doers hath still sprung up to fill the Land with corruption And of all this there is scarce any thing but to a rationall observant man hath been and is notorious or may be soon made so and declared to be abominable in the sight of God For which we may well fear his speaking against us as against his people of old Jer. 5. 9. Shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this Doubtlesse he hath begun to visit us for these things besides many other our wickednesses and that his soul may not be avenged on us we had need exceedingly to affect and afflict and humble our souls with a holy fear of his displeasure already manifested unto us and proclaimed against us and namely by a tenfold Consideration of the dreadfulnesse of the judgment which we all lie under and are in extream danger of 1 1. The judgement in it self touched a little before A sword drawn against us with so much advantage for our enemies and disadvantage to our selves and with such desperate purposes of our utter ruine You have more then once heard of the calamities of warre therefore I insist no further upon that onely remember that when God is most angry he threatens that Esay 1. 20. and often else where 2 2. The kinde of the judgment a civill war or rather an unnaturall intestine war a war against our own bowells Scarce a family in the whole Kingdom that is not engaged against it self This is according to the heavy curse of filling Kings Princes Prophets inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem with drunkennesse Politick drunkennesse and dashing one against another the brother against the brother the fathers and the sons together Jer. 13.13 14. and observe what follows in the end of ver. 14. I will not spare nor have pity not have mercy but destroy them And if we be not all utterly destroyed yet manifold families will undoubtedly and those that remain will be such enemies to their neighbours and one to another in the same family as God alone knows when the direfull effects of that drunkennesse will cease even though the war be ceased 3 3. The occasion was most dreadfull That which was meant and hoped to have been our safety the setling of the Militia petitioned by all Countries acknowledged by the King necessary to be done seemed to be granted and then refused whereby the Parliament saw themselves forced to settle it This proved the pretence and occasion of all our unsetling Answerable to that heavie curse even against the enemies of Christ Psal. 69. 22. Let that which should have been for their welfare become atrap 4 4. The humane means of prevention seeming most sufficient yet rather causing and encreasing the mischief A Parliament sitting Chosen with the greatest care that ever the Countries took in any Age Never a choyser company of wise and good men seemed to be gathered together and all the wisdome of the Land besides contributing to the counsels of the one side and the other in Parliament and on t of Parliament and engaging themselves to the utmost and having a long time of debate by words and messages and writing space to see the wisdome and faithfull intentions of each other and to manifest their own and after all to agree in nothing but disagreement and confusion like drunken men as before what a wofull curse is this specially being fore-prophesied against Israel Esay 19 14. Behold I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people even a marvellous work and a wonder for the wisdome of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid Many confounded that they gave nothing but mischievous counsell which onely was beleeved and others so confounded that their faithfull counsels were discredited as when God meant to bring a scourge on Rehobo●● and vengeance on Absalom 5 5. All this aggravated by example of others finding that favour with God that we could not finde according to the difference between * Judah and Israel or Goshen and AEgypt Exod. 9. and 10. that we and they both could then be wise and prosperous and we so unhappy in and among our selves Our brethren of Scotland had much the same Cause God then let us be wise for them and our selves together and the danger of those warres between them and us after neer three years hazard ended with very little blood and with great peace and amity But God hath denied us this favour this wisdome so that his anger appears to be the more against us and we seem still the more filled with drunkennesse 6 6. The ground of the quarrell as held forth on both sides makes still the mischief a greater prodigie The honour dignity of the king the Priviledges of Parliament the Law of the Land the property and liberty of the Subject are fought for on both sides and which is most admirable the same Religion the true Religion Protestant Religion except onely that the Popish Army in the North are so honest or so impudent as to disclaim that Cause and professe to fight for their own Religion And all this is Protested before God and man heaven and earth all the world is called to witnesse of their faithfull purposes and intentions And is not here then a strange drunkennesse at least on one fide and a strange curse scarce the like ever heard of in the world What! are both sides hypocrites or one onely or neither Every way it is most dreadfull and wofull 1. If both sides bee generally hypocrites or the chief of both Can God but resolve to destroy us all as a most perfidious Nation unworthy to live in the world and deal with us as Esay 10. 5 6 Even send a forrein enemy to take the prey and take the spoil and to tread us all down like the mire of the streets 2. If one side be faithfull and the other not yet is it not most dreadfull that God should let hypocrites so far prevail as first to seduce many well meaning people as Absalom under pretence of a vow he had made carried away 200. honest Citizens of Ierusalem who went with him in

For which their party hath well requited you ever since and so have others too for all your gentlenesse to many desperate Delinquents who have been your prisoners 2. For the other Was there not a time when nothing you asked was denyed you Might not somewhat in that advantage of opportunity been obtained for Religion which hath not been and which would have kept the wheeles going eversince that have long stood still for want of it And since that season was it not morally possible to have speeded some things more then they have been I know I am not able to fathome the depths of your Businesses and Hindrances which have been apparently very many Therefore I take not upon me so much to be a reprover as a remembrancer Yet even the former could I know things as well as your selves do or may by reviewing your journalls my Office would not onely bear me out in but even require of me as the Case may be We have long and too justly complained of Princes being flattered by them that least should and how much we and they have been undone by it Let it I beseech you be your glory and God will make it so that you had rather be twice admonisht even without cause then to want it once when there is just cause And so I leave this Advise with one word of addition That if ever after this day God should which if we all seek him as we should even this day I hope he never will send you and us any affrighting tidings As we all must each one for themselves in particular so you would both for all us and for your selves severally and joyntly as a Body make diligent inquiry what is Gods meaning in it What sins they are that have provoked him so against us and you and accordingly see and practise each one their duties upon it And so I passe to the third Use which is of Exhortation to all and every one to resolve and practise from hence-forward the utmost possible for the Churches help endeavouring all venturing all to this end both against sins and dangers of enemies Taking in for Motives and to answer all Objections the Text Doctrines and Reasons foregoing and following together with the Protestation made two years ago and the late Covenant and for Means namely against sin in speciall the Assembly called There is not any Duty and way of help generall or particular that any hath been backward to set upon or can be tempted to neglect but upon the grounds laid I durst undertake to convince of the necessity of doing the utmost even for our own sakes as well as the Churches And without me if any will deal faithfully with themselves and apply things home to their own hearts each will not fail to perswade themselves to all things that come within their compasse This therefore I earnestly exhort all to do now and hereafter whiles I apply my speech particularly at this time unto those upon whom this work lies principally because they have the Power and Authority in their hands Our Senatours of the honourable Parliament Let me beseech you Honourable and Worthy to remember all that you have heard of the necessity of helping the Church that it may provoke you and prevail with you to put to all your strength and even venture all things that you may effectually help the Church particularly against the cause of all her dangers sinne And herein not by way of exclusion of other matters but of specification of some main things to be looked to Let me name some particulars to you 1 1. The banishment of idolatry wholly and for ever Never reckon upon the Churches safety or the Nations while any such treason against God is so much as winkt at in this Kingdom So farre as you do not the utmost possible in this I must tell you you are will be greatly wanting to the Churches help And never fear the provoking of any persons or multitudes at home or abroad by your faithfulnesse to God and the Church herein For beleeve it you will run a thousand times worse hazard by suffering them as experience for the present besides all other things may teach you shew therefore your indignation against all the reliques and objects and practisers of it in all places within your reach as you have happily already begun to do in some And manifest your zeal and wisdome in preparing such Laws against that cursed practise for the time to come As all the Nation may hear and fear and do no more so wickedly Deut. 13. 11. and secure the children that are growing up 2 2. Dispell ignorance We are undone by this mist of infection specially in the Countrey In the Name therefore of Jesus Christ who will come in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God 2 Thess. 1. 7 8. In the name of millions of souls throughout the Kingdom of many even in my Congregation whom this black Devill possesses and who cried out as he Mat. 8. 29. that we torment them when we offer but any endeavour for their dispossession and which no means in the world according to Man can cure without your effectuall help And in the name of all the faithfull Ministers of the Kingdome who preach to stocks and stones in the likenesse of men I cry out unto you unto you this day for help help effectuall help I name nothing particular now because of the Assembly else I had rather have spent my whole time upon this one argument then to have past it over so briefly 3 3. Conjure down the atheisticall Devil the impudent scorner of godlinesse and conscience Make every word of that kind a greater reproach to the Speaker then he can intend it to the person spoken against Make it an action of the case to reproach any with a Nickname for their conscientiousnesse to God and let such pay good dammages and full costs speedily or any other way whereby it may be more effectually done And till then know for a certainty that that direfull threatning will hang over the Land which is recorded Jer. 23. for one kinde of reproach against the Prophets of God ver. 33. to the end and it will utterly drown us in destruction when ever it fals Also without a law of this Nature let me assure you that make what ever Reformation you will or can it will prove in the issue and even within a very little while I doubt but as a wall dawbed with untempered morter and crumble all to nothing and the Church can never be helped while her glory is made her shame and suffered to be so 4 4. Cure Superstition There are more tainted with it then you can easily imagine and it is bred and nourisht by every thing that is customary specially among those that are not thoroughly instructed and chiefly by any meer humane ordinance though usefull being rightly used when once any

he found what arrerages he and his land were in for the forfeitures of their Forefathers Though he had begun to put himself and them into a better posture of service and duty toward God their great Landlord So should we also be affected even with the sins of our Ancestours 2. Specially if in any thing we finde that any worldly commodity we enjoy is the fruit of their sin Whereas Humane Politicks excuse or justifie or commend those sins that redound in appearance to worldly security or advantage as the letting evill men or evill practises alone which might have been redrest and supprest if not at one time yet at another had there been a true and through zeal for God and faith in God Divine wisdome commands humiliation for and reformation of if yet to be done as endangering evils Therefore holy Hezekiah who trusted in the Lord with all his heart after his humble acknowledgments of manifold transgressions ventures to pul down all the high-places even superstitious as well as idolatrous which all former Reformers even Asa and Jehoshaphat in their times medled not with And holy David though perhaps he had not power enough to punish the treacherous murthers of the great Generall Joab yet cannot die in peace till he hath left a charge upon his son Solomon to pay that debt for him 1 Kings 2. which therefore he carefully fulfilled without delay 3. Yet more It is required that we be humbled for our forefathers sins lest as we are too apt we either approve of the evill of them which else we could not but in our consciences condemn even because it was their practise to do thus and they went no further in reforming and this we usually think excuse enough Or 4. Lest we should make it an argument also that God is well pleased with such and such things because our forefathers did so and were not severely plagued but rather flourished in those wayes Which also is a common pretence for the continuance of evill practises Or 5. Last of all Lest even after we had forsaken their sins we should again by temptation be drawn to return to them Against all which there is no better antidote under the grace of Christ then a sad and serious and oft repeated and renewed humiliation even for our forefathers sins as well as those of the present generation in our nation and people 3. But to all this we must be sure to adde or rather to premise it first in our hearts though my method leads me to name it last the humiliation for our own personall sins As many as we do or can by strict enquiry know by our selves And this generally for the reasons noted at the first Gods honour our own reformation and our escaping wrath through Gods mercy in Christ And this we must do even after we have resolved or begun to reform and also after we have reformed how perfectly soever and even have our pardon sealed never so sure That thou mayest remember and be confounded and never open thy mouth any more when I am pacified towards thee for all that thou hast done saith the Lord God Ezek. 16. 63. And to the like purpose Ezek. 36. 31 32. Because also while we are but resolving or beginning to reform our selves we may suddenly revolt even to worse then before if a through Humiliation shame sorrow and fear keep us not And after we have reformed most compleatly still some taints remain in our own hearts and much more many times in others tainted by us which need this mortification Pharaohs often revolts and even Israels too all Moses time are sad confirmations of this We read them often relenting but never solemnly making it their businesse to humble themselves for their transgressions 3. Moreover against the spirituall danger of sin a holy example an exact unblameable conversation may be greatly helpfull and is infallibly needfull St. Peter supposes even ungodly men may thereby be constrained to glorifie God 1 Pet. 2. and prophane Paganish husbands converted even without the Word by the conversation of the wives 1 Pet. 3. 1 2. It shews ungodly men that godlinesse is a possible thing to be practised as well as worded And where it is wanting no word can do so much good as that want doth harm as I shall again touch anon 4. Finally against sin and judgment both an active endeavour of reformation is specially helpfull and beyond controversie needfull 1. Against judgment as appears by the promise of pardoning that is sparing for the present Jerem. 5. 1. If but a man were found that did execute judgment and seek the truth And by the assigning this the cause of Gods indignation powred out upon them Ezek. 22. 30 31. because God sought for a man that should stand in the gap and make up the hedge before him for the land but found none that is never a man of note active for reformation For else there were godly men that mourned and prayed Ezek. 9. but none stood up strongly for God that would have helped much 2. Against sin by using all the authority any hath As a Governour of a family Parent Master Minister or Magistrate to bring sinners to repentance and keep others from sinning This no man will no man can in generall deny to be a helpfull and necessary duty therefore I add no more of it for the present but shall meet with it again in some following Uses of other Points I now come to the second Doctrin which is this Private self-respects prove great hinderances to most necessary duties It had like to have done so here with Esther it did so at the first bout till Mordecai's divine arguments of faith and despair dreadfull frights and glorious hopes quickned her to the heroick resolution expressed in the following verse I will go in to the King which is not according to the Law and if I perish I perish Thus she overcame at last and was no longer hindered from her duty But too many are every where as sad experience proclaims to all ears This turned Peter for a fit from a Champion of Christ in the garden to a Renegado in the Palace It was not indeed a necessary duty indeed to follow Christ thither at that time Nor perhaps to make answer at all to the questions then put to him if silence would have satisfied But it was absolutely necessary for a Disciple of Christ not to deny his Master anywhere much more not to forswear him with cursing and banning that he knew no such man but contrarily to professe himself his if he could not without such horrid lying conceale it yet this private self-respect put him upon not onely to neglect his duty but to do quite contrary He conceited that the owning of his Master would at this time endanger his own personall safety and if he denied him he might escape unknown and untoucht out of the high