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A90725	The duty & honour of church-restorers: set forth in a sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons, Septemb. 30. 1646. Being the day of the monethly solemne fast, at Margarets Westminster. / By Herbert Palmer, B.D. minister of Gods Word at Ashwell in Hertfordshire, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Palmer, Herbert, 1601-1647.	1646 (1646)	Wing P230; Thomason E355_22; ESTC R201122	56,005	70

businesse Is not this the Fast that I have chosen v. 6. c. And after he had promised great things to it is not satisfied but is over with it again and again and then makes new promises to it v. 9. 10. do you also put weight upon it I beseech you It is good to be of Gods minde where God puts any emphasis upon Duties it concerns us to do the like You use to meet after the Publick services ended on these solemn dayes would it not be a happy thing if you would call one upon another and enquire one of another what speciall acts of justice and mercy have been done this last moneth or what further there were to do for those that hunger and thirst after righteousnesse or reliefe and accordingly give orders upon it Such reports as these from Committees and even from private Members might greatly advantage both Justice and Mercy and produce abundance of good and might not the calling for Reports from every such Committee as have been made upon special Petitions or Motions upon a limited day or if by that day they could not dispatch it then to set them a new day with a renewed charge to to be diligent and expedite it might not this exceedingly quicken Justice and Mercy both and either confute or prevent the clamours that are now so rife That if a businesse be once referred to a Committee unlesse they have a particular affection to it it is lodged there no man knows how long and they cannot be gotten to meet scarce with any importunity even though persons that are interessed have been at great charges to bring up witnesses and perhaps made long journies and fee'd their Counsel and all is lost perhaps to a poor mans undoing well nigh if not altogether when after a long attendance he is forced to return with shame and disappointement I will not presse the phrale for the time of the day in businesse referred to Committees but I beseech all to consider Gods meaning in that place Jer. 21.11 12. And touching the house of the King of Judah say hear ye the word of the Lord. Ok house of David thus saith the Lord execute judgement in the morning and deliver him that is spoyled out of the hand of the oppressour lest my fury go out like fire and burn that none can quench it because of the evill of your doings Certainly he intends hereby to forbid all unnecessary delayes and I need not tell you what our Laws and our great Charter speaks to this purpose I know there are multitudes of causes and businesses which often hinder one another and am far from thinking all complaints of delayes to be just and true but I may and must again beg of you and in the Name of God exhort and charge you to set your wisdome faithfulnesse and compassion awork to finde out a way to help this and accordingly effectually to remove all needlesse delayes as a great part of the duty God requires from you as Judges and remember withall that sometimes a speedy dispatch of a businesse even a deniall of a suit or Petition or a sentence against a man is both more justice and more mercy then a long delay or at least lesse injustice and cruelty I beseech you therefore set your hearts upon this and let not this Exhortation be in vain 3. Study I pray the latitude of the phrase in this Chapter for justice and charity and draw them out into practice I cannot if I had time speak to all because I am ignorant of many Laws and Customes yet let me point at some If any cause come before you or any of you wherein inferiour Judges have done notorious wilfull injustice being corrupted by bribery and partiality or any great man be complained of who is too potent to be rectified by inferiour Courts consider and remember what is prophesied of Solomon and of Christ Psal 72. that he should judge the people with righteousnesse and the poor with judgement v. 2. and v. 4. Iudge the poor and needy and save the children of the needy and break in pieces the oppressour Mark those last words and think how much of that belongs to you There was a time that some Courts among you were severe enough against great men by fines and imprisonment when they were found in any fault Those Courts because of their arbitrary power and acts of tyranny many times you have worthily taken away yet doubtlesse it belongs to you in whose hand the Supream justice of the kingdom is intrusted both to be a refuge to the oppressed and to break in pieces the oppressour in a fitting and righteous manner I take not upon me to prescribe wayes nor degrees but your wisdome and justice must needs think the thing lyes upon you that you may verifie that which David delivers from God among his last words 2 Sam. 23.6 He that rules over men must be just ruling in the fear of God Oh what an honour will it be to our Parliament when men shall say of you that you fulfill those prophesies spoken of Solomon and of Christ and what a voice of blessing will it be to you when God shall fulfill to you that which is promised Jer. 31.23 They shall yet use this speech in the land of Iudah the Lord blesse thee oh habitation of justice and mountaine of holines All the Armies in the world cannot make you so strong or so secure as such a blessing from God and such an encouragement from his faithfall people even from all sorts of people whom nothing wins so much as a free and unpartiall execution of justice and compassionate exercise of Charity and Mercy And on the other side nothing brings the curse of God or of men sooner then oppression and unmercifulnesse This is that which gains or loses mens hearts generally above all other things that when Magistrates are like gods indeed in doing justly and loving mercy and so bear his image in their foreheads and faces and actions he then vouchsafes them such a gracious blessing by putting somewhat of his Majesty upon them with the impression of awe wherewith he affects their inferiours that they cannot but give them exceeding great reverence even with love and affection whereas on the contrary if they neglect to use aright or abuse their power and authority God oftentimes withdrawes in his just judgement the stamp of his image out of their faces and so out of the hearts of people and then they are as much despised as the meanest Peasant and hated into the bargain Oh be zealous then for Justice at all times and let not those that have spent their estates and ventured themselves to maintain your just authority be at any time sent away ashamed unheard or unredressed when they have recourse to you in a righteous cause and present nothing but just desires 4. Look upon that phrase in the text to lose the bands of wickednesse and consider whether there are not

Die Mercurii 30. September 1646. ORdered that Mr. Long do from this House give thanks to Mr. Palmer for the great pains he took in the Sermon he preached this day at the intreaty of the House at Margarets Westminster it being the day of publique Humiliation and to desire him to Print his Sermon And he is to have the like priviledge in printing of it as others in the like kinde usually have had H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. Dom. Com. I Appoint Thomas Vnderhill to print my Sermon Herbert Palmer THE DVTY HONOVR OF Church-Restorers Set forth in a Sermon preached to the Honourable House of COMMONS Septemb. 30. 1646. Being the day of the Monethly Solemne FAST AT Margarets Westminster By Herbert Palmer B. D. Minister of Gods Word at Ashwell in Hertfordstire and a Member of the Assembly of Divines Micah 6.8 He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love Mercy and to walk humbly with GOD Amos 9.11 In that day will I raise up the Tabernacle of David that is fallen and close up the breaches thereof and I will raise up his ruines and I will build it as in the dayes of old I Sam. 2.30 The Lord God of Israel saith Them that Honour me I will Honour and they that Despise me shall be lightly esteemed LONDON Printed by R. W. for Thomas Vnderhill at the Signe of the Bible in Woodstreete 1646. TO THE HONOVRABLE The House of Commons now Assembled in PARLIAMENT THe Reformation of England is the great expectation of the world I thinke I may say of Angels as well as men and the Parliament of England under God is the great hope of the Christian world to bring this reformation about If any would set himselfe to study abstractly how God might prepare a company of men to carry on such a worke he would not easily finde out any thing which God hath not already fitted the Honourable Houses with Great pressures to helpe to make them humble before their meeting Manifold dangers all along from the beginning of their meeting to helpe keepe them humble A mighty concurrence of providence to necessitate their meeting together And an unparalleld overruling of hearts for their continuance together without limitation of time oother then their owne prudence should determine A watchfull eye and a strong hand to preserve them from all sorts of attempts to dissolve their meeting Marvellous and manifold actings of Gods almighty power and richgrace in making their enemies fall before them notwithstanding their frequent expectations and most probable hopes of swallowing them up suddenly and in making the people every where to stoope to every part of reformation by them promoted notwithstanding all their habituated and doted on customes to the contrary the most solemne engagements to carry the worke on for God and accordingly to God that are to be found upon earth or are directed by heaven A spirit of reformation in the hearts of many thousands throughout the Kingdome and more particularly neer unto the place of their siting breathing out prayers and supplications to God for them day and night with giving of thanks that the reformation may prosper in their hands and be perfected by their hands And finally most frequent entercourses between God and them by his sending to them and even directing them to call to themselves his servants in great variety and frequency to pray with them daily to fast and pray with them monthly besides extraordinary dayes of humiliation and to pray and give thanks with them upon extraordinary dayes of thanksgiving and these extraordinary dayes both of the one and the other sort being not a few put them altogether and upon all these publike and solemne occasions to speake to them in the name of God words of direction incouragement and all this as a joynt body together with the advantage of having every affecting Sermon perpetuated to them by Printing such as they see cause orapprove while in the meane time the severall members have the opportunity of constant hearing from God every Sabbath and many of them every morning And with all this to have a selected number of men c●●sen by themselves to attend years together meerly 〈◊〉 giving them advice about this reformation may I not now say in the close of all what could have been done more for such a company of men to make them willing and able to do Gods whole work for his Church and people for a full and perfect reformation And is not this your story honourable and worthy is it not the manifest story of Gods providence toward the Parliament of England And what doth he now expect from you Or what may we expect further from him Surely from him for my part I can expect no less but that his intents are though yet through some further difficulties perhaps to carry your spirits and the spirits of the whole Parliament strongly and powerfully on to finish this so blessed a work He hath pardon grace wisdome and strength enough to answer and overcome all that can be said or thought to the contrary in this perswasion I have divers years lived and I hope in it I shall dye if I must dye before the work be perfected this perswasion and hope as it directed me to choose for you this text which is here discoursed upon so it commanded me to speake what I could understand God expected doth still expect from you wherein as for the generall I am sure I have pointed you to the whole councell of God so for the particulars I blesse God that I can say your selves have manifestly owned divers of them in making some Ordinances accordingly and that addes to my confidence and comfort that all other things of Gods will towards you shall be fulfilled by you according to his will from time to time in which work both by prayers and all faithfull endeavours in my station I am and shall ever be in him Your most humble and most devoted Servant Herbert Palmer Errata Page 23. Line 17. reade or p. 23. l. 37. r. task p. 29. l 3. r. could p. 30. l. 6. l. 19. r. Sabbaoth p. 31 l. 11. r. remember them and also p. 31. l. 19. r. particularly Sermons then p 37. l. 11. r. the p. 45. l. 24. r. reserved p. 54 l. 16. r. Secondly THE DVTY and HONOVR OF Church-Restorers Esay 58. v. 12. And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places and thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations and thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach and the restorer of paths to dwell in THey are words that you have often met with in Prayers and Sermons and Bookes and Epistles and have been many a time applyed to you Honourable and Beloved as your portion from God and men It is my Hope and Prayer that they shall be so and that they may so be the sooner

III. Now what would God have them specially do What God required of them To adde Iustice and Mercy to their Fasting v. 6. c. Is not this the Fast that I have chosen To loose the bands of wickednesse c. Which he declares himself so earnest for that He goes over it again and again adding and intermingling exceeding great and precious Promises upon those terms 1. He cals for Iustice v. 6 9. Iustice 1 for the remedying of wicked Obligations to loose the bands of wickednesse verbal or real whereby any one unrighteously or fraudulently according to any law or pretence of law was tyed to do or suffer what was not meet These unjust lawes or fraudulent pretences of law God would have them shew justice in cancelling and making voyd 2. To undo heavy burdens There are burdens which are not properly wicked and not so plainly unjust yet very grievous as with us some Customes of Manours and Fees of Courts and the like and which lie very heavily upon people 3. To let the Oppressed go free Which points at Prisoners and the setting them at liberty when detained with rigour and extreme severity 4. He interposes a generall sentence That you break every Yoke whereby is meant the quitting of all galling slavish customs and practises whatsoever 5. This he repeats v. 9. If thou take away from the midst of thee the Yoke intending the utter removing of all such things that they might be no more found in the midst of them 6. He would have them forbear even the Signes of oppression tyrannie or scorn the putting forth of the finger 7. And finally to cease the speaking of all w●rds of vanity that is of deceit or scorn These are the parcels of Justice which God particularly insists upon and requires them both of Governours and private persons respectively as the language of them plainly notes 2. He also requires Mercy Mercy v. 7 10. and that also in sundry expressions and particulars 1. Relating to those that want Necessary food Is it not to deal thy bread to th● hungry And this is exprest with a speciall Emphasis in the phrase Th● bread It was N●bals covetous and churlish speech 1 Sam 25 11. Shall I take My bread and My flesh To prevent the like now and all pretence of propriety which might disappoint the shewing of mercy God saith Thou must deale Thy bread It is thine indeed and thou must deal it The needy may not be their own ●arv●rs and wrest it from thee by violence But though it be th●ne thou must ●eal it to the hungry to those that are in need and distresse 2. Also this is enforced a second time v. 9. with a speciall Accent requiring inward compassion as well as outward contribution If than draw out thy Soul to the Hungry Thou must draw not only Bread out of thy cupboard or Mony out of thy purse or be drawn to bestow somewhat meerly by their violent cries and clamorous importunities But draw out thy Soul to the hung●y Give what thou dost give with inward sense of their miseries and affection for their relief 2. To the Harbourlesse To afford them convenient Lodging even rather then fail in thine own house if thou canst not otherwise wise provide for them and canst lodge them there That thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house When cruel Landlords or other hard-hearted Creditors have turned them out of doors that thou make what provision possibly thou canst for them rather then suffer them to perish 3. To the Naked that want Clothing to afford them supplies and covering VVhich hath a double illustration to back it 1. If thou seest the naked that thou cover him that is although he make no complaint but thou cast thine eye upon him even though he see not thee but thou see him Thou shalt not pretend or affect ignorance of his necessity or passe away from him as did the Priest and the Levite when they had seen the wounded man Luk 10. But thine own eye shall be a sufficient remembrancer to thee and sollicitor for him 2. That thou hide not thy self from thine own Flesh Specially if he ask of thee thou shalt not withdraw thy self from him If he follow thee thou shalt not run from him Because there is a common tye of Nature between thee and him he is thine own flesh and blood of kin to thee a man as thou art And thou seest his naked flesh thou art to consider it as if it were thine own proper flesh and so be affected with it as to provide a covering a clothing for it 4. Generally to the Afflicted mind v. 10. To afford a sutable satisfaction to the affliction which notes out the Degree of Charity which sometimes calls to more than the Eye or Eare naturally is observant of his Soule or Mind may have a further want then he shews or tels and his VVeaknes sometimes may require somewhat more then his Necessity which yet it is fit sometime to condescend to and gratifie as a speciall perfection of compassion If thou satisfie the afflicted Soule That his very soule and mind within may find contentment in thy compassionate commiseration Now all these particularities of Mercy are called for also as well from publike as from private persons according to their severall conditions and abilities And these are the Specialties which God would have to be practised by those that would Fast to him religiously and acceptably IV. The Reasons of which why God stands upon these things so strictly and regards them so graciously 4. Why God requireth these come next to be considered GOD requires Iustice and Charity to accompany our Fastings 1. Because he is the King of the whole World and of all Men poor and rich high and low And all are his subjects and He cares for one as well as another and accordingly will have them to care one for another and behave themselves fittingly one to another observing Justice and Mercy toward each other as well as Piety and Devotion and Holinesse towards Himself It is the glory of a King to have all his subjects live orderly one with another and helpfully one with another And all Kings therefore have Lawes to this purpose and Penalties for the violators of them as well as for the violators of His Majesty And the stile of Indictments for wrongs done to Fellow subjects runs thus That it was done against our Soveraign Lord the King and his crown and dignity So in Gods Law his Statute book are manifold Precepts for Justice and Mercy and Prohibitions of Oppression and Cruelty and Promises and Threatnings to back those Precepts and Prohibitions and Records in his Words of Examples of Obedience and Disobedience in those kinds and of his Executing Judgement and shewing Mercy and in both fulfilling his Truth accordingly And to this purpose is that counsel of Daniel to Nebuchadnezzar Dan. 4.27 When by the interpretation of his dream