Die Mercurii 14. Augusti 1644. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That Master Rous doe give the Thankes of this House to Master Palmer and Master Hill for the great paines they tooke in the Sermons they preached before both Houses on Tuesday the 13. day of August 1644. being a speciall and peculiar day of Humiliation appointed by both Houses and that they be desired to print their Sermons and that none presume to print their Sermons or either of them but such as shall be authorised under their hand writing H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I doe appoint Thomas Vnderhill to print my Sermon HERBERT PALMER 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 B. D. Minister of GODS Word at Ashwell in Hertford-shire A Member of the Assembly of Divines Behold the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth much more the wicked and the sinner Prov. 11. 31. All these things happened to them for ensamples and are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come 1 Cor. 10. 11. Whatsoever things were written afore-time were written for our learning that we through Patience and Comfort of the Scriptures might have Hope Rom. 15. 4. LONDON Printed by G. M. for Th. Vnderhill at the Bible in Woodstreet 1644. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE The House of PEERES AND TO THE HONOVRABLE The House of COMMONS Assembled in Parliament at Westminster THe Records of Holy Scripture whether they concerne the Actions of GOD or Men are not onely Stories of things done in that Age but Prophesies also of future events in succeeding Generations This GOD hath been pleased to exemplifie particularly in that Word which divers weekes agoe on a Solemne Day appointed for extraordinary Humiliation He sent to be preached in your Eares While some bodily Indispositions hindred me from a speedy obeying the Call of tendring it also to your hands and eyes It seemed good to Him who doth all things wisely and faithfully to give Instances of His fulfilling both parts of it affording some answers of Grace and expressions of Pardon and favour in Wales and the parts thereabouts and yet withall taking some Vengeance upon our untowardnesses by the sad blow given us in the West I hope that as we shall all learne by it even more and more that a GOD lets none of His Words fall to the ground but whatsoever He speakes to us hath its effect upon us and b takes hold of us even whether we take hold of it or no So we will beleeve also that the effect of it will never be spent as long as we live or any of mankind in as much as all the Word of GOD lives and abides for ever as both the c Prophet and d Apostle tell us And this Beliefe will both make all the Word profitable to us and make us Happy by the Word The Promises and Expressions of Grace in the Word never doing us good never being fulfilled to us compleatly but by our beleeving them And the Threatnings or Expressions of Severity never endangering us never being fulfilled at all upon us but when we beleeve them not We have all need to Pray e LORD Encrease our Faith even in relation to Terrifying Truths as well as to Comforting And though Faith most commonly comes by Hearing yet unquestionable Experience telling us that it is partly encreased by Reading also specially of what was once attentively heard I cannot doubt but this Paper-remembrance of matters of so grand Importance will be blessed by GOD as to some others into whose hands it shall come so specially to your selves according to Your Leasure for making use of it unto your Furtherance and Joy of Faith Which that it may be continually augmented in You who have so great businesses to goe through and so great Adversaries to encounter and all Calling for Faith in the strength and Glorie of it through Iesus Christ the Author and Finisher of our Faith is and shall be the earnest Desire and Prayer of Him who is for IESVS sake Your ever most Devoted and Humble Servant HERBERT PALMER THE GLASSE OF GODS Providence TOWARDS HIS FAITHFVLL ONES PSAL. 99. ver. 8. Thou answeredst them O LORD our GOD Thou wast a GOD that forgavest them though Thou tookest vengeance on their inventions BEhold an Apostrophe to GOD in the midst of an Exhortation to Men whatever else we learn from it this we should improve it to to make us remember That we have now to doe with GOD that looking Him in the face may awe us and the Consideration that we are now speaking to Him and from Him and of Him may Affect our spirits to Regard what He doth toward the children of men For these words are the Glasse of GODS Providence towards men towards His Owne those that are most faithfull to Him Would you know who they are See ver. 6. Moses and Aaron among His Priests and Samuel among those that call upon His Name c. Their Faithfulnesse is exprest not only in their Calling upon GOD in the next words They called upon the LORD and He heard them but also by their Obedience ver 7. They kept His Testimonies and the Law that he gave them and then followes GODS Dealings with them in the words of the Text Thou answeredst them c. I will sing of Mercy and Judgement unto Thee O LORD will I sing saith the Royall Psalmist Psal. 101. 1. He doth so here his song is plainly of Mercy and Judgement and that Vnto the LORD as he there also expresses it GODS Great Mercy is set forth towards His Servants in Answering and Forgiving them and with all His Judgement His Heavie Judgement in taking Vengeance on their inventions Behold then the Goodnesse and severitie of GOD saith the Holy Apostle Rom. 11. 22. so say I and that not relating to two sorts of persons as there Transgressours and Beleevers But both towards men of approved avowed faithfulnesse even toward one and the same person in Goodnesse answering and forgiving and yet in some severity taking Vengeance also There are but two maine Dispositions in mens minds that sway our practises and regulate our lives keeping them within compasse that is Faith or Comfort and Feare according to the intimation Act. 9. 31. They walked in the Feare of the Lord and in the Comfort of the Holy Ghost The Comfort of the Holy Ghost or Faith which is all one in Effect on the one side and Feare on the other doe compasse us in We walke
should not vouchsafe pardon when His servants have provoked Him He would have none left upon earth to serve Him If thou Lord shouldst marke iniquities saith the Psalmist that is if Thou shouldest deale with us without any mercy according to our iniquities O LORD who shall stand Then followes But there is forgivenesse with Thee that thou maist be feared Psa. 130. 3 4. No man could have any heart to serve GOD if knowing that he should through his corruption oftend in many things he should have no forgivenesse at all but only corrections and punishments and finally death and damnation for his reward And this must be the portion of all those at last that have no forgivenesse Therefore GOD Himselfe gives this reason of His mercy in the forementioned Isa. 57. 16. I will not saith He contend for over neither will I be alwayes wroth for the spirit would faile before me and the soules that I have made Therefore saith David Psal. 103. 10. He hath not dealt with us after our sinnes nor rewarded us according to our iniquities and vers. 13. As a Father pitties his own children so hath the LORD compassion on them that feare Him For He knowes our frame He remembers that we are dust c. And therefore with this the Church comforts herselfe in the midst of GODS most terrible corrections Lam. 3. 32. Though He cause griefe yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His Mercies 6. There is one Reason more insinuated in the very Text which may not altogether be forgotten and that is The Covenant whereby GOD hath engaged Himselfe unto His servants to be their GOD Thou answeredst them ô LORD our GOD For GOD to be our GOD is to be a GOD answering prayers and forgiving sinnes Psal. 50. after He had mentioned the Covenant between GOD and His people vers. 7. It is said vers. 15. Call upon Me in the time of trouble and I will deliver thee c. And for forgivenesse we know besides the manifold particular expressions of Promises of this kind The Covenant made with Abraham was a Covenant of Grace in Christ the Promised Seed in whom all the Nations of the earth should be blessed Gal. 3. 16. and an everlasting Covenant And both these inferre certainly forgivenesse to all the faithfull seed of Abraham And so this second Point is also in some proportion illustrated and cleared The third and last followes namely 3. Though GOD doth answer the prayers and forgive the sins of His faithfull ones Yet they may so provoke Him as He sometimes takes vengeance on their inventions inflict very severe punishment on their misbehaviour The Reasons of this are 1. The Holinesse of GOD which allowes not sin in any one but shewes some displeasure against it wherever He finds it even where He loves the persons and so pardons for His beloved Sons sake Yet He will make them know their sins are odious to Him and they shall feele the smart of it We should not at all be apprehensive of the Holinesse of GOD and His detestation of sinne if He did not take vengeance upon some transgrestions in some persons and we find by experience that we are but little apprehensive of it when we feele no tokens of His displeasure against us for our sinfull carriages He therefore in reference to the glory of His Holinesse doth not altogether spare sin no not in His own 2. As the Holinesse of GOD so His justice calls for it Namely that He should not see His Holy and Righteous Law broken and give the transgressours no remembrance for it Whether the transgression be more immediately against Himselfe the Soveraigne LORD and Law-giver or against the subjects of His Kingdome If any of His servants so farre forget themselves and Him as to dishonour Him by trespassing upon any thing that is His or doing any thing that reflects upon His Majesty It is most just that they should be so dealt with as it may appeare to them and all men that GOD is not one fit to be abused any way and that His Infinite Goodnesse and Mercy ought not to be esteemed an encouragement to any to set light by His Authority and Soveraignty Againe If they misbehave themselves one to another It is most just that GOD should distribute Justice among them so farre as to discountenance the wrong doer and make him afraid of doing the like againe that GOD should so set them to rights when they are quarrelling one with another or abusing one another as that it may appeare He gave them no such leave and that His Laws to the contrary were not given in vaine Only in all this we are to remember that the Justice we are now speaking of is not the Justice of a Judge that lookes barely to the rigour of the Law and the desert of the offence But the Justice of a Father Who though he scourges and corrects his child even to bloud sometimes for untowardnesse relating to himselfe or to any of the family or even strangers yet he doth it not to satisfie his own spleene nor in malice against his child but to make him sensible of his fault and carefull to amend and to shew himselfe in his Paternall authority rightly dispensing favours and corrections according to the behaviours of every one of his children Thus it is with GOD And this is so certaine that it is expressely contained within the Covenant of GOD and a part of it Psa. 89. 30 31 32 c. If his children forsake my Law and walk not in my judgements if they breake my statutes and keepe not my Commandements Then will I visit their transgression with the rodde and their iniquitie with sâ—ripes Neverthelesse my loving kindnesse will I not utterly take from him c It is made to all the children of David that is of Christ whose Type David was herein And though Mercy the sure Mercies of David as Esays phrase is Esay 53. 3. applied by St Paul Acts 13. 34. be infallible and unchangeable to them yet doth GOD as we see expressely reserve to Himselfe the right of correcting them when they provoke Him 3. And this is further Confirmed by the Need that the very faithfull have of being thus dealt with Now you are in Heavinesse if need be saith St Peter through manifold Temptations that is afflictions and corrections 1 Pet. 1. 6. Experience shews this but too much that our children doe not more need correction in their yonger yeares then all Gods children neede it now and then all their Life it the one and the other are and will often be froward and wanton and proude and selfe-willed and quarellsome and untoward to learne any thing that is good And GOD hath Ordained and sanctified Corrections to be a meanes both to the one sort and to the other to make them weary of doing amisse when they shall find that Verified to them which GOD bids his people
utter often in discourses one among another And specially when we heare any in newes when GOD gives us any blow we are ready to flye upon some sins that doe most displease us in other men in the generality perhaps But how little doe we take notice of any of these things when we are alone when none is with us but GOD and our own consciences When we are to pray to GOD for the Nation and that His wrath may be turned away from it how seldome then doe we think of these things and spread them before the Lord with an humble and afflicted spirit begging of Him pardon and healing Is it not rather true that in His presence and before His Tribunall we dare not owne the charging of others with such and such things about which we sometimes make lowde outcries in the eares of men we either dare not avouch the very things to be crimes in the account of GOD or else know we have no sure ground or warrant to accuse such and such persons or multitudes as guilty of them Againe even those things that are undeniable faults and notoriously practised even by the generality yet how little doe we take them to heart when we should most On such a day as this when we all solemnely professe our businesse to be humiliation even for others sins as well as our own and when the Ministers of GOD bemoane them in their confessions and prayers and set out the aggravations of them how few hearts joyne affectionately with them and how little doe we usually tremble at the hearing of them Even when in the Sermons preached on these dayes though seldome sufficiently pointed this way we have any catalogue breefer or larger of Nationall wickednesse set before us with any exaggerations of the evils of them and any inferences from hence of the great danger we are in of GODS heavy wrath to abide still upon us and be multiplied upon us how doe our hearts then shrinke from the consenting to the truth of such charges and threatnings and we are ready to deny or mince our former complaints for feare least GOD should judge us out of our own monthes as a Nation worthy to be destroyed And the cause of all this is a further evill in our selves a want of true zeale to endeavour a through Reformation though we have all Covenanted and sworne it to GOD ' before His people so much as by words Rather when any kind of necessity presses us be it but the importutunity of a godly Christian or the exhortation of a faithfull Minister to doe something more then we have done towards an effectuall Reformation We fall to fancying and framing excuses not for our neglect only but oftentimes for others evills and so make them greatly ours by our want of care to apply some vigorous remedy to them according to our places I excuse not the most zealous faithfull Ministers much lesse my selfe herein whereby we might suppresse them and prevent GODS vengeance upon them Therefore this againe summons us to reinforce our humiliation our sorrow and our feare And I cannot forbeare putting you in mind of that expostulation of the Prophet Ezek 33. 24 c. though with variety of instance and enlargement of the application The people there flatter'd themselves with a conceit that GOD intended to give them peace in possessing the Land from whence their brethren were driven or carried away captives Abraham say they ver. 24. was one and he inherited the Land but we are many the Land is given us for an inheritance But GOD answers them with an appeale to their own consciences first and then with a peremptory threatning of the contrary ver. 25 26 27. You eate with the blood and lift up your eyes toward your Idols and shedde blood and shall ye possesse the Land Ye stand upon your sword ye work abomination and ye defile every one his neighbours wife and shall ye possesse the Land Say thou thus unto them Thus saith the LORD GOD surely they that are in the waste shall fall by the sword c. Have not wee too much of such confidence as they expressed And yet no lesse cause to feare such an answer from GOD as that was You thus and thus misbehave your selves and shall you have peace shall you have setling shall you possesse the Land May we not also much rather admire the patience and long suffering of GOD towards us all this while that a complete vengeance hath not beene taken upon our mis-doings as well as upon Germanies and Irelands and even upon some parts of our owne Kingdome and Nation And if we sadly consider how GOD did not spare those faithfull men the Text points at did not let faithfull Moses and Aaron the Saints of the LORD live to see the happinesse of His people inheriting the Land of Promise may we not upon the remembrance of our greater provocations tremble least none of us should be suffered to live to see an end of our troubles and the Church of GOD peaceably setled in a holy Reformation Sure we have no reason to expect it unlesse we live to see and helpe to procure our own hearts and lives and families and whole party to be apparantly more faithfull Oh that we could lament for these things this day and be possest with a holy feare and amazing trembling That we could apply in proportion that speech of our Saviour to our selves Luk. 23. Weepe for your selves and for your children for if these things be done in the greene tree what shall be done in the dry If Moses Aaron and Samuel escaped not but GOD tooke vengeance on their inventions notwithstanding His Grace in answering and pardoning them how shall we or our people escape Let us therefore all lay our hands on our hearts and say at once The LORD is Righteous in all that He hath done or threatens to doe to us and withall that it is of the LORDS Mercies that we are note consumed because His compassions faile not As the Prophet teaches the Church to say in the book of Lamentations And this will prepare us for a wise consideration of what we are farther to doe upon these grounds To which the second Use namely of Exhortation tends To which now I come The Exhortation proceeds againe upon the Grounds of all the three Doctrines forementioned and the humiliation insisted upon in the former Use together For if we be all so prone to sinne even though we have some faithfulnesse and if GOD be so Gracious and yet so severe toward His faithfull ones of all which our own and our Nations experience at this day hath forced us to this dayes outward humiliation and calls us to be deeply humbled in our inward spirits both this day and hereafter Then certainely we are all to be most earnestly exhorted to be more watchfull and resolute then ever to keepe close to GOD and to be in all things constantly
hands of their enemies the Ammonites others who mightily oppresse them 18. yeeres together At last they bethinke themselves and fall to Pray to GOD but we reade not at the first of any further Repentance then a bare Confession of their sins And therefore also at the first GOD gives them a most terrible Checke in stead of an Answer upbraiding them with His former favours and their reiterated Rebellions and concluding with a seeming absolute Refusall to Forgive them or deliver them any more and sending them to their false gods for help ver. 13 14. But then see how upon their Submission and Reformation GODS Compassions are againe manifested to them It is said His Soul was grieved for the misery of Israel ver. 16. and shortly after they had under Jephthah whom GOD raised up to be their Deliverer a very great Victory over their enemies And have not we our selves found somewhat like this more then once How low had our sins brought us the last yeere about this time And how much Vengeance did GOD take upon our Vntowardnesse within a few Months Our Armies broken in the West and broken in the North Bristoll lost and Glocester and Hull besieged and with us very little strength and very few spirits But GOD gave us Grace to bethinke our selves and humble our selves and to enter into a more strict and solemne and Complete Covenant with Him then ever before And how many gracious Answers and Pardons and Victories He hath granted us since Our Souls know and all the World sees and admires How should we then improve all this to Strengthen Our Faith in GOD and to Comfort Our selves in His Grace All whose paths are Mercy and Truth to such as keep His Covenant and His Testimonies Psal. 25. 10. and to set to our Seale to that Voice of Faith and Experience Psal. 9. 10. They that know Thy Name will put their Trust in Thee For Thou LORD hast not forsaken them that seek Thee I will conclude all with that most remarkable place of the Prophet Isai. 30. 18. When he had foretold for their carnall Confidences and Rejecting of the Faithfull Prophets admonitions and seeking to get Flatterers to preach to them very great Judgements so as to reduce them to a very low Condition and small Number he addes And therefore will the LORD wait that He may be gracious unto you and therefore will He be exalted that He may have Mercy upon you for the LORD is a GOD of Judgement Blessed are all they that wait for Him The LORD is a GOD of Judgement Righteous and Wise He will not endure Our Vntowardnesse which he sees and knowes more then We our selves doe or will take notice of and He knowes that if he should deliver us too soon we would grow 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 again as ever or worse that if He should deliver us what we have a great deale of Humane strength at least while we have so much Carnall Confidence that He should loose the Honour of it Therefore He Waites and Therefore He will be Exalted But both shall be in Graciousnesse and Mercy to us to all His faithfull Ones that Wait for Him even in the Way of His Judgements as was noted before Isai. 26. 8. And if His Judgements His Vengeance worke Repentance and Faithfulnesse in us we may and should take even that as a Pledge of His Answering and Forgiving Mercy in Christ Amen Amen! FINIS Errata PAge 2. line 34. for those who read the Inventions of those whom 〈…〉 foâ— Psâ—lâ—es â— Pâ—alm p. o. marg. For First 1. Text. p. 〈…〉 for Num◠〈…〉 c 11 15 read Numb. â—â— â—â— 12 13 14 15 p. 19. For was ◠〈…〉 l. â—â— for â—â—ap 8. read 〈◊〉 5. p 〈…〉 24. for 〈…〉 1. 27 for that lies r. that it 〈◊〉 p. 4 c. l. 8. for 〈…〉 a 1 Sam. 3. 19. b Zech. 1. 6. c Isai. 40 8. d 1 Pet. 1. 23. 25. e Luke 17. 5. Introduction Context Division Explication What is meant by taking Vengeance Negatively Affirmatively in two things 3. Doctrines Fâ—â—st handled Historically 1. Moses 2. His faithfulnesse 2. His failings five 2. Aarons failings three GODS displeasure for their offences III. Samuels failing GODS displeaâ—ure for it GODS Graciousnesse Answering 1. Moses 2. Aaron 3. Samuel Pardoning there all Doct. 1. Reas. 1. The beâ—t have corruption in the as well as the worst by Nature Reas 2. Coâ—rupâ—â—d Nâ—â—uâ—e not abâ—lâ—â—hâ— iâ— the bâ—â—â— Proved Illustrated in that The Corruption of the best appeares in things wherein they most excell in vertue Righteous Noah intemperate Just Lot defiled Faithfull Abraham distrustfull Meeke Moses passionate Faithfull Moses beleves not Humble David revengefull Iob impatience The Prophet Ionah refuses to goe on GODS errand Justifying his sin after he had repented of it After many yeares Ieremie resolves to preach no more After a tryumph over a temptation is in a manner wholy transported with it The two greatest friends in the world Paul and Barnabas contending and parting upon it Reason 3. Sâ—tans violence in tempâ—ing them continually Reason 4. Men often are temptâ—â—s to the godly Doctrine 2. GODS Mercy to His servants though offending Him Reason 1. He hath engaged Himselfe to heare prayers Reas. 2. He is ever able to doe them good GOD hath received a Ransome for His servants offerces Reas. 4. God â—lorifies Himselfe in His servants Repentance Reas. 5. Else GOD would have none to serve Him Reas. 6. GOD is a GOD in Covenant with His servants Doctrine 3. GOD is sometimes severe to His though still mercifull to them Reas. 1. GODS Holinesse Reas. 2. GODS Justice The Justice of a Father Reas. 3. The Faithfull need it sometimes Reas. 4. To teach by-standers 1. That the wicked shâ—ll not sâ—â—pe alwayes 2. That there is no cause to reproach Religion for the faults of any Applic. Vse 1. Of Humiliation Of which there is but little signe usually before or after the publike Servicâ—s To remedy which a constant Exhortation in one of the Sermons would be greatly profitable N. B. Three sorts of sins to be humbled for 1 Personall namely against our Covenant in generall N. B. Specially for like sinnes to these pointed at in the Text 1. Neglect of Sacraments Baptisme abused neglected The Lords Supper abused neglected 2. Unwillingnesse to venture upon hard taskes 3. Complaint of our thanklesse and fruitlesse imployments because not successefull at first 4. Distrust passionately discovered bâ—fâ—â—e men by unwarrantable words and actions N. B. 5. Complying with others 〈…〉 6. Partiality in imploying and conniving at friends Nationall sins to be humbled for Of three sorts 1. The sins of those that pretend to be faithfull Necessitie of this consideration N. B. Are not many apparently worse then they were wont to be In signes of pride Neglect of the Sabbath Of family duties Secret Prayer Even despised In self-seekings Errors and strange opinions and practises A spirit of bitternesse against all that dissent from them 2 The sins of the generality Ignorance Covetousnesse Vse 1. Humiliation for Nationall sins 3. Profanenesse N. B. Vse 1. Humiliation for Nationall sins 3 The sins of our Armies N. B. Vse 1. Humiliation for sins 3. Our being guilty of others sins We complaine much But not to GOD Vse 1. Humiliation for our guiltinesse of others sins Sometimes we dare not But seldome â—â—y them to heart Specially we want zeale for Reformation Applic. Vse 1. Humiliation for the danger of our sins Applic. Vse 2. Exhortation to be watchfull and resolute in faithfulnesse in all things Ephes 5. 15. Mich. 6. 8. Prov. 23. 17. 1 Pet. 1. 17. Vse 2. Exhortation to observe our solemne Covenant A wish that it wâ—re read every Fast day Take hâ—ed of offring to elude it Least others breake Covenant with us Specially if we urge it on others And proceed against them refusing Take heed of delayings Particularly 1. In personall Reformation N. B. 2. In Family Reformation Neglected much Urged In referâ—â—ng our Armies 4. In reforming the generall prophanenesse and ignorance of all places 5. In doing Justice upon Delinquents And Restraining the disorders of such prisoners 6. In reforming the oppressions of any entrusted by the State 7. In endeavouring a Reformation of Religion according to the Word of GOD 1. Let none say There is no Government of the Church in the Word N. B. Generall Rule about Lawes in the Word 2. Owne what is in the Word as from GOD 3. Examine all things diligently and then hold fast that which is from GOD 1 Thes 5. 21. Prov. 13. 23. A speciall Observation of the originall of all Authority to be from GOD 7. Exhortation to extirpate Heresie and Schisme c. Specially Antinomianisme and Anabaptisme These were proved by witnesse before a Committee of Parliament Yet all that erre are not to be dealt with alike Speciall Exhortation not to hearken to a generall Toleration As most contrary to the Covenant What Burcurs only may be Tolerated by the Covenant Instances to shew the Absurdity of an universall Toration Ob. Toleration is only pleaded for in matters of the first Table not of the second A. 1. Conscience must regard both and be violated in neither A. 2. GODS Honour and Mens Soules are of more regard then worldly matters GOD commanded idolatry to be punisht in false Prophets Yet they might pretend Conscience Ch. 2. No punishment can work Conversion An. No more can Preaching without GODS Blessing But both are Meanes by Him appointed 8. Exhortation to Trust in GOD This made Hezekiah so great and happy a Reformer The mischiefe of being affraid of men The mischiefe of suffering sin in others Q. May not a Multitude be forborne in Errour A. 1. GOD no where saith they may A 2 If they might at other times not now Speciall Wisedome to know Why Judgements on a Land All Enquiry should be made after it Vse 3. Of Consolation to GODS faithfull Ones Instances of Grace after Failings and Judgements 1. Of David 2. Of Israel Judg. 10. 3. Our owne since last yeere Conclusion