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A70812	The glasse of Gods providence towards his faithfvll ones held forth in a sermon preached to the two Houses of Parliament at Margarets Westminster, Aug. 13, 1644, being an extraordinary day of humiliation : wherein is discovered the great failings that the best are liable unto, upon which God is provoked sometimes to take vengeance : the whole is applyed specially to a more carefull observation of our late covenant, and particularly against the ungodly toleration pleaded for under pretence of liberty of conscience / by Herbert Palmer ...	Palmer, Herbert, 1601-1647.	1644 (1644)	Wing P235; ESTC R5391	64,078	71

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

they begge his Prayers with great Submission and Importunity 1 Sam. 12. 19. And both he and Moses are remembred long after by GOD as two of the greatest Favourites that ever He had in this kind when He tels Jeremy He would not heare even them if they were now alive Jerem. 15. 1. Though Moses and Samuel stood before me yet my mind could not be to this people Cast them out of my sight If He would have heard any body it should have been Moses and Samuel Whom He was wont so constantly to Heare and Answer Withall we have manifest assurance of His Forgiving them notwithstanding the Vengeance He tooke on those faults of theirs which we even now mentioned besides all other times He that remembers that GOD had a better place to which He removed Moses and Aaron when He tooke them from the earth and an heavenly Canaan into which GOD received them when He denied them entrance into the earthly Canaan And that this must needs be that recompence of Reward which Moses had an eye to when he esteemed the reproch of Christ greater riches then the Treasures of Egypt Heb. 11. 26. And that Moses is after his death often owned by GOD as His Servant as His Chosen and Aaron is named Psal. 106. 16. the Saint of the Lord He I say that remembers these things cannot doubt of GODS Forgiving them Considering also how Moses appeared in Glory with Elias at Christs Transfiguration Luke 9. 30 31. And for Samuel he was not quite put from his Office of Judge for it is said 1 Sam. 7. 15. that he Judged Israel all the Dayes of his Life and besides GOD often imployed him as a Prophet in most remarkable Services which proclaime GODS Graciousnesse to him also and forgiving him as well as the Others And so you have the Story of the Text set before you and the Doctrines observed out of it confirmed each of them by this Historicall Exemplification Of their Behaviours and GODS Dealings I come now to a more generall handling of them And the 1. of them is this That even the Faithfull Servants of God may so provoke Him that they may neede His pardon and even give Him Occasion to Take Vengeance on their Inventions and Practises For the further proofe of this I may say as indeed of the other points also though specially of the middlemost which holds forth GODS Answering and Pardoning Mercy to His Faithfull Ones that there is scarce any Record of any of the Servants of GOD even the most eminent but there is somewhat or other of this kind noted of them But for the further Evidencing of it and Affecting every one of us with it it being a point of very great concernment and use to us all You may take notice but of these generall Reasons 1. That the very best Servants of GOD have the very same corruption by nature that the worst have It is all alike in the one sort and in the other There is no difference naturally betweene the one and the other That place Prov. 27. 19. deserves to be remembred for this purpose As in water face answers to face so doth the heart of man to man They then used to view their faces much in Water as we now doe in Glasses and as in Water or in a Glasse the Image of the true face represents all the features lineaments moles spots deformities that are in the face it selfe and the one answers the other exactly what is in one is in the other So is it with the heart of one Man naturally answering to another There are the same spots and wrinckles and blemishes in every heart that is in any one and to have a true representation of the evill that is in any one heart We must looke upon all the evill that is in all other hearts naturally The Apostle Ephes. 2. 2 3. makes himselfe and the now Christian Ephesians and the Unconverted Impenitent Unbeleevers all alike by Nature 2. In the best Servants of GOD this corrupted Nature is not utterly abolished The Grace which they have received and which makes them to differ from other men doth not so farre sanctifie them but that the Seeds and Roots of sinne of all sinne doth still remaine in them A Flesh they have which though Crucified with the aff●ctions and lusts in all that are Christs is not quite dead not altogether mortified but that lies upon them as a daily and perpetuall dutie to mortifie their earthly members and to be cutting off of hands and feet and pulling out of Eyes which yet contrary to the course of Common Nature will be growing againe or others in the roome of them There is a continuall danger of Rootes of bitternesse of any kind springing up to trouble and defile even them The Apostle you know complaines of his flesh that he could not do the Good he would and that he did the evill he would not due and was carried captive unto the Law of sinne and had a body of death which he carried about him and grones and cryes out to be delivered from and tels the Galathians that the flesh in them did lust against the Spirit so that they could not doe the things they would And this corruption alwayes dwelling even in the best and too often prevailing is that which not only ever needs pardon but oftentimes greatly provokes GOD to take vengeance upon their misbehaviours 1. This Corruption may yet be further apprehended by us by this one Observation following That as there is scarce any of the servants of GOD storied of in the Word but with their faithfulness their failings are enrolled as was intimated before Paul himselfe not excepted So which is very remarkeable and deserving most serious consideration That scarce any of them is noted to be eminent for any vertue or Grace but somewhat of the contrary is observed in them some failing even in that very particular 1. Noah is owned by GOD Himselfe to be eminently righteous in his generation Gen. 7. 1. in a generation that abounded with luxury eating and drinking and jollity as our Saviour assures us Mat. 24. 38. and so Noah was a patterne of Temperance and sobrietie and yet we find even Noah once overtaken and making himselfe drunke with his owne wine 2. Lot is praised by the Spirit of GOD guiding St Peters pen 2. Pet. 2. 5. for a Righteous man preserved safe by GODS Grace in the midst of filthy Sodome and yet you know what befell him afterward when Sodome was destroyed and himselfe delivered out of it 3. We reade that Abraham is called the Father the Patterne of the Faithfull It is said he staggered not at the Promise of GOD through unbeleefe but was strong in Faith giving Glory to GOD Rom. 4. 20. and yet Faithfull Abraham twice for feare denies his Wife and pretends her to be his sister Gen. 12. and Gen. 10. 2. 4. So of Moses one

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 〈…〉 fo● Ps●l●es ● P●alm p. o. marg. For First 1. Text. p. 〈…〉 for Num● 〈…〉 c 11 15 read Numb. ●● ●● 12 13 14 15 p. 19. For was ● 〈…〉 l. ●● for ●●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 F●●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 displea●ure for it GODS Graciousnesse Answering 1. Moses 2. Aaron 3. Samuel Pardoning there all Doct. 1. Reas. 1. The be●t have corruption in the as well as the worst by Nature Reas 2. Co●rup●●d N●●u●e not ab●l●●h● i● the b●●● 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. S●tans violence in temp●ing them continually Reason 4. Men often are tempt●●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 ●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 sh●ll not s●●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 Servic●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 b●f●●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 ●●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 w●re read every Fast day Take h●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 refer●●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