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A55106 Popery and hypocrisy detected and opened from the Holy Scriptures as it respects magistrates, ministers, and people. In a sermon upon the occasion of a general fast, kept Decemb. 22. 1680. By the author of the Plotters doom, a true son of the Church of England. Palmer, Samuel, d. 1724. 1680 (1680) Wing P252; ESTC R217473 30,180 38

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would not break his own Precepts For 't is his Precept that you should only rent your Hearts but that you should not rent your Garments and do you think that the Lord would go against his own Will and against his own Word and if you think that he would not then why do you For God has not advanced you and set you in those high Stations and in his Stead that you should rule ad libitum and make your own Lusts and not his Laws the Standards of your Actions No Let who will teach you these Doctrines 't is but slight Crapedivinity and such as the Ancients and the Orthodox never knew Listen not therefore to those that put you upon such wild and Savage Notions to persecute all that are not for renting their Garments for every formal and exterior Observation and be not rode by those heady humerous persons to your own destruction You have seen how they have embroiled this Kingdom and that of Scotland too in a bloody and intestine War upon the Account of Ceremonies and exterior observations once already For this quarel of theirs has cost more English and Scottish blood than all the Ceremonies of the Roman Church and Ours too are worth though they were bound in one bundle both together Wherefore please to Remember that Exhortation in the second Psal and the tenth vers B●●●●se now therefore O ye Kings be Instructed ye Judges of the Forth And truly ye have need of Wisdom and Instruction 〈◊〉 you stand but in slippery places And if you trust your ●●lves so wholly to the Conduct of others as that that yo● will see by no Eyes but theirs nor hear with no Ears but theirs nor will make use of no sence of your own but theirs you may soon slide For if so great a Man and so great a Magistrate as David was and one that kept such a diligent watch over himself tells you that his seet were almost gone his steps had well nigh slipped Psal 73.2 surely Governours ought to be very carefull of their footing and to see that they be not trapann'd neither by themselves no nor by the advice of others into precipitate Acts. How happy was it for King Ahasuerus that the followed his own sence and not Hamans and how happy had it been for Pilate if he had obeyed his own Judgment and not followed the hot and furious Clamors of that Corrupt Clergy Math. 27.20 21 22. Have a care therefore how ye are engaged by others to lay out your Power or else before you are aware you 'l miscarry in the Eleventh of Matth. and the Eleventh verse you read of one of the greatest men that ever the World brought forth For our Saviour testifies that among them that are born of Women there hath not rosen a greater than John the Baptist and yet this great man lost his Head to please a Miss For though King Herod feared him and knew that he was a just man and a holy nay though he observed him and when he heard him did many things and heard him Gladly Mark 6.20 yet Herodias's Daughter Danced off his Head for all that so that you had need look about you that you be not surprized and this in all Cases but especially in those that relate to Renting the Garments and exterior Observations because your Flatterers will perswade you in that Case that your sin is so far from being a sin that it is a Service to God and a Service to his Church according to that Prophecy of our Saviour Joh. 16.2 the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth God Service and when men especially Magistrates are under that Mistake that they reckon their Sin to be their Duty they then play the Devil for Gods sake In the 66 of Isaiah and the 5 verse you will find a people that hated their Brethren and cast them out and yet said Let the Lord be Glorified they sang their Gloria Patri even while they were engaged in the Devils work But the Text tells you that God should appear to the joy of them that were Hated and Persecuted and their Enemies for all their Crying Let the Lord be Glorified should be ashamed 'T is not therefore your Crying Glory to the Father To the Son and to the Holy Ghost that will ought avail you or stand you in any stead while you hate and Persecute your Brethren because they cannot Conform to our exterior Observations Be admonished then to let your people alone and if they Rent their Hearts Live honest and vertuous Lives let it satisfy you though they cannot rent their Garments and Conform to every outward Ceremony or Observance And since the Lord hath Commanded them not to Rent their Garments let not your Commands run counter or contrary to the Lords lest you be found sighters against God and Advancers of your Laws in opposition to and above the Laws of the Almighty in the Prophecy of the Prophet Malachy you find the Lord displeased that they offer'd up to him such Blind and Lame and Sick Sacrifices that their Governours would not accept from their hands though they offer it unto them Mal. 1.8 And sure the Lord would be much more displeased if Governours should Punish their People for Offering such Sacrifices as are acceptable unto him and the Psalmist tells you that the Sacrifices that are acceptable to God are a broken Spirit For a broken and a contrite heart sayes he O God thou wilt not despise Psal 51.17 And therefore have we this Command in the Text to Rent our Hearts as the only Sacrifice that is Acceptable unto God and will you dare to contradict this Command and Oblige your people to Rent their Garments which the Lord hath expresly forbidden as that which is unacceptable to him God sorbid And thus much to the Governours Come we now to the second part of this Admonition to the Governed Is it so that true Repentance and such as is acceptable unto God consists not in any formal or exterior Observations Then be you admonished to two Duties First To Moderation Secondly To Peaceableness 1. To Moderation that 's a great Exhortation the Apostle gives us in the fourth of Philip. and fifth verse Let your Moderation be known unto all men and 't is an admirable Reason that the Apostle annexeth to enforce his Exhortation For the Lord says he is at hand You see here in the Text and from the plain Word of the Lord that 't is not renting your Garments nor any exterial observations but the renting of the Heart that is Commanded and Accepted of God Then be not immoderate for any external Observances for if ye are true Religion never will nor can take root in you In the fourth of St. John Christ met with a poor Samaritan Woman and discours'd her so long that at length she saw he was a Prophet and therefore resolved that she would improve the present Opportunity But how Not by enquiring after