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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

that are in Armes against the great Judicatory of the Kingdome if Justice be not done upon those that are in our hands already and so purposed and practised from time to time Is it not for this that GOD hath put the sword of Justice into your hands according to Rom. 13. 5. he beares not the sword in vain for he is the Minister of God a Revenger to execute wrath upon him that does evill This is Your Office and GOD and Mens expectation of you and Blessed shall you be as the Psalmist hath told you but now if that be verified of you which you have heard both from the Psalmist and from the Apostle You know how Israels sparing the Canaanites Judg. 1-2 cost them full deare They proved continually thornes in their sides and prickes in their Eyes snares and temptations to them as GOD tels them that for this He would not deliver their enemies into their hands any more and that they should prove snares to them c. Indeed so we find it The Canaanites familiarity corrupted and seduced Israel and then afterward GOD delivered Israel into the Canaanites hand to be oppressed by them Judg. 4. Looke we to it lest it prove so with us How can we expect but if such as have done wickedly opposed all Reformation be let alone without just punishment they will help to marre the Reformation when it comes to be setled and prove corruptors of others that now seeme to be of a better temper And then we may be sure that they will prove Scourges to us by GODS just judgement in other Respects I take not upon me to tell you what must be done with this or that particular person but this I say in the generall that neither Religion nor Reason will perswade nor so much as allow that they who have been notorious enemies or offenders should be suffered to have power to doe mischiefe hereafter where there is no ground of perswasion that their hearts are truly turned from all Desire of doing future mischiefe And in the meane time this I am most sure of that while any are under restraint in expectation of a sentence they ought at least to be kept from notorious provocations of GOD by riots and other disorders of which they say our prisons are full and that GOD is well neere as much dishonoured by them while they are under our Custody as He would be if they were at their owne liberty If this be so and that we know it or may know it I know no Argument that can excuse their sins from being ours in these matters nor how we can reply to that which GOD may most justly say to us Why should I deliver any of your enemies any more into your hands while you let them act those villanies in your prisons for which your selves thinke I should not blesse them in their Camps 6. Unto this let me adde a word of Exhortation in relation to an evill a kinne to the former namely the Disorders and Oppressions that are said to be acted by those that you imploy in divers places There is a great cry of this how truly and justly I am not able to say But certainly it were a most worthy act that some choise men of unquestionable integritie were appointed to make inquiry and take knowledge of it There is One that doth without all peradventure He that is higher then the Highest regards and there be higher then they saith the Wise and Kingly Preacher when he speakes of Oppression and violent perverting of judgement and justice in a province Eccles. 5. 8. And GOD oft saith elsewhere that He doth and will heare the Cry of oppression Now if He doe lo there is but one of two to answer the Cry and stop the Mouth of it Either mans Justice or GODS Mans Justice that is in your Hands mainly And that is the easiest and the safest way for you and even for the oppressours themselves For by your doing Justice You may possibly not only right those that have suffered wrong but perhaps also Work so upon those that have done the wrong as to bring them to Repentance and so as I may say you save GOD a labour and with-hold His Hand from taking Vengeance Into whose Hands it is a fearefull thing to fall saith the Apostle But we doe as it were force GOD to take Vengeance Himselfe if we will not and then we our selves are like to feele the smart of it too as abettors and accessaries You know the Accent put upon the neglect of Eli in this kind 1 Sam. 3. 13. His sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not and how fearefull the Vengeance was that GOD tooke both of the Sons and the Fathers faults together And so Samuel payed as hath been noted for his favour to his bribe-taking and Justice-perverting sons by him put into Office In all these things our own Interest is concerned as well as GODS or His Peoples and therefore I beseech you Suffer and embrace the Word of Exhortation in these things 7. And give me leave I humbly pray to proceed a little further in a particular or two more specified in our Convenant for Reformation One is that we may ever remember that Clause in the first Article To endeavour the Reformation of Religion in the Kingdomes of England and Ireland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God You heard somewhat of this in the morning but I crave your patience that I may adde a little to it Doubtlesse the Word of GOD is the only Rule unto which we are all tyed He only is the Soveraigne Law-give● to appoint how He will have His Church governed And so He hath left a sufficient Ride in His Word for all Matters of Substance and of Necessity though all men doe not see it and though Circumstantials are left to be varied by a Humane though not carnall Prudence sufficient I say to preserve Truth and Piety and Peace in His Church and to expell the contrary by His Blessing And no Authority of man may presume to reject or over-rule in those things Where GODS Word gives out His Will Mans businesse is only to acknowledge and submit and call others to doe so too All mans Authoritie is to be employed only to promote GODS according to His Word And therefore I beseech you Let me branch my Exhortation from this into three particulars 1. Doe not in any wise hearken to the suggestions of any that would say That there is no Discipline or Government of the Church to be found in the Word If any did thinke so and yet have Covenanted as is before exprest I doubt they will hardly excuse themselves from having taken GODS Name in vaine in it And I conceive not how if they urge others to covenant in that manner they doe lesse then cause them to sin by urging to make GODS Name in vai● But however surely there was a time