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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

the Truth of Worship but about the Place Sir sayes she I perceive that thou art a Prophet our Fathers Worshipt in this Mountain and ye say that in Jerusalem is the Place where men ought to Worship v. 19.20 Now pray see how Christ nips this little external Quaere And Jesus saith unto her Woman believe me the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this Mountain nor yet at Jerusalem Worship the Father v. 21. and then goes on to shew her what true Worship was and who the true Worshipers are but sayes not one word of the Place In like manner many are mightily inquisitive about Places Times Gestures and Circumstances of Worship and have a great zeal for all these external parts of Religion and yet are totally ignorant both of the true Worship and true Worshippers wherefore you had need be very Moderate and Sober that you be not so transported with external Observations and run away with the Shadow instead of the Substance of Religion for Moderation tempers the mind and allayes those heats and excursions which otherwise it is apt to make And therefore it is called a being sober-minded in the 2 Titus v. 6. for without this ye are like Mad Distracted persons and will run upon a Neighbour or a Relation for dissenting from you in a Ceremony or some exterial Oblervation as if he were a Turk or an Insidel But this makes a man remember that in Christ Jesus neither Circumcision nor Vncircumcision availeth any thing but a new Creature Gal. 6.15 And therefore this teacheth us to put no such mighty stress and value upon that which is of no avail but to imbrace Moderation as that which will ballance the mind and keep it in an even and sober posture at all times and in all cases 2. Be admonisht to Peaceableness and reckon not this admonition strange for the holy Scripture tells you of some that hate peace and the Psalmist saith he had long dwelt with such Psal 120.6 My Soul sayes he hath long dwelt with him that hateth Peace I am sayes he for Peace but when I speak they are for War And yet these Haters of Peace have alwayes the Impudence to complain first and to burthen others with their Guilt and if you search the Scriptures you will find none so deeply culpable of this Crime as those that were for external Observations for who so much oppose the Miracles and Doctrine of Christ and so bloodily pursued him to the very Death as those that were for the Traditions of the Elders And who raised the uproars the mutinies and tumults against the Apostles of Jesus Christ in every Country City Town and place where they came but the same Spirit And yet they had the foreheads to accuse the holy Apostles nay our blessed Lord and Saviour himself for Seditious and the Ringleaders of Sedition Be careful therefore that ye be not insnar'd to herd with this tumultuous and unpeaceable spirit for if ye do you 'l run clamouring with them to the Magistrate against your neighbours and against your friends to ruin and undo them for the non-observance of some external rites and customs You see how fierce and savage this spirit hath been in all ages and quite through the Scriptures that have been for renting the garments and exterial observations But pray look and see where you can find that they that were for renting the heart were ever tainted with this unpeaceable and turbulent temper And yet which is greatly to be lamented you generally find the Magistrate take in with that mutinous spirit against this and laying the imputations due to them upon these Hearest thou not says Pilate to Christ how many things they witness against thee Mat. 27.13 and yet they were all false Witnesses and he himself was unjust they were such for after the Witnesses had spoken he calls our Saviour a just person vers 24. and washeth his hands as innocent of his blood And yet Oh the wickedness of an unjust Judg'l for all this against the convictions of his own Conscience he falls in with that cursed impious and unpeaceable party against-Christ Have ye not need then to be admonisht to look well to your selves that your hearts do not engage you to this unpeaceable spirit There ever was and I am afraid still is too much Tory-Divinity in the world but you may easily know it for it is always on the Tantivy Away with him away with him crucifie him crucifie him was ever their language And if you do but ask why what evil hath he done this does but whet their rage and make them urge the multitude to cry out the more Let him be crucified For they are acted by a wild kind of ungovernable zeal such as the Apostle St. Paul tells you he had before his Conversion Act. 22.3 I was zealous towards God says he as ye all are this day and that you may see what their zeal was that day pray look into Act. 21.27 you will find that some Jews which were of Asia where St. Paul had been preaching had spy'd him in the Temple at Jerusalem and they stirred up all the people and laid hands on him crying out Men of Israel help this is the man that teacheth all men every where against the people and the Laws and this place and further Brought Greeks also into the Temple and hath polluted this holy place And upon this out-cry all the City was mov'd and the people ran together and they took Paul and drew him out of the Temple and the Text tells you They went about to kill him and had certainly done it had not a Captain of a band rescued him vers 31. So that you see what their zeal at that day was and is but the same which the same Apostle tells you in fewer words in Phil. 3.6 That he was as concerning zeal a persecutor of the Church So that this wild kind of vagabond zeal which is always conversant about exterial observations only and spends it self but about the bark and husk of Religion doth but make men the fiercer and the more inve●om'd in their minds against true Christianity and renting the heart for this zeal will transport you to such inquietudes and extravagancies that ye will prefer a Barrabas a Robber and Murtherer before Christ and a sincere Christian It will make you mutinous and sticklers for the worst men and the wickedest interest what need have ye then of this admonition to be of peaceable spirits that ye be not hurried away by a mistaken zeal into such strange and brutish exorbitances And thus much for Admonition come we now to the next and last improvement of this Point which is Examination And this shall be Threefold 1. To the Magistracy 2. To the Ministry 3. To the People 1. To the Magistracy For I am for the old Computation of reckoning Moses before Aaron and am for placing the Crown above the Miter though I am sure this is no way to a Bishoprick

for all our new fashioned Divinity is for the other Calculation and mightily dissatisfied if you don't put the Church before the State however I address my-self first to you Is it so that true repentance and such as is acceptable unto God consists not in renting the garments or exterial observations then be you exhorted to examine your selves whether you lay out your Magistracy consonant to and agreeable with this Doctrine The highest Character that was veer given to any Magistrate is that which we find given to David That he was a man after Gods own heart And indeed the heart and mind of a Magistrate should be agreeable to the heart and mind of God for he bears his Image and is his Deputy in the Earth Upon which account Magistrates are also stiled Gods in Scripture Now therefore examine your selves as to this duty before you and see how your hearts stand affected towards it God is all for renting of the heart for zeal and spiritual worship on such days and in such duties as we are now engaged in But are you not more or rather for renting the garment for vain Ceremonies and humane invented observations How then comes this discrepancy betwixt the heart of God and your hearts between Gods mind and your minds Inquire well into the matter for there must be a fault some where and it cannot be on the Lords part Hath not God told you by his own Son That he is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth and that his Father seeketh such to worship him Joh. 4.23 24. And will you seek such to punish them Examine your selves and do not think to shamm it off That 't is for the Church that you do this Pray turn to 1 Sam. 15. and you will there find one of the greatest Cheats that you meet with in the whole Word of God for 't was by a Magistrate and a Magistrate of the highest Order and 't was a Cheat that had a pretence for the Church too The business is this King Saul received a commission from God to go and smite the Amalekites for laying wait for Israel in their way when they came up from Egypt and the summ of the Commission you have in the third verse Go and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not but slay both man and woman infant and suckling ox and sheep camel and ass Pursuant to this Commission Saul gathers 210000 of the people together and goes up and smote the Amalekites but spared Agag their King and the best of their sheep and of the oxen and the fatlings and the lambs and all that was good and would not utterly destroy them But every thing that was vile and refuse that they destroyed utterly vers 9. Upon this breach of his Commission the Lord sends his Prophet Samuel to meet Saul at his return and you find that Saul met Samuel in a very brisk humour vers 13. for Saul said unto him Blessed be thou of the Lord I have performed the commandments of the Lord. But Samuel replied What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears and the lowing of the oxen which I hear vers 14. And now pray see the Cheat that Saul would have put upon the Almighty and his Prophet for he saw he was run on ground and therefore observe his answer The people says he spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God ver 15. So he would have shuffed off and excused his sin upon the specious pretence of maintaining the Church and the Worship of God But this would not do for the Prophet reproves him in vers 22. thus Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord Behold to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams for Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft 'T is the disobedience of a King against his God is so stiled and therefore he proceeds and tells him his doom That because he had rejected the word of the Lord the Lord had rejected him from being King And that 's all that Saul got by this Cheat. Do not think therefore to palliate your faults with your esteems for the Church and the Divine Service of God for God had rather have no such Worship at all than a Worship that must be supported and maintained by the breach of his holy Commands In the 7th of St. Mark you may see a knot of Hypocrites and such as were of no inferiour rank neither So much for the Charch that they break not only the Law of God but the Law of Nature too for the Law of Nature as well as the Law of God obligeth us to honour our Parents and as a part of that honour to succour and relieve them in their necessities but they were so unnaturally Religious that they would give to the Church what they should give to their Parents and by their gift to the Church they were held absolved from the Law of God and Nature to do ought for their father or mother vers 11 12 so that let their father and mother starve if they would for them they were resolved to be superabundantly Religious But God bless us from such an unnatural and abominable Religion Well therefore might our Saviour conclude that Discourse with this remark That Traditional men and such as are so much for exteriour observations do ever make the Word of God of no effect vers 13. You were as good have no Bibles for they will suffer you to make no use of them for these Jews they had the Law of Moses and it was read in their Synagogues every Sabbath day as St. James assures us Act. 15.21 And though in that Law it was written Honour thy father and mother and that too with a promise of length of days yet you see when mens Traditions prevailed it had been as good they had had no Law at all And therefore by the way whatsoever Profession or form of Religion makes you barbarously sowre and unnatural to your Relations friend and neighbours which the Law of God and the bands of Humanity obligeth you to love respect and tender you may lay your life upon it that that Profession and form of Religion is but a false and counterfeit Christianity be what it will Wherefore you that are Magistrates had need examine and try your selves and to purpose too whether you are for that Religion which is acceptable to God the renting of your heart or whether you are for that only which consi●ts in renting the garments and trifling reservations And so much to the Magistrates The next Head is to the Ministers and would to God there were no cause to press the improvement of this Point upon us also But methinks I hear the Lord saying Physician cure thy self Luk. 4.23 We are called the Physicians of Souls and usually say the