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A55028	The necessity and encouragement, of utmost venturing for the churches help together with the sin, folly, and mischief of self-idolizing applyed by a representation of 1. some of the most notorious nationall sins endangering us, 2. the heavy weight of wrath manifested in our present calamities, yet withall, grounds of 3. confidence, that our church shall obtain deliverance in the issue, 4. hopes that the present Parliament shall be still imployed in the working of it : all set forth in a sermon, preached to the honorable House of Commons, on the day of the monethly solemn fast, 28. June, 1643 / by Herbert Palmer ...	Palmer, Herbert, 1601-1647.	1643 (1643)	Wing P243; ESTC R21704	67,757	76

speciall weight comes to be put upon the meer using it And while a root of superstition is nourisht in men Idolatry will soon be graffed upon it with a little help Besides that a little of this leaven will greatly sowr Mens Consciences and in stead of the power of godlinesse leave nothing but a Form I may not amplify this but I hope it will be considered and consulted of 5 5. Make all men feare an Oath 1 by a more ready and certain penalty for rash swearing 2 by taking away unnecessary Oaths My soul blesses you blesses God for you for the taking away the Oath of Churchwardens as well as that Ex Officio and the late Canonicall Oath Oh doe the like to other Officers and in Universities and Corporations and Courts by causing a review to be made what Oathes are unnecessary and how the use of them may be other wayes supplyed 3 And what Oathes you see necessary to be continued or added make them dreadfull Let them be administred ever in an awfull manner that they may consider what they doe when they pawn their souls and all things else that they speak truth and will doe as they say 4 And let no ignorant person be trusted to swear more then a childe But of that a word more anon I will use no other motive then that one Jer. 23. 10. Because of swearing the Land mourneth the pleasant places of the wildernesse are dryed up and their course is evill and their force is not right So that you do not help the Church if you remedy not this what you can if you did all things else 6. Make a Law for preaching There was never any yet that I could ever hear of in this Kingdome since the Reformation which is such a prodigy such a peece of Laodicean Lukewarmnesse as I beleeve the like was never heard of in a Reformed Christian Kingdom or Church unlesse Ireland perhaps too What the effects have been of the want of it all the world fees And to me it sounds among the worst of Omens that I have heard of some disputing against such a law I will say but this 1. If God have not had dishonour enough by some mens preaching against Preaching because our Law commanded it not and by all the reproach cast upon his faithfullest Ministers for their double diligence which hath also been prohibited thē by those that ought to have promoted it And 2 if the people of God have not by this been sufficiently scattered abroad as sheep without a Shepheard and torn by dogs for seeking their food abroad when they had none provided for them at home And 3 if enough have not gone to hell under unpreaching Ministers in more then eighty yeares And 4 finally if God have not put more weight upon this one ordinance under the N.T. then all other Ministeriall works together to teach all that have Authority under him to doe the like to make them beshrew themselves that preach not the Gospel Then let there be still no law to enjoyn it nor for any thing else belonging to the worship of God and mans salvation by as good reason But if all be contrary then once more let me call to Humiliation for this neglect these eighty yeares and upward and promise my selfe that a Reforming Parliament will not cannot but compose such a law as shall be abundantly sufficient for ever hereafter 7. Make Simony impossible To swear the Clerk is to swear the buyer to prevent a dearth It is to forbid those that fear an Oath and set open the door to those that dare be wilfully false And the present penalties of the statute doe seldome reach cunning chapmen This I will be bold to say if every Minister that hath the charge of soules and discharges that duty conscionably be not worthy of all that due which the law anywhere allowes him take it away in Gods name and employ it to a better use if you can find it out But if he be worthy of it by the sentence of God and man both a high way-robber or one that breaks into a house at midnight is not so great an offendor as a Simoniacall Patron whether he presents a man otherwise worthy or one that is altogether unworthy and if you make not as sufficient a law against the one as the other I say not for the penalty but which may be as effectuall or rather more and so it may be I durst undertake you will no more answer it to God then if you made not a sufficicient law against those outrages if there were none 8. Make Clandestine Marriages impossible They are so in the Reformed Churches in France they may be so here when the King and you please It is meer humane law the common law among us not Gods law that calls it a marriage if two be joyned by a Minister a Popish Priest hath served the turne in any house or room or place and at midnight or any time if with such and such words Why is such a wilde Authority given to robbe Parents of their children and Masters of their Apprentices and children of themselves against Gods expresse word and no Penalty that I know of in our law upon such a Minister or such Parties How many Noble Families besides others have been by this Licence and that which hath been next door to it in use the Licences of Ecclesiasticall Courts which last to this day where such disobedient children will goe seek them shamed and grieved and mischiefed This may be remedied instantly if the law ratify no marriage but Publike after Banes with Parents or guardians consent or some higher Power if they should be Tyrannicall and altogether unreasonable I am amazed that the Gentry having so smarted by this licence to their children to be disobedient have not long since in Parliament taken an order for it But I hope God hath raised up you at last to do him this piece of service among a great many others I may not enlarge my self upon any more particulars I will sum up all the residue that I have thought of in almost as few words as there be matters 9. Keep all the holy Ordinances of God from prophanation the Word read and preacht prayer singing Sacraments punishing sleepers and all other rude persons 10. Secure the Lords day fully from working and playing and buying or selling and as much as may be from apparent idlenesse 11. Encourage a faithfull Ministery particularly with sufficient maintenance for wives and children 12. Secure youth in the Universities and Schools with the utmost of care and even in Parents houses what you can specially the poorer sort The young ones are the hopes or the bane of the Church and State in the next 20 or 10. or 7. years 13. Represse drunkennesse by a better composed Law then any yet is extant and the haunting of the shops of that wickednesse 14. Suppresse

Reason 4. We pray for it in the Lords prayer Reason 5. Angels give us example Reason 6. All things and persons are for the Churches sake Doct. 1 Even Kings Esay 49. 21 22. 60. 16. And even the very Authority of Christ in Heaven Reason 7. Our comforts are from the Church Doct. 1 Reason 8. Our sins have endangered her Reason 9. Enemies do their utmost Reason 10. Friends fail or are strengthened by what we do Reason 11. So By standers in their degree Doct. 1 Vse Consideration 1. Of Churches dangers needing help 1. Judgments 1. Attempt against all this 2 Army raised against 3 Enemies possesse our King Doct. 1. Use Consider the Churches danger 4. They have prevailed far 5. Their strength enough to endanger all 6. Churches friends weak and few 7 Forrain States help not but hurt thence Doct. 1. Use Consider the Churches danger by sins Nationall 8. Ireland wasts and endangers 2. Churches danger by sins of Nation A Nation sinfull 5. ways 1. All ranks tainted much 2. The most tainted with any one kinde of sin 3. A few notorious sins altogether unpunisht though laws against them Doct. 1 Use Consider the Churches danger by sins Nationall 4. Laws silent or too weak to restrain sin 5. Sin countenanced or allowed by law Our Nation shewed sinfull by acknowledgments of all Doct. 1 Use II. Consider what help may should be afforded the Church 1. Outward 2. Spirituall 1 Prayer 2. Humiliatiō What it is Why required Doct. 1 Vse Consider how to help the Church by humiliation 2. How far it extends namely to 1. Sins of Nation 2. Sins of Forefathers for 5. Reasons 1. Tenants children lyable to pay Parents debts and forfeitures Doct. 1. Application Consider how to help the Church by humiliations for sins of forefathers 2. Enjoying fruit by their sinne 2 Kings 18. 3. Lest we approve or excuse sins because theirs 4. Or think it because they were not punisht for it 5. Or return to them again after a leaving them Doct. 1. Application Vse 1. Consider how to help the Church 3 Our own Though reforming or reformed N. B. 3. A holy example 4. An active endeavour of reformation Application Use 1. Consider how Reformation helps the Church Doct. 2. Grounded on Text Exemplified by Peter Doct. 2. Self-respects hinder most necessary duties The Jews neglecting the Temples building Confirmed by Reasons Reason 1. Selfe-love prevails in most Doct. 2. Taints all Reas. 2. Experience of backwardness profitable Reas. 3. Of forwardnesse hurtfull Reas. 4. Lazinesse and sensuality makes towards and negligent Reas. 5. So doth covetousnesse Doct. 2. Self-respects hinder most necessary duties Reason 6. Covetousness c. makes do work to halves Reason 7. Envie scorns to labour when others shall be thanked Doct. 2. Self-respects hinder most necessary duties Reason 8. Libertines spirits fear the Churches prosperity Reason 9. Earthly-mindednesse regards onely present and sensible thing● Doct. 3. Grounded on the Text Doct. 3. Self respecters not assured to escape Confirmed by Reason Reason 1. None can escape but by Gods leave Reason 2. Such provoke God more then ordinary sinners Doct. 3. Self respecters not sure to scape Observe this well Reason 3. Their base lusts deserve punishment at all times Doct. 3 Self-respecters not sure to scape Reason 4. Their fairest excuses are but sprouts of cursed unbelief Reason 5. None go under so strong a guard as in the Churches service Doct. 5. Though the Church be delivered another way Destruction owing to not helping the Church Grounded on Text Exemplified by the curse of Meroz And judgment on Succoth Penuel And Jabesh Gilead Explicated 1 1. 2 2. 3 3. 4 4. Doct. 5. Confirmed by Reasons Reason 1. Their sins not lestened by Gods grace or others faithfulnesse Reason 2. They are unprofitable servants Doct. 5. Destruction owing to not helping the Church Reason 3. They that forsook the Church in extremity are unworthy to rejoyce with her in prosperity Reason 4. Vnlesse converted they will betray again Reason 5. They will doe no faithfull service the while Reason 6. God jealousy will not bea●e with them Doct. 5. Destruction owing to not helping the Church Observe this well Reason 7. They sin for their children c. And corrupt them and are punisht in them Vse 1. Examinations how far we have helped the Church in her distresses or neglected it and why Application Vse 1. Examination about helping the Church 1. What outward help we have afforded Or doe yet resolve if need be or think much to think of 2. How we have prayed 3. What example we shewed Application Examinat Three sorts guilty 1 Professed Libertines 2 Scandalous Professors of Religion 3 The best in some degree give some ●●l example Application V●● Examination what example we have shewed Mischiefs of it to the Church 1 It multiplies sins 2 Reproaches religion 3 Hardens self flatterers 3. What endeavour of reformation for the Churches help 1 Domesticall Application Examination Gen. 18 18. Josh. 24. 15. Psal. 101. Rom. 16. Col. 4. In reference to servants To children 2 By authoririty of friendship Application Vse 1. Examination What help to the Church by endeavouring to reform Levit. 19. 17. Josh 22. 3 By Ministers Publikely Privately Remember this 4 By Magistrates Application Vse 2. Humiliation for helping the Church so little Specially this being a main duty of the day And there being so much cause Application Vse 2. Humiliation for Nationall sins 1. For our Nations sins against the 1. Cōmandment Idolatry Ignorance Atheisticall scorning of religion and all honesty Application Vse 2. Humiliation for sins against the 2. Com Against the 3. Commandm As also the monstrous prophanation of that sacred Ordinance of Excommunication made to lacquy for fees or persecute godliness Against the 4. Commandm Application Vse 2. Humiliation for Nationall sin Against the 5. Commandm Against the 6. Commandm Note this well Note this specially Against the 7. Commandm Against the 8. Commandm Application Vse 2. Humiliation for nationall sins Against the 9. Commandm Against all generally Lukewarmness of Laws Observe this well The discipline of the Church in ill hands Neglect of children and youth For great wrath manifested in Gods judgements in 10. considerations Application Use 2. 1 The judgment it self a devouring sword Esay 1. 20. 2 The kinde Civill war by drunkennesse Jer. 13.13 14. 3 Occasion the Militia hoped to be our setling 4 Sufficient means of prevention vain wise men confounded Esay 29. 14 Application Use 2. Humiliation for Gods heavie wrath 5 Example of others and our selves in others case blest with more wisdome and successe * Hos. 1. 6 7. Exod. 9. 10. 6 The ground of the quarrel Both protest for the same things Application Use 2. Suppose both side hypocrits Esay 10 5 6. Or one side 2 Sam. 15. 11. Or both sides meaning right 2 Chro. 20 23. 7 The time in civill respects when in hopes of setling Jer. 18. 9 10. 8 The