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A90720	Sectaries vnmasked and confuted. By the treating upon divers points of doctrine in debate betwixt the Presbyterialists and sectarists, Anabaptists, Independents, and Papists. / By George Palmer wel-wisher to a warrantable uniformity in godly religious exercises.	Palmer, George, b. 1596 or 7.	1647 (1647)	Wing P229; Thomason E396_27; ESTC R201662	58,190	61

as some Expositors affirm and yet they denyed the resurrection from the dead therefore this is no true infallible signe neither Sixthly are you not as forward to corporall pride as the Presbyterialls too although I think you are not so sick of the fashions as some of the Presbyterialls are Seventhly are you not more obstinate in your way of separation after conviction then the Presbyterialls are I wish I could not justly complaine of this for I have knowne many when they have yeelded in many chief things in their way of separation and yet would go on still in their way of divisions so that with you is wilfull obstinacy also I doe not speak this to excuse the Presbyterialls from many sins no I blame our selves exceedingly too But this is the maine thing which I aime at to beat downe men from esteeming of themselves above that which they are And thus much for this point also Some have such shallow-heads and gnats about their eares I think their hearts be dead where is their hopes their feares Now farther you say that many of our side are ignorant in the Word of God and live loosly in their conversations It is true they doe so and you say they be proud and scornfull in their carriage to their inferiours and think to have others to stoop to them because of their gay-cloaths and big looks they having many of them much of this worlds good but yet they have little or no vertue in them the which is that which is worthy of the true respect and not a bare title In this I will not dissent from you but will conclude that a wise man will not much respect any thing that is but an adjunct of a man and is no part of the man for Dives was gay and had this worlds goods but yet he was not any whit the better esteemed of God but hell must be the place of such a one but yet these with us may have some saving grace in them for you must endevour to distinguish degrees of good and evill otherwise you will never bee able to make a true conclusion And truly this is a great reason for me to conclude that your Leaders are either ignorant of these things or else they keep you blinde on purpose that so you may remaine Separatists still You may know that those that have this worlds goods are lyable to many temptations which other inferiour people are more free from and though they themselves fail as much another way perhaps too Have you never seen a man that being holden in from occasions of temptations by being in a mean estate and thereby afflicted who afterwards having been raised to a greater estate was more vaine then those whom hee before counted wicked see how good David failed in godlinesse when great temptations encountred him as being at rest in his kingdom of wealth walking and solacing himself upon his house top and having such an object of carnall delight and that sin did occasion another as great O that was a great one indeed for having faln into the sinne of adultery and thereby being lyable to disgrace he thought to cover it by using policy and yet that policy must neverthelesse goe somewhat neare him too but yet he thought having such an occasion to hazard Vriah in battail it would be the more tolerable and therefore hee adventured upon the cutting off of Vriah that so he might take her to be his wife to cover the sin from being known To be short they are more lyable to carnality and vanity then many other men are although they have saving grace in them But what is all this for the Point we stand for viz. the government of the Church I still stand for truth although abuses be for I know no outward accommodations will bestead us at the great and dreadfull day of judgment No strouts nor clouts nor words that swell That will bestead us then For I know well and doe you tell 'T is vertue maketh men And now in the next place I must note another thing which is prevalent in keeping men from renouncing an opinion once maintained by them though now convinced and that is the undergoing of some disgrace lest others doe deride them and truly my heart almost bleedeth to think of it for it is a great tryall indeed and especially if men have not a great measure of grace but yet I hope we do consider that God is to have his glory what ever we undergoe Let God be true and every man a lyer And I hope ●f the Presbyterialls be well admonished they will forbeare scoffing at those that shall come and joyn with us For as one once said so say I Are there not sins with us also yes surely in many things we sin all O that we could joyn together then might wee easily prevail of the Parliament wholsome Laws yea and Officers too to keep us in a more stricter way in godlinesse Now let us take some notice of such things as may whet our affections more specially to perform our duties severally First God is worthy of all honour and to have all glory ascribed to him yea all good is and ought to be ascribed to him for he is the totality of all things in him we live move and have our being and in him all things consist whose goodnesse doth appeare in his creating of us after his own Image in holinesse and righteousnesse and knowledge and other qualities in a fit degree for creatures to have resemblance of their Creator and to be blessed for evermore whose purity may be seen in his Law which he hath set to our view to behold his excellency in the which Moses the man of God admired with these words to the children of Israel What Nation is there under heaven that have Lawes so righteous as ye have And David saith thus of them to God Thy Law is very pure therefore thy servant loveth it And consider also how wee in the loines of our first Parents are falne from that happy estate of that blessed Creation and also what is due to us now by falling from God by our disobedience even everlasting damnation and torture and torment in hell for evermore Consider also the goodnesse of God in providing for us a remedy that we may not be subjects of torments in hell but be vessels of glory in heaven onely upon good and honest conditions faith in the merits of his Son our Saviour and requi●eth nothing of us but to walk honestly righteously and godly in this world according to those graces of his holy Spirit knocking at the doores of our hearts and bidding us open yea that giveth us power and ability to open onely that we be not wanting in the not using those abilities which he doth give us but if we slight and neglect this second great mercy of his then must we be subjects of the greater torments in hel for evermore with dreadful Devils

a man may be assured of his salvation here in this world the first is in Joh. 6. 47. Verily verily I say unto you He that beleeveth on me hath everlasting life here the Evangelist doth not barely say that a beleever hath life but that he hath everlasting life in ver. 54 also Joh. 5. 24. He that beleeveth on him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death to life 2 Pet. 1. 10 11. Make your calling and election sure for if you doe these things you shall never fall for so an entrance shall be ministred unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ now if you would know what things those bee that you must have that so you never fall but be assured to be entred into heaven as it were before-hand then look in ver. 5 6 7. going before and there you may see them the which if you get you are sure never to fal I doe not affirm that all beleevers have that faith of assurance spoken of in this last Text but that it is and may be obtained The reason why men doe not see the salvation of God in Christ is among many especially because they doe not yeeld obedience in their hearts to so much of the morall Law as they know either in the letter of it informing their hearts or consciences or without the letter viz. written in their conscience If any man will doe his wil he shall know of the Doctrine whether it be of God or whether I speak of my self Jo●. 7. 17. Psal. 50. 23. To him that ordereth his conversation aright will I sh●w the salvation of God Ezek. 43. 10 11. If they be ashamed of all that they have done shew them the form of the house c. I know there must bee some generall hopes in a man that hath the knowledge of his sins which hee seeth in him although that knowledg be not with saving faith in the merits of Christ but some generall notions that will not bestead him that resteth in them 2 Cor 3. 16. When the heart shall be turned to the Lord the vail shall be taken away Until a man repenteth himself of those sins which God hath convinced him of in his conscience he shall remain blinde in the matter of salvation by Christ for there must goe a legall repentance before an Evangelicall repentance therefore Christ saith Mat. 21. 23 You when you heard repented not that you might beleeve him God giveth many gifts but man neglecteth him Here are places to shew that there is a difference between a man that is in the true justifying faith concerning inherent holinesse and a man that is out of Christ contrary to some mens conclusion that all men are alike in their inward hearts or quali●ications the first place is Psal 18. 19 20 21. to the 26. Psal. 26. Psal. 28. Psal. 131. 1 2. in 2 Sam. 22. very largely See all these places and there you may have assurance that a man may speak in his owne defence concerning his owne integrity of heart if in case others would blast his due reputation provided that it bee so in deed and in truth I speak this to stop the mouths of some wicked people that are ready to say that there is no difference among men viz. that all are alike now in the state of grace excepting onely the imputative righteousnesse of Christ yea I have heard with my own eares to my great grief some man say that those that are justified have no inherent holinesse nor righteousnesse But if this be a truth why then did our Saviour pronounce a blessednesse to those that are pure in heart And why did all the Apostles preach sanctification to be inherently in the justified ones yea if any man be in Christ he is a new Creature yea Paul himselfe in the behalf of himself and the residue of the Apostles and Brethren said thus God hath revealed the hid mysteries to us his holy Apostles and Prophets c. And all the Apostles calleth upon men to be not onely beleevers in Christ but sanctified throughout both in body and soule c. But yet notwithstanding it is imperfect in regard of degrees and therefore it is that the Prophet concluded that all our righteousnesse were as filthy rags and the Apostle James affirmed that in many things we offend c. This point is to shew how many subjects have neglected refused and opposed their Kings commands when those commands were unjust by Gods expresse Word yea they did hinder their King from acting sin himself and that by force too My first Scripture is 2 Chron. 26. 16 17 18 19 20. Azariah and fourscore valiant men withstood Vzziah their King to hinder him from sinning against God in doing that which belonged to his subjects to be done he being forbid by Gods speciall command and if they had not hindred him then they should have smarted for it as well as their King 1 Sam. 14. 45. sheweth that the people of Israel did hinder their King Saul from committing a sin against one of his subjects which he had sworn to doe but they did resist him and swore that Jonathan should not die seeing he did not deserve death Jonathan knew not of his Fathers oath concerning that thing if the oath it self had been lawfull as you may read in ver. 27. and such a one was to be pardoned by Gods command as in Ezek. 45. 19. Numb. 15. 27 28. Levit. 4 27. And this is noted also as a good deed of the people in opposing their Kings in these things And in 1 Sam. 20. 30 31 32 33. and so forth Jonathan would rescue good David from Sauls ma●●cious and murderous intent though he had Sauls displeasure so farre as to the hazarding of his own life for this his so doing This did good Jonathan contrary to the command of his Father though the King and this also is recorded for his commendation But contrariwise when the people did not hinder their Kings but joyned with them in that which was evill then they and their Kings must smart for it too as you may see by the peoples joyning with their King Ahaziah against Elijah the Prophet as in 2 King 1. And so alwayes throughout the Scriptures you may observe the like punishment upon the people for seconding their Governors in evill Yea this was the very cause of the casting off of the Jewes chiefly for they joyned with their High-priest chiefe Priests and Pharisees and the Rulers of the Jewes in crucifying of Christ and therefore his blood is upon them as well as upon their governours unto this day Do you not think it had been happy for the people of the Jewes if they had opposed their Elders and Governors and kept them from slaying our Saviour Christ Yes truly it had been well for that people And the