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A62814	A remedy for the vvarres: or, Certaine deplorable expressions, of the great miseries and wofull effects, which the horrid, bloody, cruell, domestick, and intestine warres, have lately produced (amongst us) in this our kingdome of England. Together, with spiritual salves for the cure thereof. By John Tarlton, preacher of Gods word, and minister of Ileminster, in the county of Somerset.	Tarlton, John.	1648 (1648)	Wing T167A; ESTC R222135	126,290	313

such as are descended of the Blood of Christ in which regard they are the dearest of men and nearest unto God Yea they are a people distinct from all others by Gods Grace of Election and stand before him in their new Birth and Second Creation in which the Lord lookes joyfully upon them and delights to behold them because they sprang from Christ of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named Eph. 3.15 And this Church Metaphorically and by way of similitude is called Mater Fidelium the Mother of the Faithfull because she brings forth Sonnes unto God unites them to Christ and nourisheth them by the Preaching of the Word and by the Examples of good Workes And hence is that expression Non posse quemquam habere Deum Patrem qui non habet Ecclesiam Matrem No man can have God for his Father who hath not the Church for his Mother alluding to that of S. Paul Though ye have ten thousand Instructers in Christ yet have ye not many Fathers 1 Cor. 4.15 for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospell So that if we would have God for our Father we must account the Church for our Mother and procure her Peace with our best endeavours and there is no more prevalent way for us to helpe her then by praying heartily to God for her O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem Jerusalem was the Metropolis of Judea And she was also a Tipe of the Church of Christ and that in diverse respects viz. 1. Jerusalem was a Citty compact in it selfe by reason of the bond of love and Order that was amongst the Citizens themselves as in this Psalme verse the 3. Jerusalem is builded as a City that is at unity in it selfe So in like manner the Members of Christs Church are linked together by the bond of one Spirit Ephes 4.3 And they joyntly endeavour to keepe the unity of that Spirit in the bond of Peace 2. In Jerusalem was the Sanctuary a place of Gods Presence and Worship So in like manner the Church of Christ is the roome of the Sanctuary in which we must seeke the presence of God and the word of Life 1 Tim. 3.15 Therefore the Church is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Pillar and ground of Truth 3. The Lord mercifully promised the people of Jerusalem that if they would call upon his Name they should have Deliverance Joell the 2. ult the which hath resemblance to the Church of Christ amongst the Gentiles alluding to that of S. Paul There is no difference betweene the Jew and the Grecian Rom. 10.12 13. for he that is Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved 4. In Jerusalem the Citizens yeelded obedience to their Kings So in like manner the Members of Christs Church being true Believers Eph. 2.19 are fellow Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God And they yeeld obedience unto Christ their King Esa 2.5 5. In Jerusalem was the Throne of David as in this Psalme verse the 5. So in like manner in the Church of Christ is the Throne or Scepter of Christ Rev. 3.7 figured by the Kingdome of David 6. Zach. 2.8 The Lord chose Jerusalem above all other places in the world and tendered the people therein even as the apple of his owne eye So in like manner the true Members of Christs Church are a Chosen Generation 1 Pet. 2.9 a Royall Priesthood an holy Nation a Peculiar people that ye should shew forth the vertues of him that hath called you out of darknesse into his marvelous light Lastly in Jerusalem the names of the Citizens were inrolled in a Book So in like manner all the true Members of the Church of Christ Rev. 20.12 have their names written in the booke of Life S. John had a Revelation of the last Judgement And he saith I saw the dead both great and small stand before God and the bookes were opened and another booke was opened which is the booke of life and the dead were judged of those things which were written in the bookes according to their workes Whereupon we may orthodoxally resolve and infallibly infer that whosoever have not their names written in that Book of Life must have their portion with the Devil and his Angels for evermore as plainely appeareth in the last verse of the same Chapter And whosoever was not found written in the Booke of Life was cast into the lake of fire Loe thus Beloved you have heard the neere Resemblance and Typicall Representation betweene the City of Jerusalem and the Church of Christ Now let us come to the Reasons of the Observation Reas 1 Because the Church is in a continuall warfare in this world and therefore she is called the Church Militant because she is daily fighting against the Flesh the World and the Devill yea she hath many enemies that come from Satans Campe very fiercely against her Who like Tyrants by violence and force of strength like Sophisters by subtilty and corruption of doctrine like Hypocrites by dissembling and superstition and like Epicures by leudnesse of life and filthinesse of conversation doe daily assault and sight against the Church of Christ Loe these like cunning Fowlers strive daily and hourely for to intrap her the Flesh would infect her the World would deceive her and the Devill would destroy her And therefore it behoveth us with our best endeavours even heartily to pray unto God for her O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem Reas 2 Because whosoever desires to have his Habitation in Gods Tabernacle must love make much of the members of Gods Church Psal 15.4 And how can we better manifest our love untothem then by praying for them when they are in distresse And this duty of Love to the Members of Gods Church is both Commanded Commended Approved and Rewarded in the holy Scriptures It is 1. Commanded 1 John 3.23 This is his Commandement that we should believe in the name of his sonne Jesus Christ and love one another as he gave us Commandement 2. Commended 1 Cor. 13. ult Now abideth Faith Hope and Love even these three but the chiefest of these is Love 3. Approved Apoc. 2.19 The Blessed Spirit of God spake to S. John to say to the Angell of the Church of Thyatira I know thy Workes and thy Love meaning towards the Members of Gods Church 4. Rewarded Heb. 6.10 God is not unrighteous that he should forget your worke and labour of love which ye shewed toward his name in that ye have ministred unto the Saints and yet minister Yea beloved and were it so that the love to the Members of Gods Church were neither Commanded Commended Approved nor Rewarded Yet notwithstanding if thou hast received an Influence of Grace from Heaven the sparkes of Grace will so kindle in thy soule that thy praying for

A REMEDY FOR THE WARRES OR Certaine Deplorable Expressions of the great Miseries and wofull Effects which the Horrid Bloody Cruell Domestick and Intestine Warres have lately produced amongst us in this our Kingdome of England Together with Spiritual Salves for the Cure thereof By JOHN TARLTON Preacher of GODS Word and Minister of Ileminster in the County of Somerset 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1648. TO The Right Honourable RALPH Lord HOPTON Baron of STRATTON Grace and Peace from the Father Prince and Spirit of Peace Amen Right Honourable THe infallible mouth of the Arch Doctor of all truth hath told us that every Scribe which is taught unto the kingdome of heaven is like unto a housholder which bringeth forth out of his Treasure things both new and old Mat. 13.52 Answerable hereunto there hath beene in former ages of the Church and are also now in these latter times many able and Orthodox Divines whose hearty desire for the good of others have stirred them up to write for the advancement of true Religion and the benefit of the Church of Christ that through Gods blessing upon their writings they might win many soules unto God whereby being dead themselves they might still speake to those that are alive that so their holy DOCTRINE might be transmitted and propagated unto posterity after them Of which number my selfe being one although the meanest of all the rest labouring in the same Vineyard have thought it necessary to gather one handfull of Grapes and carry them to the Presse thereby to increase the water of life wherewith to refresh the Church of Christ when she is either sick or sorrowfull The which as the poor widdowes Mite will adde somewhat to the Churches treasury according to that Talent which the Lord hath lent me And in this Age there was never greater cause for Spirituall Physitians to provide restoring comfortable Cordialls for sick cast downe and dejected soules then in these present deplorable and calamitous dayes Naturall experiment tacitly tels us that the sad expression of woefull calamity can never be welcome to a truly Christian and sympathizing heart This Ioab the Generall of King Davids hoast knew right well and therefore he would not suffer Ahimaaz whom he loved to carry tydings to King David of Absaloms death 2 Sam. 18.20 The Sword of the late domestick unnaturall and intestine Wars hath eaten up many thousands of our English Nation yea hath swiftly snatched them away even as the Oxe licketh up the grasse so great have Rubens divisions beene in our Land My self also having borne a great share thereof almost as bitter as death it self For divers of us of the Tribe of Levi were imprisoned in one roome in the Metropolis of this Kingdome in which Prison they all ended their dayes And about one month after all their deaths my selfe onely and that by way of exchange escaped alive like one of Jobs messengers to declare somewhat VIVA VOCE concerning those that are in their graves And as an Aggravation to my Affliction I have beene a long time and still remaine under Sequestration being deprived both of Living and Goods whereby my selfe and family are at this present destitute of the means of subsistence So that the premises maturely and seriously considered I thought it therefore my duty both unto God my heavenly Father and also to the Church of England my Spirituall Mother in this her present and sad condition to expresse to the world her wofull calamity together with a Remedy for the same For which cause I doe here humbly present unto your Honours this ensuing Treatise the which may not unfitly be termed A REMEDY FOR THE WARS Which through Gods blessing upon the holy Endeavours and Religious Practises of those persons unto whom it shall come there may be a present surceasing of these bloudy unnaturall and intestine English Wars and both Church and Common-wealth even speedily and happily enjoy their pristine condition Many thousands of us English Natives since these troubles arose amongst us have deeply suffered and still doe by a stupendious kind of dispersion in Opinion and Practice and yet how few there are who in lowlinesse of Spirit and humblenesse of heart truly repenting them of all their wickedness smite their breasts saying What have I done Jer. 8.6 And yet I hope the deep apprehension of these present Distractions amongst us doth exercise and that not unworthily the heads of many that are of great Wisdome and Policy to thinke how this distracted Church and Common-wealth may againe be re-united If ever we would have a wel-grounded firme and permanent Peace in this our Kingdome then must we sincerely performe these three particular Duties 1. Aversion from Sin 2. Conversion to God 3. Humble hearty and constant Prayer unto God to inable us by the power of his grace and blessed Spirit for the speedy and constant performance of both At the request and importunity of some who are more able both in gifts of Nature and Learning then my self who having had a sight of this Booke privately in my Study before it was fully finished I was prevailed with to present it to the publike view and at their instance being resolved so to doe I called to mind your Noble Lordship as in duty I am obliged who so willingly freely and speedily condescended to my Enlargement by the way of Exchange when I was in Prison humbly craving the peaceable Passage of this my Booke under the shelter of your Honourable Patronage and Protection being well assured that your Honourable Name and Noble Aspect casting an approbatious and indulgent eye upon it have such attractive power in them as that by vertue thereof they will set such a splendid luster upon this my weake Worke that thereby as by the efficacy of a Load-stone the eyes and hearts of many thousands will be drawne unto it whereby also it may take the deeper impression in their hearts for the reformation of their lives and the conversion of their soules unto God through Jesus Christ the which through Gods blessing upon it may greatly conduce to the glory of the God of Peace and the benefit and comfort of many poore disquieted soules I humbly intreat your Noble Lordships charitable and candid censure for my Super-audacity in this nature For through the fervent zeale which I have for the glory of God and hearty desire for the salvation of his childrens souls wishing also both the present permanent Peace and the speedy continuing Comfort of his distressed Militant Church in this our disquieted perplexed and distracted Kingdome I have in imitation of Saint Paul to his Romans somewhat boldly after a sort written for the benefit of the English Natives as one that putteth them in remembrance through the grace that is given me of God Rom. 15.15 I doe ingenuously and submissively confesse my great and over-boldnesse to Dedicate this weake worke unto your Honour yet I humbly beseech your Honour both to pardon this

home to the guilty Consciences of all obstinate Offendors all those infallible Truths that here already have beene together with all other that hereafter shall be delivered by Mee being but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a weake infirmed Mortall and sinfull Man and to make them become Divine Physicall convincing Aphorismes serving as prevalent healthfull soveraigne spirituall Potions for the speedy Curing of blinde ignorant sinfull and sicke Soules that so they may prove to the Soules of diseased Persons as sweet Balsame of Grace wherewith to heale them for their present Preservation and also to keepe them from future Destruction being made by the mighty power of God Profitable to teach to improve to correct and to instruct in righteousnesse 2 Tim. 3.16 And through the Divine Operation of his Blessed Spirit to worke so powerfully by them in the hearts of all those Persons of what Quality soever that are any wayes guilty of Disobedience unto lawfull Authority as speedily to open their eyes that they may turne from darkenesse to light and from the power of Satan unto God that they may receive forgivenesse of sinnes and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith in Christ Acts 26.18 And also to rouze them up from lying any longer in the drouzie Lethargie of their sinnes under the hellish Power and damnable Domion of cursed bloudy and sinfull Rebellion lest Pharaoh-like they sleepe so long in their Sinnes untill the voice of Gods mighty thunders Exod. 9.23.24 and haile mingled with fire from Heaven awake and rouze them up And to prevaile so farre with them as to walke in those wel-pleasing Pathes both to God and the King which the sacred Scripture expresly commandeth of that subjective Fealty Christian Loyalty and dutifull Obedience which all Subjects owe to their lawfull Soveraigne For to live Anarchically where there either is or else ought to be Monarchicall Government is to live as it were Without God in the World Eph. 2.12 But if obstinate Rebels will not be awaked rouzed up and reclaimed then let them hearken to the Lords Servant Moses predicting their fatall Doomes He that heareth the Words of this curse and blesseth himselfe in his heart saying I shall have peace although I Walke according to the stubbornesse of mine owne heart thus adding drunkennesse to thirst the Lord Will not be mercifull unto him but then the wrath of the Lord and his jealousie shall smoke against that man and every curse that is Written in this booke shall light upon him and the Lord shall put out his name from under heaven Deut. 29.19 20. Oh fearefull Judgements What both Temporall and Eternall Not onely corporall for the Body but also spirituall for the Soule And both of which Punishments no lesse then insufferable and that for ever Loe this must needs inevitably fill a sensible guilty Heart full of perplexing Amazement and tormenting Horrour And let Mee also tell them both as a timely faithfull Remembrancer to them of their past and present Sinnes and also as a Christian sensible Sympathizer of their future Sorrowes they may all justly feare that unto them belongeth that fatall propheticall Expression judiciously pronounced against Old Elies disobedient and rebellious Sonnes They hearkened not unto the voice of their Father because the Lord would slay them 1 Sam. 2.25 And therefore in Christian Pitty and tender Compassion towards them my greatly grieved Heart shall wofully mourne and sympathizing sorrowfull Soule bitterly weepe in secret for them Jer. 13.17 When there was no King in Israel every man did whatsoever seemed good in his owne eyes Judg. 21.25 Anarchie looseneth the Bridle whereby wicked men take liberty to themselves for the perpetration of all ungodlinesse without any Restriction and will thereby in a short time through the perversnesse of their wicked Wils and prevalency of their cursed Corruptions become like wilde Horses left to themselves without their Riders to command them Such loose Libertines and carnall Gospellers despise Government and speake evill of them that are in Authority Jude 8. By whose wicked Words and Workes great Detriment befalleth both Church and Common-wealth Those good necessary and Ancient Lawes of this Kingdome which formerly have beene and still ought to be the Rules of the Subjects continuall Obedience to all lawfull Authority are now by such Anti-monarchicall Persons converted into Club-lawes For the Arbitrary and Military power is now growne to such an height as that will you doe such a Thing Or will you pay such a Summe If answer to either Question be made No Then presently followeth take him Souldiers by the power of the Sword but if ye cannot apprehend his Body then speedily seize upon all his Goods with violence and sell them with expedition for his disobedience Is this the Liberty of the Free-borne Subjects Is this the Priviledge of the English Nation God forbid that Zion should be built up with bloud and Jerusalem with iniquity Micah 3.10 that were abhorring judgement and perverting all equity Was it ever knowne that the Children of God strove to erect and establish a Religion by the power of the Sword To lay the Foundation thereof in Blood To draw obedient Subjects against their wills into Disobedience To make others with themselves to falsifie their sworne Fidelitie to their lawfull Soveraigne To compell the Conscience and force it by Violence To kill the Body to convert the Soule and that also without affording any time of Preparation for the Kingdome of Heaven The which is rather a Prevention of the Soules Conversion and consequently the Destruction of both Loe such sinfull hainous and diabolicall Practices were never formerly heard of to be in this our Land especially amongst those who desire to be reputed as refined and purified Christians who also publiquely professe themselves to be Saints zealously walking in the Wayes of Holinesse constantly living in the Power of Godlinesse and also faithfully performing all their Workes in Righteousnesse every particular whereof necessarily requireth a farre more ample and larger Discourse than this superficiall short occasionall Glance expresseth Oh then what a great happy and rich Blessing is a godly vertuous and Religious King from whom his people under God receive the whole Benefit of Religion and Justice He is the Anointed of the Lord the Nurse of the Church the Father of the Common-wealth an Husband to the Widdow a Mouth for the Dumbe Limbes to the Lame the Light of our Eyes the Breath of our Nostrils and without whom where there either is or else ought to be Monarchicall Authority both Church and Common-wealth will be in the way of Confusion of which our selves of late have bitterly tasted by wofull Experiment Oh then how ought we to love our Dread Soveraigne to obey Him to doe our best endeavours to preserve Him to magnifie God for Him to rejoyce in Him and both constantly and heartily to pray unto God for the long continuance of Him amongst us and His happy and prosperous Reigne