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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96951	The only sovereign salve for the wounded spirit: approved by the author in himself Delivered by him in several sermons after his recovery: and now, published for the glory of his most gracious restorer, and for the comfort and settlement of any afflicted soul, that doth, or may labour under that weighty burden. By Richard Wortley, minister of Christ in his church, in Edworth in Bedfordshire.	Wortley, Richard, d. 1680.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3642A; ESTC R231974	144,585	300

them not turn again Peace spoken to the soul is worth the prizing worth the preserving Relapses are dangerous Let them not turn again If they do the fault is not in God he is most unwilling they should ●urn again Neither in Satan wholly he can but tempt and perswade he cannot force them to turn again it is chiefly in themselves Let them not turn c. That yet I may give more light unto the words suppose you heard the Psalmist expressing himself and his meaning somwhat more fully and plainly to this or the like effect While the Lords people go on in a constant course of Obedience unto his Will they enjoy a sweet peace in their souls being assured that the Lord doth accept of them and their though but weak services in his Son But when they fall into the folly of sin especially of hainous sins then their peace is interrupted then disturbances and unsettlements do arise in their souls out of an apprehension of the Lords displeasure against them for such their Folly Being in this sad condition if they desire that the breach should be made up their Souls again setled their Peace restored their only way is to turn from their Follies by true repentance and faith in Christ and then the Lord in his good time will most certainly speak peace unto them Others indeed will be offering unto them Peace and settlement such as it is But let them take heed how they listen to any but unto God the Lord. And when he hath spoken peace unto them let them for it will nearly concern them be as wary of giving cause of a new broach by turning again unto Folly The words thus cleared do afford unto our Consideration these Three Doctrinal Conclusions Doct. 1. That when the Lords people do fall into the folly of hainous sins they lose their peace and great disturbances perplexities unsettlements do thereupon arise in their souls 2. That when the Lords people do by unf●igned repentance and Faith in Christ turn from their folly of sin the Lord in his good time will most certainly speak peace unto them 3. That when the Lord speaks peace unto his People they are to hear him and him only and peace being spoken that it concerns them to be very wary how they turn again to Folly The first Observation is Doct. 1. That when the Lords people do fall into the Folly of hainous sins they lose their peace and great disturbances perplexities unsettlements do thereupon arise in their souls This Doctrine hath three Branches 1. That all sin is Folly 2. That the Lords own People may and do fall into the Folly of sin 3. That when they do fall into heinous sins they lose their Peace and in stead thereof great disturbances perplexities unsettlements do thereupon arise in their souls Branch 1. 1. That all sin is Folly There is a threefold Folly 1. Negative Folly which indeed is not so properly called Folly being nothing else but the absence or want of wisdom such as is in Ideots or Naturals as we call them it is an uncapableness of wisdom Of this the word here is not meant The other two sorts are properly called Folly whereof the 1. Is Privative when a man having a capableness of wisdom yet wittingly and willingly doth neglect the means to attain it The Is that kind of folly which is contrary to true wisdom erring from that Rule by which wildom doth regulate and o●der all her actions And of these two the word in the Text is to be understood of the wilful Folly and of the erring or transgressing Folly That all sin is Folly or Foolishness in one of these two fore-mentioned regards is evident from the Text where under that name the Lords people are warned to beware of sin Sin is so called Joh. 4. 18. So Eccles 7. 25. Where it is called the wickedness of Folly in many other places I might give you Instances of many sins which in Scripture are branded with this Title as Sichems Lust Gen. 34. 7. Achans Theft Josh 7. 15. Atheism Psal 14. 1. Slandering Prov. 10. 18. Deceitfulness Prov. 14. 8. Security Luke 12. 20. Neglect of Grace till death Mat. 25. 2. Inconstancy in Religion Gal. 3. 1. 3. But these are obvious almost in every Page Reas The Reason why sin is branded with this Title of Folly is because there is no sin committed but some way or other it fals short of the Rule of right Reason which is Gods Will expressed in his Word by which Rule every godly wise man as near as he can doth regulate and order all his actions He who orders his Actions according to this Rule he is a wise man and so far as a man fals short of this Rule so far must his Actions necessarily be foolish and sinful A mans Actions though in themselves good yet may fall short of this Rule Short of Rule 1. By rash unadvisedness The Godly wise man takes counsel and advice within himself and is willing to be directed by others he cals to mind former things and layes one thing to another and compares them together that so he may advisedly proceed in what he is about to do he ponders and weighes the path of his Feet and so his wayes are established Prov. 4. 26. But the sinful foolish man is carried on headlong with a precipitate rashness and so his wayes are as darkness and he knowes not at what he stumbles Prov. 4. 19. Stumble he doth and cannot but stumble and fall into the folly of sin because he walks in darkness and is rashly and unadvisedly carried on by his own perverse will or Passion 2. A mans wayes may fall short of the Rule of right Reason by an indiscreet inconsiderateness The godly wise man his eyes look right on and his eye-lids look straight before him Prov. 4. 25. He shuns as near as he can all manner of evil with much wariness He is very circumspect in observing of all due circumstances for the manner time place of performance c. He walks circumspectly not as a Fool but as a wise man Eph. 5. 15. But the foolish sinner considers not his Actions whether they be good or evil He minds not any circumslance in their performance but goes on in a careless manner and so his actions become foolish and sinfull 3. Amans actions may fall short of this Rule by inconstancy The godly wise man as he proceeds on with good advice and due consideration so he is firm in his resolutions and acts accordingly He doth righteousness at all times Psal 106. 3. He is stedfast and unmoveable in the work of the Lord as St. Paul exhorts 1 Corinth 15. 58. But the foolish sinner he recedes and fals off from that good which formerly he had pitched upon and by his Corruption or Passion is carried away to somthing which he conceives may be more profitable or delightful unto him He is a double-minded man unstable in his

at any time for some years then past I had had such thoughts as might minister matter to my Fancy so to work The Lord was pleased in a Dream and Vision of the night thus to seal Instruction unto my soul Job 33. 15 16. The Vision AT London I was apprehended by a shag hair'd Fellow without an hat of a deformed countenance He led me on I knew not whither until we came unto a Prison scituated where Westminster Hall stands At the entrance into the Hall The Front of the Prison was toward the Thames The Gate was wide and stood wide open The chief Prison-house was in view a cross-building within at the end of a Court-yard There was a window on the right hand of the Gate-house which had a strong Iron grate before it as had the windows on the side-buildings on the left hand toward the chief Prison house through which I could discern mens faces At the entrance of the chief Prison-house stood the Jaylor a grim man in black He seeing of us presently comes to us to the gate and turning my Apprehender a little aside to whisper with him As they were whispering my Apprehender let go his hold I perceiving his hand off thought it best to run for my safety and betook me to my heels My Apprehender pursues me But having the start of him I was gotten so far before him that I could not hear him following Having now ran almost as far as the Savoy and looking back to see at what distance I had left him I could see a good way off a Gentleman who had stopped him in his pursuit and by the hair of his head having pulled him down upon his knees was beating of him with a Battoon I still fearing that he might get loose and follow me ran on until I came at the Savoy where I ran down a pair of stairs Which stairs delivered me on to a square Brick building raised one Story from the ground left so that the work might be continued having Beams and Jyces laid ready for a Floor and second Story In this Building I wa● perswaded I might hide my self from my Pursuer Whereupon attempting to get down between two of the Jyces there were men below within the Building who endeavoured by thrusting at me with an Halberd and long staves to hinder my Descent But the danger I fled from made me so resolute that putting by their thrusts I got down in spight of them I was no sooner below but they were all vanished From hence I was immediatly transferred into the Tower of the Temple-Church and standing where the Essigies of the Knights-T●mplars lie then not to be seen all fear of being again taken by my Pursuer was now ceased I cast mine eye up to the top of the Tower where my sight was limited by a Cloudy resemblance Round about on the sides the Tower was scaffolded up from the Pavement as in a Theater Under the Scaffolds I observed certain men as if lurking there to hinder people in their ascent I awaked and musing upon the Vision in my mind and finding that it had a kind of orderly dependance one part upon another assoon as I arose I wrote it down and gave I know not what Interpretation of it The writing unminded lay among my loose Papers many years until which I believe was nine or ten years after the Lord was pleased to lay upon me the heavy burden of a wounded Spirit In mine extremity which was so high that I feared death having over-looked my loose Papers and this Vision cursorily among the rest I cast them into the fire The Occasion of recalling of the Vision AFter some dayes the Lord having been pleased to resettle me and to speak Peace to my soul as I have shewed in my salve for the Wounded Spirit reflecting my thoughts upon my time spent in that before-mentioned Family as also upon the great secular preferments which I then missed of I was not a little troubled at my supposed loss Yet when I remembred that I stood a long time silent as amazed c I had a strong perswasion in me that the Lord in Mercy had with-held those p●eferments from me I sued unto him by earnest Prayer that if it were so he would be pleased to discover it unto me that upon my sense of his Mercy I might bless his Name for it It was not long after my Prayer was ended before the Lord afforded me this gracious return thereof bringing freshly to my by my late illness much weakned memory the Vision which I had so long and so much slighted Which a little pondering upon I called to mind whereof I was afterwards in another dream assured by a voyce saying It was the Gatehouse That the Gate-house of that Prison to which I was brought with the inward Prison-house windows and side-buildings thereof were just like unto the Gate-house or Lodge the inward Buildings windows and side-Buildings of that House wherein I had lived with that Noble Personage whcih also being scituate in a Town upon the River on the same side had its Front towards the Thames Whereupon by him to whom alone they do belong Gen. 40. 8. I was presently enabled to give this Interpretation That the Apprehender was my Corruption That it had brought me to the mouth of Hell in bringing me to that Family and so near unto the Law the course I must have returned to and gone on in had the offered Favour been accepted That the man in black at the entrance of the Chief Prison-House was the Devil ready to seize upon me That the Gentleman beating of my Pursuer was the Holy Spirit restraining of my Corruption That the Stairs put me in mind to humble my self for my sins The Building I interpreted to be the Building of Grace begun in my Soul The men within to be my spiritual Enemies violently opposing of me The Scaffolds in the Tower of the Temple-Church a direction for a gradual improvement in Grace The men under them my spiritual enemies watching advantages to hinder mine Improvement This more general Interpretation served then to settle me in what I sued to be satisfied in with much comfort assuring me dayly more and more that I was delivered from the mouth of Hell as to those Relations and to that course But since upon more serious consideration and throughly weighing of each particular circumstance in the Vision I find that I have great cause to bless God in the super abundant riches of his Mercy in that when I sued only for satisfaction ●n that forementioned Particular he not only shewed me what he had done for me as to that But likewise That he had freed me from the slavery of my Corruption which so long and so powerfully had prevailed ever me and so had delivered me from the power of darkness and had translated me into the Kingdom of his Dear Son Col. 1. 13. Directing of me what now I was to do To humble my self