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cause_n	work_n	wound_n	wrought_v	15	3	8.8291	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96131	A preparative for the fast, or, a sovereigne balsome for the cure of the distempers of the times.	Weall, Job, 17th cent.	1642 (1642)	Wing W1186; Thomason E133_8; ESTC R23066	7,430	19

is provoked to wrath There may be sinnes of Superiours as well as sinnes of Interiours there may be sinnes in the Court and sinnes in the Parliament Sinnes of Vniversities and sinnes of those streames that flow from thence sinnes of the Citie and sinnes of the Country sinnes of the Clergie and which is to be lamented scandalous seditious and Schismaticall sinnes of Professours and such as take themselves to be and peradventure some of them are of Gods owne Isael and chosen people wherewith God is and will be much incensed and offended When these are well discovered and notice also given by Advice of Authority that true Repentance may be faithfully and respectively preached and Reformation in generall and particular endeavoured otherwise the cure will be but Palliative and Master left for Recidivation Humiliation without Reformation is but Hypocrisie which will end in Apostacie There must be true and plaine dealing with the Almighty hee seeth and knowes every mans heart and wayes and ponders all our doings It is not any particular blaming one another wil excuse us to him not the Cities crying out on the Country or Country on the Citie or the like Every one must put his hand to this genreall work every one that hath had but one hand in breaking downe our Partition wall must lend both hands to build it up againe But those that have lent both their hands to pull it downe and more then their owne hands too as well in the Primary as in the instrumentall cause had need to give more then ordinary diligence to the speedy rebuilding thereof againe And whosoever that is not willing to put his helping hand hereunto let him partake of those miseries which his owne hands have wrought It agrees not with my disposition to grate and stir in those wounds they have already by some bin laid open and may indue time be more largely discovered by others to whom it properly belongs I shall rather lend my hand to close them up to which end till better Remedies are found out I shall make bold to recommend and Present a most soveraigne and pretious Balme for all Solutions of Vnity whatsoever It is composed of many severall Ingredients of admirable vertue It is Saint Pauls Balsamum Charitatis It is his Sine quibus esse nole You shall finde the Receipt in the first of Corinthians the 13 Chapter where also you may ready the Description of the severall Vertues and Operations thereof Charity saith he suffers long and is kind Charity envies not Charity vaunts not it selfe Is not puffed up doth not behave it selfe unseemly seekes not her owne is not easily provoked thinks no evill Rejoyceth not in iniquity but rejoyceth in the Truth Beareth all things Beleeveth all things hopeth all things eudureth all things The farther excellency and necessity thereof is expressed in the said Chapter Though I speake with the tongues of men and of Angels saith he and have not Charity I am become as sounding brasse or a tinckling Cymball and though I have the gift of Prophecic and anderstand all misteries and all knowledge and though I have all faith so that I could remove Mountaines and have no Charity I am nothing And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poore though I give my Body to be burned and have not Charity it profiteth me nothing Charity never faileth but whether there be Prophecies shall faile whether there be tongues they shall cease whether there be Knowledge it shal vanish away And now abideth Faith Hope and Charity these three but the greatest of these is Charity This Composition includes the Prophet Micahs Tripharmacum viz. To doe justly to love Mercy and to walk humbly with thy God And what doth the Lord require more of thee O Man saith the Prophet This is that Balsamum Sympatheticum the true Panacca that will heale all our rents and divisions and it doth not only cure for the present but preserves for the future weare it as a Prophyactick about thee and goe notwithout it Hee that rejects it put a mark upon him and according to Solomons advice in the 24 Pro. Meddle not with him for hee feares not God and the King and is given to sedition Avoid such an one as thou wouldst doe a Viper a Crocodile a Basilisk or one that is infected with the Plague Our wounds being bound up with this Balme it hath been likewise humbly sought and prayed for that Religion may bee setled both in Doctrine and Discipline with all due and convenient speed and all Protestants especially Ministers united therein by Protestation and satisfactory explanations and reasons published thereof That the Conversion of all Papists and other Hereticall and Schismaticall Subjects in the Kingdome who have erred and gone astray from the Truth may in all charitable and Christian manner be endevoured with to be reduced home to the Church shewing them the necessity of our Separation from them or rathers as it is indeed their Apostacie from the true Church with which we partake the danger of the condition they are in the benefit of embracing these and the like gracious invitations extending to the good of their soules bodies and estates Thus many of them who certainly belong unto God may be brought home to him and made usefull and serviceable the rest left inexcusable to God the World and their own consciences That justice and judgment may be executed on such as have received such putrifaction that by their virulencie they infect and indanger others That the severall languishing oppressed whose cryes have entred the eares of the Lord some of whom for severall yeares have received almost deadly wounds for the mayatenance of the publike good may in good time be relieved and redressed That the well deserving may be incourage Virtue advanced and Vice depressed Thus God will be pacified and wee united and reconciled to him and amongst our selves Thus all those incoveniences and Mischiefs which we feare by Gods blessing on the unanimous endeavours of the Parliament may turne to our great blessing and commoditie Thus our Ship will arrive safely at her desired Port. Thus our treble Cord and Partition Wall will be made stronger then ever Thus those bloudy fiery and malignant Configurations which hang over our heads will be speedily terminated and their revolutions prevented for the future and wee shall receive more benigne and favourable influences and aspects from above then ever wee had before Thus wee shall begin a new World or at leastwise make a happy Conclusion of an old Wherein God will give us one heart and one Way as it is in Jeremiah that wee may feare him for ever for the good of us and our Children after us God I say will doe it for He and He only is able to unite and heale all our Solutions and therefore Not unto us Lord not unto us but unto thy name be given the Glory and Prayse now and for evermore Amen I. W. PErlegi Tractatum hunc ingeniosum in quo nihil inveniri potest quod non sit pium religiosum bonismoribus legibusque sanis maxime consentaneum cessent itaquè virulentae malevolorum linguae hoc ut optima imò quidem omnia solent carpere opusculum acerbitatis suae virus in Authorem candidum evomere erubescant dum morosos imprudentes nostri hujus saeculi homunciones quorum insipidis palatis nihil nisi proprii cerebelli figmenta sapit ad rectam rationis legumque normam reducere conatur ab omnibus quibus curae est pax serena Ecclesiae heu nimis nunc temporis dilaceratae tranquillitas laudem uti benè meretur consequartur