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A95349	The balme of Gilead, for the wounds of England: applyed in a sermon preached at Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commmons, at the late solemne fast, August 30. 1643. / By Anthony Tuckney, B.D. sometimes Fellow of Eman. Colledge in Cambridge, and now pastor at Boston in the county of Lincoln. Published by order of that House.	Tuckney, Anthony, 1599-1670.; England and Wales. Parliament. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing T3210; Thomason E69_4; ESTC R886	39,718	52

to have healed them as long as sanctuary oyle poured in them and yet the cure is not wrought for all this the Lord and his Ark are in Zion and yet the daughter of Zion continueth wounded and her wound not healed Which holds out that a people may live under good ordinances and yet sadly groane under heavie pressures and miseries 3 A good King and righteous administrations Is not her King in her verse 19. Zion being not only the place of the Arke but also the Kings Palace and therfore called the City of David in which therefore besides the Ark of God was David the servant 2 Sam. 5. 7. of God or some of his posterity there sitting on the Throne as Iosiah for no lesse then eighteene years of Ieremiahs time And what Kings evill so dangerours as that he might not cure but for all that the cure could not be the inflamation of the wound continued notwithstanding all that he was and did the Lord ●urned not from the fiercenesse of his wrath that was kindled and could not be quenched Which further sheweth that the case sometimes 2 Kings 23. 26. may be so farre gone as that neither Church Ordinance nor Civill Government can for the present at least recover a poore fainting dying Church and People 4 All likeliest outward supplies either at home or from abroad verse 20. The Harvest is past and Summer is ended and we are not saved Harvest useth to be the income of our Store but its past and no provision laid in of our selves nor help come from our friends or Allies now that after harvest they might be most likely to be at best leasure but is there any thing yet behinde which may supply us or for the time detaine them that with any comfort and hope we may wait yet any longer Yes Vintage is after Harvest stay therefore till that be past and it may afford something to cheare us and then they may have nothing to doe but to come and help us The next clause answers that and saith that 's past too not only Harvest is past but also summer and so vintage also is ended after which no crop is to be expected and we are not saved Which last expression saith expressely thus much that hopefullest outward helps in likeliest times and seasons may faile the Church of God and she droop still even pine in Harvest and faint in Vintage All but further explaining the metaphor of the Text that the daughter of Zion may be so deadly sick and wounded that notwithstanding best meanes used even Gileads balm applied Yet 1 Her health at least for the present not at all recovered shee no whit mended 2 That 's not all not recovered is but a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Prophet meaneth more then he expresseth he would say or at least have you understand that its much more indangered as sores if they doe not heale they rankle and the sick mans sicknesse if his physick work not proves more deadly 1 Old diseases whether inward or outward are more discovered it may be confirmed or at least for present much more exasperated it s usually so with diseased bodies and we now full sadly see it so in the bodies of these wofully distempered Kingdoms When I would have healed Israel then the iniquity the perverse crooked iniquity of Ephraim was discovered and the wickedness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nay the wickednesses as the word is in the originall the manifold and monstrous wickednesse of Samaria we may say as truly of England never so desperately sick of both sin and misery as since of late we have been under cure our old lurking distempers are now fully manfested 2 New ones multiplyed as in bodily diseases one begets another and the sick man that lay downe with one disease before he get up againe hath gotten many too sadly made good in the sinnes and miseries of a distempered of our distempered people There is a new rising in the old bile which of old was dangerous and omnious new sinnes and sinners discovered by an affliction which before were never suspected and new judgements Levit. 13. 18 19 20. multiplied even to foure times seven times more which before it may be were never feared and the worst of it is that the Levit. 26. 18 2● 24 28. Devill appeares to be much in it when the latter end doth prove so much worse then the beginning of it Matth. 12. 45. 3 So as that to present sense she may seem to bee incurable and her health wholly irrecoverable when after all helps she not only negatively is nothing better no mends as though shee had had no meanes which is the meaning of the question Is there no Balm whilst there is no healing by it but also positively growes much worse that her physick proves her poyson and her very Balm envenoms her wound it is a poysoned one indeed and in mans eye absolutely incurable Of this point if Iudah of old and England now for the present were not too sad instances I should adde further proofes but they spare me that labour and therefore I come to a third point which will serve partly for the reason and partly for the use of this second Doct. 3 It was That the reason of this heavy case is diligently to bee enquired after and sadly to be bemoaned and complained of And this wee had from the second question Why then c. which was as we heard a question partly of enquiry and partly of an expostulating and bemoaning complaint and so let it be to us this day of our selfe-searching humiliation First matter of enquiry of what should be the reason of this ill successe when in the beginning of the Parliament we were as a ship under saile before the wind bound amain for the faire havens of the peace and happinesse of Church and State that now retro omnia but what unhappy remora or Anchor under water not yet seen hath stopt us in this happy course from what quarter hath this crosse blast blown that hath driven us againe into the depths and dasht us so against the rocks that all threaten shipwrack or rather in the expression of the Text when all promised so happy a cure Physicians so able balme so precious the daughter of our people so sick of her sicknesse and so desirous of a recovery all in such a fast healing way what is the matter that we are fallen into so desperate a relapse that all lies a bleeding gasping and in the view of most dying quite away For answer whereto we must needs say that the cause of all this must be in one of these three either first in the Physician and his physick or secondly in the Patient and his distemper or thirdly in some other negligent or ill-minded Attendant or stander-by 1. I begin with the last first and for it when the question was How came such choaking tares to spring up in a so well-sown

Sam. 13. 4. Ezek. 18. 31. expostulating complaint That such admirable helps should be no more helpfull meanes so proper and precious so unsuccessefull that Gileads balme the best medicine and Gileads Physician who best knew how to apply it could work no better a cure on a poore dying people Is there no balme in Gilead is there no Physician there and then why O why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered A little for the explication of the words By Gilead understand either the City so called Hos 6. 8. Gilead Schindler 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad vocem Leut. 34. 1. 1 Kings 4. 19. Mercer in Gen. 31. 47. which is conceived to bee a chiefe Emporium where such commodities were sold or the Land and Countrey of Gilead as it is elsewhere called in Scripture containing the whole lot of the two Tribes and halfe on other side Iordan as appeares from 1 Kings 10. 33. where the plant that afforded it especially abounded so wee read of the Ishmaelites that bought Ioseph carrying balme from Gilead to Egypt Gen. 37. 25. and the daughter of Egypt is bidden to fetch balme from Gilead Ier. 46. 11. and accordingly Ezek. 27. 17. we finde it to be one of the speciall commodities that Iudah and the land of Israel traffiqued with Tyrus in according to that of Pliny Balsam●● 〈◊〉 12. cap. 25. uni terrarum Iudeae concessum as though balme were a peculiar largesse vouchsafed by God to Iudea only there only to bee had or at least as Sylvius observeth the best there only God willing that all other Nations should be beholden to Israel for balme it may be thereby hinting to us that he would have the whole world beholden to his Church for healing Balme for nature and kind the juice or oyle which a lower Balme shrub growing especially about * Ab 〈◊〉 sui suavitate nomen tobi dedisse creditur Mol●er in Psal 133. 2. Iericho the bark of it being cut with glasse or bone or Ivory knives weeps or bleeds out For price and worth such as Dioscorides saith that in his dayes it was sold for double its weight in silver Pliny affirmes that in his time a thousand of their pence one of which was the sixth part of an ounce was given for a quart of it so that as Rhenodeus conceiveth onely Kings and great men had it and used it For vertue and efficacy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the fore-mentioned Author most strong and soveraigne Medicina difficillimorum morborum welnigh a Catholicon for diseases and a cure for the worst I list not here Shindler to reckon up to you all that they say its good for whether applyed inwardly or outwardly how it helps the eye-sight and breathing easeth the head-ach qualifieth fevers c. but especially to my purpose ulcera purgat c. it cleanseth foulest sores healeth deepest wounds and cureth the most venomous stinging of Serpents and the like This was in the letter Gileads balme To which the Prophet in the Text joyneth its Physician Artists Physician using to abound where they have such great plenty of materials many good Physicians whereso much good physick Both which put together in the true meaning of our Prophet hold out compleat meanes fully able in genere mediorum to work a perfect cure even when the wound or disease is otherwise most deadly and desperate And yet here they failed for notwithstanding them the latter part of the Text sayth that the health of the daughter of that people was not recovered for the clearing of which expression I should abuse your attention and time both better now to bee improved should I be large in Grammaticall criticismes upon this Hebraisme of The daughter of my people lesser Townes and Villages in the simplicity of that holy Tongue are called the daughters of the Metropolis or mother City and the Citizens Iosh 17. 16. or Inhabitatants of any City or Countrey the Sonnes of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fil● populi mei for populares mei but leave we those Gen. 2● 1● observations and take it here plainly the daughter of my people for the body of that people that Virgin daughter of Zion 〈…〉 who though as tenderly beloved of God as tenderest daughter by dearest parent is or can be yet by her wilfull casting of her selfe into a desperate sicknesse of sinne shee had made the wound of her misery incurable incorrigiblenesse in sin against all best meanes ended in ●rrecoverablenesse of misery notwithding all best medicines this latter I conceive is here especially intended though the former is presupposed because in point of sinne therefore also in point of misery although there was balme in Gilead and a Physician there yet the ●rophet complaines that the health of the daughter of his people was not recovered From which words thus explained we may observe these three particulars 1. That there is balme in Gilead and a Physician there 2. That for all that the health of Gods people for the present may not bee recovered 3. That in such a case the cause hereof is diligently to bee ●nquired after and most sadly to bee bemoaned and complained of Is there no balme in Gilead as much as if he had said Yes there is there is the first The health of the daughter of my people is not recovered there is the second 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quare ●gitur Why then O why then So the Prophet expostulates with his people and mournes over their misery there 's the third Doct 1 The first was There is balme in Gilead and a Physician there i. e. meanes in the Church and amongst the people of God sufficiently abundantly able to cure their deadliest wounds and to recover them from desperatest miseries The meaning of the question Is there not being as we have heard yes for certaine there is as in every Countrey there is usually a medicine for its owne proper diseases so in Gods inheritance there is balme to cure all and as some conceited Physicians say there is a naturall balsom in mans body so for certaine there is a most soveraigne balme dropt down from the head in the body of Christ which can heale all its sicknesses and wounds it being Our Fathers house in which there is bread enough to relieve the poorest pined prodigall Luke 15. 17. Gods inheritance in which all his springs lie to refresh the mo●● thirsty fainting creature Psal 87. 7. The very myrothecium or repository in which God hath laid up all his most soveraigne oyles and balsomes fully able to maintaine and recover his peoples health in all their deadliest extremities so that in them all in the worst of all we may say Yet God is good to Israel Psal 73. 1. and as desperate as the case seemes to be Yet there is hope in Israel concerning this Ezra 10. 2. or that or what ever it is there is hope in Israel concerning

Rom. 15. 29. as manifestly appeared in the outward flourish and prosperity of those Eastern Churches and Countreys when that morning Sun-arose upon them in the East which is now set in a cloud of slavery and misery since it hath left them and is come and is yet further going west-ward In those former times under the Law you shall observe that when the Ark went before it led them safe through an over-flowing Iordan that Iosh 3. 11 13 14 c. Psal 128. 5. 134. 3. God was wont to blesse them out of Zion that as long as the anointing oyle was kept holy in the Sanctuary it proved an healing oile to the whole body of that people the State ever continuing safe whilst Gods Ordinances were kept pure as on the contrary it was not till Gods Temple was wholly defiled and his servants and Prophets horribly abused that their City and Kingdom were totally and finally ruined and their cure came to be desperate to an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so that there was no remedy 2 Chron. 36. 16. And for all after ages under the Gospel and that in all places and Countreys the Temple hath ever helped to shoare up the Town-house the Church the State which have been like Hypocrates his twins smiling and weeping living and dying together most of the deadliest wounds that the Church nay that the world hath gotten have been from God in the quarrell of his Temple and as poysonous Doctrines in the Church have ever proved invenomed wounds to the Common-wealth and bad Ministers in the one worst plagues to the other so on the other side the holy Ordinances of God have been found to be soveraigne balmes and blessings to each wholsome Ordinance of man even sharpest Church-censures most wholsome State-medicines and ablest godly Ministers amongst best Physicians in their right applying and dispensing of them accordingly 4. Nay in the last place leave we not out the least and meanest of Gods Servants for balme wee heard dropped from a lower shrub and the health of the whole body of Christ may have much contributed to it by the lowest and weakest member of it the little finger in some posture of the hand may reach that which the great finger cannot and the lowest member of Christ may be fittest to doe some good office in this kinde which the highest cannot so well stoop to at least I am sure the little childe may reach its sick mother her physick nay the poorest childe of God in the sense wee now speak of may help to make it too The poore wise man saved the City and the poore Christian if hee Eccles 9. 15. be wise may help to heale a whole Nation here pardon my homelinesse nor take it as a light expression in a sad day we are all either fooles or Physicians for certainly he is a foole or worse that knoweth not how to say or doe something towards the healing o● the body of Christ The just deliver the Island the Lord grant they may deliver ours Iob 23. 30. Their severall graces according to severall occasions are in this kinde very instrumentall and effectuall they are saving graces every way accompanying their owne eternall salvation and much advancing the temporall salvation both of themselves and others Heb. 6. 9 10. Whilst Faith in the tempest gets to the rock and Hope casts anchor Love pities and Christian courage ventures Meeknesse angreth not the sore but Patience quietly endures the searching and as quietly waites on God for healing Their very presence is both antidote to prevent a disease and an healing medicine to keep it when it is come from proving mortall God could not destroy Sodom as long as Lot was in it Gen. 19. 22. and Paul being in the ship though he did not prevent the storme or save the ship yet he saved the lives of all them that failed with Acts 27. 24. him in it Their prayers especially use in this case to be most soveraignly healing 2 Chron. 7. 14. The prayer of faith saveth the sick both man and Kingdom such strong breathings like strong windes Iames 5. 15. whilst they are up keep great showres from falling can blow away the most black and bloody cloud yea even blow the most smarting wound whole such sweet lips are ever dropping balme into the wounds of the Church and such of all other may truliest come under that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that healing tongue which Solomon Prov. 15. 4. saith is a t●ee of life and it would seeme not more sad then strange to see that Eden where many such trees grow to become a wildernesse As long as I shall see God maintaining and encreasing the number of his gracious praying servants in any place or people whatsoever or how deadly soever their wounds otherwise may be I dare yet say that so long there is hope in Israel there is some balme left in that Gilead and so many good Physicians there Vse 1 Which in the application of the point thus proved and cleared may in the first place serve for a cordiall to the people of God now in these our sad faintings and distill some drops at least of this balme of Gilead into our now bleeding wounds which with our Prophet cap. 15. 18. we may perhaps begin to feare are grown halfe incurable The sad face of things like the Physicians facies Hypocratica of a dying man I confesse looks very ghastly and the symptoms tantum non deadly but pine not away ye sons of Iacob there is corne in Egypt die not quite away deare-bleeding A● Gen. 42 1 2. hearts you Israel of God there is balme in Gilead wee have heard there is yet a Physician there For according to former particulars Is not the Lord in Zion is not God where he was in heaven and in his Church as well now as ever Yet thou O Lord art in the midst of us could our Prophet say in that sick houre of theirs then Ier. 14. 9. and Lord thou art not quite gone from us may we thankfully say now in ours Indeed as you there have it it is as a wayfaring Ver. 8. man comming and going now in this discovery and deliverance comming to us in mercy and ere long being driven away by our unkindnesse turning the back on us and seeming to leave us in displeasure and as a mighty man in the mighty works that our eyes have seene yet standing so amazed and astonished at our sinnes as that he cannot save and yet as a most loving Physician when he cannot as yet cure us yet he cannot leave us His discovering and preventing many direfull plots speaks out the wisdome of our discerning Physician in his prognosticks His dealing with us in a more thorow way chusing rather to pirch us then not to presse corruption out of us declares his faithfulnesse that he meaneth rather to heale then only to skin the sore and rather to profit then to please