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A46909	Balsamum Britannicum, Brittains balm: or, The means of recovery for a languishing kingdom Preached in a sermon before the honourable judges for the Northern Circuite, at the generall assizes holden in the Citie of Yorke, 21. March, 1647. By John Johnson Mr. of A. and minister of Methley in Yorkeshire, [sic]	Johnson, John, minister of Methley.	1648 (1648)	Wing J781A; ESTC R219111	20,947	65

Balsamum Britannicum Brittains Balm OR The means of recovery for a languishing Kingdom Preached in a Sermon before the Honourable Judges for the Northern Circuite at the generall Assizes holden in the Citie of Yorke 21. March 1647. By John Johnson Mr. of A. and Minister of Methley in Yorkeshire Prov. 14. 34. Righteousnesse exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach to any people Prov. 16. 12. It is an abomination to commit wickednesse for the Throne it established by righteousnesse Printed at York by THO: BROAD 1648. To the Right Worshipfull and his much honoured friend John Savile of Methley Esquire and High-Sheriffe of the Countie of York SIR ONe being friendly chidden that he did not write Books made this answer ut libet non licet ut licet non libet As he would he could not and as he could he would not I confesse I have been often expostulated withall by some particular friends relations who usually over rate whom they love 〈…〉 hy in this scribbling age wherein the Pen is so Rheumatick I have never appeared in Print ● but my answer is made before I attest the searcher of hearts never thought any light that shone from my darknesse worthy to bee set on so publique a Stage especially in this censorious age which like August● Caesar Taxeth all the World wherein by reason of the contrarietie of mens judgements and affections Sermons are made b●● the Whetstones for men to sharpen their tongues upon The causes which move me a● this time to be more publique besides the importunitie 〈◊〉 friends the ordinary Midwif● of the Presse are these first that I might once in my life bestow a small Token on the Spou 〈…〉 of Christ and secondly that might in a slender gift give a testimony of a not slender affection towards you not having wherewithall further to honour you The State hath put the white Rod in your right hand let me take the boldnesse to put a Role in your left It was the custome of the subjects of Artaxerxes King of the Persians to present him something in his travell a poor labouring man having nothing else brought him a little water from the River that ran by and presented it with both his hands which the King did with a cheerfull countenance accept esteeming it as honourable to receive small things from a large heart as to impart great If my abililitie were as large as my heart I would do more to honour you bee pleased therefore to accept what I can since I cannot doe what I would These poor thoughts of mine must needs redound upon your selfe for every thing must acknowledge its first Spring and rise they were yours in service to your desire be pleased to let them be yours in acceptance and Patronage The God of truth and peace give you to be famous in Ephrata and do worthily in Bethlehem that you may lay out all your power and affections in a flaming zeal of the glory of Gods truth and the Kingdoms peace which is the constant prayer of him who is Your Worships affectionate servant John Johnson Zach. 8. 16 17. Preface These are the things ye shall doe speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour execute the judgement of truth and peace in your gates And let none of you imagine evill in your hearts against his neighbour and love no false Oath for all these are things that I hate saith the Lord Text. THe ancient Jews saith the Talmud testifie that there were three Crowns that made Israel renowned the Crowne of the Law the Crown of the King and the Crown of the Priest and of these three Crowns say they that of the Law was most glorious To say nothing of other Crowns which are Noli metangerees it is no small comfort to us to see the Law weare its Crown again there is an unavoidable interruption and silence of Law inter strepitum armorum when the beat of the Drum drowns the voice of the Cryer where the Sword is rampant Laws are dormant and errours and licentiousnesse are passant yet it is our comfort that now again we see judgement runne down our streets like water and righteousnesse as a mighty stream The Magistracy and the Ministerie are like Rachel and Leah which two do build the house of the Lord and their administrations should not interfeer but mutually accord and lend strength each to other Verbum informans virga reformans The informing Word and the reforming Sword suite very well together Jewish antiquitie tells us that though the inferiour Courts of Justice sat in the Gates of their Cities yet the great Sannedrim sat in Atri 〈…〉 Templi near the Porch of the Temple in a place called Gazith The Pavement We are not so presumptuous as to thrust our Oar into your Boat or put the least of our fingers into your affairs of state out of the sphear of our Callings yet the Lamps of the Temple may give light to the House of Judgement and though I do not doubt but that though neither I nor any other had spoken at this time yet your affairs would bee both regurall and honourable yet your speed will not be worsif your Chariot Wheels be axelled or Oyled for a whet is no let Apology Expect not that I should lay the Cockatrice Egges of Sychophatrie in in your ears it is the misery of greatnesse that they see their faces oftenest in slattering-glasses flatterie is but the Ape of friendship and hath everie thing of a friend but a discreet reproof If this Text be sharper Steeled then some would and speak out more then some would hear or have heard for I would not muzzle its mouth I hope you are wiser then to thinke every word of advice a stain to your Authoritie I know none so great but God may have leave to speake to him I come not to weaken your hands but to strengthen them to righteousnesse It is not my intention to cast the least spott upon any mans face I know who hath said Thou shalt not speak evill of the Ruler of thy people my heart and tongue doth honour your persons and places I had rather goe backward and cover a bewayled nakednesse I know as Micha saith my words shall bee good to them that walk uprightly it will be the comfort of the faithfull when his wayes shall be laid to this Rule and his righteousnesse to this Plummet and shall finde his soule answer to this Text as face to face in a glasse with a spiritual Eccho Lo I come to do thy will O Lord I would not bee so unfaithfull to God as to be frighted unto a mealy-mouth'd basenesse I have not been a Courtier to complement with men in the things of God seria seriò in weighty things we must deal in earnest neither would I be so injurious to man as to cast any dis-respect on them who are beyond my suspition much more my accusation but if in such a numerous

a Nation Vse of in ∣ struction But yet to come nearer home there are here the Magistrates of the Kingdom of the Countrey and of the Citie and it is probable I may never have such an auditory again therefore let me ask you Would you see the recovery glory and well-fa●re o● this Commonwealth would you see this Nation which if your Sunn will goe but a few degrees backward you saw a Golgotha an Aceldama a field of Blood and Skuls rejoyce againe and blossome as a Rose our withered Olive to grow green and fear no more the year of drought would you see this shattered Kingdome made the praise of the whole earth this little Hill advanced above all hills that the people might flow unto it that every one might take hold of the skirt of an Englishman and say Wee will bee called by thy name for the Lord is with you Would ye see our breaches repaired and our borded enlarged and Zion to shine forth in perfect beautie Would ye have the Candle of the Lord to shine on our head our steps washed with Butter and the Rocks to powre out rivers of Oyle Would ye lie down in green pastures and none to make you afraid would ye have her that hathlyen amongst the Pots have the wings of a Dove that is covered with silver and her feathers as gold Would ye have blessings on the head of Joseph and to rest on the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren Would yee have the Island compassed about with mercies as it is with water Would ye bee built and not pulled down planted and not plucked up would ye be as a defenced Citie an iron Pillar a brasen wall the garden of God where every precious stone may be your covering O thou afflicted tossed with tempests and not comforted Wouldst thou have thy stones laid with faire colours thy foundation with Saphire thy windows made of Agate thy gates of Carbuncle and all thy border precious stones hee that would not have these things let him be as Admah and Zeboim as the dung of Endar let his name be written in the dust or in the Gadarens Swine-Coat If ye would then take home this councell of the Prophet let me unbutten your Velvet Coats and unloose your Scarlet robes that I may anoint this Balsome on the region of your hearts Execute the judgment c. I look upon you as upon edged Pictures one way I see you as gods and on the other side I see you as men but a little higher dust let me awhile lay aside your greatnesse and deals with your goodnesse if there be any love to God any bowels of compassion to our distressed mother any respect to a languishing Common-wealth thinke on these things God hath after a sort put the welfare of England in your hands you are eyes to the blind ears to the deaf tongues to the dumb supporters to the weak shelters to the oppressed you are as Constantine said of himself Bishops without the Church as Ministers are within imploy your greatnesse for God for the Common-wealth advance Truth and Peace Truth will make you free and Peace will make you great First advance spirituall truth you are to see that we lead a godly life as well as a quiet honour the Gospell with your greatnesse else how will you be provided to answer God when hee shall call for an account of your Stewardship and shall say For all the blessings I have heaped upon you and for all the powers that I have put in your hand what hath my glory the purity of my Worship what hath my Law my Gospell my Day my Ministers beene the better for you Of all the power that yee have exercised how much for me Buy the truth and sell it not the Merchandize of it is better than salver and the gaine thereof better than gold And for this purpose let me in Gods stead beseech you to imploy your parts and power First to purge out the old Leaven shall it be said of this Reformation as it was of that when we first came out of Babylon that we swept the house but the house sweepings were but cast behinde the doore that a Hen might scatter them abroad againe Is this the Reformation of England that we should be as a Beggars Cloak for one piece of new three patches of old for one Minister that walketh according to the Directory of Gods Word and the States three that keep in still the Onyons and the Garlick of traditionary Ceremonies Is this the fruit of our Oath to God to bring all to one uniformity Secondly to keep out the new Leaven to stop the spreading of the Gangrene can you be nursing fathers and mothers to truth and errour at once Hath a Magistrate power to keep our daughters from being ravished and not souls from being seduced to keep our heads from being broken and not our souls from being wounded to punish them that shal put Ratsbane in our meat and not them that corrupt the bread of our life To confine a man that goeth about with a running Plague-soar and not to stop their mouthes that by seducing poyson souls Are they under the Magistrates cognizance that shall say There is no King no Parliament no House of Lords and not those that say There is no Law no Christ no Ministers no truth of God nor Church of God in the earth Is this the Reformation we have covenanted for fought for prayed and fasted for an intollerable toleration Were Heresies and their growth worthy to be fasted and prayed against and are they now fit to be connived at Have we cast out the c. Oath and bring in an c toleration a new fyled Key for the bottomlesse Pit God forbid that our Reformation should prove to be but a League with the Devill Secondly advance politicall truth in the due exercise of justice and judgement Prov. 31. 9. Judge righteously plead the cause of the poor and needy Isa. 28. 17. Lay judgement to the rule and righteousnesse to the plummet Levit. 19. 15. Do no unrighteousnesse in judgement respect not the person of the poor nor honour the person of the mighty but in righteousnesse judge your neighbours else thoughye be gods remember ye shall die like men let not the hight of your places raise you out of the fight of God and your end Secondly advance Peace pray for it live for it judge for it that the sword may bee beaten into Plough-shares And for this purpose let mee commend three things to you as furtherances to this and though in this I shall be perchance construed as one that heaps Coals on the fire of strife I have no such aim God is witnesse 1. Wave masterfull standing upon your particular ayms and ends I shall account him a man of peace that will say as Jonas Cast me over-boord rather then I should breed or

it beastly beasts will not bee beaten into excesse I may rather say as Bernard Ebrietas manifestissimus damon for it casts some into the fire and some into the water Augustine thought in his time that drunkenness was grown to that hight that nothing could cure it but a generall Counsell but O unto what hight is this inundation of drunkennesse grown to now that it overtops all the mountains of power raised against it growne to such a Gyantlike greatnesse that though wee have law upon law precept upon precept Parliament upon Parliament yet it still reels and staggers in our streets the Island swimms in drunkennesse as it doth in water it s a wonder that a land so full of drink doth not spue us out O that you would put down the supernumerary nests of these Vipers 3. Conjure the roaring swearer into silence it loosed the tongue of Craesus his son before dumb to see his fathers life in danger can our fathers blood bee in our veines and hear Gods name torn worse than one would do their old shoos and yet neither have our hearts loosed to grieve nor our tongues to reprove nor our hands to punish or restrain One cries blood another cries wounds another cries heart thus they crucifie againe the Lord of glory in some companies you shall have vollies of oathes oaths by whole-sale by the dozen by the grose men swearing before they can pray children swearing by Gods name before they can tell their owne It s a wonder the Sun shrinks not up into heaven and covers it self with darknesse as at the passion of Christ to see such monsters 4. Vindicate the Lords dayes fastdayes from contempt Is there never a zealous Nehemiah to shut the gates of Hierusalem that there should not bee such walking such riding such carrying of packs such driving of Cattle shall the Lords day be no way known but by shut-shops and finer clothes if there be laws against these things and others for I cannot instance in all why not executiō in these as wel as in others if not but that every one may doe as he list then write A Lord have mercy upon our Englands Head Conclusion Honourable and Worshipfull of all sorts upon whose shoulders the government either of Kingdom Countrey or Citie lyeth consider what is the good and acceptable will of God towards you from these words if my zeale hath transported me into more boldnesse then you think convenient know that as you judge so we preach not for men but for the Lord Let this Text therefore bee as a phylacterie on the garments of your honour write it on the table of your hearts let it bee ever in your eyes in your ears in your hearts let it eat with you and drinke with you let it sleepe with you and wake with you let it sit with you and judge with you let conscience which is the cud of the soul preach this over again to you when my voyce shall be buried in silence I adjure you by the love of God by the honour of names by the judgment of the last day when you that now sit in judgment shal also stand at the Bar by your loyatie love to the Commonwealth think of what hath been said accordingly execute the judgement of truth and ●eace in your gates Now the God of truth and peace grant you to be thus minded Amen FINIS Weemes Synagog pag. 170. Amos 5. Ezra 5. 1. Exod. 22. 27. Mich. 2. 7 Zach. 2. 6. Psa. 103. 6. Zach. 1. 21. Zach. 12. 3. 2. Peace underminers ● The Schismatick 2 Pet. 2. 1. 2 Kin. 9. 22 Isa. 35. 1. Isa. 67. 7. and 2. 2. Zach. 8. 23 Deut. 11. 20. Iob 29. 3. Iob 29. 6. Psa. 23. 3. Psa. 98. 13. Deut. 33. 16. Ps. 32. 10. Ier. 24. 6. Eze 28. 13 Eze. 54. 11 I. 1 Tim. 2. 2 Pro. 23. 23 Psa. 82. 6. Pro. 29. 25 Act. 18. 14.