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A14732	Balme from Gilead to recouer conscience In a sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse, Octob. 20. 1616. By Samuel Ward, Bach. of Diuinitie, and preacher of Ipswich.	Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640.; Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1618 (1618)	STC 25036; ESTC S119469	52,024	176

Balme from Gilead TO Recouer Conscience In a Sermon Preached at Pauls-Crosse Octob. 20. 1616. By SAMVEL WARD Bach. of Diuinitie and Preacher of IPSWICH Printed at London by T. S. for Roger Iackson and William Bladen and are to be sold neare the Conduit in Fleet-street and at the signe of the Bible at the great North-doore of Pauls 1618. To the READER VOuchsafe good Reader in a word or two to vnderstand the occasion of bringing this MEDITATION to the Presse that was purposed onely for the Pulpit the rather for that it commeth not from the Authors owne hand who would no doubt more exactly haue polished it could hee haue beene perswaded to publish it himselfe But hee out of his modestie as hee deliuered it not like a Scholler his Lesson learned without Booke nor brought with him any intent to haue it further made publi●e so could not be induced though instantly laboured both by my selfe and many others desiring further fruit of so learned and religious ● Labour eyther to publish it himselfe or to haue any hand at all in the publishing of it Howbeit at length vpon extreame importunitie rather to preuent the wrong that by imperfect Copies printed he might otherwise sustaine then to satisfie such as were earnest sutors to him for the same hee was with much adoe drawne before his departure from the Citie to deliuer his Notes to a friend with reference of the whole businesse to the iudgement and discretion of others to deale in and dispose of as they should deeme sit who being present at the speaking of it with the Authors Notes and his owne helpes hath done his endeauour to penne it as neare as he could to that which by the Author himselfe was then deliuered Which though it be not altogether verbatim the same yet it is hoped that there is not any thing materiall wanting that the diligent hearer shall desire besides that hee shall finde some things ouer and aboue that straits of Time and default of Memory were then a meanes to keepe backe If any aske what needed such importunitie in this businesse there being already so many Sermons abroad that euen Printers themselues complaine that the Presse is oppressed with them I answere True it is that there are Sermons indeede abroad by some more then enough but yet not enough I dare say it such as this is that deale so pit●ily so effectually in points of practise so necessary so ordinary as this doth wherein Learning and Pietie delightfull manner of handling together with profitable and vsefull matter so concurre that if it please not any they are those alone whose prophane palates can relish nothing that sauoureth of grace though ne●er so delightfull otherwise if it profit not any it is to be feared they are such whose corrupt Consciences are growne wel-neare irrecouerable if not wholy incurable But I am lo●th to be long where the worke it selfe is not This little be spoken rather in way of Apologie for my selfe and such others as vrged the publishing of it then in commendation of the Worke which in the very reading of it to any iudicious ingenious and religious will sufficiently commend it selfe For my selfe considering the generall approbation giuen it by all sorts that heard it together with the earnest suites of many others so in●tantly desiring it vpon their reports and finding vpon view and serueigh the thing it selfe fully to answere both the reports of the one and the desires of the other I was right willing and ready as hee speaketh in Plato though one barren hitherto in this kinde my selfe to performe some Midwiue-like office to another for the further enlargement of so generally blessed and so deseruedly desired a birth Wherein if thou shalt chance to finde any defects consider ●ut I pray thee how hard a thing it is for another though not vnskilfull to perfect a worke that some curious Artist hath left vnfinished And so wishing onely that it may through Gods gracious assistance eyther worke into or increase in thee a good Conscience and the comfort thereof I leaue the Worke to thy pervsall and it to his blessing whose gift a good Conscience is and with whom beside the present comfort of it heere is a plentifull reward reserued for it else-where Thine in Christ THOMAS GATA●RE Balme from Gilead TO Recouer Conscience HEBR. 13. 18. For wee are assured that wee haue a good Conscience desiring in all things to walke honestly I Will vse no other Preface but the short one before my Text and that not as a Preface but in way of earnest suite Pray for mee For I desire this day in treating of a GOOD CONSCIENCE both so my selfe to keepe and discharge one and so to speake home to yours that the dead Consciences may heare the voyce of God in my Text be quickened the secure ones awakened the troubled ones comforted the tender confirmed the good bettered and all receiue some light and life that wee may all depart hence in the peace of a Good conscience assured with our Apostle that we haue a good one desiring in all things to walke honestly This worke God witnessing to my Conscience I much desire to doe and in so doing I know I desire a worthy worke A worke so highly and peculiarly needfull for these times that a sharpe Seer of them was often heard to pray that God would stirre vp some to write and preach of this Argument and another to Augustines wish That hee might heare Paul preach addeth his owne That the Text and Theame might be CONSCIENCE they both saw it gasping drawing on and dying and therefore desired that some life might be put into and kept in it before it should be vtterly ouerwhelmed in death and darknesse The time indeede was in the beginning of Time when Adam by his first Sinne brought death vpon his Soule and caused it to raigne ouer all the powers of it that this Facultie had most life left in it like Iobs Messengers to tell newes of the great losse This little sparke was left fresh to shew what great light had beene extinguisht but now this also through affected blindnesse and wilfull malice is so smoothered and suffocated through a daily custome of sinning the eyes of it so pecked out the mouth so stopped the very heart of it so wounded and quelled that as the world iustly complaynes it is dead long since yea long since buryed in the graue of habituall sinning with the stone of hardnesse rouled vpon it that as Mary said of Lazarus the very name of it is growne vnsauoury odious and I feare ridiculous in the eares of many Is it not then high time for the Lord to worke and for vs to see if by crying aloud as Elias said of the dead Idoll wee may fetch life againe into it which is the very life of our spirituall life and soule of our soule The time is now come vpon vs wherein men affect and desire good Names Estates

blew after fourteene daies want of meat and light when the Marriners despayred how couragious he was but I wonder as much and more to see his Conscience passe with top-saile banners displayed through the Sea and waues of good report and bad report to see him singing praying at midnight in the Dungeon all manacled fettred in a wounded skinne but whole and merry Conscience Censures and rumors the world is full of who escapes Not Paul himselfe yet is aboue them and giues a secret Item to all such as censure him that they wronged him in iudging a good Conscience The fashion is to iudge and c●nsure all courses wee reach not or sauour not and so we smite many a good Conscience In this respect what neede haue wee all of good Consciences seeing tongues spare none● There be three dayes especially the day of Sicknesse of Death of Iudgement in which Comfort is worth a world and then all worldly comforts and comforters like run-away Seruants and drunken Seruing-men are to seeke when one hath most vse and neede of them as Iob complaineth of the Brooks of Teman in the drought of Summer which makes the triumph of the wicked Iob 20. momentany and as a ●●ght Vision when as the Prophet said One dreames of bread and wakes hungry In these times you shall see the merry and iolly worldling hang the head like a Bul-rush and the Ruffians brags lagge like a starcht Ruffe in a storme How doe such droope euen in old age and say the dayes are come wherein there is no pleasure The storme comes after the raine that which is worst an ill Conscience like a Blood-hound hunts dry-foot and brings the scent of sins of his youth wheras the Conscience of a well-passed life is the staffe of age Pabulum senile better then all the Sacke and Sugars and such pittifull comforters When the stomacke failes and the grinders waxe few and appetite ceaseth this is a continuall feast In the decay of sleepe this is a Downe-pillow In all our tribulation this Simon helps vs to beare our crosses In all our euill daies it 's at hand It sustaines the infirmities of the body When Princes sat in counsell against Dauid this was his Ionathan to solace him When the Lyon roares the righteous is bold as the Lyon and feares not what man can doe vnto him But if once Death begin to looke vs in the face how doth Naball dye like a stone How doe Achitophel and Iudas dye the death of cowardly Harts and Hares pursued with the full cry of their sinnes which makes them dead in the ne● before they dye then a kingdome for a good Conscience Then send as in the Sweating sicknesse and the Plague for Mr Minister but alas he is come hee can but speake to the eare and all in vaine vnlesse God open the Conscience to heare and be quiet to heare and imbrace comfort But when speech failes all thy Senses shut vp their doores and windowes then who or what can auaile but a good Conscience When thy Wife thy friends doe augment thy griefe with parting and loath to depart as Pauls friends broke his heart with weeping then this onely and alone dies or rather liues with thee and seeing Land approaching bids thee be of good comfort More cheerefully haue I seene it make some dye then other wed All the Martyrs from Stephen the Proto martyr down to the last that suffered are clouds of witnesses it hath inabled them to imbrace their stakes clap their hands leape as Doctor Taylor did within two stiles of the stake or as hee said of his home and Fathers house Lastly at the Last day and after the last day when all these shadowes shall flye away this substance shall abide A good Wife is a good thing but Sarah must part with Abraham and these relations shall cease in Heauen but a good Conscience attended with good workes shall follow and the better it hath beene here the better in degree it shall be there the wider entrance and entertainment it shall finde there When all Bookes shall perish and Heauen melt like a Parchment scrole this Booke shall be of vse when all Diuels and damned shall tremble and wish the hils to couer them this shall lift vp thy head for thy redemption approcheth when neither friends nor a full purse shall pleade nor the wicked stand vpright in iudgement then then well-fare a good Conscience then shal conscience haue it mouth opened tongue vntied God will bid it speake Happy hee then that hath an excusing one miserable he that hath it an accusing aduersary Yet still further Faith and Hope are excellent things here in this valley these shall cease but Conscience abides A good one was a petty heauen vpon earth a mount Tabor a glimpse of glory here a bad one was a Hell a Purgatory or Limbo at the least tasting of the flashes and smoak of hel but hereafter how intollerable shall be the horror of the one and how inconcei●eable the ioyes of the other Without this worm that dies not hell should not be hel without this continual Feast heauen should not be heauen Next the happy vision of God shall be the company of a good Conscience and next to that ●he Societie of Saints and Angels The last part But oh Lord who beleeues our ●eport or to whom is the benefit ●nd excellencie of this creature of 〈◊〉 reuealed Oh Lord to whom ●hall we speake apply what hath ●een said You the sonnes of men ●aue ●ost your hearing charme we ●euer so wisely thunder we neuer 〈◊〉 earnestly you despise vs Mini●●ers You thinke we come hither to play our prizes to speake out of forme and not of Conscience or to speake out of choller and passion Besides if you would heare vs wee are Strangers to your secrets to your hearts and wayes we are confined to our Cells and Studies and are not acquainted with the Tythe of the worlds villanies besides when the Houre-glasse is out wee can say no more to you and perhaps shall neuer see you againe but your Consciences know you though happily you be strangers to them they compasse your pathes your lying downe and accustomed wayes I will therefore turne my speech as the Prophet to the Earth and Heauen to your Consciences Hearken oh Consciences heare the word of the Lord. I call you to record this day that it 's your office to preach ouer our Sermons againe or else all our Sermons and labours are lost You are the cuds of the Soule to chew ouer againe against your reproofes and against your secret and faithfull admonitions what exception can any take your Balme is precious your smitings break not the head nor bring any disgrace GOD hath giuen you a faculty to worke wonders in priuate and solitude Follow them home therefore cry aloud in their eares and bosomes and apply what hath now and at other times beene deliuered Conscience If the house