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A79291	Heart-salve for a wounded soul... Or meditations of comfort for the holy living, and happy dying Christian either in the depths of dark desertion, or in the heighth of heavens glorious union. The second edition, with an addition of an elegie upon an eminent occasion. By Tho. Calvert, minister of the gospel.	Calvert, Thomas, 1606-1679.	1675 (1675)	Wing C323A; ESTC R230932	68,723	208

when they shall be fuller of ●lory and rest than ever they ●ere of troubles and miseries We are here set in a warfare Act. 3.19 as●aulted with fightings without and errors within 2 Cor. 7.5 Exoothen machai esoothen phoboi we are compast ●ith an unruly body of flesh we ●re laden with corporal maladies ●ains infirmities pestered with ●piritual faintings qualms and ●eak fits that if we had not bet●er comfort brought us for the fu●ure to free us from these cum●ersom anxities a servant of God ●ere of all men most miserable but ●weet Death looses our Chains ●nd sets us free Upon this ground ●id the Holy Father build that ●ghing prayer of ●is to God Domine solve hanc tunicam ita mihi gravem ponderosam da mihi leviorem Nazianz. O Lord saith he ●elp me off loose ●nd unbuckle this ●eavy Coat meaning the flesh full of infirmitie which lies with such a ponde●● pressing weight upon my should● and give me a lighter and easier g●ment meaning the garment eternal life so pleasant so eas● and free from all troubles whi● death brings us and clothes withal If there were 〈◊〉 such Sugar at the bottom the Christians Cup and the b● Wine kept to the end of the Fea● he had the worst fate of all me● but he may with a patience dig● these earthly troubles because t● Lambs Supper shall make amen● for the worlds sharp Dinner Psal 27.15 I h● utterly fainted saith David 〈◊〉 that I believed verily to see the go● ness of the Lord in the Land of th●●ving That is meant of this li● much more may thoughts of et●nal life keep us from fainting T● hope of death is the hope of 〈◊〉 life it is necessary we die that 〈◊〉 sorrows may die Use 2 Must the very Righteous d● let it lead us to consider of a● conclude that universal deluge Gen. 2.17 ●riginal corruption wherein all ●ankind lies drowned It is too ●rue that being made of dust sin ends us to retur● to dust again Who will defend nature to be im●aculate and unwounded ●eaths Weapons could not enter ●lesh had not our original impu●ity weakned us and streng●h●ned ●im Man first brought sin into ●he world sin brought death Rom. 5.12 Let one be so bold as to defend na●ure to be untainted unless he ●an bring this Argument to ●rove it Here is one free from ●eath Ergo free from that sin We are born Heirs and Coheirs annexed with Adam of sin ●nd death Pray we and strive we against Original lust yea repent we of this sin as that which put death in office and reached the dart into his hand Use 2 This might stir us up that seeing all men even the Righteous must die that we should labour to die Righteous The Righteous mans eye is all on God in his life and Gods eye as at other times so especially is set on him at his death to fetch him to a blessed Mansion We must die but oh that that last Act were made the Axle-tree Deut. 32.29 on which all the actions of our life might turn about by continually thinking on our later end A paper newly written is kept from blotting if dust or sand be cast upon it The remembrance that we are but dust and ashes often and daily cast upon our hearts and meditations would keep us in an holy watchful course that our lives should not be stained with so many blots of impiety and neglect of Gods worship Death indeed shall come to all but our lives are that which makes death bitter or swee● unto us For he shall come to the wicked and rigtheous in a different manner 1. To the wicked and unrighteous he shall come as a man of War to a man where sin lives as long as he lives where Sata● sways the Scepter of his Monarchy in his Soul living impenitently in fleshly lusts deaths message is astonishing to such a one Such a sinful wretch looking approaching death in the face his Conscience cries a loud 1 Kin. 21.20 1 King 14.6 Hast thou found me O mine enemy as Ahab to Elias To whom death answers with no better answer than Ahijahs to Jeroboams wife I am sent to thee with heavy tidings a hard message I have brought thee thy wages of sin which is death And then doth the desperate sinner tremble and quake Rom. 6.23 remembring how bad a life has made way for death and death to torment then too late his sins affright him and he cries out but one day longer to repent as did that man in his death O spare me Chrysaorius in morte clamabat Inducias usque mane Gregor Hom. 12. in Evang. and give me but respite and truce till the morning that I die not in my sins and for my sins O where are those many hours neglected in vanity 2. But to the Godly and Righteous Soul his appearance and face is glorious and amiable he speaks a comfortable language to him I cannot hurt thee thy Saviour has taken thy weapons from me 1 Cor. 15.55 his death was my death was my death for his Children I come but to be thy Bridge that thou mayest pass over me into eternal life So great a difference is there 'twixt the Godly and the wicked Christian get thy debts paid in Christ and thy Bond cancelled in his blood get into the croud and touch but the hem of his Garment by faith to draw vertue holiness and his righteous-making merits then shall there be no terrour in deaths Vizard that will sweeten the bitterness of the Grave unto thee and finding that thou art righteous and accepted in Christ thou mayest challenge him O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory O! by repentance keep thy Soul from dying and the death of the body wil● be a blessed prelude to immortality And so much for a general view● of the necessity of death to the very righteous Doct. The Souls of the Saints at their death are gathered to the Lord and by the Lord into blessedness This Conclusion has inclusively in it two parts 1. That in this life there is a mixture of good and bad 2. That in death God gathers the Souls of the righteous into a● happy unmixt society by themselves Eccl. 3.20 Do not all go to one place saith Solomon yes for bodies in death the Grave is the common receptacle of good and bad a Murderer and a Martyr may be laid in one Grave together but for Souls they change Countries The Sanctum Sanctorum is for those Souls which have been Kings and Priests to God the Righteous are gathered into Heaven but the wicke● they shall be gathered into another place they shall be turned into Hell into the Company of all them that forget God Psa 9.17 This Phrase of being gathered together in death may be an allusion to the custom of the Jews who in death are said to be gathered to their

HEART-SALVE FOR A WOVNDED SOUL AND EYE-SALVE FOR A BLIND WORLD OR Meditations of comfort for the Holy Living and Happy Dying Christian either in the depths of dark Desertion or in the heighth of Heavens Glorious Union The Second Edition with an Addition of an Elegie upon an Eminent Occasion By Tho. Calvert Minister of the Gospel When he giveth quietness who then can make trouble When he hideth his face who then can behold him Job 34.29 O aeterna veritas vira charitas chara aeternitas Tu es Deus meus tibi suspiro die ac nocte Aug. Confes lib. 7. cap. 10. LONDON Printed by F. L. for Tho. Passenger at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge and William Thorpe in Ousegate in Yorke 1675. To the Beloved and Honoured Lady in the Lord Ursula Barwick Widow full of Grace and Gravity Madam I Have borrowed some confidence to set your name in the front of this Treatise and concionary discourses which my thoughts are you will freely vouchsafe me without grudge In this I put you not to be the lug or handle to a common Pot but to a choice and Golden Vessel and whom you know of old seasoned with Christs liquor for his service At first edition I did nominally affix no dedication there being some reasons preponderating in those wretched times full of the worst parts of Arithmatick Divisions Fractions of Church and State Now first press being all exhaust and some urging to have it in a 2d birth I have yielded it the liberty of coming into the World again Nor I hope you will be ashamed of publishing the holy life of your sanctified Neighbour Matters there are all over in print of several natures some Adoxa 〈◊〉 Z●zer in Chiliad 11. as pamplets in praise of Fornication Drunkenness of being in Debt in praise of Baldness of banishment c. Some are Amphilaxa praising things of a middle nature and indifferent in themselves neither good nor evil Some Paradoxa strange things cryed up and commended beyond all mens sound opinions Other writings are Eudoxa of good and stanch report withall are good and wise truly praise worthy as Grace St. Hieron in Psalm 147. Virtue Piety Sobriety c. What I here give out is of this last sort that will sute every good and holy palat as Jews fable that Manna answered every gust If they thought of Hony of Partrigdes of any desired dainty what they had in their minds Manna was the representative of it to their Mouths your Ladyship I choose for facing this Script 〈…〉 you are much 〈…〉 she was 〈…〉 much 〈◊〉 ●pon the delicate 〈…〉 one word and prayer p●●●●●ly privately secretly And truly I must needs approve of your diet for your body caring to live Epicratically rather than Hypocritically Studying a course dayly of slender sober and plain feeding though compast with much infirmity and indispositions rather then to live medically and Physically translating the Apothecaries Shop into your flesh Barrad in Itiner Israel in Dis The first mischief that let in all misery upon us was Eves and Adams ill diet neglecting the Tree of life to seek and taste the forbidden fruit Indeed all our sin misery sickness death wrath of God and Hell came in at this Gate of an ill diet for our first parents made it not their meat to obey and do the will of God which should have been their corporal spiritual diet But it is your spiritual order of diet I most aim at and commend the humble and quotidian feeding your Soul with waiting on God in the way he has commanded you and promised to bless you you well digesting that word of our best Lord Labour not for the meat that perisheth but for that meat which endureth to everlasting life Aquin. pust 63. which the Son of man shall give unto you Other meat perishes and nourishes them that eat it to a perishing life but Christs spiritual food endures for ever abides with us and nourishes us to the growing up to eternal life Neither this meat nor the man perishes A modern Roman Doctor of Physick disputes the case Paul Zachias in Quest Medico-legal lib. 7. Tit. 2. Quest 2. whether a Popish clergy man be excused and without blame if sore troubled with the Asthma he abstain from his office of reciting divine things as Preaching Reading Praying Singing He indeed determines that unless a sore Paroxysm and a strong fit of the same be afresh come upon him his speaking singing and loud voycing will do him no harm for he saith all practical Physitians say it is profitable and helpful for them that are Asthmatick to read or speak with an high voyce that is if they be able and at the the instant not opprest with a violent assault for it helps to purge the lungs of the matter impacted in them But you look not to be ruled by him but in and out of the strong invasions of the disease you know how to breath high and loud in your Soul to God when you breath straitly and strainingly to those about you Madam go on in this wholesome diet for Body and Soul and if while you are here below you cannot in Body and Soul get into Heaven yet continue and abide on the threshold of this beautiful Gate of the Heavenly Temple of Gods mercy the Patient abiding of the meek shall not perish nay such shall be fatherly and sweetly supported to the end Physitians cannot speak so much of the advantage of good and orderly diet for Body but from the word of God we may reason as strong for the benefit of spiritual diet for the Soul Let them tell us from their puni-godling Hippocrat lib. de vet Med. that if the sick would use the same diet they do that are sound and whole the Art of medicines would fall to nothing Hereby he intimates that great is the dignity of exquisite looking to diet Aurel. Severin in Trin. Chit as if it were all medicine Wherefore they tell us that the right hand in diseases and wounds is Physick and Chyrurgery but the left hand is diet which doth very much Now if we would study the most necessary Physick by direction of divine Medicks then is nothing so necessary as to learn to know God and our Al●uinus Souls Philo the Jew tells us the Essens three Principles were these they studied wholly to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to season all their life and labours with love of God Philo. Jud love of men love of virtue But we have a full voice of direction Mic. 6.8 and better particulared to us from Micah in his Ternary He hath shewn thee O Man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly to love mercy and to walk humby with thy God Or take we St. Pauls three To live soberly Righteously and Godly Tit. 2. in this present world Or if we hearken to him he will