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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

who can doe little more towards the cure then to call upon you who through God may doe much to beseech you to bee yet and ever your selves i. e. healing Physicians to a very sick Church and State now your selves more then ever because never so much need as now Be not therefore wearied out with your long attendance on so hard a cure the more indeed hath been your paines and patience but the more withall your patients need Some good drugs full of Spirit I confesse in a lesse time will evaporate but I pray you remember Gileads balme useth to continue soveraigne for a long time Be not weary therefore of well doing so so in due time what ever becomes of us you will reape if you faint not Gal. 6. 9. No nor I beseech you be beat out with the unrulinesse and frowardnesse yea or raving rage of a distempered patient and people they it may be will be ready to say you are Physicians of no value and so despise you nay that the remedy is worse then Iob 13. 4. the disease and so hate and oppose you but notwithstanding this be you yet like 1 Your God who is kinde to the unkinde knowes how to heale an angry 〈◊〉 looks upon Ephraim and heales him when he went Luk. 6. 35. Isa ●7 17. 1● on frowardly in an evill way Can not you remember that he hath sometimes done more for you when you have been more froward towards him then others are now against you though never so engaged to you then you are to his people in this therefore be like your God Luke 6. 36. 2 Nay like your selves now you are State-Physicians and what then though the distempered distracted Patient rage and rave spit and strike at his Physician that would cure him if hee be wise think whether it will move more anger or pity in him for all that medicinam parat non vindictam be pleased therefore still Bernard Serm. 25. in Cantic like such a Physician to goe on with your work and labour rather to heale then to humour a distempered Patient So however your reward will be with God But if he please further to blesse your endeavours when your sick Patient shall once recover of his disease he will be recovered of that phrensie also and will then thank you and posterity will blesse you Meane while let this satisfie you that to doe well and heare ill is no lesse then a Benè agere malè audire regium est Royalty and withall remember that the great Physician of your soules could not effect that cure without being ill thought and spoken of and dealt with hee met with that quip Physician heale thy selfe in his life and yet he went on to heale them and Luke 4. 23. when in his death he made a playster for them that wounded him to the heart with his own blood enough to have moved pity and love they revile him with that bitter taunt more sowre then the vinegar they gave him to drink He saved others himselfe he cannot save and yet when they thus poured vinegar into his wounds he Matth. 27. 42. dropped balm into theirs Did it not drop from his lips when he died with those gracious words in his mouth Father forgive them for they know not what they do This did our good Samaritane and let Luk. 23. 34. me say what he did upon that occasion Goe you and doe likewise Luk. 10. 37. Your forwardnesse herein I hope needs not a spurre and therefore I give but a light touch or two for the quickining of your hearts and strengthening your hands in God please to consider but these three particulars 1 The case is very sad and the cure without Gods great blessing upon your cure in all outward probability is likely to prove desperate for I beseech you what doe you see now before you a Lazarus lying at your doore full of sores I believe were all the petitions and complaints considered that since your first meeting have from all parts come crowding to your Parliament doore as so many sad letters from sick patients to their Physician the whole Kingdom would seeme to be no better then a common Lazary But what see you a man going down from Ierusalem to Iericho fallen amongst theeves stript and wounded and left halfe dead with so much life only as might help him to see and so to encrease his misery I say unto you more and worse then so Semineces artus the trembling halfe-dead sinewes and arteries Brugensis of three poor dying Kingdoms miserably torne asunder at home a rent Church a divided Kingdom a most sad face of things looks out every where plurima mortis imago but yet looking up with a long look to you as he in the Gospel to Christ with teares in its eyes and his words in its mouth If you can doe any thing have compassion on us and help us So many bleeding gaping wounds being 〈◊〉 9. 2● as so many wide opened mouthes crying aloud for your compassion and mercy we heard in the beginning that the plant when cut and wounded wept and bled forth balme we can shew you our wounds but wee look up to God and you for balme to heale them 2 The patient should be and I know is deare unto you expressed here by the Prophet to bee the daughter of his people which holds her forth under two of the nearest and dearest relations of his native Countrey and of the Church of God both which now lie gasping before you 1 The daughter of your people that is your native Countrey indeed your deare mother that now lyeth sick to death and as it were breaking her heart-strings with her dying groanes and closing now her eyes and bidding good-night to you and to all her comfort in you together obtestes you by the womb that bare you and by the paps that gave you sick to expresse your piety in your pity if it were possible that you would be a meanes that she which hath suckled you with her milk may not be slocken in her own blood that you would doe your utmost to prevent her death which hath been a meanes of your life and the comfort of it 2 The daughter of your people as here of the Prophets is the people of God as your deare mother so the dearer Spouse of your dearest Saviour the Virgin daughter of Zion the dearly Ier. 12. 7. beloved of his soule it s the Church as well as the State that now lyeth bleeding and of all others in the whole Kingdom they are the people of God whose comforts liberties lives are in most danger of dying quite away Now what an oath did Hypocrates that great Physician lay upon his Scholars to look well Vide Hypocratis opera to his children And should not a stronger obligation from your heavenly Physician lie upon you to look better to his if they thought it a strong

THE BALME OF GILEAD FOR The Wounds of ENGLAND Applyed in A SERMON Preached at Westminster before the Honourable House of COMMONS 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 MAL 4. 2. Vnto you that feare my name shall the Sunne of Righteousnesse arise with healing in his wings 2 CHRON. 7. 14. If my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turne from their wicked wayes Then will I heare from heaven and will forgive their sinne and will heale their Land LONDON Printed by Richard Bishop for SAMUEL GILLIBRAND at the Brazen Serpent in Pauls Church-yard 1643. TO The Honourable House OF COMMONS Now assembled in PARLIAMENT WHat Your Religious attention welcomed from the Pulpit by your command is now come to the Presse where it humbly craveth your Patronage as it there enjoyed your acceptance A plaine piece it is but mourning Suits use to bee plaine and so should mourning Fast Sermons bee also Fidling Jigges are now out of tune when God hath turned our Harp into mourning and our Organ into the voice Iob 30. 31. of them that weep May it therefore be but any help this way that the mourning Turtles voice may bee yet more heard in our Land I should even in these Cant. 2. 11. 12. sad times of our heavinesse rejoyce in hope that the Winter were already well-nigh past and the raine blown over and gone meane while your faithfull continued endevours that the Sun of Righteousnesse may yet draw nearer to us in brighter and warmer beames of his truth and grace will much encourage our hearts after all winter stormes comfortably to expect a Summers flourish and Harvests joy You have indeed hitherto had a wet Seed-time of it whilst you have for so long a time been sowing in teares but bee pleased to goe on still in Gods work and strength though it should be yet weeping if withall it be but bearing of precious seed for then doubtlesse at last you shall come againe with rejoycing and bring your Psal 126. 5. 6. sheaves with you Great is the Work whereunto the Lord of the Harvest hath called you in which the eyes of God Angels and men are upon you so that if you should now faint and quaile it would be with a witnesse O quit your selves like men and be strong God by your hand hath begun to thrust his sharp 1 Cor. 16. 13. sickle into the Romish tares the time is come for you to reap for the Harvest of the Earth is ripe let not God therefore now want work-men nor they courage and strength to beare the heat and burthen of the day you will so at length come to a more comfortable evenings reckoning a more quiet nights rest in death and a most blessed up-rising at the last great day in that Harvest of the end of the World and wee hope before you and yours will reap the fruit of all your labours then it will be no griefe of heart to you that you have been constant and unmoveable abounding alwayes in the work of the Lord when you shall finde that your labour hath not been in vaine in the Lord then whilest you shall heare your Masters Euge's and be in the midst of Angels Hallelujahs we with all the Host of Heaven will joyne with you and help you to shout aloud for joy He that shall then beyour Iudge be now your Counseller and Protector both now and then and ever your Saviour So prayeth The unworthiest of his Servants and yours in him ANTHONY TUCKNEY Die Mercurii 30. August 1643. IT is this day Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That Sir Edward Ascough and Sir Iohn Wray doe from this House give thanks unto Master Tuckney of Boston and Master Coleman of Blyton in Lincolnshire for the great paines they took in the Sermons they this day preached at the intreaty of this House at S. Margarets Westminster It being the day of publike humilition and to desire them to Print their Sermon And it is Ordered that no man shall presume to Print their Sermons without licence under their hands H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I appoint Samuel Gellibrand to Print this Sermon ANTHONY TUCKNEY Errata PAge 3. line 18. read all diseases p. 6. l. 6. r. System l. 26. r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 17. l. 25. r. this p. 19 l. 12 r. longer l. 13. r. for p. 20. l 20. r. care p. 24. l. 7. dele to in the margent r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p 26 l. 16 r. bodies l. 22 r. knew p. 27. r. l 16 r. was poured into p. 28. l. 6. r. cheare p. 29 l 13. r. is then over against l. 25 set Vse 1. p. 30. l. 22. r great head l 33. r. into best p. 35. l. 10. r. biggen p. 41 l. 35. r. want of power p. 42. l. 2. r. Gods A SERMON Preached before The Honourable House OF COMMONS At the Publike Fast August 30. 1643. IEREM 8. 22. Is there no balme in Gilead is there no Physician there why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered THE wound is mortall when the patient dieth under his Chirurgeons hand and such a deadly wounded Body of his people had our Prophet here under his cure which when he could not heale he weeps over they swoune and he faints verse 18. they are confounded and he is astonished verse 21 and as a man in passion and amazement expresseth a greater 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by asking questions then by speaking sentences As Ahashuerus Esth 7. 5. Who where so the Prophet doth the like here in his Is there not And again Is there not and then Why is not Is there no balme in Gilead is there no Physician there why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered The first question Is there no balme in Gilead c. had it been made by any of the poore unbeleiving people affirmatively Thus Is there any balme in Gilead especially relating to the bad successe which might seeme to intimate the contrary as theirs Exod. 17. 7. Is the Lord amongst us would have expressed a doubt whether indeed there had been any balme seeing there was no healing by it but when made by the Lord himselfe or by the Prophet in his name with the negative 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as aggravating that ill successe so it is a stronger even a double affirmation that indeed there was both balme in Gilead and also a Physician there which not only he affirmes but also appeales to them whether they could deny and taking it for granted that they could not Hee proceeds to his Second question Why then is not c. Which is a question partly of inquiry Why And partly of a bemoaning and As 2