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A88299	A divine balsam to cure the bleeding wounds of these dangerous times. Or, The true cause of two grand and heavie iudgements of Almighty God now upon this kingdome. I. The plague, which is incumbent on us: II. The sword, which is imminent over us. The former we feele, the later we feare. With the onely remedy for the cessation of the one, and the prevention of the other. Composed by I. L. and exposed to publick view for the benefit of the republicke.	I. L.	1642 (1642)	Wing L23; Thomason E112_38; ESTC R20385	4,886	8

a naturall death of the body nor a spirituall death of the soule but an eternall death of both body and soul for evermore Sin is the Divels worke wicked men are the Divels labourers or hired servants and the stipend or wages for their service is no better then death here hell and damnation hereafter If yee would see the guiltinesse of sinne looke upon Caine If yee would behold the beastlinesse of sin look upon Nebuchadnezzar If yee would take notice of the shame of sinne view then Hamon If yee would observe the madnesse of sinne consider Saul and if yee would see the end of sinne looke upon the Glutton frying in hell so dolefull is the end of sinne yea without end These are the lamentable effects and bitter fruits which sinne produces to us It is the ground of all our miseries and hath wrought all the disasters and calamities that wee now sustaine What hath caused the sword in Ireland and the plague in England but the iniquity of Ireland and transgression of England Toto Mars saevit in orbe what a havock and vastation hath the bloody hand of warre made in the Christian world where faire Townes famous Cities and flourishing Kingdomes have beene made Stages and Theaters of desolation and destruction for our eyes to behold Sinne is the cause of all these mischiefes The pale horse of death goes in triumph through our streets The pestilence hath a long time continued and been dispersed and scattered in most places amongst us Though graves in Church-yards have been so pestered that there is scarce roome left for any more to be buried in yet so insatiate are they that they are still gaping for more karkasses Our eares are nocturnall auditors of sad sounding passing bels and our eyes are diurnall spectators of the common objects of mortality The sword is already drawn forth and at this present brandished over our heads It was the case of the inhabitants of Manchester in Lancashire the last weeke and it may be our owne here in London the next weeke we heare daily of warres and rumors of warres of preparations of Men Horses Armes and Ammunition both here and else where at home and abroad both in London and at Yorke I pray God all these may tend to our good as they are pretended If any evill by these doth befall any of us it is the evill of our wickednesse which is the just cause of it The only remedy against these evils that the plague may be stai●d and the sword sheath'd is repentance Repentance is a Supersedeas to all judgement It is that pretious Balm of Gilead that will cure a sick-languishing land of all her diseases The onely way to repaire our breaches is to prepare our selves to meet our God Therefore in the name and feare of God let us resolve with our selves to repent of our sins We have all sinned from the highest to the lowest from the richest to the poorest from the mightiest to the meanest The sins of the Priests the sins of the people have caused Gods judgements to light heavy upon us no man can exempt himself or plead impunity and therfore as we are all partakers of the common calamity so let us all betake our selves to the prescribed remedy The axe is now laid to the root of the tree by the axe is meant Gods judgement and by the tree is understood every man Now for ought I know the axe of Gods judgment is now laid to the root of the Kingdome or the root of the Church or to the roots of the severall individuall members of the Church Let every true subject of the King let every sound member of the Church bring forth fruit worthy amendment of life Amendment reformation is the only way to avert evill to procure mercy to prevent judgement If we will turn from our sins and turne unto our God by a true and timely repentance God wil turn away his judgements from us and return in his former mercies unto us Return unto me and I will return unto you saith the Lord hee had rather that wee should redire then perire return unto him then perish without him God delights not in the death of any sinner but had rather that he should turne from his wickednesse and live The Lord hath graciously promised that when he doth send pestilence amongst his people if his people which are called by his name shall humble themselves pray unto him seek his face and turn from their evil wayes he wil then hear from heaven be mercifull to their sins and will heale the land the sores of the land are the sins of the land Let us unfainedly perform our duty in the former words and we shall certainly obtaine Gods mercy in the latter let us sic plangere commissa peccata ut ne committamus plangenda so lament our sins which we have committed that we doe not commit those again which we have lamented Let remorse for our sins and divorse from our sins bee expressed in our hearty humiliation and resolved reformation This two-fold act must be performed by us in our aversion from sin and conversion to God namely dolere cavere unum respectu praeteriti alterum respectu futuri grieve for our sins past and take heed of sin for the time to come Thus let us prepare to meet our God to meet him in the way of his fury to meet him as the Gibeonites met Iosuah resolve to doe any thing rather then stand it out for God will have the victory at the last either his will must be done by us or it will be done upon us A terrible tempest at this instant is over our heads in regard whereof the Ark of this Church is tost with various and perilous waves and the Ship of the State of the Kingdome is now in great danger Let us therefore meet him lachrymit precibus lachrymae preces sunt arma Christianorum with teares in our eyes and with prayers in our mouthes with sorrow in our hearts with our knees on the ground and our faces in the dust By this means he will preserve us from ruine by this means he wil preserve this City of London from desolation the whole kingdome of England from destruction and will save our bodies soules in the day of the appearance of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ If every man would sweep his owne doore the streets would soon be cleane and if every man would cleanse his own hands purifie his owne heart purge himselfe of his particular and personall corruptions and forsake his dilecta delicta his beloved and bosome sins there would then be a wished for alteration and a blessed reformation amongst us and without all question a most happy concurrence and union between our Royall King and his loyall Parliament In one word to conclude all let every one amend one and I pray God amend us all Amen FINIS

A DIVINE BALSAM TO CURE The bleeding WOUNDS of these dangerous TIMES OR The true cause of two grand and heavie Iudgements of Almighty God now upon this Kingdome I. The PLAGUE which is incumbent on us II. The SWORD which is imminent over us The former we feele the later we feare WITH The onely remedy for the cessation of the one and the prevention of the other Composed by I. L. and exposed to publick view for the benefit of the Republicke London printed for Robert Wood. 1642. A Divine Balsam to cure the bleeding wounds of these dangerous times PHysitians hold that there are two causes of a pestilence externall and internall the infection of the aire and the corruption of mens humours But Divines who transcend them in this their judgement are of another opinion ascribing it to the wrath of God and to the sin of man so that it is not so much putredo humorum as corruptio morum This is magnum mysterium and in this great mystery we must look beyond and a-above nature to the God of Nature acknowledging with the Aegyptian Magi that Digitus Dei est hic the finger of God is here I have sent pestilence amongst you saith the Lord Amos 4 10. From these premises some haply may inferre that God the fountaine of all goodnesse is the author of evill and may inforce the argument by divine writ as in that of the Prophet Is there evil in a City and the Lord hath not done it In which interrogation there is an asseveration and vehement affirmation that there is no evill in a City but the Lord hath done it For the understanding whereof you must distinguish of evill for there is duplex malum a double evill malum culpae malum poenae the evill of sin and the evill of punishment the evill in us and the evill on us or according to S. Austine malum quod homo facit malum quod homo patitur the evill that man doth and the evill that man suffereth Of the first God is not the authour but the last God who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Goodnesse it selfe would have all men to bee saved How often would I have gathered thee c. sayes our blessed Lord I would sed nolu●sti but thou wouldst not therefore the judgement follows in the subsequēt words Thy habitation is left unto thee desolate Nemo laditur nisi a seipso no man is hurt but by himselfe Per ditio tua est ex te Thy destruction is of thy selfe Intra muros hostis the enemy is within the walles There is no greater enemy to man then man himselfe is to himselfe Though the Divell like a roaring Lion goeth about continually seeking whom he may devoure yet he cannot devoure whom hee would Hee will doe for our ruine what he can there 's his malice but he cannot doe what he would that 's our comfort But this is our misery that we our selves are the onely workers of our owne woe Mans sinne is the cause of Gods plague and Gods plague is but the effect of mans sinne Suppose we are now in a set battell the Lord of Hosts the Generall of the Army his wrath the trumpet summoning and sounding the Alarm our iniquities are his enemies which have provoked him to make warre against us sinne is our sicknesse and sinne the quarrell It is nothing but the exhalation of our sinnes which hath now caused the clouds of these judgements both on us and over us Iudgment doth as naturally flow from sinne as water from a fountaine It was never known that sinne went before and punishment did not follow after If thou doest not well sin lieth at the doore Gen. 4.7 Sinne that is the punishment of sinne And hence it is that sinne and punishment are all one in the Hebrew tongue and signifie the very same Punishment like a swift hunting Nimrod pursueth sinne It sayes like Naomi I will lodge with thee Both these like two inseparable twinnes live and dye together Wherefore is the living man sorrowfull It is the Quaere of the Prophet Lament 3.39 and he resolves the question in the same verse Man suffereth for his sinne If men be active in sinning they shall be passive in mourning Great sinnes doe procure great sorrowes Why are we so diseased but because God is so much displeased Wee have grievously sinned therefore are we so grievously plagued The grievousnesse of our sinnes doth adde griefe unto our soules The elements would bee our attendants and all the creatures would be our friends were not we by our iniquities at enmity with our Creator All sublunary bodies would be our servants would we but serve in holinesse and righteousnesse the father of Spirits Heaven would have no quarrell with us did not we by our impieties warre with the God of Heaven Nay Hell it selfe and all the infernall powers thereof could have no power over us were it not for sinne Sinne is the onely make-bate between God and Man It is the wall of separation that separates us from the favour and grace of God in this life and from the joyes and glory with God in the life to come Your transgressions saith the Prophet Isaiah have separated between you and your God they have hid his face from you Sinne is that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the great gulfe betweene God and Man so great that it hinders the ascent of our prayers unto God and the descent of his favours upon us It is an unsupportable load the greatest burthen man can possibly undergoe It is a burthen to the Creator and it is no lesse to the Creatures God complaines by his Prophet that hee is pressed with their iniquities as a Cart that is full of Sheaves And the whole creation groanes under this intollerable weight Rom. 8. It was the dolefull song of the sweet Singer of Israel Iniquitates meae gravatae sunt super me mine iniquities over-burthen me It made our blessed Saviour suffer like a cursed sinner It made him who knew no sinne in himselfe to become sinne for us him who was invested with a Deity to assume to himselfe our humanity him who was the Lord over all to become subject unto all him who was the God of Nature to yeeld himselfe unto Nature It made him groane till he wept weep till he sweat sweat till he bled and bleed till he died These are the wofull effects and miserable consequents of sinne And can that seeme light and delicious to us which was so heavie and grievous to Christ This is the lamentable tragedy and sad Catastrophe of iniquity Stipendium peccati est mors After iniquity hath for a while plaid her part then death comes upon the stage With death it hath its period here and without repentance the torments of the second death doe ensue hereafter which second death is so dismall and dreadful that from it and from the terrible torments of it good Lord save and deliver us It is not onely