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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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