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B10265	Balm in Gilead to heal Sions wounds: or, A treatise wherein there is a clear discovery of the most prevailing sicknesses of New-England, both in the civill and ecclesiasticall state; as also sutable remedies for the cure of them: collected out of that spirituall directory, The word of God. / Delivered in a sermon preached before the Generall Court of the colony of New-Plimouth on the first day of June 1669. being the day of election there. By Thomas Walley ...	Walley, Thomas, 1616-1678.	1670 (1670)	Wing W555; ESTC W33773	18,025	40

SIC VOS NON VOBIS MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDED AD 1791 Given by _____ New-Plimouth October 26. 1669. THis Court taking into their consideration the usefulness and seasonableness of this Sermon do commend the same to all the Churches and People of God in this Jurisdiction for their serious perusall and improvement in the Lord And do therefore Order the publishing thereof Nathaniel Morton Secretary THis Sermon and pious Labour of the Reverend Servant of the Lord Mr. Thomas Walley being perused is allowed as consenting to the healing Word of our Lord Jesus Christ and the doctrine which is according to godliness and worthy to be improved by all sorts in New-England as a soveraign Remedy of divers Maladies Whereupon is justly added Imprimatur Charles Chauncy Thomas Shepard Balm in Gilead TO HEAL SIONS WOUNDS OR A Treatise wherein there is a clear Discovery of the most Prevailing Sicknesses of New-England both in the Civill and Ecclesiasticall State As also sutable Remedies for the Cure of them Collected out of that Spirituall Directory The Word of God Delivered in a SERMON Preached before the Generall Court of the Colony of NEW-PLIMOVTH on the first day of June 1669. being the DAY of ELECTION THERE By Thomas Walley Pastor of the Church of Christ at Barnstable in New-England Jer. 14. 18. Hast thou utterly rejected Judah hath thy soul loathed Zion Why hast thou smitten us and there is no healing for us we looked for peace and there is no good and for the time of healing and b●hold trouble Hosea 14 1. O Israel return unto the Lord thy God for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity Jer. 6. 8. Be thou instructed O Jerusalem lest my soul depart from thee lest I make thee desolate a land not inhabited Jer. 3. 22. Return ye backsliding children and I will heal your backslidings Behold we come unto thee for thou art the Lord our God CAMBRIDGE Printed by S. G. and M. J. 1670. To the Honoured THOMAS PRINCE Esq Governour of New Plimouth Colony in New-England AND The Worshipfull his Assistants Honoured Patriots VVHen you were pleased to Call me to Preach this publick Sermon I must confess by reason of my insufficiency for such a work and a crowd of business that then I was in I could not rejoyce in it but I looked upon the Call as a Call from God and therefore submitted to it knowing that God doth often use weak and worthless Instruments that the glory might be his and not ours and was the further encouraged because I have found you like Hezekiah speaking comfortably to those that teach the good knowledge of the Lord. The Printing of this Sermon was far from my thoughts both in Studying and Preaching of it I dare not say the matter is useless but must confess the dress to be too uncomely and will never be liked if it come to the eyes of those that are either curious or captious I conceive the reason why you ordered the Printing of it was Because you judged it a seasonable Word and therefore thought it would be profitable and indeed the timing of things to their proper season is one of the highest acts of practicall Wisdome I did the more readily consent to the Printing of it that I might not have the least Censure from those that from my self and all Gods people deserve so much honour Though in this Sermon my weakness is exposed to publick view yet if God may have honour and any Soul profit and I may be accounted obedient to you that are our Rulers I am satisfied I do account it a great mercy that we have such Rulers that we may more safely publish Truth then conceal it if we conceal it we fall into the hands of God but if we publish it we are n●t in danger of falling into the hands of men The design of this Sermon is the Vniting of the People of God for the Wounds of some Churches bleed if not fester Worthy Senators I may boldly publish for the honour of God and your honour That such hath been your labour of love in the Churches that you seem to take more delight in the Vnity of the Churches then in being Magistrates This Sermon was once in your Ears it 's now in your Eyes I desire the Lord may keep it in your Hearts it may be it is providentially Printed for that end As for my self I know all are not Bezaleels or Aholiabs and that he that is but a poor Labourer and brings Stone and Morter to the Building is accepted of God My hearty desire is That you our Honoured Governour and Magistrates may be called The Repairers of breaches The Restorers of paths to dwell in The Joy of many Generations which is the earnest Prayer of him that is your daily Remembrancer at the Throne of Grace and who is Your most humble Servant and less then the least of all Saints Thomas Walley Balm in Gilead to heal Sions Wounds JEREM. 8. 22. Is there no Balm in Gilead is there no Physician there Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered IN this Chapter you may see what an evil and bitter thing Sin is it will not be that at last which it is at first though it be Honey at first it will be Gall at last it will be bitterness in the latter end It makes persons unhappy both alive and dead when living it turns them out of their Houses and when dead out of their Graves as in ver 1. of this Chapter What woful work hath Sin made in the world what incurable wounds hath it given to Kingdomes Countries Churches and Families the most destroying Judgements Fancine Pestilence War Captivity are the bitter fruits of Sin it layes a People under Spiritual Judgements provokes God to depart and opens a door to all woe and misery In this Chapter you finde God threatning the Prophet lamenting the dreadful evils that were coming upon Judah and Jerusalem and when he would comfort himself his heart fainted When I would comfort my self against sorrow my heart is faint in me ver 18. the reason was he saw that the people were resolved to go on in their sin that God was resolved to go on in the way of his Judgements ver 6. compared with ver 13. The Prophet wonders is even astonished that a people that have so great Mercies should be in danger of so great Miseries They had a good God and a good King ver 19. Is not the Lord in Zion is not her King in her God was not as yet departed It 's probable Josiah at present was their King not as yet removed by death it may be supposed that this part of the Prophesie relates to the time of his Reign for he prophesied from the thirteenth year of his Reign to the time of the Captivity Jer. 1. 2 3. This people will not part with their graven Images and strange vanities therefore God will depart from them and be a stranger

by all that love God Rom. 16. 17. they are Instruments of great evil Let their Corruptions be kept under by good Laws and their Manners healed It 's a bitter Imprecation the Apostle hath Gal. 5. 12. I would they were cut off that trouble you There is a Story that the Swevians had a Law That in a fray where Swords were drawn if a Woman or a Childe did but cry Peace though they were a great way off they must end the quarrel or else he died that strook the next Blow after Peace was named But alas where Contentions are the noise is so great that those that cry Peace are not heard nay those that speak of Peace are accounted Enemies Some are of such unquiet spirits they make the places where they live uncomfortable 4. Let it be your great care That the great Truths of God the Faith once committed to the Saints may be preserved Buy the Truth and sell it not Prov. 23. 23. Truth is the most precious Jewel that God hath trusted his people with Satan hath been labouring to rob us of this our greatest Jewel through the Apostacy of some Errour hath been spread and Truth is clouded in the eyes of too many The preservation of Truth requires much Wisdome Zeal Tenderness and Moderation There is a necessity of Wisdome in the management of this great work for you will finde that persons that are in Errour are of divers sorts 1. Some have weak understandings and yet have sincere hearts tender Consciences and unwillingly differ from the generality of the godly Pity and for bearance is due to such 2. There are others that shew much wilfulness pride and frowardness nothing of Conscience have a Frenzy a Madness These ought to be kept from hurting others 3. There is a difference to be put between lesser and greater Errours for there are Fundamentalia in Fide which are called Magnalia Dei and there are Minutila Zeal must be wisely ordered according to the nature of Truths It would argue Hypocrisie to be substantial in Circumstantial Truths and circumstantial in the Substantials of Faith and Repentance Paul's counsel to Titus was in matters of Consequence to affirm constantly Tit. 3. 8. but to avoid needless questions ver 9. Those Truths that more especially concern Gods glory and mans salvation should be especially prized preserved Labour to keep the great truths of God in credit It would not consist with love to God and Jesus Christ to tolerate that which would blaspheme the Name of God or damn the Souls of men Neither would it consist with our profession of love to Christ or Saints to trouble those that peaceably differ from the generality of Gods people in lesser things Those that are like to live in Heaven with us at last we should endeavour they might live peaceably with us here Those that differ in lesser things and 〈…〉 ●●●ringe the just Liberties of others why should they not have 〈◊〉 A well-bounded Toleration were very desireable in all Christian Common-wealths that there may be no just occasion for any to compl●in of Cruelty or Persecution but it must be such a Toleration that God may not be publickly blasphemed nor Idolatry practised Neither ought any Errour to be tolerated that hath a tendency in its own nature to Profaneness or the disturbing of Peace and Order in Church or State You are to labour to do all things so that you may keep God and Christ with you Though it be the duty of Magistrates to see that the great Truths of God be not vilified nor trampled in the dirt yet this I judge I may confidently affi●m That Truth never g●t ground by a violent opposition of smaller Errours Yet it is the duty of the people of God to contend for the least of Truths and it should be their endeavour in the Spirit of love and meekness to convince persons of their lesser Errours and those that do differ ought to be of a teachable spirit and to keep a holy fear of departing from the common faith though in the least things for when persons easily let go lesser Truths they quickly fall into great Errours Secondly I have a word to my Reverend Brethren in the Ministry and this I would press upon my self and you 1. Let us all be quickly and deeply sensible of the wounds of Sion of breaches in the Walls of Jerusalem else we cannot pray aright for its healing and repairing let not us be secure while Sion is s●ck Let it be our care to kill the Cockatrice in the Egge to make an end of Differences as soon as they begin if breaches be not repaired they g●ow great quickly if a house be on fire if the fire be not quenched quickly afterward it will be too late to attempt it Let not the beginnings of Divisions be contemptible a weak Enemy being slighted becomes potent A wound when it is green may be quickly healed but if it be let fester and gangrene at last it is past cure The spirits of persons are not much imbittered at first whereas afterwards they become irreconcileable As you are Watchmen so watch the times and seasons to perserve and recover Peace in the places God hath set you in 2. Labour to see Eye to Eye be of one minde and heart this will help to make up the glory of the best times Isa 52. 8. Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice with the voice together shall they sing for they shall see eye to eye they shall be of the same judgement and speak the same thing We that are Leaders of the people must take heed we do not cause them to erre Let it be our care to subject our judgements to the Word of God and take heed that we our selves never become Sect-masters and therefore we had need beware lest Pride lead us into Errour and Singularity It should be the great work of Ministers to keep themselves humble to tread in the steps of our dear Lord who is our Pattern 3. Labour to reconcile Differences by strong Arguments with meekness of Spirit put an end to Divisions if Self-denial will do it become all thing to all men Let it be your great aim to unite men to Christ and one unto another And for that end Deny your selves for Christ's sake bear as farre as you can without sin with the weakness and frowardness of those that are sick 4. Let not the Kids of the Flock be forgotten they are Members with us of the same Body let them have your love and care pray much for them labour to teach them the good wayes of the Lord the Trade-way to Heaven and the more hopeless you are of those that are grown to years by reason of their Stubbornness the greater let your care be of those that are but in their tender years Catechizing would be of great use in every Congregation and where there is but one Officer in a Church and no more can be had it will be necessary