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A62814	A remedy for the vvarres: or, Certaine deplorable expressions, of the great miseries and wofull effects, which the horrid, bloody, cruell, domestick, and intestine warres, have lately produced (amongst us) in this our kingdome of England. Together, with spiritual salves for the cure thereof. By John Tarlton, preacher of Gods word, and minister of Ileminster, in the county of Somerset.	Tarlton, John.	1648 (1648)	Wing T167A; ESTC R222135	126,290	313

earthly Purgatory I meane the Afflictions of this Life before we can come to the heavenly Paradise viz. the Joyes of the Life to come Yea we must goe by the Suburbs and Gates of Hell before we can come to the City of the new Jerusalem and joyes of Heaven Every true Member of Christs Church is a crucified Christian and therefore not onely incident to suffering but also strict in his Conversation for strait is the Gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life and few there be that finde it Mat. 7.14 None must live the life eternall hereafter in the joyes of Heaven but onely those that first Crucifie their carnall Corruptions and mortifie their sinfull Affections here upon Earth We must live in the Spirit and not in the flesh For He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reape life everlasting Gal. 6.8 And hence is that of S. Paul to his Colossians Mortifie therefore your Members which are on the earth fornication uncleannesse the inordinate affection evill concupiscence and covetousnesse which is idolatrie Col. 3.5 6. For the which things sake the wrath of God commeth on the Children of disobedience The Members of Christs Church publiquely promised by their Sureties at their Baptisme to forsake the Devill and all his Workes and constantly believe Gods holy Word and obediently keep his Commandements and were incorporated into Christs Church to confesse the Faith of Christ crucified to be faithfull Souldiers for Christ their Saviour and manfully to fight under his Banner against Sinne the World and the Devill and the Lord expects the constant spirituall Performance of this their publique Promise during the troublesome time of their earthly Pilgrimage And how shall the Valour of Souldiers be evidenced to the World who keep themselves continually in their Quarters and never goe upon service who lye alwayes in the Campe and never come into the Field But when once Troubles doe arise and the Enemy draweth nigh and Christs Souldiers by the sound of Drums and Trumpets are called from their Quarters and they march forwards and meet their Enemies in the face Loe then Abrahams Faith Davids Piety Vriahs Constancy Jobs Patience Jonathans Love Jehues Zeal Gideons Valour and Pauls Courage will appeare who like valiant spirited and heroicall hearted Souldiers will zealously strive unanimously desire for the Glory of God the Honour of their King the Peace Good and Welfare of their Country to be placed in the Front of the Battell So in like manner when Troubles seize upon the Soules of the Members of Christs Church then the Graces of Gods blessed Spirit within them as occasion is offered will be operative and working yea the more excellent in Graces the more eminent in Affflictions and thereby they are distinguished from the Souldiers of Sathan The Earth of it selfe will bring forth little else but briers and weedes if it be not tilled and Vines will wax wilde if they be not pruned Even so the corrupt and sinfull Affections of our gracelesse and rebellious Hearts like pernitious Briers and noisome Weeds would quickly over-runne not onely all the Parts and Members of our Bodies but also all the Powers and Faculties of our Soules if our Gracious God by his tender Care over us loving Chastisements upon us and powerfull working of his blessed Spirit in us should not effectually Purge Dresse and Manure us And the superfluous Branches of our naturall Corruptions would spread so far abroad within us as everlastingly to destroy us if the Lord by sharp sanctified Afflictions should not prune them and by his loving fatherly Corrections cut them off Therefore let the Church of Christ be content to suffer Afflictions here upon Earth and also be glad to bear the yoak in her youth Lam. 3.27 The present Condition of Christs Church Militant in her Warfare at this day in our Land resembleth the case of Judah Manasseth Ephraim and Ephraim Manasseth and they both shall be against Judah Loc this is the Sting of the Churches Crosses and unto her it is inevitable For it was the portion of Christ her Head and shall the Members expect to escape It was the Lot of her Master and shall the Servants thinke to fare better It was the condition of the Saints in the Old Testament and also of the Apostles in the New Of the Saints in the Old Abraham banished both from his Country and kindred Jacob lay in the fieldes Joseph in the prison David hunted as a Partridge upon the mountaines Elijah full of feare through Jezabels bloody Tyranny desired the Lord to take away his life from him Job scraped himselfe with a potsherd upon the dunghill Jeremy put into the dungeon The three Children into the fiery Furnace Daniell cast into the den of Lyons And Susanna brought almost to the place of her execution Yea the Church her selfe complaineth of her suffering condition O Lord behold mine affliction Lam. 1.9 for the enemy is proud And verse the 12. Have ye no regard all ye that passe by this way behold and see if there be any sorrow 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 like unto my sorrow which is done unto me wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger The Apostle rehearseth a Catalogue of the Saints sufferings that were before Christs Incarnation They were tried by mockings and scourgings yea moreover by bonds and imprisonment They were stoned Heb. 11.36 37 38. they were hewen asunder they were tempted they were slaine with the sword they wandred up and down in sheep skins and in goats skins being destitute afflicted and tormented Whom the world was not worthy of they wandred in wildernesses and mountaines and dens and caves of the earth Loe these were the sufferings of the Saints in the Old Testament And as for the Saints in the New Poore Lazarus lay in a wofull condition at the rich Gluttons gate but there was found no mortall heart to sorrow for him nor eye to pitty him nor hand to relieve him And none of Christs Apostles dyed a naturall death but onely S. John and he was banished by the Emperour Domitian to the I le Patmos and also put into a Tunne of hot oyle at Rome as both Tertull. and S. Jerom report So that although with the rest he suffered not an immature death yet notwithstanding he also tasted deepe of his Masters Cup of which every one must be contented to drinke that is a true Member of the Church of Christ Beloved this is the Lords usuall dealing towards all the true Members of his Church thereby to make them Crucified Christians that so they might be like unto Christ their Captaine who is called by the Prophet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Man of sorrowes and acquainted with griefe Esa 53.3 And it was Saint Pauls generall rule to Timothy 2 Tim. 3.12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All that will live

my boldnesse and to accept the minde of the Offerer accept also the Booke offered if not for the Authour of the Booke yet for the Authour of the Text and those necessary things contained therein being pertinent to these present times And thus fearing to hinder the course of your Honours more serious cogitations in all humility I take my leave heartily desiring Almighty God that when the last Period of your mortall life shall present it self you may looke Death in the face without Dread the Grave without Feare the Lord Jesus with Comfort and Jehovah blessed for ever with everlasting joy Your Honours in all duty to be commanded John Tarlton To the Christian Reader Gentle Reader ALthough the writings of all men that are presented unto the publique view are arraigned at the Barre of each Readers understanding and sometimes the Authors thereof too rashly censured by Polipragmaticall Over-curious and Criticall persons yet this should be no Obstacle to hinder the faithfull Ministers of the Gospell from doing their best endeavours as well by writing as by preaching to build up the Church of Christ This Booke although it treateth of the miseries of Wars and also of the Members of Christs Church yet it medleth not at all with any Controversies in the Church or any thing in the state Ecclesiasticall but onely for the good of Christs Church in a patheticall way imploreth our constant assistance by the practice of Prayer on her behalfe as the great prevailing Ordinance of God for the curing of all her distempers and putting a Period to all her distractions wherewith at this present she is greatly disquieted As for carping and censorious Criticks I care not to satisfie them my desire is to convince the Wicked to comfort the Godly being afflicted to edifie the Conscience and increase the Vnderstanding And if herein thou either finde any thing amisse or thy self not fully satisfied in particular then I pray thee remember what is the Lot of the most Learned mens Workes even to be left after a sort naked and imperfect for every one that is mortall knoweth but in part 1 Cor. 13.9 I crave thy charitable construction of my poore Endeavours being willing to be convinced and reformed read them impartially and those truths therein contained practice them both speedily and profitably give God the glory thereof and much Benefit and comfort may thy soul receive thereby The blessed spirit of God co-operate with this Worke in the hearts of the Readers for the glory of his great name and the salvation of their poore soules through Jesus Christ Thine in the Lord Jesus John Tarlton A REMEDY FOR THE VVARS PSAL. 122.6 O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem THis Psalme as one of our Church both Learned and judicious well observeth breaths out nothing but a sweet perfume of inflamed affection such as the only bird the dying Phenix lying in her bed of spices all the spices in Arabia fired with the pure beames of the Sun cannot parallel If you please with me to view it considerately with a spirituall eye we shall conspicuously see it primarily begins with Davids tryumphant joy I was glad when they said unto me we will goe into the house of the Lord. Our feet shall stand in thy gates O Jerusalem The first word of this Psalme in the Originall is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 id est Laetatus fui that is I have been glad and the Radix from whence it is derived is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 id est Laetatus vel Hiralis fuit that is to say hath been glad or merry metaphoricè Luxit the which word Metaphorically is borrowed from the Light for as those that are blind or sit in Darkenesse are deprived of that benefit which the Light affords unto others that participate thereof So in like manner those persons who live in the Darkenesse of ignorance wandring in the devious by-paths of blind Superstition dangerous Errors and walking in the thick foggie mists of seducing opinions and shaddow of death never comming into the house of God but altogether neglecting his holy Ordinances neither tast the comfortable sweetnesse nor behold the joyfull Light which others partake of that zealously frequent them and conscienciously are exercised in them And hence is that saying of Solomon Prov. 13.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The light of the righteous shall rejoyce Thereby giving us to understand that the knowledge of God greatly delighteth his Children and they also rejoyce to communicate it to others So in like manner as is here expressed Davids delight consisted in gathering the children of God together and his joy was in the assembly of the Saints furthering them in the service of God But alas beloved what have we to doe in these cloudy and darkesome dayes with this Davids joy Every Naturalist will tell us there is an Antipathie between Joy and Sorrow yea they are as contrary Heretogeneall and opposite in their operations as Light and Darkenesse Peace and War So that our former late joyfull Comedy being turned into a present dolefull Tragedy how then can we rejoyce The sad and great disaster which lately hath befallen us whispers in our ears and tacitely tels us that we must now for a Remedy set our faces Sion-way and with our weeping eyes half blinded with brinish tears immitate those sorrowfull Saints in this our sad dejected and cast-downe condition Too truely may I for mine owne particular and that by wofull experience in the sadnesse of Spirit and pensivenesse of Soule together with many thousands more of this distracted Kingdome who are unhappily co-involved into the same pittifull predicament at this day condolingly complaine of Englands distractive and calamitous condition having had hastily taken from us altogether contrary and also inconsistent to the practice both of Humanity and Christian Charity our Houses Goods Lands Livings and all other meanes of our livelyhoods present subsistence both Spirituall and Temporall properly and lawfully belonging to us whereby we are now left in a most despicable languishing and perishing Condition And as an aggravation to this our present affliction our names are ignominiously traduced and we are both in the Judgement and also the Eyes of our remorselesse Enemies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Spectacle or Gazing-stock to the World 1 Cor. 4.9 And even as it were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The filth of the World 1 Cor. 4.13 and the off-scouring of all things Yea as Abjects unto our Adversaries and also the very Objects of their reproach scorne contempt and derision So that we have cause rather Crane or Swallow-like to chatter Esay 38.14 or Dove-like to mourne with afflicted Hezekiah then with joyfull David here in the beginning of this Psalme to rejoyce Yea woe and alas may we justly cry out the bitter fruits of War in our Land proceeding from the provocation of our crying sins from the swift swords sharpnesse hath turned our former late joyes sweetnesse into present bitter

with bread as without it The leane kine may eat up the fat kine and be never the fuller Gen. 41.4 we may eat much and not be filled and drinke our fill and not have enough Hag. 1.6 and cloath our selves and not be warme and earne wages and put them into a broken bagge So that all outward things will be nothing beneficiall unto us without Gods Blessing upon them and also upon us in the use of them True it is indeed that I finde in Scripture mention made of the staffe of bread by which Metaphor I am taught that bread in its latitude is the prop fulciament and support of our naturall life But withall we ought to know that as bread is the staffe of our life so Gods Blessing is the strength and as it were the staffe of that staffe And unlesse his blessing rest upon the meanes of our sustentation the staffe we rely upon will prove no other then a reed of Aegypt that instead of supporting our bodies will pierce our hands Or like Moses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his rod cast upon the ground if we take it by the wrong end Exod. 4.3 without prayer and thanksgiving it will turne into a Serpent that will rather sting us with diseases then nourish us unto soundnesse of health Loe thus the outward things of this life if we receive them not rightly and use them holily as God commands us they being sanctified by the word of God and by prayer 1 Tim. 4.5 Instead of being unto us helpefull and beneficiall they will prove hurtfull and prejudiciall Oh then beloved how great cause have we to pray with David that the same God that prepares a Table for us and make our Cup to overflow that he that gives us the staffe of Bread would also give us the staffe of his Blessing Psal 23.4 that his Rod and his Staffe may continually comfort us Deceive not thy selfe whosoever thou art to thinke by thine owne industry to raise thee a fortune without God For it is not he that riseth early Psal 127.2 nor goeth late to bed nor eates the bread of carefulnesse that is in an infallible way to be rich No when all is done Prov. 10.22 It is the blessing of the Lord that maketh rich A Fortune collected by meere industry and without Gods speciall Blessing shall shortly melt away and not have the Blessing of continuance unlesse it be obtained by suit at his hand who must prosper unto us the worke of our hands It will therefore be good for us to take the advice the blessed Spirit of God gives us Rev. 3.18 I councell thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire that thou maiest be made rich and white raiment that thou maiest be clothed To purchase a Patrimony by our Prayers and to lay the foundation of our wealth in Religion And every stone and spit of earth we bring towards this building still to pray for a blessing Psa 90. ult Prosper thou the worke of our hands upon us O Prosper thou our handy worke And now what hath been spoken of our estate Naturall is no lesse true of our estate Spirituall In both it is the blessing of the Lord that maketh rich Iohn 15.5 Act. 17.28 for without Him we can doe nothing In him we live move and have our being for our estate Naturall And it is He also that worketh in us both the will and the deed for our estate Spirituall Phil. 2.13 So that unlesse he give a Blessing to the labour of our hands we may with Peter toile all night and catch nothing Luk. 5.5 Paul may plant and Apollos water I may preach you may hear 1 Cor. 3.7 but no increase unlesse God give it Oh then beloved how needfull it is for us to pray unto the Father of lights Iam. 1.17 that he from whom every good and perfect gift doth descend would open unto us the Ministers of his word a doore of utterance that may give a free passage unto his Gospell And that he would also open unto you our Hearers a doore of enterance that his word and spirit may enter into your hearts and dwell there And that we may all of us bring forth the fruits thereof in our conversation to Gods glory and our everlasting consolation O Pray c. And thus I passe from the Necessity of Prayer unto the Dignity of Prayer For the Dignity and excellency of Prayer Our life faith Job is Militia super terram a Warfare upon the Earth Eph. 6.12 and we wrestle not onely saith Paul with fiesh and blood but with principalities and powers c Indeed by our prayers and importunate suits we wrestle with the greatest Power of all even with God himself Mat. 11.12 and offer a kinde of Sacred Violence to the Kingdome of Heaven It was in this Harnesse that good Jacob was clad Gen. 32. when he strugled with the Angell all night for a Blessing and prevailed So that Prayer is the great prevailing ordinance of God Oratio est telum quo vulneratur cor Dei saith S. Ambrose Prayer is the weapon that wounds the very heart of God and makes it bleed in tender compassion towards his Supplicant Preces lachrymae arma sunt Ecclesiae Prayers and tears are the Churches weapons Preces lachrymae vincunt invincibilem ligant Omnipotentem saith S. Hierome Prayers and tears overcome the invincible and bind the Omnipotent Faithfull Prayer is a chaine to tye up Gods hands from punishing And such a Chaine it was that Moses cast over the armes of God to preserve the Jsraelites from destruction insomuch that God himselfe doth even sue unto Moses the Master unto the Servant that he would suffer his vengeance to breake out upon his people Let me alone Exod. 23.10 saith God that my wrath may wax hot against them that I may consume them Flectitur iratus voce rogante Deus What 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The strong most mighty and omnipotent God to be overcome by weake infirmed mortall and impotent man through the power of faithfull and fervent Prayer O the Excellency and the Efficacy of devout Prayer It it Gladius Arcus Christiani The sword and bow of a Christian Jocob gave Joseph one portion above his brethren Gen. 48.22 which he got of the Amorites by his sword and by his bow But the Chaldee Paraphrast translates it By my Prayer and by my Supplication Which Translation proveth that Prayer is the Sword and Supplication is the Bow of a Christian whereby he subdueth all his Enemies It is Scala coeli the Ladder of heaven on which the Angels ascend and descend to our reliefe and succour It is Clavis Coeli the Keye of heaven and if the wards of this Key be of Faith it will unlock unto us the doores of everlasting life Against whom can you imagine the gate of Heaven to be surer and faster

we need not feare either the raging Malice of Malignant men or the hellish fury of Devouring Devils For the Love of God towards us will be as Armour of proofe for us to defend us against all their bloody malice fierce fury and raging cruelty whereby God shall be glorified our selves preserved and our Enemies confounded So that these Motives seriously considered should stirre us up to labour to become true Members of the Church of Christ I Will close this passage with the words of the Apostle 2 Cor. 5.20 We are Ambassadours for Christ as though God did beseech you through us we pray you in Christs stead that ye be reconciled to God And therefore let all those that are as yet in their naturall condition hasten to become true Members of the Church of Christ and speedily Pray for her Peace O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem The Third and Last Use is to exhort us all in Gods feare to use the Meanes to attaine the End for procuring the Churches Peace and that must be by Praying for Her And therefore let us all zealously labour by our hearty prayers to awake Christ and earnestly intreat him to rebuke the boisterous windes and the raging waves of the turbulent Seas wherein the now distressed Church of Christ amongst us betweene Scilla and Carybdis doth dangerously saile and cause unto her with glory to himselfe and rejoycing to us all a comfortable Calme Mat. 8.26 Whereby also Glory may once againe dwell in our Land And let us not cease to importune 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The strongmost mighty God Esay 9.6 to arise in his owne strength and make bare his owne arme on the behalfe of his Church Psal 68.1 and to scatter abroad all her enemies And to infatuate the Counsels blast the Designes and confound the Enterprises of all those malevolent spirited Persons that are Enemies to the Peace of our Church and Kingdome And by the joynt forces of our Prayers together to set upon God with an holy violence that he would be pleased to set on worke his Power his Wisdome and his Goodnesse for the speedy exaltation of his distressed Church and the utter confusion of her implacable Adversaries Yea let us all on her behalfe cry unto God for her Peace prayingly and pray for her Peace cryingly and through the importunity of our uncessant prayers unto God on her behalfe give him no rest untill he be intreated of us and till he repaire and set up our Jerusalem Esa 62.7 the praise of the world And herein let us take the Prophet Jeremy for our Patterne Jer. 9.1 Oh that my head were full of water and mine eyes a fountaine of teares that I might weepe day and night for the slaine of the daughter of my people And let not our hearts be possessed with blockish Senslesnesse and Stoik Stupidity called by the Phylosophers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for that is averse to our fellow feeling of others calamity and also repugnant to our Christian Charity But if as fellow-feeling Members of the Churches miseries we faithfully and fervently pray for her Peace when she is in Calamity doubtlesse the Lord will be intreated of us and when it shall make most for his glory and her good Rev. 7. ult the Lord will wipe away all teares from her eyes and will give her rest Whereby also to many other of Gods former blessings bestowed upon us this of Peace may be added as one more having thereby as it were our lives given us for a Prey in this time of Warre it might be unto us as a farther ingagement of our humble and dutifull Obedience to carry our selves ever hereafter towards Him as a people preserved by their God And that so we of this English Nation may in sincerity of heart amongst our selves joyfully sing in this our Land that Angelicall Antheme once sang at the birth of our blessed Saviour Glory to God in the highest Luk. 2.14 and on Earth Peace Good will towards Men. The which Glory to thee our heavenly Father we heartily intreat the assistance of thy powerfull Spirit working in us to performe unto thee and blessing of Peace and Good Will amongst our selves we humbly pray thee to bestow upon us that so there may be a blessed and speedy Period to all the present distractions in this our Kingdome and thy blessing of Peace upon thy poor distressed Militant Church in this our Land That we may all with one minde and one mouth rejoycingly say with the blessed Virgin Mary Luk. 1.94 He that is mighty hath done great things for us and holy is his name And also justly say in Confidence and Thankfulnesse with the Prophet David We shall not die Psal 118.17 but live and declare the workes of the Lord. And that both in our Church and Common-wealth Mercy and Truth may lovingly meet and hold together Psa 85.10 and Righteousnesse and Peace sweetly imbrace and kisse each other That the Sonne of righteousnesse may arise Mal. 4.2 and speedily come amongst us with healing in his wings That so the Rents of this divided Kingdome may be closed and the Breaches thereof made up the destroying Angell put up the Sword of thy Justice into the Sheath of thy Mercy that the Sword of vengeance may eate no more flesh nor drinke no more blood in our Land but that the current of Christian English blood may speedily be stopped amongst us Psal 144.14 that there may be no more leading into Captivity no crying nor complaining in our Streetes but that we may all continually keepe the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace Ephes 4.3 and joyfully serve thee our gracious God with that willing obedience comfortable alacrity of heart as thou commandest And so we that are thy people and sheepe of thy pasture Ps 79. ult shall give thee thanks for it for ever and will alway be shewing forth thy praise for the same even from generation to generation Heare us and helpe us and heale us O God of our salvation for the glory of thy name who art the God of Peace and for thy deare Sonne his sake who is the Prince of Peace to whom with thine owne Majesty and God the the holy blessed and sanctifying Spirit three Persons and one Eternall Immortall Invisible and onely wise God we ascribe as is most meete of us and of all thy Creatures all honour and glory power praise and majesty might dominion and hearty thanksgiving from this time forth for evermore AMEN Deo Patri Filio Spiritui Sancto omnis Laus Gloria in Seculo FINIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉