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

there among us we see that a great part of the young generation are profane and spend the best of their time in Satans service and know not the God of their fathers 2. Another thing that speaks sadly to us is That under all the means of grace there is so little Spiritual growth amongst those that are born to Jesus Christ Barrenness makes way for cursing and rejection 3. The Noise that is in the House of God a confused Noise This is that which God could never endure in his House it exceedingly stirs up his wrath When the Temple was to be built there was not to be the noise of a Hammer 1 Kings 6. 7. It is a dangerous thing to cause God to live unquietly in his own House to make him weary of his own dwelling-place God was never weary of the noise of his peoples Prayers in his House but of the noise of their Contentions the noise of their Prayers is pleasant but the noise of these Contentions his soul abhors VSE 2. Let this be matter of Admiration as well as of Humiliation to us that a sick people that have all Means to heal them are not healed that those who have Gileads Balm and Gileads Physicians are yet sick and if we do not wonder at it strangers will hereafter That a people that have such proper sutable Means are still unrecovered and dying under them I speak not to flatter We have a godly Magistracy that have made it manifest that they are willing yea earnestly desirous of healing the Sicknesses of Church and State We have godly Ministers that I am confident would spend and be spent for the Recovery of the health of the daughter of Sion We have holy Ordinances and we have some Mourning and Praying Saints that lament the Evils that are among us and Gods Providences call upon us daily to get our sicknesses healed and is it not a wonder that a people that have such Means and Mercies should still languish of their Diseases Oh! that that which is said of Nineveh might never be said of us There is no healing of thy bruises thy wound is grievous Nahum 3. 19. It would be sad if God should threaten us as he doth Egypt Jer. 46. 11. In vain shalt thou use many medicines for thou shalt not be cured Or if God should say as once concerning Babylon Jer. 51. 9. We would have healed Babylon but she is not healed forsake her and let us go every one into his own Country It was no wonder that these Heathen Nations could not be healed but it is matter of astonishment that Sion is not that New-England should have so much Means of Healing and yet continue sick that a people that are lifted up to Heaven with Mercies should be so likely to be thrown down to Hell VSE 3. Let it serve to perswade Gileads Physicians to put forth their utmost endeavours for the healing of the wounds and sicknesses of the daughter of Sion I would direct this Use to our Honoured Magistrates to my Reverend Brethren in the Ministry and to all Mourning and Praying Saints First To you who are our Honoured Magistrates who are by the Providence of God Patres Patriae The Fathers of our Country I hope it will not be called Presumption if I should give my humble Advice for the healing of Sions Sickness and leave it at your feet God hath called you to be Healers to a poor sick Country That word in Scripture that is rendred to govern is divers times rendred to heal so Isa 30. 26. and in Isa 3. 6 7. the Rulers are called Healers the Prophet tells us that when the people by their sin have brought all things into Confusion and their ruine almost present then they shall be desirous of healing Rulers A man shall take hold of his brother and shall say Be thou our Ruler and let this Ruine be under thy hand but ver 7. In that day shall he swear saying I will not be an Healer the meaning is a Ruler A Disease sometimes is so desperate no Physician will undertake its cure the Patient so froward and unruly that none will meddle with him this may at last be the condition of a froward people The Lord keep us from that woful day That I would humbly offer is this 1. That you do your utmost for the Extirpation of Profaneness it is a growing Evil in the Country This is one of the great Works God hath called you that are Magistrates and Deputies unto I know your hearts are upon this Work if there be not enough done already to prevent Profaneness I beseech you do more and see that your Laws be put in Execution and especially let it be your care That the Lords Sabbaths may be sanctified Give your Civil Sanction to that holy Command of God Those that would dispute away the Sanctification of the Christian Sabbath do but dispute away the Power of Godliness it is Christs Institution the Observation of it hath the influence of a peculiar Blessing In the Primitive Times the Observation of it was a Badge of Christianity This was a common Question propounded to those that would joyn with the Assemblies of the Saints Servasti Dominicum The Answer was Christianus sum intermittere non possum If this Day be slighted Practical Religion will quickly be lost and a door will be opened for Gods severest Judgements Slighting of the Lords Sabbaths and a decay of the power of Godliness usually go together The Profane in Practice and the Erroneous in Judgement are the great Enemies of Sanctifying Sabbaths Let us remember The Observation of it hath the Promise of God The Fire of Gods Wrath is not like to come where his Sabbaths are observed 2. Let it be your Endeavour to settle the Preaching of the Gospel in all places within your Jurisdiction by those that are in some measure sitted you will finde such places where the Preaching of the Gospel is long wanting will prove the Nurseries of Profaneness such places will breed up Enemies to God and Jesus Christ I doubt not but some think it their Priviledge and Liberty to live without a Gospel-Ministry such persons are either grosly Ignorant or grosly Erroneous Your Endeavours to set up Lights in such dark places will be pleasing to God it will be an honour to God and an honour to you if you see that Christ be Preached in every corner of the Colony It is by Christ that Kings reign and that Rulers rule Prov. 8. 15 16. You are Christ's Officers though not in the Church and are to labour his Exaltation and your work is to labour that all may be brought in subjection to him 3. Let all Incendiaries be branded all such as are stirrers up of Strife and Division that are Salamanders that love to live in the Fire that are Fire-brands in Church and Common-wealth that are Instruments of Contention in Court and Country let such be marked in the Churches and let them be abhorred