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

to another Wherefore the Lord brought upon him and his people 2 King 21.16 the Captaines of the Hoast of the King of Ashur which tooke Manasheh and put him in fetters and bound him in Chains and carried him to Babylon And when he was in tribulation he prayed to the Lord his God and humbled himselfe greatly before the God of his Fathers and prayed unto him and God was intreated of him and heard his prayer and brought him againe to Jerusalem into his Kingdome So that what although thou hast formerly fallen into sinne and thereby greatly provoked the Lord to wrath against thee yet notwithstanding now at the last returne unto God and humble thy selfe before him Cast downe thy selfe before the Lord Psal 15.17 and he will lift thee up he will not despise the Sacrifice of a sorrowfull spirit He will not reject the sighing of a contrite spirit Esay 66.22 He will dwell with thre Esa 57.15 and revive thy humble spirit and give life to thy contrite heart And will heale thy backslidings Hos 14.4 and love thee freely and turne away his anger from thee 2. And for a Gospel-patterne hereof Luke 15. looke upon the Parable of the Prodigall Who by his riotous living greatly grieved the tender heart of his loving Father whereby also he vexatiously provoked him to displeasure against him yet notwithstanding when in Humility he returned unto his grieved and angry Father Loe then His Father received him joyfully imbraced him lovingly kissed him sweetly and forgave him freely And therefore prepare thy selfe in Humility for to meet thy God Amos 8.12 And also to walke humbly before him Mic. 6.8 And so shall we by the sorrowfull tears of penitential water quench through Gods gratious acceptance the furious fire of his fierce displeasure and have him to be unto us againe a reconciled Father in Jesus Christ And for the third viz. Casting away all our Transgressions We have Jehues Querie to Jehoram concerning the destruction of his Mother Jezabel 2 Kings 9.22 What Peace so long as the whoredomes of thy Mother Jezabel and her witchcrafts are so many Yea beloved and as for our Sinnes we must be so far from having Many as that we must not willingly reteine Any But deale with them all as Moses in another case once answered Pharaoh concerning the Israelites Cattell Exo. 10.26 There shall not an hoofe be left behinde Even so beloved for a speedy present and permanent prevention of farther future and greater mischiefes that by continuance in any one of our sinnes may befall us Every true Christian must have regard in the sincerity of his heart to walke in a constant cordiall and universall obedience to all Gods Commandements He must not foster cherish or keepe any one sinne whatsoever For S. Peter bids us lay aside not some but all malice 1 Pet. 2.1 and all guile and hypocrisies And S. Paul exhorts us to abstaine from all appearance of evill 1 Thes 5.22 And to cleanse us from all filthinesse of the flesh and spirit 1 Cor. 7.1 And S. Jude would have us to hate even the garment spotted by the flesh Iude 23. And S. James tels us Iam. 2.10 Whosoever shall keepe the whole Law and yet faileth in one point meaning wilfully he is guilty of all Oh then let us all in Gods feare take heed of our Serpentine Delilahs Iudg. 16. and beware of our soule-destroying Herodias's viz. Mar. 6. Our bosome deare and darling sinnes And let none of us say of that sinne Gen. 19.20 as once Lot did in another case of Zoar Is it not a little one and my soule shall live Unto which I answer Though that sin in thy judgement seeme never so small yet the effect which it will produce unto thee will be that of Joabs Sword unto Abner viz. 2 Sam. 2.26 bitternesse in the latter end Resembling that little booke which S. John did eat Rev. 10.10 Though for the present it be sweet in thy mouth yet for the future it will be bitter in thy belly For the sweete meat of Sinne must have the sower sauce of Punishment And as Jonathan spake of the death of his body 1 Sam. 14.43 for the tasting of a little hony I did but taste a little hony with the end of the rod that was in mine hand and loe I must die So in like manner the exercising of thy sweet-darling-sinne though never so little and living and dying in it without repentance will be the everlasting destruction of thy soule So that If we desire the aversion of Gods bitter judgements of War from us and the comfortable enjoyment of his sweet mercies and blessing of Peace upon us then must we imitate the Widdow in the Gospel seeking that shee had lost Luk. 15.8 who swept her house to finde her Groat So in like manner we must sweepe purge and clense our hearts of all filthinesse and corruption if seeking we desire to finde Gods blessing of Peace Otherwise the terrible sword of Gods justice against us for our sinnes will still continue the Wars in our gates Alas beloved shall any of us of this English Nation who live in the heavenly Light of the glorious Gospel and also unto whom both the Law and Gospel have been for many years together both clearly plentifully and powerfully preached be so spiritually blind and full of unregenerate darkenesse as not to see that those unexpelled sinnes which lie lurking still in our soules cause the continuation of these unnaturall Wars in our Land Or can any of us be so blockishly senselesse or stupidly ignorant in our understanding as to have the least conception or thought in our hearts that the holy and righteous God will be so mercifull and friendly unto us as to remove the raging Wars from us while we retaine our crying sinnes with us which make us become enemies unto him calling continually and earnestly upon him to open the Vials of his fierce wrath and vengeance and poure downe his fearfull and terrible judgements in his great displeasure and indignation upon us to our utter destruction Observe with me I pray you the Lords former and just proceedings against the Violators of his sacred Lawes Was there ever any Transgressors of the Decalogue viz. the Ten Commandements of the Morall Law who continued in their sinnes and had not punishment from God inflicted upon them to their destruction Take a view with me of those particular Offenders against those Ten severall Commandements as for example The Idolatrous Israelites violating the First Commandement by making other Gods were so smitten by the hand of God Ex. 32.27 as that both brethren companions and neighbours contrary to all naturall affection sheathed their swords in each others bowels Superstitious Nadab and Abihu violating the Second Commandement by offering strange fire upon the Altar Lev. 10.2 were both of them both speedily and

off the face of the Earth making our pleasant English fields to become Golgotha's even Receptacles for dead mens bones and laying their slaine bodies in the darke Cell of this sublunary World low in the dust So that this wofull War hath produced these patheticall Effects viz. That many heavy-hearted Fathers and Mothers have sorrowed for their Sons woful-hearted Widdowes have wept for their Husbands tender-hearted Children have cryed for their Fathers compassionate-hearted Sisters have complained for their Brothers yea thousands have lamented for the losse of their loving Friends Neighbours Kindred and Acquaintance so that many thousands have already lost their lives in this intestine War and unchristian Quarrell Loe thus immature Death Samson-like hath suddenly seized upon them speedily surprised them and also swiftly cut them downe as well young as old with the fierce and fatall Sword of cruell bloody and mercilesse War to the destruction of their bodies that are dead and the ruine of many thousands of poor Widdows and fatherlesse Children left behind them that are yet languishing alive Alas then whose heart cannot sympathize their sorrows and bleed at the consideration of their calamity Oh therefore Tell it not in Gath 2. Sam. 1.20 publish it not in the streets of Askelon lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoyce and the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph And whereby also our English Natives should hereafter become a By-word amongst other Nations But rather labour to pacifie Gods displeasure by praying for Jerusalems Peace O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem But if David in a time of Peace when Jerusalem was as a City at Unity in it self makes his prayer for Peace prayeth for the preservation continuance of the Peace of the Church and would also have others fluctuating with himself in their prayers for the Churches Peace like the Sea with Surges and kindling their Devotions with fervent zeal would have them willingly bring plentifull store of Altar-fuell to this holy fire desiring them to pray for the Peace of Jerusalē Oh then how much more doth it concerne us in these Dismall Disasterous and Dog-dayes of the worlds declining Age viz. in these calamitous times of discrepancy and dissention to do our best endeavours joyntly to the uttermost of our power to prevaile with the God of Heaven for the speedy removall of these our present penall Evils from us that are still remaining amongst us and lying heavy upon us For alas we live at this day amongst a perverse people who differ too little in disposition from those generations of Men Prov. 30.13 14. spoken of by Agur the son of Jakeh Whose eyes are haughty and their eye-lids are lifted up Whose teeth are swords and their jaw-teeth as knives to devour the poor from off the earth and the needy from among men And like those in Davids time of whom he complainingly spake Who imagine mischief in their hearts Psal 140.2 3. and stir up strife all the day long And have sharpened their tongues like a Serpent having Adders poyson under their lips And Who have whet their tongue like a sword and shoot out their arrowes Psal 64.3 even bitter words And also Lying among the children of men that are set on fire Psal 57.5 whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongue a sharpe Sword Beloved too much do the people with whom we now dwel resemble those persons that are here recited having their judgements blindly infatuated with false Principles burning inwardly with the fire of indignation against those indigent persons who are harmlesse towards them and helplesse to themselves and others grinding fiercely the faces of the poor eating up the Lords people Psal 53.4 as they eat bread piercing sharply into their hunger-starving stomacks shooting their poisonous Darts deep into their tender Consciences against the wils of their forced Patients and contrary to the light of their knowledge and also wounding their candid Reputations with the sharpe Rasors of bitter Obloquies and reviling Reproaches by unjust Aspersions and caviling Calumniations Thus cruelly dealing with our languishing Lives almost as deadly as Death it self Of all which perverse passages together with many more being here for brevity omitted which might also justly have been expressed let all Wise Judicious Learned and truly Religious persons censure and God in mercy towards us speedily deliver us out of them all And for a speedy Remedy whereof let us all in the fear of God and confidence of his mercy toward us make our present approaches unto the beautifull gate of Gods never-failing-Mercy to his faithfull Children imploring in all submissive and possible humility his gratious and powerfull assistance in this our great woful extremity humbly desiring him in the bowels of Jesus Christ to looke downe with his mercifull eyes of loving pitty and tender compassion upon this our distressed and distracted Kingdome and to compose and that speedily all unhappy differences between our Gratious Soveraigne and those that either are or else ought to be His Loyall and dutifull Subjects and to repaire the late-made-Ruines and build up the now-broken-Wals of this our low-cast-downe and disquieted Jerusalem Psa 122.7 that so Peace may be within the Wals thereof and Plenteousnesse within her Palaces Such holy and fervent Prayers steeped in sorrowfull and penitent Teares flowing from the truely contrite Spirits greatly grieved Soules and throughly-humbled Hearts of faithfull and righteous Persons and with powerfull Groanes Marshall'd forth from between our fasting Lips will in the acceptable time be prevalent with our Gracious God through Christ for the speedy healing of our Lands manifold Distempers and also well become this present time and occasion Oh then let us all in Gods fear without any farther protraction of time speedily labour and earnestly endeavour even from the ground of our hearts thus to pray for our Jerusalems Peace O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem TEXT THe Text that I may not affect any curious Logicall distribution thereof Divide it and briefely the parts thereof are foure 1. A Patheticall Particle or Interjection O! 2. An exhortary Christian Religious Duty Pray 3. The Subject of this Duty Peace 4. The Object of this Subject the Church Jerusalem O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem Of these briefely and in their Order as the blessed Spirit of God shall assist me c. From the which 4. parts of the Text there do arise 4. particular Doctrines viz. 1. From the patheticall Particle or Interjection O. Doct. It is the duty of the Children of God to provoke and stir up one another to the service of God 2. From the exhortary Christian Religious Duty Pray Doct. Prayer to God is the onely salve to cure calamity and to continue the favour of God to his people 3. From the subject of this Duty Peace Doct. Peace is a pretious blessing of God well deserving the prayers of his faithfull Servants 4. From the Object of this subject the Church Jerusalem Doct.