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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

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