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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

and as a bride tyreth her selfe with her jewells Beloved the serious consideration of this may serve as an Antidote to keep the Church of Christ from despaire for the yeare of her everlastaing Iubile will certainly come Oh what unspeakable joy and ineffable comfort doth this afford unto all the distressed Members of the Church of Christ considering that although the Church of Christ be subject to sorrows yet the Lord bestoweth upon her proportionable comforts Whereupon the Psalmist in the person of the Church experimentally confesseth In the multitude of the sorrowes that I had in my heart thy comforts have refreshed my soule Psal 94.19 And therefore let the Church continually comfort her selfe with this infallible confidence of Gods love and mercy towards her that as Christ put forth his hand and preserved Peter when he was in danger Mat. 14.31 So in like manner the Lord will never suffer those that are his to sinke in the bitter waters of Marah and sorrowfull Seas of this turbulent life so farre as to perish but will sanctifie all the dispensations of his providence unto them and sweeten all their sorrowes with the comforts of his blessed Spirit 1 Cor. 10.13 and will also give an issue in all their afflictions that they may be able to bear them And therefore let them comfort themselves together and mutually pray one for another O pray for the Peace of Jerusalem Exhortation Vse 5 THe last Use is for Exhortation and that is three-fold 1. To pitty the Church when she is in calamity 2. To labour to become true Members of the Church of Christ 3. To use the meanes to attaine the end for procureing the Churches Peace 1. To pitty the Church when she is in calamity And herein I shall speak 1. Generally 2. Particularly 1. Generally and that shall be concerning this whole Kingdome whereof we are all Members and wherein also we live And of that I say Be thou exhorted O England and seeing the Lords Judgements are now in our Land Let the Inhabitants thereof learne righteousnesse Esay 26.9 And speedily be reclaimed from all thy wickednesse and frequently faithfully and fervently pray unto the Lord to fill thy heart full of the rich Graces of his blessed Spirit and endeavour by the power of his grace and blessed Spirit to live the life of grace to subdue all thy naturall corruptions to resist all sinne and wickednesse whatsoever to deny all ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Tit. 2.12 And heartily lament all thy sinnes fully forsake them and speedily turne unto the Lord our God Come thus to the Lord with confidence that he will receive thee and for his mercy and promise sake thou shalt be received for there is still mercy with the Lord Psal 130.4 that he may be feared and we are not as yet consumed because his Compassions faile not Lam. 3.22 And though our Sinnes have abounded Rom. 5.20 yet his Grace doth Superabound And therefore to us he will certainly be mercifull if we can be truly sorrowfull For although every sinne be damnable yet no sinne actually condemneth but the sinne of impenitency Therefore let my councell now be acceptable to thee O perplexed England Esay 55.6 Seeke the Lord while he may be found And call upon him while he is nigh at hand Draw neere unto God in Prayer in Faith and in humblenesse of heart that thou mayest be healed Come to the Lord prayingly confidently and humbly that thou mayest finde mercy Lest the righteous Lord in displeasure against thee suddenly depart from thee and so thou becomest both ruinous and desolate to thy utter Confusion 2. Particularly Beloved we know experimentally that in the Naturall body if any Member be wounded all the rest joyntly doe their best endeavours to succour and helpe it The Eare is open to hearken after a remedy for it The Eye looketh upon it The Hand toucheth it The Tongue calleth for a Chyrurgion to cure it And all the Members of the same body in a sympathizing way are ready to relieve it And shall not the Members of Christs Mysticall Body be as ready to pitty one another and to relieve each other when they are in distresse That were not onely a Sinne but also a Shame unto them What shall the promptnesse and practice of the Flesh condemne the dulnesse and slacknesse of the Spirit Shall a Naturall Sympathy out-strip a spirituall Congruity And shall Naturall Pitty transcend spirituall Piety 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God forbid It was Saint Pauls Exhortation to his Galatians Gal. 6.2 Beare ye one anothers burdens and so fulfill the Law of Christ Intimating thereby that there is mutuall love betweene those that are true Members of the Church of Christ So that if one of them be grieved all the rest that heare of it are afflicted for that party till he be relieved An instance hereof we have in the Churches practice on the behalfe of S. Peter Acts 12.5 when Herod had imprisoned Peter the faithfull Members of Christs Church met together and earnest prayer was made of the Church unto God for him Oh how greatly doth this condemne the practice of all those unnaturall Persons who hearing that the Members of Christs Church are in distresse doe wholly shut up their bowells of Compassion from them and will neither relieve their Bodies with their Purses nor their Soules by their Prayers 2. To exhort all those that are as yet without to labour to become true Members of the Church of Christ without which there is no salvation And for this cause S. Luke reporteth that the Lord added to the Church from day to day Act. 2.47 such as should be saved The Church of Christ is most excellent in her selfe because in her alone salvation is to be found and no where else Answerable unto that preservative Expression of S. Paul to the Centurion and the Souldiers concerning the Mariners Acts 27.31 Except these abide in the ship ye cannot be saved When the Lord destroyed the Old World by the generall Deluge of water none were preserved but onely those that were with Noah in the Arke Gen. 7.23 Which Arke was a Type and Figure of the Church of Christ And beloved thus shall it also be at the end of the world when Christ shall come in the Cloudes to judge both the quick and the dead none shall be saved from everlasting burning in the fire of Hell but onely those sheepe that are of Christs fold Mat. 25.34 even those that are true Members of the Church of Christ Now lest any should be deceived thinking themselves to be true Members of Christs Church and are not I shall briefly lay downe some Markes whereby they may try themselves whether they be or not And for brevity sake I will but onely Hint at some of them Markes 1. Peace 2. Holinesse 3. Love 4. Regeneration 5. Obedience 1. Peace Concord

God as being Gods Terrestriall Vice-gerent So that Caesar must have Casars as God may have Gods that the body of Christ may be kept without a Rent as his Coate was without a Seame and that thereby also may be both produced and continued a melodious Harmony delightfull Agreement and sweet Consent amongst our selves in this English Christian Common-wealth whereof we all are Members and wherein we live Therefore Obedience either Active or Passive must be yeilded to all lawfull Authority whereas 1 Sam. 15.23 Rebellion being as the sinne of Witchcraft The which as an infernall polluted Embryo lurking in the hatefull Heart of a malicious malecontented disobedient and revengefull spirited Person having her sinfull Increasing cursed Birth wicked Growth and mischievous bloody and polipragmaticall Operation by the hellish working pernitious provocation and damnable power of the Devill is not onely diametrically repugnant to our subjective Fealty but also utterly abhorrent to all Christian Loyalty Heb. 10.26 27. and being wittingly willingly and wilfully contrary to the Light both of Knowledge and Conscience committed continued justified and maintained the condemnable pestilent Incendiarie for the present Overthrow and speedy Confusion of a Christian Common-wealth the hatefull Compendium of cursed Cruelty the horrid Epitome of all Impiety and the very Character of the Firebrands of Hell wanting nothing to all such illegall Actors thereof but onely the sharpe fatall Stroake of impartiall Death whereby to cut assunder the brittle Thred of their mortall Lives and thereby to send their sinfull soules into the deepe Dungeon of Eternall Darknesse there to be intollerably tormented with the Devill and all damned Spirits World without End The word translated Rebellion is in the Originall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Radice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which properly signifieth Bitternesse and is applied to Apostacy and Disobedience and that in a two-fold respect 1. Because Rebellion is more distastfull to God than bitter things are to the Palate of that Man between whose Tast and Bitternesse there is an Antipathy who naturally desireth to tast onely those things that are sweet 2. Because it provokes and exasperates both God Man unto Wrath Bitternesse For in one and the same Act of Rebellion there may be committed both a Sinne against God and a Trespasse against Man So that both being offended by the same Act of Rebellion they are also both of them thereby provoked to Wrath and Bitternesse against the Offendors Rebellion is the Fore-runner of Gods Vengeance to the Actors Confusion According to that fatall Querie of the Lord by his Prophet Jeremie concerning the Jewes Doe they provoke me to anger Ier. 7.19 saith the Lord and not themselves to the confusion of their owne faces So that Rebellion being Disobedience provoketh to Wrath and Wrath worketh Confusion to the Provokers thereof To satisfie the carnall Lusts inordinate Appetites and greedy Desires of military desperate Rebels in their violent prosecution of horrid Rebellion either by bloody Murther or plundering Theft is unto them for the present very sweet but the Consequent of it to all those that are guilty of it will certainly prove according to the Originall signification of it viz very bitter answerable to Abner's speech of Joabs devouring Sword viz 2 Sam. 2.26 Bitternesse in the latter end So that he that conscionably careth not Now for that cursed Act of his Sinne shall compulsively care Hereafter for the bitter Smart of his Punishment The word Sword in the Hebrew language is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ab Exsiccando Vastando dictus a Radice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 id est Exsiccatus fuit both which words have a distinct Difference as well in Pronuntiation as in Signification and yet all the Characteristicall Consonants of both which words viz 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Schem and Ponghall in Gnavar Noune and Verbe being the same may both necessarily and also profitably serve to put us all in mind of a reciprocall Punishment waiting upon the Sword when it is not rightly used as God in his Holy Word hath expresly commanded The which is very perspicuously instanced unto us in mischievous minded sanguine hearted and bloody hand-acting murtherous Joab for Joab having slaine Abner and Amasa men more righteous and better then himselfe must die for so doing by the Sword of Benaiah notwithstanding his hastening to the Tabernacle of the Lord 1 King 2.28 and there laying hold on the hornes of the Altar What Hath bloody Joab committed Murther upon Murther against that holy Commandement of the righteous Lord which expresly forbids the perpetration thereof saying Thou shalt not kill Exod. 20.13 And then would he have the Lords sacred Tabernacle to be his preservative Protection from due deserved Punishment for it No No that may not be his Counterfeit Holinesse could not so farre palliate his murtherous Ungodlinesse nor still the loud voice of His crying Wickednesse as to exempt him from Execution but the just punishing sin-revenging Hand of the righteous God will follow after him must overtake him and inevitably seize upon him to his deadly Destruction His golden outside of Religion and deceitfull seeming Devotion could not preserve him No safe Sanctuary of preserving Refuge could murtherous Joab finde wherein to secure his bloody life from the swift Swords fatall stroake of impartiall Death but Volens vel Nolens Lex talionis whether he will or will not the Law of Retaliation must both necessarily and also inevitably be executed upon him So that as Joab himselfe had formerly done to others the Lord rewarded him with the same Punishment upon his owne head 1 King 2.34 Thus Joab's bloody Murther must Recalcitare id est retrò pedem jacere By which just rebounding and retrograde punishing Passage of bitter Punishment retorted from sweet Sinne committed we evidently see that Sinne and Punishment are Reciprocates being both of a close Connexion neere Relation resemblingly characterized in Hipocrites Twinnes suitable in Corditions and being deeply involved together have their unhappy Reflections upon each other who may not unfitly be paralell'd to the Camets Catuph T and Chateph Camets T amongst the Hebrewes of whom it is said Idem esse recipiuntur varying not any thing in Figure as here plainly appeareth and also differing nothing at all in Signification but onely in the length of time in Pronuntiation So in like manner the Worke of Sinne goeth before and sometimes the same Wages of Punishment very shortly followeth after As it fared with Chush the Sonne of Jemini Davids Enemy of whom David himselfe spake by way of Sinnes penall reflection Psal 16. He hath graven and digged up a pit and is fallen himselfe into the destruction that he made for other His travell shall come upon his owne head and his wickednesse shall fall on his owne pate The which reciprocall Punishment justly proceedeth from the strict hand of our impartiall God God often punisheth Offendors in the same kind