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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

Hosts Iosh 1.2 Rev. 19.16 who is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords had this exhortation from the Lord annexed unto it with a gratious promise unto his proceedings Iosh 1.8 Let not this booke of the Law depart out of thy mouth but meditate therein day and night that thou mayest observe and doe according to all that is written therein for then shalt thou make thy way prosperous and then shalt thou have good successe The which is recorded and still remaineth in force for succeeding Ages Hence then All Souldiers should learne that in all their Military Actions they ought to make the word of God to be their guide for the Omniscient and Omnipotent God is the great and universall Warriour of the whole world He it is who directeth every Bullet Sword Speare and Dart to the Person appointed And wherefore it commeth to passe that in the Battell some are wounded some out-right killed and some escape untouched is a secret lockt up in the bosome of God and therefore not to be pried into by the sons of men Every Souldier that putteth himselfe into Military service and doth execution upon others ought to have in his heart zeale for the glory of God without any by-ends or sinister-respects of his owne unto himselfe otherwise he is a Murtherer in the sight of God For the Lord saith by his Prophet Hoseah Hos 1.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will visit the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu That is I will be revenged upon Jehu for the blood that he shed in Jezreel for although God stirred him up to execute his judgements upon wicked persons yet he did that Military service for his owne Ambition thereby to satisfie the lusts of his owne proud heart and not for the glory of God The word there in the Originall is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth bloods intimating thereby to the world that the blood of every particular person that hath been so shed by a party not so qualified shall be reputed as Murther in the sight of God Oh then let every Souldier seriously examine his owne heart in what condition he standeth whether he be justly acquitted for what he hath done in that nature or standeth guilty as a Murtherer in the sight of God Object But happily some Souldier may here say in defence of himselfe who hath not chiefely and zealously aimed at the glory of God in the passages of his hostile service I have beene pressed to this service against my will and that which I have done in any Battell was but in mine owne defence and therefore if I have slaine any the guilt of that blood will lye upon those that compelled me so to doe my selfe shall be acquitted of it and they themselves responsible for it but howsoever I know assuredly that the Lawes of the Land can lay no hold upon me for it Answ Although thou maiest have security given thee from all Temporall Lawes and freedome from all corporall punishments yet notwithstanding Murther is such a cruell bloody hainous and horrible sinne as that the guilt thereof will continually wound thy Conscience and constantly will follow thee at the heeles as the Jaylor doth his Prisoner ever stinging vexing troubling and tormenting thee at the inevitable remembrance of the righteous judgements and just vengeance of the all-powerfull revenging God unto which by the sinne of Murther thou hast made thy selfe lyable every houre untill thou doest truly throughly and heartily repent thee of it And therefore whosoever thou art that takest upon thee the honourable calling of a Souldier examine thy condition by the word of God viz. The justice of thy cause the willingnesse of thy heart the lawfulnesse of thy calling the readinesse of thy obedience to Gods commands as to strike when he biddeth and to forbeare when he forbiddeth Have regard unto this I humbly pray thee as also not to Rob nor Plunder nor Kill nor fight but against a lawfull Enemy ever remembring and constantly practising that Religious exhortation of Moses Deut. 23.9 unto Souldiers when they goe to War When the Hoaste goeth forth against the enemies then keepe thee from every wicked thing And so shall thy service bring glory to God Credit to thy Person and comfort to thy Conscience And as Souldiers in a skirmish if they keepe not Ranke and File they will be in danger of their bodies destruction So in like manner if Souldiers observe not these Rules they will be in danger of perishing their Soules But alas all Souldiers observe not these Rules for many times in the Wars there is Gaine instead of Godlinesse Courage instead of Equity Blood-thirstinesse instead of Valour Policy instead of Justice and which is also greatly to be lamented in many Souldiers no Religion for seldome doe they pray till they be in danger of Death And yet how carefull ought they to be to have grace in their hearts who carry as it were their lives continually in their hands But O how defective are many of them of what they ought to be being full of fierce fury enraged Violence cruell Hatred cursed covetousnesse thievish Plundering swinish Drunkennesse beastly Whoredome abhominable Oathes horrid Blasphemies hellish Curses impure Discourses terrible Threatnings false Accusations filthy Communications c. The consideration whereof greatly grieveth the soules of Consciencious men and frequently maketh their hearts to tremble within them Can such irregular Souldiers to the Lawes of God hopefully expect in mercy a Blessing from God upon their Military Designes and Actions Certainely no but rather in judgement fear a Curse where by there shall be to themselves nothing but Ruine Confusion And therefore I heartily wish that all Souldiers would henceforth carry themselves in all their thoughts words and Warlike Actions so Religiously towards God as that they may be constantly in favour with him and consequently have him for their Protectour in their greatest danger and not resolutely to follow the wicked wayes and leud lusts of their owne corrupted hearts to the great dishonour of God in this world and the everlasting and just condemnation of their owne soules in the world to come But here peradventure some may Object Object We fight for the maintenance and continuance of the Protestant Religion Unto which I answer Answ Religion as it is in truth and sincerity is highly and greatly to be esteemed being a Divine honouring of God according to his holy will revealed in his word but woe and alas may we all justly cry out as it hath beene formerly so it is now in these disasterous dayes especially the delusive specious Pretence the deceitfull dangerous Masker and the dazling golden outside of all Rebellion And to the great griefe both of our Dread Soveraigne and all His faithfull Subjects the very Load-stone to draw and attract the Iron hearts of many thousands of this Kingdome into unnaturall unchristian and horrid Rebellion against all just Regall and lawfull Authority Under

the Diabolicall sinne of Hypocrisie must at the last breake forth be detected And therefore let them not be deceived for God cannot be mocked as they sow so shall they reape their seed-time wherein they sow nothing but the seedes of wickednesse is in this life and their harvest shall be in the end of this life in the land of everlasting darknesse for the Hypocrites portion shall be in utter darknesse where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Mat. 24. ult 3. Those that are Schismaticks who separate themselves from the Church of Christ Against all such persons of that dangerous Brood S. Paul gave in one verse a Three-fold Caveat to his Philippians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. 3.2 The first the Apostle termeth Dogs The Second Evill-Workers And the Third the Concision 1. By Dogs is meant those who barke against the truth of Christ for lucre sake And hence it is that there is such a Deluge of Errours at this day flowing in the Church viz. the splendor glittering shew of Balaks gold which hath not onely dimmed but also blinded the avaricious eyes of the bastard brood of corrupt-hearted Balaams and against the light of their knowledge turned their Consciences into covetousnesse answerable to that true saying of Virgil the Heathen Poet O sacra auri fames quid non mortalia pectora cogis O cursed desire of gold what mischiefe is it but for the love of thee thou forcest man to attempt it Whereby they are not onely fitted to worke their owne sinfull ends by sinister meanes but also eagerly exercised as every opportunity is offered in speaking both privately and publiquely those things though never so pernicious to the soules of their Auditors that shall conduce to their worldly Advantage and helpe to their expected and greedy-wished-for wages for the satisfying of their unlimited and avaricious desires Who serve not the Lord Jesus but their owne bellies whose glory will turne to their shame minding as they doe nothing but earthly things Phil. 3.19 The approach of which Medusa's head being Demas-like avariciously affected in this declining Age of the World 2 Tim. 4.10 wherein the people are as desirous of Novelty as subject to Discontent the world hath suffered a fearfull and fatall Metamorphosis and justly may wonder to finde her selfe so great and grosse a Changeling but politique Hypocrisie accounting Gaine to be Godlinesse is a building which hath but a lubricall sandie and slippery foundation and therefore with terrour to her co-operating Agents and comfort to her over-oppressed Patients she cannot promise to her selfe and her viperous Brood any certainty of long continuance although her deceitfull and pestilent Agents are never so Active The which pernicious practice of those pragmaticall and pestilent Impostors may not unfitly allude to those late upstart factious pedanticall Novelists who pretend to the world they are sufficiently gifted to be Teachers of others and that they also are the onely able Orthodox and powerfull Preachers of these latter Times and yet they are not able to read the Texts of the Old and New Testaments in those Languages wherein God by his Prophets and Apostles Originally spake to his Church wherein is contained the infallible Demonstration of the holy Scriptures Such ignorant Pedants not knowing what they speak or whereof they affirme must of necessity build their Christian Faith if they have any upon the judgements and opinions of other men as not being able themselves for to discerne betweene Truth and Error 1 Cor. 2.14 And yet notwithstanding they often speake swelling words being vainely puft up with their fleshly minds Who partly out of their Pride or Malice or Covetousnesse or Ignorance or some other as great or greater sins moving them teach desperately erroneous Doctrines to corrupt the minds of their itching-ear'd-hearers and divulge the brain-sick devices of male-contented factious persons which onely tickle their all-hearing Auditors itching eares but worke no saving grace in their hearts mixing with the limpid and pure waters of Life the putrified dregs and polluted schismaticall and foule corruptions of their owne filthy and deceitfull factions turning the heavenly sweetnesse of Truths infallible and plaine direction into the hellish bitternesse of hereticall expressions and erroneous Confusion Thereby causing their seduced Proselites to wander from the direct and true paths of Gods Commandements leading to Heaven and Salvation into the devious and by-paths of cursed sinne and infectious wickednesse walking blindly in the broad way leading to the wide gate going downe to the darke and uncomfortable lodgings of Death Isa 30. ult and terrible Tophet of Perdition 2. By Evill-workers those that make their whole life a trade of sinning whose sole practice is to doe nothing but evill and are also ever plotting mischiefe against the Church of Christ As was the practice of Cain against Abel Gen. 4. Esau against Jacob. Gen. 27. Pharaoh against the Israelites Exod. 14. Saul against David 1 Sam. 23. Benh●dad against Jehoshaphat 1 King 22. Senacherib against Hezekiah 2 King 19. Haman against the Jewes Esther 3. The Jewes against our blessed Saviour Christ Jesus Mat. 26. Also Nero Domitian Trajan Adrian Anthony Dioclesian divers other malignant Emperours against the zealous and religious Christians in the tender Ages of the Christian Church Loe thus there hath been even from the beginning inveterate hatred in the Church Malignant against the Church Militant the which Malignity even as a Gangrene or Leprosie hath pernitiously spread it selfe so far abroad into the world as that we of this English Nation may experimentally at this day with sadnesse of spirit and great griefe of heart justly complaine of the bitter fruits thereof the which hath unhappily produced by the violence of the enraged Sword the late great destruction that hath been in our Land and the present afflicting Distractions that still remaine amongst us Such persons are as opposite to the true Members of Christs Church as Light is to Darknesse Heaven to Hell and God to Satan Yea that cursed Brood of venomous Vipers having their hearts set on fire of Hell are both maliciously minded and bloodily affected whose wisdome is earthly sensuall and devilish Lam. 3.15 exercising their power to the uttermost against the true Members of the Church of Christ nothing regarding to contemne the approved Truth and Peace of the Church 3. By Concision those that make Rents and Divisions in the Church of Christ those Separatists that pluck up the pales and teare up the hedges thereof giving liberty thereby to the subtile Foxes to pluck off her grapes whereby to strip and speedily starve her and the wilde Boare of the Forrest to root her up and utterly destroy her Such as were those over-selfe-conceited arrogant and contemptuous Jewes of whom the Prophet maketh expression Isa 65.5 who said Stand apart come not neere to me for I am holier then thou But Agur the sonne of Jakeh describeth the condition of such insolent spirits Pro. 30.12

of all Truth yea by the voice of him who is the Way the Truth and the Life John 14.6 even Truth it selfe for Quicquid in Deo Deus est The judgement of Man may erre Humanum est errare He may pray and not obtaine Ye aske and receive not because ye aske amisse Jam. 4.3 A man may pray long and often and yet his Prayer may be erroneous or defective he may pray for those things that may rather hurt than helpe him and yet his prayer may proceed from the utmost of his understanding and he may also aske many good things at the hands of God and yet omit divers things which he ought earnestly to crave of God both for himselfe and many others but that holy and heavenly Prayer of our Jesus is both true and perfect even the Truth and Word of God it selfe and therefore well might Christ deliver it to his Disciples as a Patterne saying to them when ye pray say Our Father Which art in heaven c. for it is the very Summe Complement and Epitome of all Prayers whatsoever containing in it all things necessary both for our Bodies and Soules even for this life and that which is to come It is a PRAYER farre more than worthy to be written with Letters of purest Gold in Tables of the most pretious and permanent Marble as a continuall religious Commemoration to all succeeding Ages and the constant forme of Prayer-practice for all Posterity yea the very Marrow Pith Substance and Quintessence of all necessary Prayers to be offered up to the God of Heaven by the sonnes of Mortals is contractedly contained in that Prayer And therefore whensoever thou prayest lest thy Prayers though long and many should be erroneous or defective be sure thou concludest with that holy and heavenly prayer of Iesus that thou mayst aske and receive both for thy selfe and others all those necessary things contained therein and so benefit others by thy Prayers as well as thy selfe Mot. 2 2. We shall have the helpfull assistance of the blessed Angels This truth the Apostle declared to the Hebrews Heb. 1. ult where speaking of Angels he saith Are they not all ministering Spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heires of salvation Yea beloved if we be true Members of Christs Church then there will be a neere Relation a sweet Society and a heavenly Communion betweene the blessed Angels and our selves The which confisteth in these five ensuing Particulars 1. They and we shall be Fellow-servants worshipping and serving one and the same God as the Angell himselfe confesseth 2. They and we shall be Brethren in the Testimony of Jesus as the same Angell affirmeth in the words following 3. They and we shall be Fellow-Citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem Heb. 12.22 4. They are Souldiers under the Standards of God and are also our Guardians Psal 34.7 we are under their protection and are also their Charge 5. They are our Patternes and we their Resemblances both for Obedience whilst we live here upon Earth Mat. 6.10 and also for Glory hereafter in Heaven Luke 20.36 Mot. 3 3. We shall have Peace of Conscience the which transcends all earthly and mundane Comforts It was reported of Socrates that he so greatly delighted in Vertue as that no kinde of sorrow did ever alter his countenance But beloved the inward Jubile of the minde in the Kingdome of Grace doth farre excell his condition which standeth not in meate or drinke or any other outward things but in righteousnesse and peace and joy in the holy Ghost Rom. 14.17 The which Peace of Conscience amongst the Ancient Fathers hath many honourable Titles given unto it They call it Agrum beatitudinis Hortum deliciarum Gaudium Angelorum Domum Spiritus sancti Paradisum animae They call it a Field of Blessednesse a Garden of Delight the Joy of Angels the House of the holy Ghost and the Paradise of the Soule So that I may truly say The Spirit of a true Member of the Church of Christ being sound in sincerity and seconded with a good Conscience is able to beare out all his infirmities together with all the miseries incident to his humane Nature And through the power of Gods Grace is able also to encounter with the terrours of Death and the fearfullnesse of the Grave yea to endure with a gracious humility even the glorious presence of God and his holy Angels at the last Judgement Day Whereas there is no Peace to those that are without the Church Esa 57. ult continuing in their sinnes So that if any one of them had strength in his Limbes transcending Sampsons and power in his Bones excelling all the sonnes of Anack united together yet notwithstanding unlesse his Conscience be seared he shall often heare to his terrour an Authenticke Divine condemning Eccho summoning him to appeare before Christs Tribunall-Barre to give an accompt of all his evill thoughts words and workes the which will so greatly terrifie his bitter afflicted and wounded Conscience as that he shall be restlesse even in the midst of all his earthly delights and worldly pleasures For unlesse the Consciences of such wicked persons are Cauterized they have often times gripings and gnawings and horrible convulsions within them which are as it were certaine flashings of the flames of Hell-fire unto them before they come into that place of torment But the Peace of Conscience which the true Members of the Church of Christ have is so comfortable a Cordiall unto them as that it made the Apostles to rejoyce in their afflictions Act. 5.41 that they were counted worthy to suffer for their Masters sake This was it that made Paul and Silas to sing in prison at mid-night Act. 16.25 And as Augustine saith made holy Job more happy in Stercore on the top of a Dunghill then Adam was in Nemore in the midst of Paradise because as he saith of himselfe Job 27.6 I will keepe my righteousnesse and will not forsake it mine heart shall not reprove me all my dayes So that Nihil jucundius nihil tutius nihil diutius bona Conscientia fremat Orbis orcus illa erit secura There is nothing more sweet nothing more safe nothing more durable then a good Conscience rage World roare Hell that Person who hath this Peace of Conscience within him is ever at quiet Mot. 4 4. We shall ever have the Love and Favour of God Beloved if we are in the Love and Favour of God then God hath a will for to doe us good and we know he wants no power for he is Omnipotent Impotent men when those whom they love are in distresse would sometimes helpe them but cannot but no impediment can let nor obstacle hinder the Omnipotent God If an earthly King favour any man and beare a speciall Love towards him what needeth that man to care though the Subjects hate him So in like manner if we are in the Love and Favour of God