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A95349	The balme of Gilead, for the wounds of England: applyed in a sermon preached at Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commmons, at the late solemne fast, August 30. 1643. / By Anthony Tuckney, B.D. sometimes Fellow of Eman. Colledge in Cambridge, and now pastor at Boston in the county of Lincoln. Published by order of that House.	Tuckney, Anthony, 1599-1670.; England and Wales. Parliament. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing T3210; Thomason E69_4; ESTC R886	39,718	52

desperatest evills because balme in Gilead for deadliest dangers and miseries But because the goodnesse of the Physick will be evidenced by the greatnesse of the cures wrought by it one of the best wayes to prove that there is balme in Gilead and a Physician there will bee to shew under some generall heads what great cures have been wrought there 1. Of deepest wounds and most violent and malignant diseases I meane of most grievous and deadly dangers and miseries for such in all ages have the Churches miseries used to be as in purest ayres sometimes accutest fevers so purest Churches and holiest men have been wont to conflict with extreamest miseries mans rage will doe what it can to make and enflame the wound and the old Serpents poyson would make it incurable No afflictions like to the Churches persecutions No sorrow like mine said the lamenting Church yea and adde too and say Lam. 1. ●● No salvation like thine also it hath beene 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from so great a death that Gods people have beene delivered 2 Cor. ● 10. none have beene more deeply wounded nor any so admirably cured as the Spouse of Christ in the midst of all these deaths blessed be God! shee lives still and will for ever there is balme then in Gilead that hath healed such deadly wounds and diseases which the body of Christ above all hath laboured under taking out of them the venome of the Serpents sting yea the inflamation of Gods wrath that in the first place hath beene the cure of deadliest wounds such as the Lord knowes ours now are 2. When there are many of them even a complication and as it were a whole systerne of diseases on the body of Christ at once not in one part only but totum pro corpore vulnus when sick and sore all over as Isa 1. 5 6. Nor in one kinde only but of all sorts as Pineda labours in Iobs maladies to finde out all kindes of diseases Pineda in Iob 2. In which case the cure is wont to be harder because as all diseases are contrary to health so one of them often to another so as that which helps the one may wrong the other as it sometimes fals out when the Liver and Spleen are distempered together And yet so the body of the Church alas of our State and Church at this present conflicts at one time with many and them contrary miseries in time of warre and such times our sinnes have now brought upon us in truth with all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 most true in this sense then a troop comes warre and changes together Iob 10. 17. in this universall scare-fire the flame is kindled in every corner of the house this generall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 leaveth no part of us free we are ill all over every where 〈◊〉 P●●v 5. 11. and almost every way yea and in contrary wayes very miserable as in sad convulsion fits one nearest member pluckt from another and which is most miserable so as heale the one and you wound the other We goe through fire and water as the Psalmist said in which case that which quencheth the one encreaseth the other such an ague and purgatory of hot and Psal ● 12. cold fits of various and contrary miseries the whole land now labours of and sinks under But is there such a medicine as can help both and heale all Yes if you will beleeve David who could set his probatum est to it who met with as many and crosse sad passages as the most and yet after all out of his owne experience could say I sought and this poore man cryed and then God delivered him from all his feares and saved him out of all his troubles Psal 34. 4 6. and ver 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 great and many for the word signifieth both are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of them all where there is a many in the disease you see there is an all in the cure in our God that which can cure an all of sicknesses Psal 103. 3. in our Lord Iesus that can heale 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all manner as of lighter diseases so of more grievous sicknesses The Matth. 4. 23. people of God have been rescued from multitudes of Bulls Psal 68. 30. from swarmes of angriest Bees Psal 118. 12. from innumerable evils compassing them round about Psal 40. 12 13. have not sunk when deep hath called upon deep and at the Psal 41. 7 8. noise of Gods water-spouts all his waves and billowes have gone over them when like a wrackt man tossed with billows from below and almost drowned at the same time with showres and spouts of raine from above when earth shakes and heaven thunders even out of greatest crowdes of evills and enemies that have been plucking the body of Christ apieces quite contrary wayes hath it yet been delivered such a Panacea such an All-heale hath God provided for his Church Sure there is balme in Gilead and a Physitian there that hath cured such varieties and contrarities of diseases 3. And this further in the third place when grown Chronicall now old soares are hardlier healed and hectick fevers usually incurable Ours now begin to grow in yeares and the maladies of the Church of God in former ages have not only according to former particulars been sore and many but also of long continuance not only dead but even dry bones if meant of the Iewes in Babylon they lay seventy years unburied Deut 28. 59 60. if of the other ten Tribes it is three thousand yeares since their Ezek. 37 1 2 c. first death now so buried in obscurity and oblivion that wee cannot tell where they are to be found which is much longer then our miseries shall continue though they should prove yet more deadly and yet these after all this shall live and therefore though for the present we be very sick yet let not our hearts die for this is more then Gileads balme or Physitian for our blessed Saviour as easily to raise up a dead Lazarus when hee stinketh as the Centurions servant that is but ready to die Iohn 11. 39. Luke 7. 1. and make his people glad not only after dayes of affliction but even after yeares wherein they have seene evill the Sun of Psal 90. 15. Mal. 4. 2. righteousnesse arising with healing in his wings as certainly and it may bee more comfortably after the longest Winters night as on the earliest Summers morning there is balme then in Gilead and a blessed Physitian there that can cure so grievous so many so contrary so invererate diseases 4. And then when all upon all the former particulars for any humane help or skill is proved desperate and incurable and so judged First especially by Enemies who use to think as they would have it and so ante-date as their own deliverance Ier. 28. 1 2 3 4. so the Churches