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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46909	Balsamum Britannicum, Brittains balm: or, The means of recovery for a languishing kingdom Preached in a sermon before the honourable judges for the Northern Circuite, at the generall assizes holden in the Citie of Yorke, 21. March, 1647. By John Johnson Mr. of A. and minister of Methley in Yorkeshire, [sic]	Johnson, John, minister of Methley.	1648 (1648)	Wing J781A; ESTC R219111	20,947	65

multitude my tongue shall finde out any that doth but cut off the lap of justice I will say with Bernard Correctio est attractio non detractio A seasonable advice is the part of a friend not of an aceuser Dependance This Scripture is the Star whose altitude I mean at this time to take whose motion I hope you Wisemen as those of the East will follow and whose influence I desire may run with a continued thred thorow all your administrations I pray God it may arise in your hearts with healing under its Wings The dependance of the Text is thus For the many sins of Israel and Judah especially these two divorcing fins of Idolatrie and Oppression in which they had forfeited the trust of their Espousals the jealous God had cast them out of his presence as out of a Sling spread them abroad to the four winds of heaven had given them up to 70 years captivitie in Babylon The Chaldeans had been as Horns to scatter Israel and Judah but after the fulfilling of the dayes wherein they had suffered adversitie God that will not chide for ever nor keep his indignation for evermore stirred up the Persian Monarchs to be Carpenters to break these Horns and hee that ruleth in the kingdoms of men and giveth them to whomsoever he pleaseth gave to the Medes and Persians the Conquest of Babylon and that God that ruleth the Spirit of Princes as the Rivers of waters inclined the hearts of the Persian Monarchs to give Israel leave to return to their God and their Countrey so that the daughter of Zion was to be delivered out of Babylon as out of a pit in which no water is And because the people that had now feathered their nests were slow enough to return God sends Haggai and Zacharie to summon them to return to edifie the Temple and re-establish his pure worship and that by a Proclamation to excite their dulnesse Zachar. 2. 6. Ho ho come forth and flee from the land of the North saith the Lord deliver thy self O Zion that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon Like that of Micha 2. 10. Arise and depart for this is not your rest it is polluted This Haggai doth in plain words Zacharie in mysticall Visions Sic ludit nobiscum Spiritus Sanctus And now being returned he shews them here one means of their re-establishing that they might be moved no more he prescribes to them this analeptick in their neutralitate convalescentiae as a principall meanes to repair their breaches and restore them a path to dwell in to glew again their broken staffs of bands beautie These are the things ye shall do c. So that the Text may be called The Balme of Giliad for Israels recovery Thus I have brought you to the Text the God of power and profit bring it unto you Analysis There are two parts of Chirurgerie Synthesis and D●a●resis the composer of things disunited and the division of things conjoyned The Kingdom hath long enough smarted under divisions I could wish there were no more the Text and the times require rather composure I will not therefore crumble my Text into fyllabicall Atomes least I should verborum minut is rerum pondera frangere least it should befall my Text as it doth some Aromaticall druggs of thin and aëreall substance by over fine pouthering and over exact searching lose of their spirits Well is the Commonwealth compared to a musicall Instrument and the Text sutes not ill with our present condition and this present occasion for here is the tuning of three principall strings in your present imployment the Tongue the Hand the Heart the Tongue Speak the truth c. the Hand Execute the judgment of truth and peace in the gate the Heart And let none of you imagine evill in your Heart c. and all this armed with Gods antipathy For all these things do I hate saith the Lord So that this Text like a well made Picture doth eye all on the Theater of this intended administration and like John Baptist stands at the River of Jord●n to answer every one according to his station If the Tertullian Oratours and fiduciall Witnesses shall come and say What shall we do the answer is ready Speak the truth c. declare the truth witnesse the truth plead the truth If the Honourable Judges and the inferiour Jurers shall say And what shall wee doe the same Oracle gives the answer Execute the judgement of truth and peace If the wrangling contentioners under whose multitude the Bar judgements seat doth groan that they might even break the Axletree of Justice were it not made of good wood and whose Supernumeraries stand need of disbanding as well as the Army would hear their portion it is at hand I would it were also at the heart Imagine no evill in your heart c. And least the errours in any of these should seem of no weight it is enforced with an argument cloathed in fire All these are things which I hate faith the Lord Explication But to draw the Curtain from before this picture that you may view it and it may view you These things shall ye do not say like some Mills that clacke much and grinde little never was there a more seasonable word The Laws speake as much as well as ever but I know not how it comes to passe the hand of execution is withered Andracles said of the Athenian laws that there needed one to mend all mending is above my cognizance but this I am sure of we stand need of another Law to put all the rest in execution the sword of the Magistrate should not be like that of Goliahs wrapped in a cloth and laid up behinde the Ephod nor Magistrates themselves like George on horsback the embleme onely of a Magistrate as Christopher of a Minister his hand armed but never striking a stroke God expects doing up and be doing and the Lord be with you These things not some but all for as Chrisostome well observed neither in musick nor justice the striking of one string maketh harmony God expects ye should execute all the decrees of righteousnesse Speak the truth not lies a lie is a Monster begot by the Devill on a wicked heart and if the speaker of lies much more the swearer of lies as the very succubus of the Devill It was the old Proverb Christianus est non mentietur He is a Christian and therefore will not lie I would it were true in these dayes Every one to his neighbour let me not straighten this word from its universalitie every Informer every Witnesse every Pleader speake the truth let your Bills and declarations speake the truth if there were an index expurgatorius to passe on them they would not swell to such voluminous and lying aggravations Witnesses speake you the truth The Cretians were proverbially noted for great lyars and no wonder for amongst other lies they said That the great god Jupiter was

dead I wish we had no Cretians amongstus that esteem swearing but a blowing on a book Linguas habent jurutas mentes injuratas that swear lies as desperately as if God were dead and conscience hanged What a shame it is that men will call God to witnesse that which they would bee afraid to call their neighbour for Lawyers plead the truth I am no enemy to your honourable rewards answerable to your birth breeding place and pains but let not the ordinary accusation be true That you care not what your Cause be so your Fee be good S. Isodor was wont to say That he who sua suaviloquentia adornat mendacium in aureo vasculovenenum miscet by guilded eloquence adorneth a rotten lie he doth but mixe poyson in a golden Cup or as Diogines said of a beautifull man that spake filthily Draws a Leaden Dagger out of a Silken Sheath I honour that man whose tongue is loosed not by the largenesse of the Fee but by the justnesse of the Cause and to whom not the smalnesse of a starved Fee but the conscience of the badnesse of his Cause maketh his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth Both God and my Text abhors to see the worst causes often clothed with most boldnes and verbosity because it comes in a vesture of Gold Imitate therefore that brave Lawyer Papinian in ripening good Causes and rejecting bad Prov. 12. 19. The lip of truth shall be established but a lying tongue is but for a moment Execute the judgement not decree them onely We have many good Decrees of justice formed in the Womb but they are not executed except it be in the worst sense like Ephraim they stay too long in the place of the breaking forth of children Our Zarah of Peace and Truth hath beene long agoe ready to be delivered and had the red thred of our joyfull hopes upon it but I know not how they are shrunk back again into the womb and I pray God that a Pharez a breach in our truth and our Peace be not the first-borne of our long travellings in Birth but I hope better things you are the Midwife of the Parliaments conceptions what they have wisely decreed doe you magnanimously execute Of Truth and Peace the two Twinns of God let them be separated from under Heaven that would divide between these two Sisters either to take Truth from Peace or Peace from Truth whom God hath conjoyned let no man separate these are the two Nails on which the Vessels of the Temple hang the two Poles of the Republique the two shoulders of Atlas that bear up our little World the two Pillers of the Temple Jachin and B●az the two Supporters of the Throne of Government the two white Kine that carry the Ark of God to its resting place these two strengthen the stakes and lengthens the Coards of God Tabernacle like the two solding doors of the Temple I wish they may be ever se invicem tenentia even folded together I wish a firme marriage betweene these two as long as Sun and Moon endureth and let him be Anathema that forbidds the Banes as they are both in my Text so I wish they were both written in every mans heart Zacharie 8. 19. Therefore love the Truth and Peace But observe the order Truth and Peace Truth before Peace both Sisters like Leah and Rachel but the yonger must serve the elder many would marry the beautifull Rachel of Peace but cares not for blear-eyed Truth a peaceable civill Government is the Roofe and Rasters of the House but Religion and Truth are the Pillars and Posts Truth hath here the front I wish it had had so in all our Designes I wish that the building of the Hoose of the Lord had at least gone on pari passu with the building of the House of the Kingdom or our own Houses but it is according to the Proverb Primum in intentione ultimum executione if there had been a readier passage to the establishment of Truth our Peace would not have stood on such uncertainties But perchance the Word hath transported me beyond the limits of its sence there is a double judgement of Truth jus coeli jus fori A spirituall a politicall Truth the first stands in the symmetrie of our Religion with the golden Standard and Beame of the Sanctuary the Word of God the other in a conformitie of the wayes of justice with the sence of the Lawes of a Kingdom I do not think the Prophet excluded the former for they were to build the Temple as well as the walls of Hierusalem yet in this place by the thred of it I thinke politicall truth is principally meant this also must be executed for oppression and injustice are the Horsleeches Daughter that both suck blood and brings blood And let none of you imagine evill in your heart here is the heart as well as the tongue tyed to the good behaviour Prov. 4. 23. Keepe the Heart with all diligence for thereout are the issues of life this is the very focus where the calenture of contention is bred the Fornace where all the flames of wranglings are kindled if Hell-fire were quenced in the Heart there would not be so many sparks of it at the Barre What a pitie it is to see so much spent as would make a livelihood for a widow or a portion for the Fatherlesse upon some two penny trespasse for the wantonnesse of a mans Horse or the weaknesse of his Halter Love no false oath a false oath is that which wants any of the ingredients mentioned Jerem. 4. 2. Truth Judgement and Righteousnesse truly for the matter considerately for the manner justly and righteously for the end and performance Love it not hate the false Oath as well as the false person if this were so there would not be such buying such selling such borrowing and such lending of oaths For all these do I hate c. God is the God of truth and justice and hates all that is contrary to himself it will not onely bring the hatred of good men but the hatred of God and if the Heavens fall on a Worm it must needs bee crushed I have now shaken the Tree let us gather the fruit and let me draw all the light of this Text into one point as boyes with a Burning-glasse that all its Beames concentrated unto the ●onus and angle of one observation it may set your hearts on fire in execution of what is here commanded The Point is thus The right administration of Truth and Peace is a maine help to the right flourishing and the due recovering of a languishing Church and Common-wealth It would require the hand of a master of assemblies to sharpen this Goad and to fasten this Nail but according to my measure let me first explane it a little The right administration c. that is when every one according to their office lifts up pure hands to God and the Law Of Truth first spirituall