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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

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

and let us imagine some device against Jeremiah for the Law shall not perish from the Priest nor Councell from the Wise nor the Word from the Prophet Come and let us smite him with the tongue and let us not give heed to any of his words If thus you shall requite me then may you justly feare that the righteous Lord will be wrathfully displeased with you and that may redound to your owne ruine But let me crave your candid censure for I call Heaven and Earth to record that I speak not this out of the spirit of betternesse against the Saints of God whose sanctified Conversation is answerable to their holy profession zealously serving and faithfully worshipping the living God in spirit and truth as he commandeth Yea Ioh. 4.24 my hearty Prayers I sincerely confesse are constantly unto God for them that he would continue them in the wayes of holinesse and daily increase the number of them in our Land and that they may splendidly shine as Lights in obscurity in the midst of a perverse and crooked generation amongst whom they live that so they might not onely glorifie God themselves but also be holy Patterns and godly Examples for imitation unto others whereby to draw them the more speedily to the service of God But I speak onely and that reprehensively of those who are mere tongue-tipped-table-Gospelers having a forme of godlinesse but denying the power thereof 2 Tim. 3.5 who onely make a shew of sanctity having their hearts full of all manner of guile and hypocrisie who are facilie perceptible by their Fruites and evidently conspicuous to the world by their Actions walking in the wayes of dissimulation which lead to the infernall Pit of eternall perdition Mat. 24.5 And therefore if such persons will become true Members of Christs Church let them stand no longer at a distance from the Church but let them labour with expedition to purge out their owne Corruptions abandoning their former leud Conversations humble themselves for their sinnes come in and close with Christ and speedily pray for the Churches Peace O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem Consolation Vse 4 TO comfort the Church in her saddest condition by calling to minde Psa 126.6 They that sow in teares shall reap in joy And heavinesse may endure for a night Psal 30.5 but joy commeth in the morning Considering also that Christ calleth none unto him with a promise to comfort them but those that are grieved persons Come unto me all ye that labour Mat. 11.28 and are heavy laden and I will give you rest And remembring the Cordiall that Christ gave unto his Disciples when he was to depart from them and in them to his whole Church John 16.20 Ye shall sorrow but your sorrow shall be turned into joy That is ye shall rejoyce that ever you were sorrowfull As if Christ in other words should have said unto them Comfort your hearts my beloved Disciples for although I shall leave you for a while as Pilgrimes in the wildernesse of this wicked world yet notwithstanding ye shall hereafter come to the land of the heavenly Canaan even to the new Jerusalem whither I am now going and there you shall receive the end of your faith even the salvation of your soules 1 Pet. 1.9 Psa 16. ult where there is fulnesse of joy and pleasures for evermore The Lord without doubt will preserve his Church from the scratching Pawes of savage Beares the tearing Mouthes of ravenous Wolves and the covetous Clutches of greedy Cormorants who lie daily and hourely in waite to supplant subvert and devoure Her and all under the spetious pretence of Piety the counterfeit shew of Holinesse and candid colour of Religion Will not Christ Mat. 23.37 who wept over Jerusalem and would often have gathered the Children of the Jewes together as a Hen gathereth her Chickings under her wings preserve his Church from perishing Certainely yea And will not God who clotheth the Lillies Mat. 6.26 28. and feedeth the foules of the aire preserve his Church under the winges of his Providence Zach. 2.8 whom he tendereth as the apple of his owne eye Undoubtedly yea Conjugall-love is strong Paternall-love is powerfull Loyall-love is very effectuall But Divine-love viz. the love of God to his Church farre transcends them all Can a mother forget her childe Isa 49.15 and not have compassion on the sonne of her wombe though they should forget yet will I not forget thee saith the Lord to his Church Yea and let the Church also listen to that sweet Expression of the Lord by his Prophet unto his people Isay 51.7 8. Hearken unto me ye that know righteousnesse the people in whose heart is my Law feare ye not the reproach of men neither be ye afraid of their revilings For the moath shall eate them up like a garment and the worme shall eat them like wooll but my righteousnesse shall be for ever and my Salvation from generation to generation So that the Church of Christ needeth not to feare though at any time she should be plunged into the depth of calamity for rather then her Persecutors shall goe unpunished the Lord will make the very moathes and wormes and other contemptible creatures of the earth to be the Instruments of her enemies confusion and his hand shall bring unto her everlasting salvation And therefore what although the Church for the present sits pensively and mournes like a desolate widdow tristively weeping and lamenting for the personall absence of Christ her Husband Mat. 28. ult yet notwithstanding his comfortable Spirit is present with her and also will be unto the end of the World And at the appointed time there will be a cessation from all her sorrowes for he will joyfully returne unto her lovingly embrace her Rev. 7. ult and wipe away all teares from her eyes and then she shall receive a full deliverance from all afflictions both of body and soule Then that confident expected 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall be turned into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Slavabit into Salvavit he will save into he hath saved And then all the violent brumall winter stormes of bloody persecution shall be fully passed over and the glorious sun-shine beames of Gods loving and comfortable countenance most splendidly shine upon her And then all the Chaines of her afflictions shall be broken asunder Psa 124.6 and she delivered as a bird out of the snare of the Fowler And the Lord will give unto her beauty for ashes the oile of joy for mourning Esay 61.3 and the garment of gladnesse for the spirit of heavinesse And when all these consolatory Blessings are come upon her then hearken unto her rejoycing Isay 61.10 I will greatly rejoyce in the Lord and my soul shall be joyfull in my God for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation and covered me with the robe of righteousnesse he hath decked me like a bridegroome