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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45113	The balm of Gilead, or, Comforts for the distressed, both morall and divine most fit for these woful times / by Jos. Hall.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1650 (1650)	Wing H366; ESTC R14503	102,267	428

with his own work he knows every rock and shelf that may endanger it and can cut the proudest billow that threatens it with ease It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good § 2. The sense and sympathy of common evils Were there no other respects then personal I cannot blame thee if thy fears strive with thy grief for the publike evils every mans interest is involved in the common And if the Ship sink what will become of the passengers But withal there is a kinde of inbred sympathy in every good heart which gives us a share in all others miseries and affects us more deeply for them then for our own Old indulgent Eli loved his sons too well and was therefore no doubt very sensible of their death yet that part of the news passed over with some not mortal passion But when he heard of the Ark of God taken now his neck and his heart were broken together and his religious daughter in law though she were delivered upon this report of a son yet she died in travel of that heavie news and could live onely to say I●habod The glory is departed from Israel for the Ark of God is taken disregarding her new son when she heard of the loss of her people and of her God How many Pagans have we read of that have died resolutely for their Country chearfully sacrificing themselves to the Publike How many that would die with their Country hating to think of over-living the common ruine How many that have professed a scorn to be beholden for their lives to their peoples murtherer We shall as soon extinguish both grace and nature as quit this compassionate sense of the common calamities § 3. Comfort from the sure protection of the Almighty Thou grievest for the publike distempers Mourn not as one without faith Be sure He that keepeth Israel will neither slumber nor sleep Wherefore was the holy Tabernacle over-spred with a strong tent of skins but to figure out unto us Gods Church sheltred under a sure protection He that was so curious of the custody of his material Temple by night as well as by day that a sleeping Levite might not escape beating and burning of garments how careful do we think he will ever be of his spiritual living house How unmeet Judges are we of his holy proceedings We are ready to measure his love still by an outward prosperity then which nothing can be more uncertain The Almighty goes by other rules such as are most consonant to his infinite justice and mercy I am abashed to hear a Pagan though no vulgar one say Whatsoever is brought to pass a wise man thinks ought to be so done neither goes about to rebuke nature but findes it best to suffer what he cannot alter And shall we Christians repine at those seemingly harsh events which we see fall out in Gods Church whiles we are ignorant of his designes and be ready to bless a thriving prophaneness Look abroad upon the ancient lot of Gods inheritance and their corrivals in glory thou shalt see the Family of Esau flourishing and renowned yeelding besides Dukes eight Kings of his line whiles poor Israel was toyling and sweating in the Egyptian furnaces yet we know the word to stand inviolable The elder shall serve the younger and Jacob have I loved Esau I have hated What if that great and wise God who works oft-times by contraries and brings light out of darkness have purposed to fetch honour and happiness to his Church out of this sad affliction Metals are never so bright as when they are scoured Perfumes and spices never so redolent as when they have felt the fire and the p●stle Wilt thou not give the Physitian leave to make use of his Mithridate because there are vipers in the composition how unworthy art thou of health if thou wilt no trust the fidelity and skill of the Artist in mixing so wholsome a Cordial § 4. Consideration of the justice of Gods proceedings Thou art troubled with the publike miseries Take heed that thy grief be clear of all impiety Wouldst thou not have God to be just that is himself Wouldst thou not allow it an act of his justice to punish sins Canst thou deny that our sins have reacht up to heaven and called for judgement Why is the living man sorrowful man suffereth for his sins I read of a devout man that was instant with God in his prayers for a Nation not far off and was answered Suffer the proud to be humbled Whether we will suffer it or no the just God will humble the proud and punish the sinful The wonderful patience and infinite justice of the Almighty hath set a stint to the wickedness of every people The iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full saith God to Abraham when the measure is once made up it is time for God to strike we shall then complain in vain and too late Wouldst thou know then what is to be done for the preventing of a destructive vengeance there is no way under heaven but this To break off our sins by a seasonable and serious repentance by the united forces of our holy resolutions and endeavours to make an head against the over-bearing wickedness of the time and not to suffer it to fill up towards the brim of that fatal Ephah till which time the long-suffering God onely threatens and corrects a people but then he plagues them and stands upon the necessity of his inviolable justice Shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord and shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this § 5. The remedy our particular repentance Thou mournest for the common sufferings thou dost well our tears can never be better bestowed But the while is not thine hand in them have not thy sins helped to make up this irritating heap hast no thou cast in thy symbole into the common shot May not the times justly challenge thee in part as accessary to their misery Begin at home my son if thou wish well to the Publike and make thine own peace with thy God for thy particular offences Renew thy Covenant with God of a more holy and strict obedience and then pour out thy prayers and tears for an universal mercy so shalt thou not onely pull away one brand from this consuming fire but help effectually to quench the common conflagration § 6. The unspeakable miseries of a Civil War Thy heart bleeds to see the woful vastation of Civil discord and the deadly fury of home-bread enemies Certainly there is nothing under heaven more gastly and dreadful then the face of an intestine War nothing that doth so neerly resemble hell Wo is me here is altogether killing and dying and torturing and burning and shrieks and cries and ejulations and fearful sounds and furious violences and whatsoever may either cause or increase horrour the present calamity oppresses one another fear one is quivering in