The Balm of Gilead for the Wounds of England, Title page – Errata
THE BALME OF GILEAD, FOR The Wounds of ENGLAND: Applyed in A SERMON Preached at Weſtminſter, before the Honourable Houſe of COMMONS, 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.
MAL 4. 2. VntoUnto you that feare my name, ſhall the Sunne of Righteouſneſſe ariſe with healing in his wings.
2 CHRON. 7. 14. If my people which are called by my name, ſhall humble themſelves, and pray, and ſeek my face, and turne from their wicked wayes: Then will I heare from heaven, and will forgive their ſinne, and will heale their Land.
LONDON, Printed by Richard Biſhop for SAMUEL GILLIBRAND, at the Brazen Serpent in Pauls Church-yard, 1643.
TO The Honourable Houſe OF COMMONS, Now aſſembled in PARLIAMENT.
WHat Your Religious attention welcomed from the Pulpit, by your command is now come to the Preſſe; where it humbly craveth your Patronage, as it there enjoyed your acceptance: A plaine piece it is, but mourning Suits uſe to bee plaine, and ſo ſhould mourning Faſt Sermons bee alſo: Fidling Jigges are now out of tune, when God hath turned our Harp into mourning, and our Organ into the voice Iob 30. 31.of them that weep. May it therefore be but any help this way, that the mourning Turtles voice may bee yet more heard in our Land, I ſhould even in theſe Cant. 2. 11. 12.ſad times of our heavineſſe rejoyce in hope, that the Winter were already well-nigh paſt, and the raine blown over and gone: meane while your faithfull continued endevours, that the Sun of Righteouſneſſe may yet draw nearer to us in brighter and warmer beames of his truth and grace, will much encourage our hearts after all winter ſtormes, comfortably to expect a Summers flouriſh, and Harveſts joy: You have indeed hitherto had a wet Seed-time of it, whilſt you have for ſo long a time been ſowing in teares; but bee pleaſed to goe on ſtill in Gods work and ſtrength, though it ſhould be yet weeping, if withall it be but bearing of precious ſeed, for then doubtleſſe at laſt you ſhall come againe with rejoycing, and bring your Pſal. 126. 5. 6.ſheaves with you. Great is the Work whereunto the Lord of the Harveſt hath called you, in which the eyes of God, Angels, and men are upon you; ſo that if you ſhould now faint and quaile, it would be with a witneſſe. O quit your ſelves like men, and be ſtrong.
God by your hand hath begun to thruſt his ſharp 1 Cor. 16. 13.ſickle into the Romiſh tares, the time is come for you to reap, for the Harveſt of the Earth is ripe; let not God therefore now want work-men, nor they courage and ſtrength to beare the heat and burthen of the day, you will ſo at length come to a more comfortable evenings reckoning, a more quiet nights reſt in death, and a moſt bleſſed up-riſing at the laſt great day, in that Harveſt of the end of the World (and wee hope before) you and yours, will reap the fruit of all your labours, then it will be no griefe of heart to you, that you have been conſtant and unmoveable, abounding alwayes in the work of the Lord, when you ſhall finde that your labour hath not been in vaine in the Lord; then whileſt you ſhall heare your Maſters Euge's, and be in the midſt of Angels Hallelujahs, we with all the Hoſt of Heaven will joyne with you, and help you to ſhout aloud for joy: He that ſhall then beyour Iudge, be now your Counſeller and Protector; both now, and then, and ever your Saviour. So prayeth
The unworthieſt of his Servants, and yours in him, ANTHONY TUCKNEY.
Die Mercurii 30. Auguſt. 1643.
IT is this day Ordered by the Commons aſſembled in Parliament: That Sir Edward Aſcough, and Sir Iohn Wray, doe from this. Houſe give thanks unto Maſter Tuckney of Boſton, and Maſter Coleman of Blyton in Lincolnſhire, for the great paines they took in the Sermons, they this day preached at the intreaty of this Houſe at S. Margarets Weſtminſter, It being the day of publike humilition, and to deſire them to Print their Sermon. And it is Ordered that no man ſhall preſume to Print their Sermons without licence under their hands.
H. Elſynge Cler. Parl. D. Com.
I appoint Samuel Gellibrand to Print this Sermon,
ANTHONY TUCKNEY.
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