VAriable , and therfore miserable condition of Man ; this minute I was well , and am ill , this minute . I am surpriz'd with a sodaine change , & alteration to worse , and can impute it to no cause , nor call it by any name . We study Health , and we deliberate vpon our meats , and drink , and Ayre , and exercises , and we hew , and wee polish euery stone , that goes to that building ; and so our Health is a long & a regular work ; But in a minute a Canon batters all , ouerthrowes all , demolishes all ; a Sicknes vnpreuented for all our diligence , vnsuspected for all our curiosi●ie ; nay , vndeserued , if we consider only disorder , summons vs , seizes vs , possesses vs , destroyes vs in an instant . O miserable condition of Man , which was not imprinted by God ; who as hee is immortall himselfe , had put a coale , a beame of Immortalitie into vs , which we might haue blowen into a flame , but blew it ou● , by our first sinne ; wee beggard our selues by hearkning after false riches , and infatuated our selues by hearkning after false knowledge . So that now , we doe not onely die , but die vpon the Rack , die by the torment of sicknesse ; nor that onely , but are pre-afflicted , super-afflicted with these ielousies and suspitions , and apprehensions of Sicknes , before we can cal it a sicknes ; we are not sure we are ill ; one hand askes the other by the pulse , and our eye askes our own vrine , how we do . O multiplied misery we die , and cannot enioy death , because wee die in this torment of sicknes ; we are tormented with sicknes , & cannot stay till the torment come , but pre-apprehensions and presages , prophecy those torments , which induce that death before either come● and our dissolution is conceiued in these first changes , quickned in the sicknes it selfe , and borne in death , which be●res date from these first changes . Is this the honour which Man hath by being a litle world , That he hath these earthquakes in him selfe , sodaine shakings ; these lightnings , sodaine flashes ; these thunders , sodaine noises ; these E●clypses , sodain offuscations , & darknings of his senses ; these blazing stars sodaine fiery exhalations ; these riuers of blood , sodaine red waters ? Is he a world to himselfe onely therefore , that he ha●h inough in himself , not only to destroy , and execute himselfe , but to presage that execution vpon himselfe ; to assist the sicknes , to antidate the sicknes , to make the sicknes the more irremediable , by sad apprehensions , and as if hee would make a fire the more vehement , by sprinkling water vpon the coales , so to wrap a hote feuer in cold Melancholy , least the feuer alone shold not destroy fast enough , without this contribution , nor perfit the work ( which is destruction ) except we ioynd an artificiall sicknes , of our owne melancholy , to our natural , our vnnaturall feuer . O perplex'd discomposition , O ridling distemper , O miserable condition of Man .

IF I were but meere dust & ashes , I might speak vnto the Lord , for the Lordes hand made me of this dust , and the Lords hand shall recollect these ashes ; the Lords hand was the wheele , vpon which this vessell of ●lay was framed , and the Lordes hand is the Vrne , in which these ashes shall be preseru'd . I am the dust , & the ashes of the Temple of the H. Ghost ; and what Marble is so precious ? But I am more then dust & ashes ; I am my best part , I am my soule . And being so , the breath of God , I may breath back these pious expostulations to my God . My God , my God , why is not my soule , as fensible as my body ? Why hath not my soule these apprehensions , these presages , these changes , those antidates , those iealousies , those suspitions of a sinne ● as well as my body of a sicknes ? why is there not alwayes a pulse in my Soule , to beat at the approch of a tentation to sinne ? why are there not alwayes waters in mine eyes , to testifie my spiritual sicknes ? I stand in the way of tentations , ( naturally , necessarily , all men doe so : for there is a Snake in euery path , tentations in euery vocation ) but I go , I run , I flie into the wayes of tentation , which I might shun ; nay , I breake into houses , wher the plague is ; I presse into places of tentation , and tempt the deuill himselfe , and solicite & importune them , who had rather be left vnsolicited by me . I fall sick of Sin , and am bedded and bedrid , buried and putrified in the practise of Sin , and all this while ha●e no presage , no pulse , no sense of my sicknesse ; O heighth , O depth of misery , where the first Symptome of the sicknes is Hell , & where I neuer fee the feuer of lust , of enuy , of ambition , by any other light , then the darknesse and horror of Hell it selfe ● & where the first Messenger that speaks to me doth not say● Thou mayst die , no , nor Thou must die , but Thou art dead : and where the first notice , that my Soule hath of her sicknes , is irrecouerablenes , irremediablenes : but , O my God , Iob did not charge thee foolishly , in his temporall afflictions , nor may I in my spirituall . Thou hast imprinted a pulse in our Soule , but we do not examine it ; a voice in our conscience , but wee doe not hearken vnto it . We talk it out , we iest it out , we drinke it out , we sleepe it out ; and when wee wake , we doe not say with Iacob , Gen. 28.16 . Surely the Lord is in this place , and I knew it not : but though we might know it , we do not , we wil not . But will God pretend to make a Watch , and leaue out the springe ? to make so many various wheels in the faculties of the Soule , and in the organs of the body , and leaue out Grace , that should moue them ? or wil God make a springe , and not wind it vp ? Infuse his first grace , & not second it with more , without which , we can no more vse his first grace , when we haue it , then wee could dispose our selues by Nature , to haue it ? But alas , that is not our case ; we are all prodigall sonnes , and not disinherited ; wee haue receiued our portion , and mis-spent it , not bin denied it . We are Gods tenants heere , and yet here , he , our Land-lord payes vs Rents ; not yearely , nor quarterly , but hourely , and quarterly ; Euery minute he renewes his mercy , but wee will not vnderstand , Mat. 13● 16. least that we should be conuerted , and he should heale vs .

O Eternall , and most gracious God , who considered in thy selfe , art a Circle , first and last , and altogether ; but considered in thy working vpon vs , art a direct line , and leadest vs from our beginning , through all our wayes , to our end , enable me by thy grace , to looke forward to mine end , and to looke backward to , to the considerations of thy mercies afforded mee from the beginning ; that so by that practise of considering thy mercy , in my beginning in this world , when thou plantedst me in the Christian Church , and thy mercy in the beginning in the other world , when thou writest me in the Booke of life , in my Election , I may come to a holy consideration of thy mercy , in the beginning of all my actions here● That in all the begin●nings , in all the accesses and approches of spiri●tuall sicknesses of Sinn , may heare and hearke● to that voice , 2 Reg. 4.40 . O thou Ma● of God , there is death in th● pot , and so refraine from that , which I was so hungerly , so greedily flying to . Prou. 13.17 . A faithfull Am●bassador is health , says thy wise seruant Solomon ● Thy voice receiued , in the beginning of a sicknesse , of a sinne , is true health . If I can see that light betimes , and heare that voyce early , Then shall my light breake forth as the morning , Esa. 58.8 and my health shall spriug foorth speedily . Deliuer mee therefore , O my God , from these vaine imaginations ; that it is an ouercurious thing , a dangerous thing , to come to that tendernesse , that rawnesse , that scrupulousnesse , to feare euery concupiscence , euery offer of Sin , that this suspicious , & iealous diligence will turne to an inordinate deiection of spirit , and a diffidence in thy care & prouidence ; bu● keep me still establish'd , both in a constant assurance , that thou wil● speake to me at the beginning of euery such sicknes , at the approach of euery such Sinne ; and that , if I take knowledg of that voice then , an● flye to thee , thou wil● preserue mee from falling , or raise me againe when by naturall infirmitie● I am fallen : do● this , O Lord , for his sake who knowes our naturall infirmities , for he had them ; and knowes the weight of our sinns , for he paid a deare price for them , thy Sonne , our Sauiour , Chr: Iesus , Amen .

THe Heauens are not the lesse constant , because they moue continually , because they moue continually one and the same way . The Earth is not the more constant , because it lyes stil continually , because continually it changes , and melts in al the parts thereof . Man , who is the noblest part of the Earth , melts so away , as if he were a statue , not of Earth , but of Snowe . We see his owne Enuie melts him , hee growes leane with that ; he will say , anothers beautie melts him ; but he feeles that a Feuer doth not melt him like snow , but powr him out like lead , like yron , like brasse melted in a furnace : It doth not only melt him , but Calcine him , reduce him to Atomes , and to ashes ; not to water , but to lime . And how quickly ? Sooner then thou canst receiue an answer , sooner then thou canst conceiue the question ; Earth is the center of my body , Heauen is the center of my Soule ; these two are the naturall place of these two ; but tho● goe not to these two , i● an equall place : My b●●dy falls downe withou● pushing , my Soule do●● not go vp without pu●ling : Ascension is m● Soules pace & measur● but precipitation my b●dies : And , euen Angell● whose home is Heaue● and who are winge● too , yet had a Ladder 〈◊〉 goe to Heauen , by step● The Sunne who goes 〈◊〉 many miles in a minu●● The Starres of the Fi●●mament , which go so very many more , goe not so fast , as my body to the earth . In the same instant that I feele the first attempt of the disease , I feele the victory ; In the twinckling of an eye , I can scarse see ; instantly the tast is insipid , and fatuous ; instantly the appetite is dull and desirelesse● instantly the knees are sinking and strengthlesse ; and in an instant , sleepe , which is the picture , the copy of death , is taken away , that the Originall , Death it selfe may succeed , and that so I might haue death to the life . It was part of Adams punishment , In the sweat of thy browes thou shalt eate thy bread ● it is multiplied to me , I haue earned bread in the sweat of my browes , in the labor of my calling , and I haue it● and I sweat againe , & againe , from the brow● to the sole of the foot● but I eat no bread , I tast no sustenance : Miserable distribution of Mankind , where one halfe lackes meat , and the other stomacke .

DAuid professes himself a dead dog , 1 Sam. 24 15. to his king Saul , & so doth Mephibosheth to his king Dauid : 2 Sam. 9.8 . & yet Dauid speaks to Saul , and Mephibosheth to Dauid . No man is so little , in respect of the greatest man , as the greatest in respect of God ; for here , in that , wee haue not so much as a measure to try it by ; proportion is no measure for infinitie . He that hath no more of this world but a graue , hee that hath his graue but lent him , til a better man , or another man , must bee buried in the same graue , he that hath no graue , but a dung-hill , hee that hath no more earth , but that which he carries , but that which hee is , hee that hath not that earth , which hee is , but euen in that , is anothers slaue , hath as much proportion to God , as if all Dauids Worthies , and all the worlds Monarchs , and all imaginations Gyants were kneaded and incorporated into one , and as though that one were the suruiuor of all the sonnes of men , to whom God had giuen the world . And therefore how little soeuer I bee , as God calls things that are not , as though they were , I , who am as though I were not , may call vpon God , and say , My God , my God , why comes thine anger so fast vpon me ? Why dost thou melt me , scatter me , powre me like water vpon the ground so instantly ? Thou staidst for the first world , in Noahs time , 120 yeres ; thou staidst for a rebellious generation in the wildernesse 40 yeares , wilt thou stay no minute for me ? Wilt thou make thy Processe , and thy Decree , thy Citation , and thy Iudgement but one act ? Thy Summons , thy Battell , thy Victorie , thy Triumph , all but one act ; & lead me captiue , nay deliuer me captiue to death , assoon as thou declarest mee to be enemy , and so cut me off euen with the drawing of thy sword out of the scabberd , and for that question , How long was he sicke ? leaue no other answere , but that the hand of death pressed vpon him from the first minute ? My God , my God , thou wast not wont to come in whirlwinds , but in soft and gentle ayre . Thy first breath breathed a Soule into mee , and shall thy breath blow it out ? Thy breath in the Congregation , thy Word in the Church , breathes communion , and consolation here , and consummation heereaf●er ; shall thy breath in this Chamber breathe dissolution , and destruction , diuorce , and separation ? Surely it is not thou ; it is not thy hand . The deuouring sword , the consuming fire , the winds from the wildernes , the diseases of the body , all that afflicted Iob , were from the hand of Satan ; it is not thou . It is thou ; Thou my God , who hast led mee so continually with thy hand , from the hand of my Nurce , as that I know , thou wilt not correct mee , but with thine own hand . My parents would not giue mee ouer to a Seruants correction , nor my God , to Satans . 2 Sam. 24.14 . I am fallen into the handes of God with Dauid , and with Dauid I see that his Mercies are great . For by that mercy , I consider in my present state , not the haste , & the dispatch of the disease , in dissoluing this body● so much , as the much more hast , & dispatch , which my God shal vse , in recollecting● and reuniting this dust againe at the Resurrection . Then I shall heare his Angels proclaime the Surgite M●rtui● Rise yee dead . Though I be dead I shall heare the voice the spunding of the voice , and the working of the voice shall be all one ; and all shall rise there in a lesse Minute , then any one dies here .

O Most gracious God , who pursuest and perfitest thine own purposes , and dost not only remember mee by the first accesses of this sicknes , that I must die , but informe me by this further proceeding therin , that I may die now , who hast not only waked mee with the first , but cald me vp , by casting me further downe , and clothd me with thy selfe , by stripping me of my selfe , and by dulling my bodily senses , to the meats , and eases of this world , hast whet , and sharpned my spirituall senses , to the apprehension of thee , by what steps & degrees soeuer it shal please thee to go , in the dissolution of this body , hasten O Lord that pace , and multiply O my God those degrees , in the exaltation of my Soule , toward thee now , & to thee then . My tast is not gone away , but gone vp to sit at Dauids table , To tast , Psa. 34.8 & see , that the Lord is good : My stomach is not gone , but gone vp , so far vpwards toward the Supper of the Lamb , with thy Saints in heauen , as to the Table , to the Communion of thy Saints heere in earth : my knees are weak but weak therfore that I should easily fall to , and fix my selfe long vpon my deuotions to thee . Prou. 14.30 . A sound heart is the life of the flesh ; & a heart visited by thee , and directed to thee , by that visitation is a sound hart . There is no soundnesse in my flesh , Psa. 38.3 because of thin● anger . Interpret thin● owne worke , and call this sicknes , correction and not anger , & there is soundnes in my flesh● There is no rest in my bones , Ibid. because of my sinne ; transfer●e my sinnes , with which thou ar● so displeased , vpon him , with whome thou art so well pleased , Christ Iesus , and there will be rest in my bones : And , O my God , who madest thy selfe a Light in a Bush , in the middest of these brambles , & thornes of a sharpe sicknesse , appeare vnto me so , that I may see thee , and know thee to be my God , applying thy selfe to me , euen in these sharp , and thorny passages . Doe this , O Lord , for his sake , who was not the lesse , the King o● Heauen , for thy suffering him to be crowned with thornes , in this world .

WEe attribute bu● one priuiledge , and aduantage to Mans body , aboue other mouing creatures , that he is not as others , groueling● but of an erect , of an vpright form , naturally built , & disposed to the contemplation of Heauen . Indeed it is a thankfull forme , and recompences that soule , which giues it , with carrying that soule so many foot higher , towards heauen . Other creatures look to the earth ; and euen that is no vnfit obiect , no vnfit contemplation for Man ; for thither hee must come ; but because , Man is not to stay there , as other creatures are , Man in his naturall forme , is carried to th● contemplation of tha● place , which is his hom● Heauen . This is Man prerogatiue ; but wha● state hath he in this di●●nitie ? A feuer ca● filli● him downe , a feuer ca● depose him ; a feuer ca● bring that head , whic● yesterday caried a crou● of gold , fiue foot to●wards a crown of glory as low as his own foo● to day . When God cam● to breath into Man th● breath of life , he foun● him flat vpon the groū● when hee comes to withdraw that breath from him againe , hee prepares him to it , by laying him flat vpon his bed . Scarse any prison so close , that affords not the prisoner two , or ●hree steps . The Anchorites that barqu'd themselues vp in hollowe trees , & immur'd themselues in hollow walls ; That peruerse man , that barrell'd himselfe in a Tubb , all could stand , or sit , and enioy some change of pasture . A sicke bed , is a graue , an● all that the patient saie● there , is but a varying o● his owne Epitaph . Eue●ry nights bed is a Typ● of the graue : At nigh● wee tell our seruants a● what houre wee wil● rise ; here we cannot tel● our selues , at what day what week , what mo●neth . Here the head lie● as low as the foot ; th● Head of the people , a●lowe as they , whom those feete trod vpon And that hande tha● signed Pardons , is to● weake to begge his owne , if hee might haue it for lifting vp that hand : Strange fetters to the feete , strange Manacles to the hands , when the feete , and handes are bound so much the faster , by how much the coards are slacker ; So much the lesse able to doe their Offices , by how much more the Sinnewes and Ligaments are the looser . In the Graue I may speak thorough the stones , in the voice of my friends , an● in the accents of thos● wordes , which thei● loue may afford my me●mory ; Here I am min● owne Ghost , and rathe● affright my beholders then instruct them ; the● conceiue the worst o● me now , and yet fea●● worse ; they giue me fo● dead now , & yet won●der how I doe , whe● they wake a● midnight and aske how I doe , ●●●morrow . Miserable and , ( though common to all ) in human postu● where I must practise ●y lying in the graue , by ●ying still , and not practise my Resurrection , by ●ising any more .

MY God , and my Iesus , my Lord , and my Christ , my Strength , and my Saluation , I heare thee , and I hearken to thee , when thou rebukest thy Disciples , for rebuking ●hem , who brought ●hildren to thee ; Mat. 19.13 . Suffer little children to come t● mee , saiest thou . Is ther● a verier child then I a● now ? I cannot say wit● thy seruant Ieremy , Lor● I am a child , and cann● speake ; but , O Lord , I a● a sucking childe , an● cannot eat , a creepin● childe , and cannot go●● how shall I come t● thee ? Whither shall 〈◊〉 come to thee ? To thi● bed ? I haue this weake and childish froward●nes too , I cannot sit vp● and yet am loth to go t● bed ; shall I find thee 〈◊〉 bed ? Oh , haue I alwaies done so ? The bed is not ordinarily thy Scene , thy Climate : Lord , dost tho● not accuse me , dost thou not reproach to mee , my former sinns , when thou layest mee vpon this bed ? Is not this to hang a man at his owne dore , to lay him sicke in his owne bed of wantonnesse ? When thou chidest vs by thy Prophet for lying in beds of Iuory , Amos 6 4. is not thine anger vented ; not till thou changest our bedds of Iuory , into bebs of Ebony Dauid sweares vnto thee , Psal. 132 3. that hee will not go● vp into his bed , till he ha● built thee a House . To go● vp into the bed , denote● strength , and promi●e● ease ; But when tho● saiest , Apoc. 2.22 . That thou wilt ca● Iesubel into a bed , tho● mak'st thine own com●ment vpon that , Tho● callest the bed Tribul●●tion , great Tribulation ● How shal they come t● thee , whom thou ha●● nayled to their bed● Thou art in the Congr●●gation , Mat. 8.6 & I in a solitude : when the Centurions seruant lay sicke at home , his Master was faine to come to Christ ; ●he sicke man could not . Their friend lay sicke of the Palsey , 8.4 . and the four charitable men were faine to bring him to Christ ; he could not come . 8.14 . Peters wiues mother lay sicke of a feuer , & Christ came to her ; shee could not come to him . My friends may carrie mee home to thee , in their prayers in the Congregation ; Thou must com● home to me in the visi●tation of thy Spirit , an● in the seale of thy Sacra●ment : But when I a● cast into this bedd , m● slacke sinewes are yro● fetters , and those thi● sheets , yron dores vpo● me ; Psa. 26.8 . And , Lord , I haue lo●ued the habitation of th● house , and the place whe● thine honour dwelleth : lye here , 84.4 . and say , Blesse are they ; that dwell in th● house ; but I cannot say I will come into thy hous● I may say , 5.8 . In thy fea● will I worship towards thy ●oly Temple , but I cannot ●ay in thy holy Temple● : 69.10 . And , Lord , the zeale of thy House , eats me vp , as fast as my feuer ; It is not a Recusancie , for I would come , but it is an Excommunication , I must not . But Lord , thou art Lord of Hosts , & louest Action ; Why callest thou me from my calling ? In the● graue no man shall praise thee ; In the doore of the graue , this sicke bed , no Man shal heare mee praise thee : Thou hast not opned my lips that my mouth migh● shew thee thy praise , bu● that my mouth migh● shew foorth thy praise But thine Apostles fear● takes hold of mee , th●● when I haue preached to ●●thers , 1 Cor. 9.27 . I my selfe should be cast-way ; and therefo●● am I cast downe , that might not be cast awa● ● Thou couldst take m● by the head , 2. Reg. 2.11 . as tho● didst Abacuc , and carr●● mee so ; By a Chariot , 〈◊〉 thou didst Eliah , & ca●●rie me so ; but thou ca●●riest me thine own priuate way , the way by which thou carryedst thy Sonne , who first lay vpon the earth , & praid , and then had his Exaltation , as himselfe calls his Crucifying , and first descended into hell , and then had his Ascension . There is another Station ( indeed neither are stations but prostrations ) lower then this bed ; To morrow I may be laid one Story lower , vpon the Floore , the face of the earth , and next day another Story , in the graue , the wombe of the Earth : As yet God suspends mee betweene Heauen and Earth , as a Meteor ; and I am not in Heauen , because an earthly bodie clogges me , and I am not in the Earth , because a heauenly Soule sustaines mee● And it is thine owne Law , Exod. 21 18. O God , that if a man bee smitten so by ano●ther , as that hee keepe hi● bed , though he dye not , hee that hurt him , must take care of his healing , and recompence him . Th● hand strikes mee into this bed ; and therefore if I rise againe , thou wilt bee my recompence , all the dayes of my life , in making the memory of this sicknes beneficiall to me , and if my body fall yet lower , thou wilt take my soule out of this bath , & present it to thy Father , washed againe , and againe , and again , in thine own teares , in thine owne sweat , in thine owne blood .

IT is too little to cal● Man a little World ● Except God , Man is diminutiue to nothing Man consistes of mor● pieces , more parts , the●●he world ; then the world doeth , nay then the world is . And if those pieces were extended , and stretched out in Man , as they are in the world , Man would bee the Gyant , and the world the Dwarfe , the world but the Map , and the man the World . If all the Veines in our bodies , were extented to Riuers , and all the Sinewes , to vaines of Mines , and all the Muscles , that lye vpon one another , to Hilles , and all the Bones to Quarries of stones , and all the ●●ther pieces , to the pr●●portion of those whic● correspond to them i● the world , the aire wou●● be too litle for this Or●● of Man to moue in , t●● firmament would b● but enough for this sta●● for , as the whole wor●● hath nothing , to whic● something in man do●● not answere , so ha●● man many pieces , 〈◊〉 which the whol wor●● ha●h no representatio● Inlarge this Meditatio● vpon this great worl● Man , so farr , as to consider the immensitie of ●he creatures this world produces ; our creatures are our thoughts ; creatures that are borne Gyants : that reach from East to West , from earth to Heauen , that doe not onely bestride all the Sea , and Land , but span the Sunn and Firmament at once ; My thoughts reach all , comprehend all . Inexplicable mistery ; I their Creator am in a close prison , in a sicke bed , any where , and any one of my Creatures , m● thoughts , is with t●● Sunne , and beyond t●● Sunne , ouertakes t●● Sunne , and ouergoes t●● Sunne in one pace , o● steppe , euery wher●● And then as the oth●● world produces Serpen● and Vipers , malignan● & venimous creature● and Wormes , and Cate●●pillars , that endeauo●● to deuoure that worl● which produces the● and Monsters compile● and complicated of d●●uers parents , & kinds , 〈◊〉 this world , our selues , produces all these in vs , 〈◊〉 producing diseases , & ●●cknesses , of all those ●orts ; venimous , and infectious diseases , feeding & consuming diseases , and manifold , and entangled diseases , made vp of many seueral ones . And can the other world name so many venimous , so many consuming , so many monstro●s crea●ures , as we can diseases , of all these kindes ? O miserable abundance , O ●eggarly riches● how much doe wee lacke 〈◊〉 hauing remedies for eu●●rie disease , when as y●● we haue not names f●● them ? But wee hau● Hercules against the● Gyants , these Monster● that is , the Phisician ; 〈◊〉 musters vp al the for●● of the other world , ● succour this ; all Natu●● to relieue Man . We ha●● the Phisician , but we 〈◊〉 not the Phisician . Hee we shrinke in our p●●●portion , sink in our d●●●●nitie , in respect of ve●● meane creatures , w●●● ●re Phisicians to them●elues . The Hart that is ●ursued and wounded , they say , knowes an Herbe , which being ea●en , throwes off the arrow : A strange kind of vomit . The dog that pursues it , though hee bee subiect to sicknes , euen prouerbially , knowes his grasse that recouers him . And it may be true , that the Drugger is as neere to Man , as to other creatures , it may be that obuious and present Simples , easie to bee had , would cure him ; b●● the Apothecary is not 〈◊〉 neere him , nor the P●●●sician so neere him , 〈◊〉 they two are to oth●● creatures ; Man hath n●● that innate instinct , to a●●ply those naturall me●●●cines to his present da●●ger , as those inferio●● creatures haue ; he is n●● his owne Apothecary , h●● owne Phisician , as th●● are . Call back therefo●● thy Meditations agai●●● and bring it down●● what s become of ma●● gre●t extent & propo●●●tion , when himselfe shrinkes himselfe , and consumes himselfe to ● handfull of dust ; what s become of his soaring thoughts , his compassing thoughts , when himselfe brings himselfe to the ignoranc● , ●o the thoughtlesness● of the Graue ? His diseases are his owne , but the Phisician is not ; hee hath them at home , but ●ee must send for the Phisician .