WHen
the
Question
was
asked
amongst
the
wise
men
of
the
World
,
What
was
the
greatest
Blessing
Mortals
were
capable
of
enjoying
?
The
Answer
was
as
comprehensive
when
it
was
returned
:
Mens
sana
in
corpore
sane
,
A
sound
mind
in
a
sound
body
.
For
nothing
is
more
apparent
,
than
that
the
health
of
the
Body
,
preserves
the
harmony
of
the
Soul
;
and
the
harmony
of
the
Soul
preserves
the
health
of
the
Body
.
Health
is
the
greatest
of
all
temporal
Blessings
.
Without
it
,
the
most
delicious
dainty
will
not
please
the
pallat
,
the
most
fragrant
odors
will
not
delight
the
smell
,
the
most
harmonious
melodies
will
not
gratifie
the
ear
,
the
most
beautiful
objects
will
not
please
the
eyes
,
the
softest
down
will
not
ease
the
bones
:
Health
is
that
which
makes
our
delights
delightful
;
without
which
,
we
cannot
solace
our selves
in
any
temporal
enjoyments
,
or
worship
a
Deity
in
any
spiritual
performance
.
Our
flesh
upon
us
,
being
in
pain
,
makes
our
Souls
within
us
to
mourn
.
Health
;
it
preserves
the
faculties
of
the
Mind
in
strength
and
vigor
,
makes
the
wit
acute
,
the
memory
retentive
,
and
understanding
clear
:
Health
is
that
which
is
of
most
comfortable
im●●rtance
unto
men
,
next
unto
the
Salvation
of
their
Souls
.
Especially
if
we
consider
the
many
hundreds
of
Diseases
which
the
mortal
bodies
of
men
are
exposed
unto
;
some
reckoning
up
Four
thousand
in
all
:
Above
Two
hundred
seated
in
the
eyes
,
that
small
and
tender
part
.
When
a
healthy
constitution
,
and
a
holy
disposition
,
joyn
hand
in
hand
;
they
consummate
happiness
.
Riches
without
health
,
is
but
like
meat
without
a
stomach
;
which
the
best
Cook
cannot
make
relishing
.
And
Health
without
Religion
,
is
but
like
a
Down
Pillow
to
a
restless
Head
;
which
the
best
Chamberlain
cannot
make
easie
.
All
our
good
things
may
be
reduced
to
Three
.
The
goods
of
the
Body
,
of
the
Mind
,
and
of
Fortune
;
which
Three
if
enjoyed
,
render
a
Man
as
happy
as
Solomon
in
all
his
Glory
.
He
who
ha●h
Health
to
enjoy
his
Riches
〈◇〉
Grace
to
preserve
his
Health
,
and
the
hope
of
Glory
to
remunerate
his
Grace
,
wants
no
more
.
A
long
Life
sweetned
with
a
healthful
,
is
a
great
blessing
,
and
promised
as
such
to
the
pious
,
viz
to
come
to
their
Graves
in
a
ful●
age
,
as
a
Shock
of
Corn
comes
in
its
season
.
The
Beloved
Disciple
of
ou●
Lord
,
survived
the
other
Disciples
;
and
many
of
the
Fathers
o●
the
Church
were
long
lived
which
shews
that
the
blessing
o●
long
life
,
so
often
promised
unde●
the
Law
,
had
less
abatement
afte●
our
Saviours
days
,
than
othe●
blessings
had
.
It
's
a
great
mercy
to
pa●●
through
the
wilderness
of
thi●
World
,
with
our
Bodies
like
th●
Jews
Garments
,
little
worn
o●
impared
by
pining
and
languishing
sicknesses
.
Who
would
not
be
desirous
t●
w●●●
a
Crown
of
Glory
in
th●●
World
,
and
in
the
next
also
?
which
can
be
done
no
other
way
,
but
by
gray
hairs
,
found
in
a
way
of
righteousness
.
Enoch
and
Elias
never
dyed
,
and
became
examples
,
that
a
spotless
●…
ife
might
possibly
have
been
immortal
.
Adam
may
well
be
reckoned
above
a
Thousand
years
old
,
if
we
compute
that
time
which
he
might
have
lived
had
he
been
born
as
Methusalem
was
.
We
may
judg
him
as
perfect
at
his
creation
,
as
one
of
the
Ancients
were
at
Two
hundred
:
And
his
eating
the
fruit
of
the
tree
of
Life
,
might
supply
his
radical
moisture
,
as
fast
as
his
heat
consumed
it
,
if
he
had
not
sinned
.
But
we
are
but
of
yesterday
,
●…
he
day
of
our
Pilgrimage
being
but
as
a
shadow
.
When
our
great
and
wise
Cre●…
tor
made
Man
the
Master-piece
of
his
Creation
,
he
was
please●…
as
a
demonstration
of
his
kindness
to
confer
a
temporal
happines●…
upon
him
,
and
to
plant
him
in
〈…〉
Garden
;
wherein
he
might
hav●…
an
opportunity
,
both
to
contemplate
his
Creators
goodness
,
and
to
preserve
his
own
life
:
Being
in
a
supernatural
way
furnisht
with
wisdom
to
discern
the
particula●…
qualities
of
those
Plants
with
which
he
conversed
:
But
being
too
familiar
with
the
Tree
o●…
Knowledg
,
he
forfeited
his
righ●…
to
the
Tree
of
Life
;
and
hath
expos'd
himself
to
the
assaults
of
innumerable
Diseases
.
But
such
i●…
the
kindness
of
Heaven
to
ma●…
in
his
lapsed
state
,
that
he
is
pleased
to
promise
some
of
the
influences
of
this
symbolical
Tree
upon
his
obedience
to
the
Divin●…
will
:
so
that
by
our
observanc●…
of
those
Divine
and
Eternal
Law
of
Evangelical
purity
,
which
ar●…
●…
s●●●bed
as
the
Christians
Rule
we
may
as
it
were
transplant
the
Tree
of
Life
into
our
own
Gardens
,
and
sit
under
the
shadow
thereof
with
great
delight
,
and
its
fruit
may
become
sweet
to
our
tast
.
It
is
probable
that
man
before
his
fall
was
immortal
;
yet
had
he
not
sinned
,
he
had
not
still
continued
here
upon
earth
,
though
his
age
might
have
been
extended
to
some
thousands
of
years
;
but
might
have
at
length
been
translated
from
hence
to
Heaven
,
where
he
could
neither
have
sinned
nor
dyed
.
The
Life
of
Man
seems
to
be
much
pared
away
;
but
it
cannot
prudently
be
attributed
to
any
decay
in
nature
,
and
its
universal
frame
;
but
rather
to
the
immorality
,
and
imprudent
extravagancies
of
Nations
and
Persons
,
indulging
effeminate
,
luxurious
,
and
pernicious
customs
.
Nor
can
we
with
any
shew
o●…
Reason
,
pretend
to
any
mistake
in
the
manner
of
computing
the
years
of
the
Patriarchs
.
For
if
with
some
of
the
Ancients
,
we
suppose
them
to
be
only
Lunar
years
,
and
that
Ten
or
Twelve
of
their
years
,
made
but
one
of
ours
:
Then
gross
absurdities
would
follow
from
thence
,
as
that
they
were
Prolifique
at
Seven
years
of
age
.
Enoch
being
no
more
when
he
begat
Methusalem
;
the
date
of
their
lives
must
be
reckoned
shorter
than
many
of
ours
at
this
day
.
Moreover
the
Scripture
testifieth
,
that
Abraham
died
in
a
good
old
age
,
full
of
days
,
being
One
hundred
seventy
and
five
years
old
;
which
number
according
to
that
computation
,
makes
but
Seventeen
years
and
a
half
;
a
ridiculous
old
Age
!
It
appears
most
manifest
,
that
Moses
computation
of
the
year
,
was
the
same
with
ours
:
For
mention
is
●…
ade
of
the
first
,
second
,
and
tenth
Month
;
and
lest
any
should
imagine
,
as
some
have
,
that
those
Months
lasted
only
Three
days
,
we
have
mention
made
of
the
Seventeenth
day
of
the
second
Month
.
The
Reasons
why
the
line
of
their
lives
was
drawn
to
that
length
,
may
be
referred
to
Divine
wisdom
,
seeing
it
neeessary
so
to
be
,
for
Reasons
best
known
to
himself
.
And
indeed
,
wonderful
was
their
skill
in
all
the
secrets
of
nature
,
which
might
prove
very
subservient
towards
the
lengthning
their
lives
.
But
how
soon
do
we
find
the
effects
of
sin
,
cutting
their
lives
in
halves
,
in
three
several
Ages
?
And
now
we
account
him
wondrous
old
,
who
hath
seen
Fourscore
Summers
.
The
Fathers
in
the
primitive
times
,
had
great
advantages
for
the
prolongation
of
their
lives
,
as
they
had
satisfactorily
conveyed
into
them
the
nature
o●…
life-preserving
Remedies
from
Adam
,
who
gave
names
unto
all
creatures
from
their
particular
qualities
;
and
from
Solomon
,
whose
miraculous
wisdom
is
not
to
be
parallel'd
.
And
for
the
more
commodious
propagation
of
Arts
and
Sciences
,
it
was
requisite
men
should
have
the
experience
of
former
Ages
:
For
as
many
sensations
breed
an
experiment
,
so
many
experiments
a
Science
.
And
moreover
,
the
several
motions
of
the
heavenly
bodies
could
not
be
known
,
without
a
long
time
to
observe
their
Periods
and
Revolutions
.
It
was
the
complaint
of
Hypocrates
,
A●s
longa
vita
brevis
:
and
therefore
the
Almighty
in
his
Wisdom
,
proportioned
mens
lives
unto
the
length
of
Arts.
Some
Planets
,
as
Saturn
for
one
,
not
going
its
rounds
in
less
than
some
hundreds
of
years
,
●…
ould
not
have
been
known
,
if
men
had
not
lived
longer
than
they
do
now
.
But
yet
we
may
observe
,
that
the
length
of
Mans
age
since
Moses's
time
,
seems
considerably
abreviated
:
He
reckoning
Threescore
years
and
ten
,
the
ordinary
course
unto
which
men
generally
arrived
in
those
times
,
whereas
now
,
a
third
part
of
all
that
are
born
in
populous
Cities
,
dye
under
Five
years
old
;
and
the
greatest
part
of
those
that
are
alive
,
are
between
Sixteen
and
Six
and
twenty
:
And
not
above
Seven
in
a
hundred
live
unto
any
confiderable
Age
.
We
have
nothing
in
Scripture
of
Solomon's
age
;
only
that
when
he
was
old
,
his
Wives
turned
away
his
heart
.
It
's
thought
he
might
be
Threescore
and
ten
.
Few
Princes
,
either
Jewish
,
Roman
,
Greek
,
or
German
arrived
at
Fourscore
.
Queen
Elizabeth
out-lived
all
her
predecessors
since
the
Conquest
The
Ancients
might
probably
be
long
lived
,
from
natural
as
much
as
from
providential
Reasons
:
For
Adam
was
the
immediate
work
of
God
;
and
being
come
,
as
it
were
,
newly
from
the
Shop
of
his
Creator
,
he
could
not
be
like
a
House
built
of
rotten
timber
,
but
of
a
far
stronger
constitution
than
this
weak
age
affords
:
Their
bodies
were
not
wasted
with
succession
of
sicknesses
,
nor
weakened
with
hereditary
diseases
;
but
were
armed
to
resist
those
few
things
then
contrary
unto
their
healths
.
The
seminality
of
Diseases
were
not
so
pregnantly
conveyed
from
the
Parent
unto
the
Child
,
their
Infants
were
not
so
tenderly
brought
up
,
wastful
Riot
was
a
stranger
unto
them
,
and
variety
of
meats
was
then
unknown
:
Their
nature
was
not
oppressed
with
burthens
,
and
forced
to
stagger
with
her
load
.
Moreover
in
the
first
ages
of
the
World
,
the
Air
might
be
more
pure
,
and
not
then
so
corrupted
with
terrene
exhalations
,
such
as
after-times
were
pestered
with
,
when
once
the
flood
had
topt
the
earth
,
and
drencht
it
with
overflowings
;
and
the
fruits
of
the
Earth
were
more
nutrative
before
the
Flood
than
afterwards
,
through
the
salt-waters
of
the
great
deep
infeebling
the
Earth
:
We
observe
from
our
general
accounts
of
Mortalities
,
that
there
is
a
great
increase
in
our
Bills
;
in
the
year
1604
,
there
dyed
but
4323
,
and
895
of
the
Plague
;
but
in
the
year
1659
,
there
dyed
14720
,
and
36
of
the
Plague
:
And
yet
we
observe
near
the
same
number
of
persons
Born
and
Christened
both
years
;
●o
that
the
disproportion
is
near
Nine
thousand
in
a
year
,
in
about
Sixty
years
distance
.
The
Reason
given
by
the
Bishops
of
Rome
,
for
the
contracting
the
year
of
Jubilee
,
from
One
hundred
,
to
Fifty
,
and
from
Fifty
unto
Five
and
twenty
,
is
grounded
upon
a
supposition
,
that
the
Age
of
Man
is
contracted
in
comparison
of
former
times
.
Had
men
in
all
places
and
in
all
ages
,
arrived
unto
the
lives
of
the
Patriarchs
,
the
earth
by
this
time
had
not
been
able
to
sustain
them
with
food
.
The
Egyptians
calculated
the
bounds
of
mens
days
,
from
the
weight
of
their
hearts
,
and
judged
a
hundred
years
the
utmost
Period
,
taking
their
estimate
from
the
weight
of
the
heart
;
which
they
affirm
increaseth
two
Drachms
every
year
until
Fifty
,
and
decreaseth
two
Drachms
until
a
Hundred
:
But
this
opinion
seems
more
curious
than
true
.
Sickness
,
like
a
Weaver
,
passeth
the
shuttle
of
many
lives
,
and
at
last
cu●s
the
Thred
.
Excellently
shadowed
by
the
Poets
fiction
,
telling
us
of
Three
fatal
Sisters
,
the
one
holding
the
Distaff
,
the
other
drawing
the
Thread
,
the
third
cutting
it
off
.
It
is
a
Question
amongst
some
,
whether
the
life
of
Man
be
capable
of
being
prolonged
by
means
?
Unto
which
it
may
be
answered
,
That
the
duration
of
a
motion
cannot
be
known
,
unless
the
measure
thereof
be
known
;
nor
can
it
be
measured
,
unless
it
have
known
bounds
:
So
that
we
cannot
well
know
whether
life
may
be
prolong'd
,
without
knowing
how
long
it
lasts
.
Now
it
s
difficult
to
know
this
duration
punctually
.
And
yet
as
there
are
at
this
day
some
who
exceed
a
Hundred
,
so
there
are
a
Hundred
times
as
many
who
do
not
arrive
at
that
Period
.
And
as
none
can
speak
of
Death
by
experience
,
because
they
who
speak
of
it
have
not
felt
it
,
and
they
who
have
felt
it
,
cannot
speak
of
it
.
The
case
is
much
the
same
concerning
Life
;
for
unless
a
Man
live
unto
extream
old
age
,
he
will
not
believe
that
his
life
hath
been
prolonged
:
But
on
the
contrary
,
that
his
hour
was
not
yet
come
.
But
yet
it
's
not
inconsistent
with
reason
,
to
say
,
that
he
who
would
infallibly
have
dyed
of
a
Gangreen
in
his
Leg
,
hath
had
his
Life
prolonged
,
when
his
Leg
was
cured
.
Or
that
a
Consumptive
Body
hath
been
saved
from
death
,
when
restored
to
a
healthful
state
by
a
Medicinal
dyet
,
which
hath
added
Oil
to
the
lamp
of
Life
.
The
Nectar
and
Ambrosia
of
the
Poets
,
which
kept
their
gods
from
growing
old
,
seems
to
be
a
figure
of
the
Tree
of
Life
;
which
was
a
restorer
of
nature
,
as
well
as
a
Symbol
of
future
things
.
If
Life
consists
in
the
union
of
heat
and
moisture
,
and
Death
approcahes
by
the
predominance
of
the
contrary
quality
,
viz.
cold
and
dryness
;
Why
may
not
such
means
as
preserves
the
former
,
and
keeps
back
the
latter
,
have
a
natural
tendency
to
prolong
Life
?
alway
supposing
the
Energie
of
all
natural
operations
to
depend
upon
a
supernatural
influence
.
Suppose
we
,
with
Pythagoras
,
That
Life
is
a
straight
line
,
and
that
the
accidents
which
disturb
it
,
and
at
length
bring
Death
,
constitute
another
line
;
and
as
these
two
Lines
incline
less
or
more
one
towards
another
,
Death
approaches
sooner
or
later
;
and
consequently
Life
is
longer
or
shorter
.
Yet
,
may
we
not
suppose
that
Divine
providence
,
and
humane
prudence
,
may
probably
conduce
towards
the
retarding
the
neighborhood
of
these
Lines
?
Or
suppose
with
the
Chymists
,
That
Life
consists
in
a
volatile
Armoniack
,
Sal
.
Why
may
we
not
suppose
that
Art
improved
may
compose
such
fixed
Alkali
as
may
stop
the
wingy
motions
of
the
former
Volatile
?
It
doth
not
seem
probable
,
that
means
may
be
used
with
good
success
,
to
answer
all
other
intentions
in
nature
,
and
be
used
in
vain
in
the
attaining
that
which
is
the
most
desirable
thing
in
nature
,
and
which
that
renders
a
Man
capable
of
perfection
in
all
Arts
and
Sciences
,
viz.
Health
.
As
Fire
dies
for
want
of
Air
,
and
is
extinguisht
when
the
flame
is
suffocated
;
so
doth
our
vital
flame
.
As
our
spirits
are
repaired
by
Air
,
so
are
our
sanguine
humours
by
Aliments
.
Surely
't
was
not
without
reason
,
that
Naom
was
foretold
,
Obed
should
be
restorer
of
her
age
.
Physitians
,
they
are
the
Instruments
of
the
Divine
Omnipotence
,
renewing
the
lives
of
men
.
Much
may
be
done
by
Art
for
the
retarding
the
course
of
nature
,
as
may
be
seen
in
many
Insects
and
Animals
,
and
in
men
restored
from
Consumptive
pineing
sicknesses
,
their
flesh
becoming
like
that
of
Children
,
as
in
Naamans
case
;
the
efficacy
of
Remedies
with
some
,
is
so
great
,
that
their
youth
is
as
it
were
renewed
as
the
Eagle
;
their
natural
strength
not
abating
at
a
great
Age
.
Certainly
King
David's
departing
from
Keylat
,
diverted
Sauls
rage
,
and
preserved
his
own
Life
for
that
time
.
Our
blessed
Saviours
own
practice
,
in
preserving
himself
until
the
time
he
knew
that
his
hour
was
come
,
is
recorded
for
our
imitation
;
and
doth
plainly
prove
that
Life
may
be
prolonged
.
Notwithstanding
the
lives
o●…
all
the
Mariners
in
the
Ship
were
promised
to
be
spared
by
that
God
who
cannot
lye
;
yet
that
promise
was
annexed
unto
their
abiding
in
the
Ship
.
The
wisdom
of
Joseph
and
Mary
,
in
observing
the
Angels
advice
,
and
flying
into
Egypt
with
the
blessed
Babe
,
in
all
human
probability
prevented
his
death
at
Bethlehem
.
It
is
thought
that
the
prohibition
of
some
kinds
of
meats
under
the
Law
,
was
not
only
upon
a
Moral
,
but
partly
upon
a
Physical
account
,
yielding
no
good
nutriment
,
but
proving
injurious
unto
the
lives
and
healths
of
men●…
The
Centurion
importuned
our
Saviour
to
cure
his
Servant●…
which
he
would
never
have
done●…
had
it
not
probably
conduced
toward
the
prolongation
of
hi●…
Life
.
Another
mistake
,
and
certainly
not
a
little
destructive
unto
the
●…
ives
and
healths
of
men
,
is
,
that
Medicines
operate
by
a
natural
Energie
infused
into
them
in
their
first
creation
only
,
and
have
no
dependance
upon
a
Divine
concurring
influence
,
and
especial
blessing
unto
particular
persons
;
whereas
the
contrary
is
most
ap●…
arent
:
And
we
find
that
many
●…
imes
the
best
Remedies
are
used
,
●…
he
best
advice
taken
,
and
most
●…
xact
circumstances
observed
,
and
●…
ll
in
vain
.
Whence
should
this
●…
roceed
,
but
from
a
suspension
of
〈…〉
Divine
concourse
?
Some
of
the
Ancients
tell
us
,
●…
hat
the
Cures
wrought
at
the
●…
ool
of
Bethesda
,
were
not
ex●…
raordinary
,
but
natural
;
be●…
ause
the
Pool
adjoyned
unto
the
●…
laughter-house
,
and
it
did
con●…
st
of
the
Blood
of
the
sacrificed
●…
easts
,
which
by
Naturalists
is
●…
id
to
be
of
a
healing
nature
.
●…
ut
yet
we
may
very
well
suppose
the
necessity
of
a
Divine
Angelick
influence
to
this
,
the
Poo●…
whereby
became
efficatious
.
Indeed
our
blessed
Saviour
curing
the
Blind-man
with
tempered
Clay
,
may
seem
highly
rational
,
that
being
the
fittest
ingredient
to
restore
a
defective
part
out
of
which
the
whole
was
a●…
first
composed
:
Yet
that
render
the
Cure
no
less
miraculous
.
Naamans
washing
in
Jordan
Seven
times
,
was
a
natural
Remedy
,
though
attended
with
supernatural
success
.
And
the
Wine
and
Oil
poure
into
the
wounds
of
the
distresse●…
Stranger
by
the
good
Samaritan
was
specifically
appropriated
yet
the
success
depended
upon
superior
influx
.
A
Plaister
of
Figs
applyed
unt●…
Hezekiah's
Plague-sore
,
was
a
rational
Remedy
,
being
proper
t●…
mollify
hard
tumours
in
the
fles●…
and
to
ripen
Imposthumes
.
There
was
a
very
rational
con●…
ormity
between
the
leprous
con●…
agion
,
and
the
law
of
cleansing
.
The
Leprosy
did
putrifie
the
skin
,
●…
nd
opposite
unto
that
was
Ce●…
ar-wood
,
commended
by
Natu●…
alists
against
Putrefaction
.
It
was
of
an
offensive
colour
,
op●…
osite
unto
that
was
the
Colour
of
Scarlet
;
of
an
ill
scent
,
contra●…
y
unto
that
was
the
smell
of
Hysop
;
it
did
usher
in
death
,
contrary
thereunto
was
the
Sparrow
let
loose
,
significant
sign
of
recovery
.
Because
sometimes
impious
men
spin
out
the
Thred
of
their
lives
:
Therefore
to
imagine
it
contradicts
the
observation
,
that
Faith
and
piety
prolong
Life
,
is
a
great
mistake
.
For
sometimes
a
long
and
a
wicked
Life
may
be
twisted
together
,
for
some
reasons
best
known
unto
Divine
Wisdom
;
as
Manasseh
reigned
longest
of
any
of
the
Kings
of
Judah
:
Sometimes
the
sinner
may
live
to
be
a
Hundred
years
old
,
and
y●…
be
accursed
:
The
Posterity
〈…〉
Cain
were
longer
liv'd
than
a●…
of
the
Patriarchs
,
being
reserv●…
to
be
punished
in
the
general
D●…luge
.
A
fond
opinion
,
and
a
gre●…
mistake
it
is
,
of
some
,
that
Becau●…
Divine
Wisdom
hath
appoint●…
the
periods
of
our
days
,
ther●…fore
to
suppose
we
cannot
be
i●…strumental
either
towards
th●…
lengthning
or
shortning
of
th●…
same
.
The
Jews
were
wickedl●…
instrumental
in
taking
away
th●…
life
of
the
Lord
of
Life
,
notwithstanding
they
did
nothing
bu●…
what
Divine
goodness
had
determined
before
to
be
done
;
ther●…
was
no
fatal
necessity
imposed
upon
their
wills
.
Sometimes
Divine
Wisdom
bes●…
knowing
his
own
reasons
,
doth
resolve
the
death
of
some
persons
,
unless
the
moral
Cause
of
the
Distemper
be
removed
,
as
well
as
the
natural
;
and
then
the
most
●…
roper
Remedies
are
used
in
vain
,
either
towards
the
preservation
of
Health
,
or
the
removal
of
Sick●…
ess
.
King
David
understood
that
●…
he
determination
concerning
the
Childs
death
was
past
;
yet
he
●…
rayed
,
and
probably
used
means
●…
o
prevent
it
.
The
Creator
and
Conserver
of
●…
ll
things
in
the
Universe
,
takes
notice
of
the
principal
and
subsequent
causes
of
things
;
governing
,
disposing
,
and
ordering
,
according
unto
his
own
free
will
:
And
yet
all
this
Government
seems
to
be
void
of
any
fatal
violence
,
and
comes
to
an
efficiency
from
the
ordination
of
various
natural
causes
;
which
by
human
elections
in
natural
things
,
prove
the
occasions
either
of
supporting
or
destroying
Life
.
Divine
goodness
doth
not
abolish
,
but
disposeth
of
future
contingencies
,
without
nulling
the
freedom
of
the
Agent
.
The
Creator
is
not
obliged
unto
necessity
,
but
moderateth
things
and
events
according
unto
his
own
pleasure
;
and
yet
suffereth
them
to
exercise
their
own
proper
motions
,
electing
what
seems
bes●…
(
especially
in
externals
)
;
&
herein
the
cause
answers
unto
the
effects
▪
if
the
effects
be
necessary
,
th●…
causes
are
so
likewise
;
and
in
thi●…
sense
,
the
Life
of
Man
and
its
period
,
may
be
said
to
be
determined
:
And
yet
Man
may
be
instrumental
towards
the
contracting
his
own
days
.
Moreover
there
are
certain
Practices
which
have
a
natural
tend●ney
towards
Life
or
Death
;
and
this
the
inspired
Pen-man
intimates
,
when
he
tells
us
,
That
righteousness
tendeth
unto
Life
,
and
he
that
pursueth
evil
,
pursueth
it
unto
his
own
death
;
and
although
there
are
frequent
promises
of
long
Life
made
unto
the
obedient
,
it
doth
not
infringe
the
verity
of
holy
Jobs
assertion
,
That
our
days
are
determined
.
When
the
Prophet
told
Amaziah
,
he
knew
God
had
determined
to
destroy
him
,
he
tells
him
moreover
,
that
he
was
instrumental
towards
his
own
death
,
in
not
hearkning
unto
the
voice
of
the
Lord
.
And
Eli's
Sons
disobedience
,
pronounced
the
sentence
of
Death
against
them
,
and
it
is
rendered
as
the
reason
why
God
had
resolved
to
slay
them
.
The
date
of
the
old
Worlds
duration
was
fixed
unto
One
hundred
and
twenty
years
;
yet
we
find
it
was
not
so
long
liv'd
by
Twenty
years
,
their
wickedness
contracting
that
,
which
seem'd
a
determined
period
:
Therein
declaring
,
that
at
what
time
Divine
wisdom
shall
speak
concerning
a
Nation
,
or
People
,
to
pluck
up
,
or
to
destroy
;
if
that
Natio●…
or
People
turn
from
their
evil
way
,
he
will
turn
from
intended
evil
.
A
great
mistake
it
is
,
to
imagine
that
the
manner
and
moments
o●…
mens
death
,
are
the
effects
of
contingency
;
whereas
it
is
most
certain
they
come
under
the
disposal
and
appointment
of
a
wise
overruling
providence
.
As
a
Sparrow
doth
not
fall
unto
the
ground
,
so
a
Man
doth
not
,
without
a
special
permission
.
The
flight
of
that
Arrow
which
procured
Ahabs
death
,
was
guided
by
a
Divine
hand
,
who
aimed
at
his
mortal
wound
;
yet
his
rash
going
to
Battel
,
by
the
advice
of
his
false
Prophets
,
rendered
,
him
instrumental
towards
his
own
death
and
ruine
.
The
Evangelical
Prophet
tells
us
of
a
Consumption
determined
upon
the
whole
earth
,
occasioned
by
their
great
provocations
.
We
find
Abimelech
and
his
Family
smitten
with
sickness
,
and
●…
reatned
with
death
,
but
not
●…
ithout
a
moral
cause
.
And
very
often
are
the
Jews
●…
alled
upon
to
observe
the
Divine
Laws
,
lest
they
dye
for
prophane●…
ng
them
.
And
the
Prophets
are
frequent●…
threatned
with
death
,
that
●…
hall
presume
to
speak
without
a
●…
mission
from
Heaven
.
Manoahs
Wife
made
a
very
pro●…
able
conjecture
,
That
God
did
●…
ot
design
to
slay
her
and
her
Husband
,
because
of
his
gracious
appearance
unto
them
.
The
Jewish
Rabbins
tell
us
of
one
going
to
gather
his
Remedy
prescribed
by
Solomon
,
against
his
particular
distemper
,
was
met
by
an
apparition
of
Death
,
in
the
shape
of
a
Schelliton
;
and
it
told
him
with
an
audible
voice
,
it
was
too
late
,
for
he
was
struck
by
the
Angel
who
kept
the
Key
of
the
Grave
.
The
meaning
is
obvious
.
Natural
Remedies
,
they
are
bu●●
like
Elijahs
staff
layd
upon
the
Child
,
they
will
not
restore
unto
life
and
health
,
unless
a
supernatural
virtue
concur
.
Marys
supposition
that
the
presence
of
her
Saviour
would
have
kept
her
Brother
from
dying
,
was
not
altogether
groundless
,
though
she
was
under
a
mistake
,
with
reference
unto
that
present
dispensation
.
The
practice
of
true
Piety
,
and
serious
Christianity
,
are
great
friends
unto
the
health
of
nature
.
There
are
attending
the
Divine
Life
,
leisurely
contemplations
of
heavenly
things
,
joys
refined
from
the
dregs
of
sensuality
,
hopes
of
a
noble
and
generous
nature
,
wholesom
,
sweet
,
and
comfortable
fears
;
an
universal
harmony
in
all
the
Passions
:
and
from
hence
by
the
favour
of
Divine
clemency
,
Health
springeth
forth
speedily
.
The
Fable
of
the
Kite
when
sick
,
imploring
help
and
recovery
,
and
being
denyed
,
by
reason
of
her
rapine
and
mischief
,
it
affords
an
excellent
moral
.
The
breaking
off
our
sins
by
righteousness
,
many
times
proves
a
lengthening
of
our
temporal
Life
and
tranquility
.
Plato's
observation
is
excellently
true
,
that
all
the
mischiefs
of
the
Body
proceed
from
the
Soul
,
and
all
its
truest
pleasures
from
the
joy
of
the
mind
.
We
have
a
memorable
modern
relation
of
a
Consumptive
person
cured
after
Four
years
languishment
,
by
a
prescription
of
an
Angelical
Apparition
,
joyned
with
a
moral
duty
,
to
fear
God
and
serve
him
.
The
Jewish
Doctors
say
,
that
Adam
felt
no
cold
,
notwithstanding
he
was
naked
,
because
he
had
communion
with
God
;
and
as
soon
as
ever
he
eat
the
forbidden
fruit
,
his
Head
aked
.
Were
it
the
Divine
pleasure
to
give
men
a
constant
frame
of
Health
during
their
Pilgrimage
,
it
were
a
great
favour
;
but
our
impieties
,
like
Hazaels
wet
cloth
,
prove
fatal
unto
us
,
and
moulder
on
these
bodyes
of
ours
,
whose
feet
like
Nebuchadnezzar's
Image
,
are
made
of
clay
;
Man
being
but
earth
,
as
the
Prophet
tells
us
three
times
in
one
breath
,
when
he
saith
,
O
earth
,
earth
,
earth
,
hear
the
word
of
the
Lord
.
Repentance
,
often
proves
an
excellent
Antidote
against
sickness
and
death
.
Jezabel
is
threatned
for
her
impenitency
to
be
cast
into
a
Bed
,
and
her
Children
to
be
killed
with
death
.
Good
men
may
dye
,
but
they
cannot
be
killed
with
death
.
The
Israelites
repentance
proved
a
soveraign
plaister
against
the
stings
of
the
fiery
Serpents
.
And
King
Davids
remorse
,
prevailed
with
the
destroying
Angel
●…
o
sheath
his
Sword
,
after
the
●…
aughter
of
Seventy
thousand
●…
eople
.
Rehoboams
penitence
at
the
●…
reaching
of
Shemaiah
,
prevented
●…
he
destruction
of
himself
and
his
Princes
.
When
mens
flesh
is
consumed
,
●…
nd
they
are
afflicted
with
strong
●…
ains
upon
their
Beds
,
then
the
Almighty
looks
upon
men
,
to
see
if
any
say
they
have
sinned
,
and
perverted
that
which
is
right
,
to
deliver
them
from
going
down
into
the
Pit
,
that
their
lives
may
see
the
Light
.
When
the
Divine
hand
binds
men
with
fetters
,
and
holds
them
in
the
cords
of
affliction
,
then
he
shews
them
their
work
,
and
their
transgressions
that
they
have
exceeded
;
then
he
opens
their
ears
unto
discipline
,
and
commands
that
they
return
from
iniquity
;
and
if
they
obey
and
serve
him
,
they
shall
spend
their
days
in
prosperity
,
and
their
years
in
pleasure
;
but
if
they
obey
not
,
they
shall
dye
in
their
youth
without
knowledg
;
for
God
preserveth
not
the
Life
of
the
wicked
,
as
Elihu
tells
Job
.
Did
men
but
consider
the
nature
of
Man
in
this
state
of
mortality
,
and
observe
the
wonderful
composure
of
their
Bodies
,
the
scituation
of
the
parts
,
the
circulation
of
the
Blood
,
the
several
meanders
of
the
veins
and
nerves
,
and
the
curious
distribution
of
our
aliment
into
flesh
;
they
might
easily
perceive
how
small
an
obstruction
would
stop
their
breath
,
and
how
inconsiderable
an
inflamation
would
send
us
into
another
World
as
in
a
fiery
Chariot
,
and
how
little
a
putrefaction
would
crumble
us
into
our
first
original
,
if
we
were
not
supported
by
an
Omnipotent
●…
nd
;
and
instead
of
wondering
we
live
no
more
in
health
,
we
should
admire
we
live
an
hour
in
ease
.
As
an
exact
observance
of
the
eternal
Laws
of
truth
and
goodness
,
are
the
best
way
to
render
Remedies
effectual
;
so
the
contrary
renders
them
unsuccesful
towards
Health
,
or
long
Life
,
as
we
find
plainly
exemplified
in
most
of
the
wicked
Kings
of
Judah
and
Israel
,
as
Abijam
,
Athaliah
,
Ahaziah
,
Nadab
,
Elah
,
Omri
,
and
many
others
,
who
reigned
but
Two
,
Three
,
or
Four
years
a
piece
;
and
the
Reasons
are
sometimes
recorded
,
that
it
was
for
there
sins
which
they
sinned
,
they
shortning
their
lives
with
their
Kingdoms
,
in
whom
sin
,
and
a
sudden
death
,
reigned
together
.
He
that
prophaned
the
Sabbath
under
the
Levitical
dispensation
,
occasioned
the
beating
his
Soul
out
of
his
Body
.
St.
Anselm
observes
,
that
the
Reason
why
Diseases
abounded
so
much
in
the
Summer
,
was
because
the
Holy
Eucharist
was
irreverently
received
at
Easter
in
his
time
.
When
our
Saviour
cured
the
Man
sick
of
a
Palsie
,
he
forgave
him
his
sins
,
to
convince
him
that
they
were
the
cause
of
his
sickness
.
The
life
of
Man
is
swift
as
a
Weavers
Shuttle
;
especially
if
wickedness
be
interwoven
,
Divine
Justice
cuts
the
Web
.
Infidelity
doth
as
it
were
tye
up
the
hands
of
Omnipotence
,
and
sets
bounds
unto
the
operations
of
his
mighty
works
on
mens
Bodies
.
The
Jews
who
came
out
of
Egypt
,
except
Caleb
and
Joshua
,
dyed
before
they
came
into
Canaan
,
viz.
that
they
might
not
introduce
Egyptian
innovations
,
and
to
chastise
their
rebellious
murmurings
;
and
very
often
●…
hey
are
threatened
with
sore
sicknesses
,
and
wonderful
Plagues
,
if
they
did
not
hearken
to
the
Divine
Law
.
It
's
no
wonder
to
see
a
strange
punishment
happen
unto
the
workers
of
iniquity
;
nothing
doth
more
conduce
toward
the
preservation
of
our
natural
health
,
than
our
living
the
Divine
Life
;
but
when
our
expectations
and
actions
are
wholly
imployed
in
the
gratifications
of
the
animal
Life
,
we
do
but
prepare
for
the
messengers
of
the
Grave
.
What
Solomon
observes
of
wealth
and
victory
,
may
truly
be
said
of
Health
and
recovery
,
it
depends
not
so
much
on
natural
as
on
Divine
influences
.
The
wantonness
of
the
Levite's
Wife
,
occasioned
a
second
rape
by
the
Gibeonites
;
so
when
their
lust
had
conceived
,
it
brought
forth
sin
,
and
their
sin
bein●…
finished
brought
forth
death
.
Eutichus
for
sleeping
at
a
Sermon
,
had
by
his
fall
almost
step●…
until
awaked
by
the
last
Trumpet
,
had
he
not
been
miraculously
raised
by
St.
Paul
.
Many
of
the
Church
of
Corinth
were
sick
and
weak
,
and
lost
their
lives
,
for
their
unworthy
receiving
the
Bread
of
Life
;
and
if
men
contemn
the
sacred
Body
of
Christ
,
how
can
they
expect
God
should
take
care
of
their
Bodies
?
and
if
they
make
no
reckoning
of
Christs
death
,
it
s
just
with
God
to
disregard
their
lives
.
Pharoah
was
plagued
exceedingly
,
for
being
too
familiar
with
A●rahams
Wife
;
when
she
was
restored
unto
her
Husband
,
he
was
restored
to
his
Health
.
Miriams
sedition
raised
a
Tumultuous
disturbance
in
the
harmony
of
her
health
.
The
dissimulation
of
Gehaza's
tongue
,
procured
the
Leprosy
upon
his
skin
;
Uzziah's
invading
the
Priests
Office
,
and
burning
incense
,
caused
the
Divine
displeasure
to
smoak
against
him
,
making
his
beauty
to
consume
away
like
a
Moth
.
Hananiah's
false
Prophets
,
did
but
predict
his
own
destruction
and
death
.
Ahaziah's
evil
consultation
with
the
God
of
Ekron
,
to
know
whether
he
should
recover
of
his
sickness
,
made
his
Disease
prove
incurable
.
Pharoah's
persecution
ended
in
his
own
destruction
and
drowning
.
Ahab
by
his
cruelty
,
became
cruel
unto
his
own
Life
.
The
Samaritan
Lords
infidelity
,
pressed
his
Soul
out
of
his
Body
.
The
calumniating
rage
of
the
Children
against
the
good
old
Prophet
,
provoked
the
rage
of
the
Bears
to
devouer
their
Bodies
.
Herod's
vain-glorious
ostentation
,
brought
such
a
Disease
upon
his
Body
,
of
which
he
had
no
reason
to
boast
.
The
pride
of
the
Daughters
of
Zion
,
changed
their
sweet
smell
into
a
stink
,
and
their
well-set
Hair
into
baldness
.
Sapphira's
Perjury
,
summoned
the
feet
of
those
who
had
carried
her
Husband
to
his
Grave
,
to
carry
her
to
the
same
place
.
Benhadads
curiosity
,
proved
the
fatal
Messenger
of
his
death
;
the
Prophet
returning
answer
,
that
he
might
recover
,
but
should
surely
dye
.
Jeroboam's
Idolatry
,
and
praying
unto
false
gods
,
provoked
the
true
God
to
stop
his
breath
.
Saul's
disobedience
unto
his
maker
,
crumbled
him
into
dust
.
Belshazzar
for
his
riotous
revelling
,
by
a
bodyless
handwrighting
upon
a
wall
,
had
the
end
of
his
Life
and
Kingdom
denounced
against
him
.
When
Nadab
and
Abibu
offered
strange
fire
,
a
stranger
fire
is
sent
to
consume
them
.
Because
good-men
immaturely
dye
,
to
infer
Piety
hath
no
influence
upon
the
prolongation
of
Life
,
is
a
great
mistake
.
The
Carkasses
of
good
Israelites
may
fall
in
the
wilderness
of
this
World
,
and
yet
their
Souls
may
be
entertained
in
the
Heavenly
Canaan
.
A
good
Prophet
for
some
single
act
of
disobedience
,
may
be
made
a
prey
unto
a
devouring
Lyon
,
and
yet
his
Soul
be
received
into
everlasting
habitations
.
If
an
Eli
neglect
to
chastize
his
rebellious
Children
,
he
may
be
permitted
to
break
his
neck
,
and
yet
may
enter
into
Life
neither
maimed
nor
halt
.
When
Uzzah
shall
touch
th●…
Ark
without
a
commission
,
hi●…
death
shall
immediately
succee●…
his
rashness
.
When
a
Moses
shall
neglect
to
circumcise
his
Child
,
an
Ange●…
shall
threaten
his
Life
with
a
drawn
Sword
.
Many
times
judgment
begins
at
the
House
of
God
,
and
he
makes
good
men
examples
of
his
severity
in
this
Life
.
Evil
Angels
may
contend
with
good
ones
,
about
the
bodies
of
good
men
;
but
their
Souls
shall
be
kept
free
from
danger
.
It
is
thought
that
King
Davids
numbering
the
people
,
was
the
best
act
he
did
,
before
he
took
his
Bed
.
Sampson
lost
his
natural
strength
by
his
disobedience
and
violation
of
his
vow
,
rather
than
by
his
cutting
of
his
Hair
;
it
being
rather
a
moral
,
than
a
natural
cause
of
his
weakness
.
The
fretful
,
though
holy
Pro●…
het
Jonah
,
going
contrary
unto
〈…〉
Divine
command
,
had
almost
●…
een
swallowed
up
by
death
,
as
well
as
by
the
Whale
.
But
sometimes
the
sickness
of
●…
he
Body
,
may
be
sent
to
promote
the
health
of
the
Soul
;
as
the
Leprosie
on
Naamans
flesh
,
may
conduce
towards
the
whitening
of
his
mind
.
Sicknesses
are
sometimes
Probatory
as
well
as
Punative
,
sometimes
both
;
and
they
are
sent
as
the
Tryals
of
grace
,
and
are
declaratives
of
Divine
Mercy
.
It
was
a
remarkable
question
that
was
asked
our
Saviour
,
Who
sinned
,
this
Man
or
his
Parents
,
that
he
was
born
blind
?
His
answer
we
know
was
,
It
was
for
the
declaration
of
Divine
Mercy
,
rather
than
either
of
the
former
reasons
,
as
the
sickness
of
his
friend
Lazarus
,
was
for
the
Glory
of
God
,
that
the
work
of
Divine
Power
might
be
manifest
in
his
restauration
.
The
Righteous
may
sometimes
be
taken
away
from
the
evil
to
come
,
as
the
good
Patriarchs
were
before
the
Flood
,
and
as
Abijah
was
laid
to
sleep
,
before
the
calamity
of
his
Fathers
House
;
sometimes
the
Child
may
derive
those
distempered
humours
from
its
Parent
,
which
may
prove
the
occasion
of
its
death
:
though
God
hath
promised
long
Life
unto
them
that
obey
,
yet
he
hath
never
promised
,
that
he
would
not
sometimes
,
as
it
were
,
borrow
good
mens
natural
lives
,
and
make
a
happy
exchange
,
making
good
his
promise
,
and
answering
other
ends
of
his
providence
,
by
recompencing
the
loss
of
a
Temporal
,
with
the
grant
of
Eternal
Life
.
When
the
extraordinary
means
of
understanding
Tongues
ceased
,
men
made
use
of
rational
and
ordinary
methods
,
to
become
acquainted
with
Languages
,
viz.
Schools
of
Literature
,
and
industrious
educations
.
Even
so
now
the
miraculous
ways
of
curing
Diseases
are
blockt
up
,
Men
are
to
apply
themselves
unto
rational
Methods
,
and
such
as
have
the
most
natural
tendency
towards
the
accomplishment
of
that
end
,
and
the
fairest
prospect
of
probability
;
and
they
are
such
as
follow
,
viz.
the
advice
and
counsel
of
able
,
learned
,
and
experienced
Physitians
,
whose
natural
abilities
are
advanced
by
ingenious
education
,
and
their
universal
learning
confirmed
by
experience
;
such
being
most
fit
to
rectify
the
disorders
in
mens
Bodies
,
who
by
their
enquiry
into
Anatomy
,
understand
the
particular
parts
of
the
same
;
and
taking
notice
of
the
scituations
,
structures
and
figures
of
the
springs
and
wheels
by
which
nature
moves
,
they
are
the
bette●…
enabled
to
regulate
her
disorderly
motions
:
And
they
understanding
the
natures
of
Animals
,
Minerals
and
Vegitables
,
can
th●…
more
dextrously
apply
fit
remedies
,
according
unto
the
severa●…
indications
of
distempers
,
an●…
circumstances
of
Patients
.
Physitians
best
understanding
the
natures
of
Air
,
and
Meats
and
Drinks
;
are
best
able
to
direct
to
such
natural
Rules
as
ar●…
most
conservative
of
Health
.
To
suppose
the
art
of
Physic●…
to
be
useless
,
because
it
is
not
infallible
,
is
very
unreasonable
;
fo●…
were
Physitians
infallible
,
the●…
might
make
men
immortal
,
an●…
so
alter
the
statute-Laws
of
Heaven
,
by
which
the
nature
c●…
man
is
subjected
unto
death
.
As
in
Divinity
,
the
most
sacred
institutions
are
insignificant
unt●…
the
Souls
of
men
,
if
not
rightl●…
received
and
applied
;
even
so
i●…
Physick
,
the
most
wholesom
Remedies
are
useless
unto
mens
Bodies
,
if
not
used
in
a
right
manner
;
which
chiefly
consists
in
taking
the
Distemper
in
the
beginning
,
before
nature
is
wasted
,
and
hath
lost
its
helping-hand
;
and
to
persevere
in
a
regular
course
,
until
the
distemper
be
fully
conquered
.
How
can
men
expect
the
concourse
of
a
Divine
Blessing
to
attend
the
advice
of
ignorant
and
unworthy
pretenders
unto
Physick
,
or
of
secret
hazardous
and
Poysonous
Medicines
,
which
are
exposed
unto
sale
in
every
Corner
?
the
directions
for
the
use
of
them
,
being
like
King
David's
Letter
by
Uriah
,
to
give
instructions
for
the
ruine
of
the
Patient
.
The
World
is
full
of
complaints
,
of
the
ineffectual
application
of
Medicines
;
and
the
true
cause
thereof
must
arise
from
hence
,
That
Men
are
so
irregular
and
preposterous
in
the
use
o●…
the
same
.
Many
there
are
in
our
Weekl●…
Bills
of
Mortality
,
who
sacrific●…
their
lives
unto
their
credulity
and
destroy
their
Bodies
,
as
wel●…
as
their
Souls
,
by
an
implicit●…
Faith
.
And
whatever
Medicine
i●…
gilded
over
with
the
pretences
o●…
rare
and
experienced
,
is
cryed
up●…
and
swallowed
down
,
when
it'●…
as
common
in
the
Shop
,
as
Sal●…
and
Pepper
in
a
Kitchen
.
Can
Men
expect
preservation●…
when
they
willingly
suffer
thei●…
Brains
to
be
beaten
out
with
the
Bills
of
Mountebanks
?
If
any
Man
pretend
unto
a
Secret
,
some
are
as
ready
to
proclaim
it
,
as
if
they
thought
some
good
Angel
,
like
Mahomets
Pigeon
,
whispered
it
in
their
ear
;
when
it
often
proves
like
Gunpowder
,
and
blows
up
their
Healths
.
There
are
more
dye
of
soft
places
in
their
Heads
,
than
of
Ulcers
in
their
Lungs
;
and
multitudes
dig
their
Graves
with
their
thick
Skulls
.
How
can
men
pray
for
a
blessing
upon
the
means
,
when
they
take
such
Mungril
Physitians
advice
,
who
can
sooner
cure
all
Diseases
than
one
;
especialy
in
such
a
Nation
as
ours
is
,
where
there
is
such
great
variety
of
able
,
learned
,
experienced
and
conscientious
Physitians
?
and
by
the
wisdom
of
Authority
,
a
Society
of
Apothecaries
establisht
,
who
have
demonstrated
unto
the
World
their
care
to
prevent
abuses
in
Medicines
,
by
erecting
a
publick
Elaboratory
for
the
preparation
of
Chymical
Remedies
in
the
most
exact
manner
;
and
using
all
prudential
Methods
to
prevent
deceits
in
Medicines
?
There
is
nothing
that
denominates
a
wise
Man
more
,
then
useing
the
best
and
most
probable
means
to
accomplish
his
ends
:
and
nothing
is
more
subservient
unto
happy
conclusions
,
than
prudent
Counsels
;
but
such
is
the
preposterous
practice
of
many
amongst
us
,
that
it
may
not
be
imprudent
to
make
an
addition
of
one
casualty
more
in
our
Weekly
accounts
of
Mortality
,
viz.
so
many
dyed
Martyrs
unto
their
Physitians
ignorance
;
they
taking
the
advice
of
some
broken
Tradesman
,
Disbanded
Soldier
,
Bankrupt
Merchant
,
&c.
the
very
scum
of
the
People
,
whose
Receipts
prove
equally
fatal
with
the
Jaw-bone
of
an
Ass
;
such
like
Evah
,
or
rather
like
the
Serpent
,
pretending
to
give
that
which
shall
be
good
for
Food
and
Physick
,
but
in
the
end
beguiling
Men
of
their
Health
,
and
few
days
after
the
Patient
dyes
the
death
:
As
the
Lyon
in
the
Fable
,
that
pretended
to
pull
the
Thorn
out
of
the
Lambs
foot
,
but
in
the
end
devoured
it
.
The
Prescripts
of
an
able
and
safe
Physitian
upon
the
File
,
exposed
unto
the
view
of
the
World
,
are
more
likely
to
be
attended
with
the
Blessing
of
Heaven
,
than
the
pretended
Arcana's
of
such
Mungril
Practicers
,
who
are
glad
to
make
use
of
privacy
to
conceal
their
ignorance
,
covetousness
,
and
wickedness
;
and
yet
such
is
the
folly
of
the
vulgar
,
who
are
more
apt
to
gaze
upon
a
Blazing
Comet
that
infects
the
Air
,
and
poysons
Men
with
pestilential
vapors
;
than
on
the
regular
motion
of
the
glorious
Sun
,
whose
cherishing
beams
,
yield
light
and
health
unto
humane
nature
.
Every
Man
is
bound
by
the
Law
of
God
and
Nature
,
to
keep
the
Clayie
Cottage
of
his
Body
in
reparation
:
we
being
Tenants
at
the
will
of
our
great
Landlord
in
these
Houses
of
Earth
,
we
ought
not
to
let
them
run
to
ruine
through
neglect
,
lest
we
expose
our selves
unto
an
inditement
at
the
Bar
of
Heaven
,
for
Dilapidations
.
One
of
the
most
considerable
Moral
Rules
to
be
observed
,
in
order
towards
the
procuring
a
Divine
influence
with
natural
Remedies
,
is
rightly
to
understand
the
Divine
and
Sacred
original
,
and
primary
institution
of
Medicine
:
Our
Blessed
Saviour
,
the
Physitian
of
Souls
,
was
a
Physitian
of
Bodies
,
and
not
only
commended
the
good
Samaritan
;
but
acted
the
part
of
one
throughout
his
own
Life
,
healing
all
manner
of
sickness
and
diseases
.
The
Angellick
Spirits
think
it
not
inferiour
unto
their
Nature
,
to
be
instrumental
to
heal
us
mortals
,
by
stirring
the
Pool
of
Bethesda
.
St.
Luke
,
who
was
the
Evangelical
Amanuensis
,
and
wrote
a
History
of
our
Saviours
Passion
and
Life
,
was
a
beloved
Physititian
;
and
the
Doctor
of
the
Gentiles
prescribes
Wine
as
a
chearing
Cordial
unto
his
Timothy
,
under
his
frequent
infirmities
for
his
health
sake
.
The
holy
Prophet
reflecting
upon
the
deplorable
condition
of
the
Church
,
with
the
whole
Head
sick
,
and
heart
faint
,
full
of
wounds
,
bruises
,
and
putrefactions
,
being
not
bound
up
,
nor
molified
with
Ointments
;
doth
plainly
intimate
,
how
necessary
he
thought
the
natural
,
as
well
as
the
spiritual
application
of
fit
Remedies
;
lamenting
there
was
no
Balm
in
Gilead
,
nor
no
Physitian
there
.
Jothans
Parable
may
instruct
the
World
,
that
not
only
the
Olive
,
the
Fig-tree
and
the
Vine
,
are
useful
to
chear
the
heart
of
God
and
Man
;
but
also
the
Bramble
hath
a
healing
virtue
in
some
distempers
.
Since
the
appearance
of
the
second
Adam
,
we
may
eat
of
every
Tree
in
the
Garden
,
asking
no
question
for
Conscience
sake
,
the
earth
being
the
Lords
,
and
the
fulness
thereof
.
The
wonderful
work
of
providence
is
apparent
,
in
preserving
the
Seminal
virtues
of
Plants
in
the
Deluge
,
when
we
read
not
of
any
Seed
secured
in
the
Ark
:
The
innocent
Dove
shewing
a
Leaf
unto
the
new
World
,
preacht
a
Sermon
of
Divine
goodness
.
The
Utility
of
Physical
Remedies
,
is
not
only
demonstrated
by
Christians
,
but
by
Jews
and
Pagans
.
In
the
Temple
of
Asculapius
,
there
was
a
Fountain
of
Oil
,
with
a
Golden
Arch
,
a
perfect
Symbol
of
Physick
,
denoting
its
usefulness
and
honour
.
The
design
of
Medicines
,
is
not
to
prevent
death
,
but
to
render
Life
comfortable
,
and
to
preserve
Natures
lamp
burning
,
until
there
is
no
more
Oil
left
to
feed
it
;
that
we
may
have
the
better
opportunity
to
secure
our
eternal
estate
.
Health
is
the
prime
outward
blessing
,
it
is
the
comfort
of
the
Rich
,
and
the
riches
of
the
Poor
;
if
it
had
been
to
procure
any
thing
else
,
that
the
Woman
in
the
Gospel
spent
all
her
living
,
she
migh
justly
have
been
blamed
.
The
Son
of
Syrach
counsels
Men
,
to
honour
the
Physitian
with
that
honour
due
unto
him
;
telling
us
,
God
hath
created
him
,
and
hath
given
Men
skill
,
that
he
might
be
honoured
in
his
marvellous
works
,
with
the
Medicines
which
he
hath
created
out
of
the
earth
,
to
heal
Men
,
and
take
away
their
pains
.
Apollo
and
Aesculapius
,
amongst
the
Greeks
were
adored
as
gods
,
for
the
excellency
of
their
invention
in
Physick
.
St.
James
placeth
our
visiting
the
sick
,
amongst
the
parts
of
that
pure
Religion
which
is
undefiled
before
God
.
And
our
blessed
Saviour
,
numbers
this
Christian
Duty
amongst
those
good
works
,
according
unto
which
,
we
shall
receive
our
final
sentence
.
The
knotty
staff
,
the
Serpent
,
the
Pine-Apple
,
the
Dragon
,
the
Dog
and
the
Cock
,
with
which
the
Portraiture
of
Aesculapius
was
beautified
,
were
not
insignificant
Symbols
.
Medicine
hath
by
Barbarous
Nations
,
been
accounted
Sacred
.
The
Priests
of
Memphis
were
bound
to
write
in
the
Temple
of
Isis
,
such
Remedies
as
were
found
effectual
.
The
same
Practice
the
Greeks
used
at
the
Temple
of
Apollo
,
authorizing
Medicine
,
by
Religion
,
and
converting
Remedies
into
Oracles
.
The
Jewish
Doctors
tell
us
,
That
at
the
Gate
of
the
Temple
of
Solomon
,
there
hung
a
long
Catalogue
of
the
virtues
of
all
Plants
,
collected
by
King
Solomon
himself
;
so
that
if
any
were
smitten
with
any
Disease
,
he
might
go
and
gather
his
Remedy
.
The
holy
Prophets
in
their
descriptions
of
the
Holy-Land
,
represent
the
excellency
thereof
,
from
its
abounding
with
Trees
whose
Leaves
are
good
for
Medicines
.
He
who
breathed
into
Man
the
breath
of
Life
,
and
by
an
eternal
Law
hath
commanded
him
not
to
kill
,
but
enjoyned
him
to
pray
for
his
daily
Bread
,
with
all
the
necessary
supports
of
this
Life
;
hath
thereby
laid
an
obligation
upon
him
,
to
use
all
means
to
preserve
both
his
own
and
others
lives
.
As
the
Jews
by
their
particular
Laws
,
were
constrained
to
be
at
the
charg●
of
cure
unto
any
whom
they
had
hurt
or
injured
in
their
bodily
health
;
much
more
ought
men
to
be
concerned
for
their
own
Health
.
Although
we
live
not
by
Bread
alone
,
but
by
the
word
of
blessing
out
of
the
mouth
of
God
;
yet
the
blessing
is
annext
unto
Bread
,
not
unto
Stones
:
He
that
shall
expect
to
h●●e
Stones
turned
into
Bread
,
doth
not
trust
but
tempt
his
Maker
,
it
being
not
Faith
but
Fury
,
to
go
down
by
a
precipice
,
when
Stairs
are
appointed
.
King
Asa
was
not
reprehended
for
advising
with
,
but
for
trusting
unto
his
Physitians
,
and
making
them
his
end
,
who
were
but
means
;
which
was
recorded
to
instruct
us
,
that
we
should
use
means
,
as
if
there
were
no
Pro●idence
;
and
rely
on
Providence
,
as
if
there
were
no
Means
.
When
the
Royal
Prophet
went
against
Goliah
,
trusting
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
;
yet
he
made
use
of
his
Sling
to
wound
his
Adversary
.
Holy
Jacob
sent
a
present
unto
his
Brother
,
to
pacifie
his
unreasonable
anger
,
as
well
as
made
supplication
unto
the
great
Peacemaker
.
When
Queen
Hester
appointed
a
Fast
to
implore
the
protection
of
the
God
of
Heaven
,
in
the
behalf
of
the
Jews
lives
;
She
neglected
not
to
feast
the
King
,
that
she
might
the
more
probably
prevail
.
St.
Pauls
Mariners
could
not
expect
preservation
(
notwithstanding
the
safety
of
their
lives
was
promised
him
)
except
they
did
continue
in
the
Ship
.
The
Bodies
of
good
Men
are
the
Temples
of
the
Holy
Ghost
;
and
neglecting
the
same
,
is
reputed
a
part
of
will-worship
,
and
strictly
prohibited
.
Balaams
Ass
doth
instruct
the
World
,
that
a
merciful
Man
should
be
merciful
unto
his
Beast
;
how
much
ought
he
rather
like
the
Shunamite
woman
,
to
take
a
journey
to
request
help
for
a
Child
,
whom
Death
seemeth
to
triumph
over
?
The
Life
is
more
worth
than
meat
,
and
the
Body
than
Raiment
;
nay
,
it
's
more
worth
than
liberty
;
if
the
Jews
had
been
sold
for
bondmen
,
they
had
held
their
peace
,
as
they
told
the
King
,
when
their
necks
had
almost
been
cut
off
at
a
blow
.
The
Father
of
Lyes
never
spake
a
greater
truth
,
than
when
he
said
,
Skin
for
skin
,
and
all
that
a
man
hath
,
will
he
give
for
his
life
.
It
's
a
grand
impiety
,
under
a
pretence
of
Gods
Power
,
to
be
disobedient
unto
his
Will
,
in
neglecting
means
of
Health
;
that
's
to
try
what
he
can
do
,
and
yet
neglect
what
he
commands
,
in
not
administring
those
things
which
are
necessary
for
the
Body
.
Those
Bodies
which
are
the
Members
of
Christ
,
ought
to
have
respect
and
care
used
towards
them
,
that
they
may
be
more
fit
for
the
service
of
the
Soul
;
as
that
which
was
sick
was
not
to
be
offered
in
sacrifice
under
the
Law
,
so
those
who
are
sick
,
are
not
fit
to
offer
Sacrifices
under
the
Gospel
.
The
Soul
sits
uneasie
in
a
diseased
Body
.
When
the
Golden
Bowl
is
broken
,
and
the
sound
of
the
grinding
is
low
,
and
the
Pitcher
is
broken
,
at
the
Fountain
,
and
the
Wheel
broken
at
the
Cistern
;
then
the
Sun
,
and
the
Moon
,
and
the
Stars
will
be
darkened
.
King
Solomon
,
who
had
a
Patent
granted
him
by
the
King
of
Heaven
,
to
receive
the
greatest
measure
of
Wisdom
of
any
Man
before
or
after
him
,
made
it
his
business
to
search
into
the
nature
of
Vegetables
,
from
the
tallest
Cedar
unto
the
Hysop
that
grows
out
of
the
Wall
.
Although
his
brow
was
incircled
with
a
glittering
Diadem
,
and
his
Gold
was
so
plentiful
as
to
pave
his
Palace
,
and
he
had
all
the
delights
of
the
Sons
of
Men
,
yet
he
condescended
unto
the
study
and
improvement
of
Physick
,
and
tells
us
there
is
a
time
to
heal
.
The
Almighty
Wisdom
acts
as
it
were
the
part
of
a
good
Physi●ian
,
and
tells
our
Parent
Adam
,
that
every
Herb
bearing
Seed
,
was
good
for
food
,
being
created
for
the
service
of
Man
.
The
Sons
of
the
Prophets
had
a
Physical
intention
in
gathering
their
Herbs
,
although
it
was
attended
with
a
mistake
in
the
nature
of
the
Plant
;
and
we
find
that
the
Waters
of
Marah
,
were
●…
endered
wholsom
by
the
casting
in
medicinal
ingredients
.
Ahab
understood
the
usefulness
of
a
Garden
of
Herbs
,
when
he
so
greedily
coveted
Naboths
Vineyard
,
to
convert
it
into
the
same
.
The
good
will
of
him
that
dwelt
in
the
Bush
,
is
further
declared
unto
mankind
,
by
the
vertue
which
he
hath
planted
in
the
leaves
and
fruit
that
grow
thereon
;
being
useful
for
the
healing
of
the
Nations
,
in
a
natural
,
as
well
as
in
a
mystical
sense
.
Those
persons
who
cut
up
Mallows
by
the
roots
in
holy
Jobs
time
,
could
not
but
understand
their
Medicinal
virtue
.
A
Dinner
of
Herbs
,
with
Evangelical
charity
,
is
preferred
by
Solomon
before
a
costly
Banquet
;
and
those
medicinal
Herbs
of
Mint
,
Rhue
,
Annise
and
Cummin
,
were
so
much
in
use
amongst
the
Jews
,
that
they
laid
Tithes
and
customary
impositions
upon
them
.
It
's
probable
that
the
bitter
Herbs
,
appointed
to
be
eaten
with
the
Paschal
Lamb
,
were
not
only
Typical
,
but
also
Medicinal
.
When
the
Church
would
make
a
metaphorical
description
of
all
the
external
and
internal
qualifications
of
her
Beloved
,
she
compares
him
to
those
things
which
are
most
excellent
and
useful
,
as
Myrrh
,
Aloes
,
Cassia
,
and
all
the
chief
spices
.
Joseph
used
Physitians
of
old
,
not
only
for
the
recovering
of
the
sick
,
but
for
the
embalming
of
the
dead
;
and
the
Art
of
the
Apothecary
was
employed
,
not
only
to
prepare
holy
Ointments
for
the
consecration
of
Kings
and
Priests
,
but
to
compound
Medicines
for
the
restoration
of
inferior
persons
.
The
blessed
God
is
pleased
to
stile
himself
,
The
Lord
,
the
Physitian
:
and
the
Holy
Jesus
derives
his
name
from
his
healing
nature
,
and
tells
us
,
that
the
whole
have
no
need
of
the
Physitian
;
yet
they
that
are
sick
have
.
And
the
Holy
Ghost
assures
us
by
the
Psalmists
Pencil
,
that
God
hath
given
Medicines
to
heal
mens
sicknesses
.
The
most
infallible
way
to
have
our
distempers
removed
,
is
to
endeavour
to
procure
the
concourse
of
a
Divine
influence
,
and
to
engage
the
Soveraign
Power
of
that
Almighty
healer
,
unto
whom
belongs
the
issues
from
Death
:
And
this
is
most
likely
to
be
done
by
the
practice
of
true
Religion
,
from
such
principles
which
are
Divine
and
Spiritual
.
The
Jews
came
under
a
promise
of
having
their
Bread
and
Water
blessed
,
and
their
sickness
removed
,
if
they
harkened
unto
the
Divine
Statutes
.
Solomon
urgeth
the
consideration
of
our
Health
,
as
a
strong
Argument
to
promote
holy
and
religious
fear
,
telling
men
,
it
shall
be
health
unto
their
Navels
,
and
M●rrow
unto
their
Bones
.
Wisdom
is
a
Tree
of
Life
,
if
men
do
but
eat
the
fruit
of
it
by
the
practice
of
godliness
,
which
hath
the
promise
of
the
Life
that
now
is
,
as
well
as
of
that
which
is
to
come
.
If
men
love
life
,
and
desire
many
days
,
and
make
it
their
request
to
obtain
the
Divine
Wisdom
;
the
way
prescribed
is
to
desist
from
evil
,
and
to
do
good
,
and
then
length
of
days
,
and
long
life
,
and
peace
shall
be
added
,
as
the
wisest
of
men
found
by
experience
.
Yielding
subjection
unto
the
father
of
Spirits
,
is
as
sure
a
way
to
obtain
the
blessing
of
long
Life
,
as
obedience
unto
our
natural
Parents
;
for
there
is
a
Command
with
a
Promise
annexed
unto
both
:
and
we
find
Life
in
the
Inventory
of
the
Christians
Goods
,
when
it
was
drawn
up
by
the
great
Doctor
of
the
Gentiles
.
Piety
secures
men
very
often
from
the
power
of
evil
Angels
,
who
many
times
receive
commission
to
inflict
corporal
distempers
;
it
defends
from
the
stroke
of
humane
justice
,
by
warning
men
of
those
flagitious
impieties
which
expose
them
unto
the
penalties
of
human
Laws
;
as
Murders
,
Thefts
and
Rapine
.
Moreover
,
Religion
preserves
Men
from
the
terrours
of
an
evil
Conscience
,
which
makes
them
oftentimes
wash
their
hands
in
their
own
Blood
.
And
Virtue
greatly
preserves
Life
,
as
it
teacheth
temperance
and
moderation
in
the
use
of
Meats
and
Drinks
.
The
circumstantial
actions
of
Piety
,
are
very
influential
towards
the
lengthening
the
lives
of
Men
.
The
sweet
sleeps
of
temperate
persons
,
and
their
freedom
from
violent
and
enraged
passions
,
with
the
admirable
contentment
that
dwells
in
a
holy
Conscience
;
these
make
the
Lamp
of
Life
burn
clear
and
long
.
The
Inspired
Penman
frequently
prescribes
Religion
,
as
an
Antidote
against
immature
death
,
being
a
direct
enemy
unto
sin
,
which
brought
in
sickness
at
the
first
.
And
it
is
not
difficult
to
understand
,
that
as
immorality
destroys
Soul
and
Body
,
and
the
stingings
of
a
guilty
mind
torment
both
;
so
Piety
and
peace
of
mind
,
preserves
and
relieves
both
Soul
and
Body
;
for
the
Soul
doth
as
well
conduce
unto
the
prolongation
of
the
Body
in
natural
Life
,
as
unto
its
immortality
in
eternal
Life
;
and
the
Body
hath
the
perfection
of
Life
,
viz.
Health
,
from
the
Soul
,
as
well
as
Life
it self
.
Dying
unto
sin
,
is
an
excellent
means
to
preserve
Life
,
if
Men
would
try
the
experiment
,
and
indeavour
to
procure
the
Divine
Providence
to
be
their
Lifegard
.
We
live
by
the
word
of
blessing
,
out
of
the
mouth
of
God
,
every
command
if
observed
,
like
food
and
Physick
,
it
tends
unto
the
lengthening
our
natural
lives
,
as
well
as
our
spiritual
.
When
the
great
preserver
of
Men
withdraws
his
protection
,
we
are
exposed
unto
the
malignant
Aspect
of
the
Planets
,
and
unto
the
fatal
contingencies
of
Wars
and
Battels
,
and
are
endangered
by
every
accident
;
The
dust
of
a
Wheel
,
the
fall
of
a
Tile
,
the
largeness
of
a
Morsel
,
the
unevenness
of
a
Stone
,
the
plenty
of
a
Humour
,
may
stop
our
breath
.
The
Divine
favour
is
the
best
Screen
to
shelter
Men
from
the
innumerable
accidents
of
human
Life
,
in
which
we
are
every
minute
surrounded
with
a
Thousand
deaths
.
And
although
we
usually
repute
old
age
,
a
young
death
,
because
such
are
furrowed
by
the
Plow
of
time
,
and
seem
to
have
as
it
were
bespoke
a
grave
;
yet
it
is
as
natural
for
youth
to
dye
,
as
age
,
being
more
common
,
and
having
more
natural
causes
,
and
being
more
near
death
,
upon
fatal
and
less
discerned
accounts
,
by
a
sudden
Fever
,
or
Apoplex
:
Indeed
a
Consumptive
person
seems
to
be
markt
out
for
the
mortal
wound
;
but
one
in
health
may
be
suddenly
surprized
by
an
acute
distemper
,
which
proves
a
Besom
of
destruction
to
Three
parts
of
Adams
Race
;
to
dye
of
age
is
a
very
rare
thing
,
but
the
sins
of
youth
are
the
immediate
instruments
of
death
:
some
vices
carrying
a
Knife
in
their
hand
,
cut
off
Man
before
his
time
,
lopping
of
some
branch
from
our
short
Life
.
The
pleasing
gratifications
of
sense
,
walk
hand
in
hand
with
Death
,
and
pursueth
mortals
,
as
the
Waves
of
the
Universal
Deluge
did
the
Posterity
of
Cain
;
and
though
they
went
from
one
Story
unto
another
,
higher
and
higher
,
yet
at
last
they
were
overflowed
:
The
wages
of
sin
is
death
,
and
may
as
justly
be
paid
in
the
Morning
as
in
the
Evening
of
our
days
.
Although
Temperance
doth
not
always
prove
an
Antidote
against
the
Pestilence
,
nor
Abstinence
a
preservative
against
Famine
;
yet
they
are
likely
means
.
We
live
not
at
an
adventure
,
but
the
manner
and
moments
of
our
Death
came
under
a
Divine
appointment
;
the
Jews
could
not
prejudice
the
life
of
the
Lord
of
Life
,
until
his
hour
was
come
,
viz.
that
hour
which
by
Divine
Wisdom
,
was
appointed
to
be
his
last
hour
;
as
it
is
appointed
to
men
once
to
dye
,
so
also
when
to
dye
.
But
yet
the
over-ruling
determinations
concerning
our
lives
should
not
lessen
our
care
to
preserve
them
.
It
's
a
Turkish
principle
,
to
dream
,
that
because
the
manner
&
moment
of
Mens
deaths
are
appointed
,
therefore
it
's
vanity
and
folly
to
arm
our selves
or
Antidote
our
Bodies
against
the
injuries
of
War
,
and
assaults
of
Diseases
.
It
must
be
a
confest
verity
,
That
every
natural
motion
hath
its
beginning
,
duration
,
and
Period
,
dependant
on
the
will
of
the
first
Motor
.
Now
the
life
o●…
Man
being
a
natural
motion
,
our
Nativity
and
Death
,
are
both
ordered
by
that
Omnipotent
Agent
,
in
whom
we
live
and
move
,
and
have
our
being
.
The
Life
of
Man
consisting
in
a
requisite
harmony
of
qualities
,
and
in
a
proportionate
commixture
of
the
natural
heat
,
and
radical
moisture
;
which
harmony
is
more
or
less
,
according
unto
the
more
exquisite
temperature
of
Body
,
assigned
unto
each
single
Person
,
by
the
free
dispensation
of
the
Divine
will
;
it
must
follow
,
that
the
continuance
of
every
Man
in
this
natural
life
,
depends
upon
the
pleasure
of
him
who
hath
determin'd
our
days
,
and
numbered
our
Months
,
and
set
our
bounds
which
we
cannot
pass
without
his
leave
;
who
gave
us
the
durability
of
our
temperaments
,
and
are
compast
by
our
Period
,
within
the
circle
of
his
Providence
.
But
to
imagine
the
Life
of
Men
fixed
,
beyond
the
possibility
of
being
prolonged
or
shortened
by
an
Almighty
Pleasure
,
seems
highly
unreasonable
,
he
having
kept
a
power
in
his
own
hands
to
lengthen
or
shorten
as
he
plea●…
eth
.
A
Man
may
live
out
all
hi●…
time
,
who
wickedly
shortens
hi●…
own
;
and
may
be
permitted
to
do
those
forbidden
acts
,
which
inevitably
tend
unto
his
own
destruction
.
The
Israelites
murmuring
,
anticipated
their
funerals
,
and
buried
them
in
the
Wilderness
,
notwithstanding
their
promise
of
seeing
Canaan
.
The
impiety
of
the
old
World
,
sent
a
watery
calamity
,
which
possibly
might
have
been
prevented
had
their
repentance
been
as
visible
as
that
of
Nineveh
was
,
who
were
reprieved
from
Execution
,
after
the
sentence
of
Death
seem'd
past
upon
them
,
upon
the
expiration
of
Forty
days
.
Sin
brought
Death
at
first
;
and
as
sin
increased
,
so
death
came
nearer
by
Five
hundred
years
.
After
the
flood
,
men
sinned
still
,
and
built
Castles
in
the
Air
,
and
then
Death
came
nearer
by
Three
hundred
years
;
and
by
Moses's
time
a
great
part
of
that
remnant
is
pared
away
,
and
Threescore
and
ten
is
the
Period
.
Had
offended
Justice
gone
on
still
to
shorten
our
days
,
as
men
increased
in
sin
,
our
Life
by
this
time
had
not
been
a
day
long
;
and
therefore
he
no
longer
destroys
the
kind
,
but
punisheth
the
individual
;
and
sets
it
down
as
a
standing
rule
,
That
evil
shall
slay
the
wicked
,
and
he
shall
not
live
out
half
his
days
.
We
cannot
observe
one
in
Five
hundred
arrive
at
that
age
which
they
might
attain
unto
by
the
course
of
nature
,
but
end
their
days
in
folly
,
and
in
a
period
which
seems
to
be
appointed
in
anger
;
from
Surfeiting
proceeds
desolation
of
Members
,
relaxations
of
Nerves
,
fractury
of
Bones
,
inflamations
of
the
Blood
,
crudities
of
Stomach
,
besides
the
uncleanly
consequence
of
Lust
,
which
like
a
Dart
strikes
through
the
Liver
,
and
hunts
for
the
precious
Life
.
The
Supreme
Architector
,
hath
composed
our
Bodies
like
Lamps
,
and
to
supply
the
Oil
consumed
by
the
flame
,
hath
given
us
appetites
of
Hunger
and
Thirst
,
with
the
addition
of
Reason
to
guide
our
appetites
,
and
the
Revelation
of
his
Will
to
direct
our
Reason
:
But
if
men
through
the
depravation
of
nature
,
and
the
predominance
of
temptation
,
suffer
their
Appetites
to
dethrone
their
Reason
,
and
give
way
unto
intemperance
and
other
immoralities
,
which
have
a
tendency
to
extinguish
natures
Lamp
,
by
corrupting
the
Oil
,
or
spilling
it
,
or
blowing
out
the
flame
;
then
they
may
justly
expect
to
be
cut
off
in
the
midst
of
their
days
,
and
to
dye
before
their
time
,
being
made
a
sacrifice
unto
their
overmuch
wickedness
.
On
the
contrary
,
we
may
take
notice
,
That
Faith
and
Obedience
,
like
the
Tree
of
Life
in
Paradice
,
not
only
sacramentally
,
but
really
conduce
unto
Health
and
long
Life
,
so
far
as
it
is
a
blessing
;
and
this
it
doth
by
impregnating
our
food
with
the
tincture
of
a
Divine
Benediction
;
by
meliorating
our
constitutions
,
and
infusing
wholesom
dispositions
in
the
Air
,
and
favourable
influences
in
the
host
of
Heaven
.
It
is
probable
,
that
the
Prophet
Baalam's
wish
to
dye
the
death
of
the
righteous
,
did
not
only
include
his
being
saved
at
last
,
but
also
that
he
might
come
to
his
Grave
in
a
good
old
Age
with
his
Fathers
in
peace
,
and
might
not
be
cut
off
like
the
Moabites
,
and
other
Nations
,
who
perisht
in
their
wickedness
before
his
eyes
.
Some
of
the
Jewish
Rabbins
observe
,
that
not
a
Son
dyed
of
a
natural
death
before
his
Father
for
Three
thousand
years
;
but
the
course
of
Nature
was
observed
,
and
he
that
was
born
first
,
dyed
first
,
until
Terah's
time
,
who
was
the
first
that
taught
the
People
to
make
Images
of
Clay
,
and
to
corrupt
Divine
worship
with
Idolatry
;
and
as
a
punishment
of
his
sin
,
his
Son
Haran
was
snatcht
away
before
him
.
During
the
standing
of
the
second
Temple
,
there
were
Three
hundred
high
Priests
;
but
whilst
the
first
stood
,
there
were
but
Eighteen
,
which
stood
within
Ten
years
as
long
as
the
second
;
their
wickedness
shortened
their
days
:
The
Male
Heir
of
Eli's
Family
,
as
soon
as
born
,
dyed
for
many
generations
;
so
that
an
old
Man
could
not
be
seen
of
his
Posterity
,
according
unto
a
Divine
sentence
.
The
addition
of
Fifteen
years
unto
Hezekia's
days
,
was
the
result
of
Divine
favour
;
but
not
without
signal
demonstrations
of
his
repentance
.
The
Antient
Patriarchs
indeed
out-lived
all
their
Titles
of
consanguinity
;
yet
observable
it
is
,
that
none
lived
a
compleat
Thousand
years
,
which
possibly
might
be
to
accomplish
the
threatning
unto
Adam
,
That
the
day
he
eat
the
forbidden
fruit
he
should
dye
,
computing
a
day
for
a
Thousand
years
:
But
a
more
probable
Reason
seems
to
be
,
to
demonstrate
unto
Man
,
The
vanity
of
Life
;
when
those
who
lived
longest
,
could
not
arrive
at
that
period
,
which
compared
with
Gods
eternity
,
is
but
a
day
.
All
things
being
considered
,
it
may
be
esteemed
a
mercy
,
that
so
much
of
Mans
Life
is
pared
away
in
these
last
days
,
wherein
so
much
of
Heaven
is
discovered
,
that
it
would
put
a
holy
Souls
patience
hard
to
it
,
to
know
so
much
of
the
upper
Worlds
glory
,
and
to
be
kept
so
long
from
it
,
as
the
Fathers
in
the
Primitive
times
were
;
for
the
most
pompous
entertainments
in
this
Life
,
are
but
the
good
Mans
Crosses
,
because
they
detain
him
from
his
Crown
.
If
M●n
would
have
natural
Remedies
prove
effectual
,
they
ought
to
indeavour
to
find
out
the
moral
as
well
as
the
natural
cause
of
Distempers
.
Hypocrates
adviseth
Physitians
to
search
if
there
be
not
something
Divine
in
Diseases
.
The
living
Man
seldom
complains
,
without
giving
his
Maker
a
cause
to
inflict
punishment
;
for
the
righteous
Judg
doth
not
afflict
willingly
,
nor
grieve
the
Children
of
Men
.
There
is
some
Babylonish
Garment
that
hath
infected
the
Body
with
Leprosie
,
and
caused
the
Thorn
in
the
flesh
.
When
the
Rod
utters
its
voice
,
it
is
to
admonish
Men
to
search
into
the
distempers
of
their
Minds
as
well
as
of
their
Bodies
;
and
they
are
fed
with
the
Bread
of
affliction
,
and
with
the
Water
of
●…
dversity
,
to
cure
the
Tympany
●…
f
Pride
,
the
Fever
of
Passion
,
●…
nd
the
Dropsy
of
Covetousness
.
The
Plague
in
the
Body
,
is
some●…
imes
sent
to
cure
the
Plague
in
●…
he
Heart
:
Sin
is
that
root
of
●…
itterness
,
from
whence
all
our
●…
roubles
in
the
flesh
spring
up
.
Men
,
like
Baalam
,
are
apt
to
strike
the
Beast
,
the
external
instrument
that
hurts
them
;
but
never
mind
the
Angel
that
stands
in
the
way
with
a
drawn
Sword
,
which
caused
that
instrument
to
hurt
.
There
are
many
happy
intentions
Divine
goodness
aims
at
,
in
laying
Diseases
upon
mens
Bodies
.
Holy
Job
doth
not
attribute
the
loss
of
his
Children
unto
external
causes
,
but
acquiesseth
in
the
disposal
of
Divine
Wisdom
;
knowing
they
might
be
removed
to
exercise
his
Patience
.
The
sickness
of
Lazarus
whom
Christ
loved
,
was
not
designed
for
his
death
only
,
but
that
Divine
Mercy
might
have
the
honour
of
restoring
him
.
The
sickness
of
Epaphroditus
,
in
which
he
was
brought
nigh
unto
death
,
occasioned
the
thanks
of
many
to
be
returned
in
his
behalf
.
Men
have
then
great
Reason
to
bless
the
Lord
with
their
Souls
,
and
with
all
that
is
within
them
,
to
praise
his
holy
Name
,
when
he
healeth
all
their
Diseases
:
This
consideration
elivated
the
holy
soul
of
King
Hezekia
,
and
transported
him
into
a
Divine
Doxology
.
When
Men
have
received
the
sentence
of
Death
in
themselves
,
and
are
miraculously
delivered
from
going
down
to
the
Grave
,
then
have
they
cause
to
praise
the
Lord
in
the
great
Congregation
,
and
to
utter
their
Songs
unto
the
God
of
their
lives
.
The
sick
Bed
is
the
attiring
Room
of
the
Grave
,
in
which
Men
should
be
preparing
themselves
for
the
solemnities
of
their
Funerals
.
By
lingering
distempers
Men
are
gradually
putting
off
their
vail
of
flesh
,
to
be
cloathed
upon
with
that
house
which
is
from
Heaven
.
Sickness
is
the
Monitor
of
mortality
,
and
makes
Men
learn
to
know
their
end
,
and
gives
them
a
sensible
prospect
of
that
House
appointed
for
all
living
,
leading
Men
by
the
hand
unto
their
long
homes
.
Diseases
are
sent
to
unravel
humane
nature
,
causing
Death
to
work
in
us
,
until
it
hath
wrought
our
health
,
and
strength
,
and
ease
,
and
life
,
and
it self
away
.
Divine
strength
is
many
times
made
perfect
in
corporal
weaknesses
;
and
one
great
design
of
the
same
,
is
to
administer
an
opportunity
of
experience
unto
the
pious
soul
,
of
internal
succours
and
supports
,
strengthning
upon
the
Bed
of
languishing
,
and
making
its
Bed
in
its
sickness
.
When
the
flesh
and
the
heart
is
ready
to
fail
,
and
the
waves
and
billows
of
Diseases
and
pains
pass
over
mens
Bodies
,
so
that
they
are
even
sinking
with
despair
;
then
the
visitation
of
Heaven
preserves
their
spirits
,
and
make
them
forget
their
pains
,
by
giving
a
prospect
of
endless
pleasures
.
Sometimes
the
sacrificing-knife
is
laid
upon
the
neck
of
an
Isaac
,
to
try
whether
the
indulgent
Parent
will
prefer
the
life
of
his
natural
Son
,
before
the
Will
of
his
Heavenly
Father
.
And
the
immature
death
of
a
Child
,
is
intended
to
call
the
Parents
sins
to
remembrance
;
and
sometimes
to
try
the
Parents
patience
,
as
might
be
exemplified
from
sacred
Records
.
The
way
to
have
sickness
removed
is
not
only
to
use
natural
Remedies
,
but
also
Spiritual
and
Divine
;
by
imploring
the
help
of
that
great
Physitian
,
who
was
Typified
by
the
Brazen
Serpent
;
which
if
Men
did
more
frequently
practice
,
they
would
sooner
be
healed
,
both
of
the
sting
and
pain
of
sickness
.
It
well
becomes
the
most
holy
Soul
,
at
the
point
of
Death
,
to
abound
with
an
,
O
spare
me
,
that
I
may
recover
strength
,
for
the
Hand
of
Omnipotence
can
reach
Mens
maladies
from
Heaven
,
and
his
Word
can
heal
their
sores
.
When
Men
are
bidden
to
go
up
into
the
Mount
,
as
it
were
of
a
sick
Bed
,
and
dye
;
it
highly
concerns
them
to
enquire
,
wherefore
Divine
goodness
contends
with
them
.
When
the
inward
man
is
renewed
by
the
decay
of
the
outward
,
&
mens
great
provocations
are
abated
,
by
their
being
smitten
and
touched
in
their
Bone
&
their
Flesh
;
then
the
Almighty
returns
and
receives
them
,
according
unto
the
days
,
wherein
they
have
been
afflicted
with
pain
and
anguish
.
Sickness
many
times
receives
a
commission
,
to
continue
until
Mens
eyes
are
open
,
to
see
it
was
their
own
wickedness
that
corrected
them
;
and
from
thence
to
infer
how
evil
and
bitter
a
thing
it
is
to
forsake
the
Fountain
of
living
water
,
and
to
seek
out
broken
Cisterns
.
Complaining
Mortals
being
sensible
that
there
is
no
soundness
in
their
flesh
,
nor
rest
in
their
Bones
;
and
they
observe
the
cause
to
spring
from
Divine
anger
,
occasioned
by
their
sinful
miscarriages
,
and
from
thence
come
to
receive
correction
▪
then
the
Distemper
receives
a
Commission
to
depart
.
If
languishing
Patients
cast
a
severe
eye
upon
the
Plagues
,
the
Consumptions
,
the
Inflamations
,
and
extream
burnings
,
that
attend
as
Pages
upon
their
Pride
,
Wantonness
,
Intemperance
,
and
Carnality
,
and
it
produceth
an
awful
fear
of
offending
the
Divine
Majesty
,
and
a
strict
commune
with
their
hearts
upon
their
sick
beds
;
so
that
their
spirits
make
a
diligent
search
into
the
causes
of
their
distempers
:
Then
they
find
a
rebuke
to
attend
their
Diseases
,
and
they
are
made
whole
.
A
great
design
of
sickness
it
is
,
to
wean
the
minds
of
Men
from
their
fondness
of
temporary
injoyments
,
to
take
them
off
from
laying
the
foundation
of
their
happiness
upon
finite
fantasies
,
and
to
convince
them
what
inconsiderable
things
their
Beauty
,
Honour
and
Strength
are
,
which
a
lump
of
Phlegm
,
or
a
blast
of
Wind
can
take
from
them
.
When
sickness
makes
men
listen
unto
the
striking
of
the
Clock
of
time
with
greater
attention
,
and
excites
their
endeavours
to
render
Death
a
stingless
Serpent
;
then
the
great
part
of
the
cure
is
performed
.
Men
being
brought
low
by
the
manifold
infirmities
of
humane
nature
,
and
knocking
as
it
were
at
the
gates
of
the
Grave
,
by
tortures
and
agonies
of
Body
:
It
becomes
a
principle
of
the
highest
prudence
,
to
look
up
unto
the
everlasting
Hills
;
from
whence
comes
their
help
;
it
being
the
same
hand
that
wounded
,
that
must
heal
.
The
blow
of
the
heavy
hand
of
Heaven
,
pressing
men
sore
;
so
that
a
Man
might
read
the
sentence
of
death
in
some
mens
foreheads
,
written
in
the
lines
of
a
lingering
Disease
:
The
difficult
motion
of
their
Lungs
to
suck
in
Air
,
being
like
a
passing
Bell
,
sounding
continually
in
their
ears
;
and
the
striking
of
their
uneven
Pulse
,
too
much
resembling
the
digging
of
their
Graves
:
Yet
in
this
disconsolate
case
,
the
fervent
effectual
Prayer
of
a
righteous
Man
hath
prevailed
much
.
The
Arrows
of
the
Almighty
,
viz.
Diseases
,
fly
thick
in
the
World
,
and
are
shot
sometimes
into
our
Lungs
,
and
sometimes
into
our
Joynts
and
Hearts
,
and
do
give
denomination
unto
various
Distempers
;
and
they
stick
fast
,
until
they
are
pulled
out
by
an
Omnipotent
hand
.
When
mens
wounds
stink
and
are
corrupt
,
and
they
are
made
to
possess
months
of
vanity
,
wearysome
nights
being
appointed
unto
them
;
and
they
seem
,
as
it
were
,
to
be
spitting
away
their
lives
,
notwithstanding
all
Remedies
have
been
used
;
yet
at
last
upon
an
humble
supplication
unto
the
blessed
Jesus
,
unto
whom
belong
the
issues
from
Death
,
and
whose
power
is
the
same
now
in
Heaven
as
when
he
was
on
Earth
,
there
comes
a
Reprieve
;
many
a
Man
losing
Life
,
for
want
of
asking
it
at
his
hands
,
who
would
grant
it
,
if
invited
to
our
Bedside
by
fervent
Prayers
.
The
Reason
why
Remedies
prove
so
often
ineffectual
,
is
,
because
men
neglect
to
act
faith
and
a
holy
confidence
in
a
Divine
power
;
which
if
they
did
but
touch
the
very
hem
of
its
garment
,
their
Faith
would
keep
them
from
fainting
.
When
men
are
cast
down
and
disquieted
by
pains
and
sicknesses
;
then
to
hope
in
him
who
is
the
health
of
their
countenance
,
and
in
quietness
and
confidence
they
will
find
their
greatest
strength
.
To
humble
our selves
under
the
mighty
hand
of
God
,
is
the
way
to
hasten
our
cure
,
and
to
be
exalted
to
health
in
his
due
time
.
When
God
resolves
to
make
men
sick
with
smiting
them
,
they
ought
to
beware
of
murmuring
,
and
impatience
,
which
exasperates
their
calamity
,
it
being
far
more
advantageous
towards
recovery
,
patiently
to
hope
,
and
quietly
to
wait
for
the
salvation
of
God
;
for
they
that
wait
upon
the
Lord
,
have
a
promise
that
they
shall
renew
their
strengths
,
and
be
saved
,
if
they
continue
in
Faith
and
patience
:
a
meek
and
quiet
spirit
under
all
chastisements
,
being
a
great
ornament
,
and
a
great
advantage
towards
recovery
.
The
Image
of
the
Goddess
Angerina
,
was
with
a
Muffler
at
her
mouth
,
placed
at
the
Temple
of
Volupia
,
signifying
,
that
pleasure
should
be
their
portion
who
bare
sicknesses
with
patience
,
silence
,
and
submission
.
The
way
to
be
recovered
from
sickness
,
and
to
procure
the
Divine
influence
,
is
,
to
be
thankful
for
the
least
mitigation
of
pain
;
like
the
single
Leper
,
returning
to
give
thanks
,
before
there
is
a
perfect
recovery
.
But
when
Men
instead
of
offering
their
gifts
and
sacrifice
of
praise
unto
the
Divine
Majesty
upon
their
recovery
,
as
the
Jews
were
commanded
to
do
under
the
Law
;
like
Jeroboam
,
grow
worse
after
his
hand
was
withered
:
This
is
a
speedy
way
to
fall
into
a
mortal
relapse
,
and
to
have
temporal
pains
usher
in
eternal
torments
.
Were
it
possible
for
a
Man
to
stand
upon
one
of
the
Battlements
of
Heaven
,
and
with
one
glance
of
his
eye
to
behold
all
the
wounds
and
Diseases
,
and
to
hear
all
the
groans
and
complaints
of
dying
and
diseased
mortals
;
How
would
the
blessing
of
Health
be
prized
by
such
a
one
?
A
sick
Bed
,
is
an
uneasie
place
,
when
a
Man
is
tossing
to
and
fro
,
until
the
dawning
of
the
day
;
and
when
it
is
night
,
wishing
that
it
were
day
;
and
when
it
is
day
,
that
it
were
night
;
using
mutation
instead
of
Medicines
,
and
imploying
time
in
telling
the
Clock
,
and
entertaining
melancholy
Dreams
,
and
sad
apprehensions
of
the
blackness
of
the
night
;
but
one
way
to
be
freed
from
these
calamitous
circumstances
,
is
to
use
our
Health
for
the
ends
for
which
it
was
given
.
A
mistake
which
often
proves
very
destructive
unto
the
lives
and
healths
of
men
,
is
a
vulgar
opinion
,
That
Witches
,
Wizards
,
and
other
cunning
persons
,
can
by
a
Diabolical
confederacy
foretel
the
deaths
and
periods
of
mens
lives
;
and
if
so
,
How
can
Virtue
prorogue
,
or
Vice
abreviate
mens
days
?
Unto
this
it
may
be
answered
,
That
Satan
may
sometimes
give
intelligence
unto
some
who
are
his
Oracles
;
yet
his
knowledg●…
is
but
conjectural
,
or
at
most
h●…
knows
futurities
only
as
they
appear
in
their
precedent
Cause●…
both
natural
and
moral
.
Supposing
it
were
the
Devil
i●…
Samuel's
Mantle
,
that
did
forete●…
the
precise
time
of
Saul's
death
yet
it
doth
not
imply
the
absolute
certainty
of
the
Devils
prediction
,
or
the
fatal
necessity
of
Saul's
death
:
It
was
easie
to
speak
as
h●…
did
,
there
being
all
the
forerunners
of
his
approaching
ruine
visible
in
the
Causes
;
for
Davi●…
was
anointed
King
,
and
Sau●…
grew
worse
and
worse
,
consulted
with
a
Witch
,
and
the
Batte●…
drew
near
,
and
what
could
be
expected
,
but
his
overthrow
and
death
?
If
it
should
be
granted
,
tha●…
the
lying
spirits
in
the
mouth
o●…
Ahab's
Prophets
,
did
foreknow
his
Death
;
it
might
be
only
from
their
observation
,
that
he
went
against
a
Divine
command
.
Therefore
i●s
highly
unreasonable
,
to
give
heed
unto
seducing
spirits
,
and
Doctrines
of
Devils
,
consulting
with
the
god
of
Ekhron
,
when
there
is
a
God
in
Israel
;
some
mens
curiosities
in
this
kind
,
hath
cost
them
their
lives
,
being
forbidden
such
practices
upon
pain
of
damnation
.
What
wise
Man
would
so
far
violate
his
Baptismal
Covenant
(
wherein
he
hath
engaged
to
forsake
the
Devil
)
as
to
go
unto
the
destroyer
of
mankind
,
or
unto
his
instruments
,
for
life-preserving
Remedies
?
Such
a
one
is
guilty
of
the
highest
Idolatry
,
and
falls
down
to
worship
the
Devil
,
whom
his
Lord
and
Master
rejected
with
the
greatest
indignation
.
Magicians
indeed
use
charms
,
evil
signs
,
and
good
words
,
the
better
to
deceive
the
ignorant
;
and
herein
being
Gods
Ape
,
for
as
he
hath
made
a
Covenant
with
his
,
and
hath
appointed
signs
and
scals
,
upon
the
faithful
use
o●…
which
,
he
is
present
to
perform
what
he
hath
promised
:
So
the
Devil
makes
a
covenant
with
Wizards
,
upon
which
he
hath
given
signs
and
tokens
,
That
i●…
they
use
the
one
,
hee
'l
perform
the
other
.
Some
credulous
minds
are
so
flexible
,
as
to
be
possessed
with
transporting
fears
of
the
danger
of
their
clymaterical
year
;
as
i●…
the
number
Seven
and
Nine
had
in
them
something
sacred
,
because
Pythagoras
and
some
Phylosophers
dreamed
so
:
But
there
is
no
solid
foundation
for
such
unreasonable
Phantasies
;
we
Christians
having
a
more
sure
word
of
Prophecy
;
which
indeed
directs
us
to
number
our
days
,
but
not
to
compute
our
days
by
numbers
,
so
as
to
fix
their
period
at
such
a
number
.
There
may
be
as
good
Reason
given
for
the
observing
the
numbers
,
One
,
Three
,
Four
,
Six
and
Ten
;
so
that
should
we
have
Reason
to
perplex
our
minds
from
hence
,
our
fears
would
be
numberless
:
For
what
although
there
were
Seven
wonders
of
the
World
,
Seven
Gates
of
Thebes
,
Seven
Stars
in
Ursa
major
,
Seven
wise
men
of
Greece
,
and
Seven
Circles
in
the
Heavens
;
and
are
there
not
certain
numbers
of
all
things
in
nature
?
And
what
though
Aristotle
,
Erasmus
,
Luther
,
Melancthon
,
Alexander
,
and
many
others
dyed
in
their
Clymacterical
year
?
have
not
many
more
dyed
in
other
years
?
Moses
mentions
a
year
of
danger
,
differing
from
all
these
;
and
that
is
Ten
times
Seven
,
or
Seventy
;
and
that
must
needs
be
of
greatest
danger
,
which
is
the
period
of
all
the
rest
,
and
fewest
safely
pass
over
;
which
is
set
as
a
bound
to
humane
nature
.
It
must
be
a
confest
verity
,
That
Seven
years
makes
great
alterations
in
human
Bodies
;
and
we
may
be
said
once
in
that
space
,
to
lick
new
Bodies
off
our
Trenchers
:
But
to
give
Numbers
the
Key
of
the
Grave
,
is
ridiculous
.
Our
periods
depend
more
on
actions
,
than
figures
;
and
men
contracted
their
lives
into
the
wicked
mans
abridgment
,
by
sins
,
not
years
.
It
was
taken
for
granted
in
Job's
days
,
That
the
Candle
of
the
wicked
is
often
put
out
,
and
the
number
of
his
Months
cut
off
in
the
midst
.
Moreover
,
we
may
take
notice
of
some
,
who
dream
that
the
period
of
their
days
,
depends
more
upon
the
malevolent
influence
of
a
Planet
,
than
upon
any
particular
Providence
:
A
belief
very
contrary
to
the
Articles
of
the
Christian
Faith
,
To
imagine
an
Astrological
necessity
imposed
upon
all
sublunary
Agents
,
by
the
influence
of
coelestial
Bodies
;
and
that
the
manner
and
moment
of
our
deaths
,
depends
upon
the
Stars
.
It
is
a
known
truth
,
That
the
heavenly
Bodies
do
operate
,
according
to
the
variety
of
the
matter
upon
which
they
are
conversant
;
and
we
may
observe
in
the
experiment
of
Twins
born
under
the
same
Planet
,
although
they
have
the
principle
of
seminality
,
Bed
of
nature
,
and
time
of
birth
;
yet
they
differ
in
sex
,
complexion
,
wealth
and
death
,
as
in
the
example
of
Esau
and
Jacob
.
It
would
be
very
strange
,
to
imagine
that
all
that
are
slain
in
the
same
Battel
,
were
born
under
the
same
Ascendent
.
So
that
the
proper
Reason
,
why
such
a
Child
is
strong
,
and
such
a
one
weak
,
it
's
rather
to
be
attributed
to
the
complexion
of
the
Parents
,
than
the
influence
of
the
Heavens
;
to
the
Mothers
Milk
,
than
to
the
via
lactea
:
and
the
Reason
why
such
a
one
was
shot
to
death
,
was
not
because
his
Horoscope
was
direct
to
Saturn
,
but
because
the
Gun
was
directed
to
him
:
Besides
,
custom
,
education
,
example
,
alter
nature
;
and
our
second
births
,
divert
the
mischievous
effects
of
our
first
nativities
.
It
is
strange
to
observe
the
groundless
fears
that
some
lye
under
,
from
Planetary
influences
,
and
Dog-stars
,
which
neither
bark
nor
bite
in
our
climates
;
omitting
seasonable
Remedies
,
for
fear
of
signs
which
are
insignificant
;
more
regarding
an
antick
Picture
in
their
Almanacks
,
than
the
beginning
,
state
,
and
declination
of
the
Disease
.
To
suppose
Diseases
to
be
meerly
the
results
of
natural
causes
in
Mens
bodies
,
and
not
the
inflictions
of
a
Power
,
who
sometimes
acts
above
the
sphear
of
Nature
,
is
a
great
mistake
;
for
there
are
some
Diseases
which
seem
to
have
no
dependance
upon
the
chain
of
second
causes
.
The
Jews
were
threatned
with
some
Diseases
,
which
should
not
be
cured
by
natural
means
;
even
wonderful
Plagues
of
long
continuance
;
and
many
instances
of
Diseases
inflicted
by
supernatural
agents
,
as
Angels
and
Spirits
,
who
disturb
the
humours
,
and
raise
storms
and
tempests
in
Mens
Bodies
,
as
well
as
in
the
Air
.
An
evil
Angel
afflicted
Saul
with
stupendious
melancholy
,
and
holy
Job
with
painful
Boils
,
and
bowed
a
Daughter
of
Abraham
Eighteen
years
:
When
an
Omnipotent
power
gives
leave
,
the
Devil
can
as
easily
possess
the
minds
of
Men
with
distractions
,
as
of
Swine
with
rage
.
The
excommunicate
Corinthian
,
being
delivered
up
to
Satan
,
for
the
destruction
of
the
flesh
,
in
order
unto
the
salvation
of
the
spirit
,
may
as
possibly
be
understood
of
his
being
afflicted
with
a
corporal
distemper
,
by
the
power
of
the
Devil
,
as
in
any
other
respect
;
and
we
know
St.
Pauls
Thorn
in
the
flesh
,
the
messenger
of
Satan
sent
to
buffet
him
,
hath
various
explications
;
yet
some
understand
it
with
relation
unto
the
present
purpose
.
The
Lacivious
persons
seeking
for
Lot's
House
,
to
gratifie
their
vile
intentions
,
were
shot
blind
by
an
Angel
;
and
those
windows
were
stopt
up
,
which
let
in
wanton
glances
.
Evil
Angels
were
sent
to
afflict
the
Israelits
with
Divers
calamities
;
and
we
read
in
sacred
Records
,
of
many
thousands
in
one
night
slain
by
the
destroying
Sword
of
an
Angel
,
by
a
Pestilential
contagion
.
And
the
several
possest
persons
whom
our
blessed
Lord
delivered
from
the
power
of
the
Prince
of
Darkness
,
were
miserably
afflicted
with
Epilepsies
,
Lunacies
,
Convulsions
,
and
other
direful
Symptoms
.
Moreover
we
have
many
,
who
from
Palmestry
,
and
making
observations
from
the
lines
in
the
Hand
,
especially
the
line
of
Life
,
will
undertake
to
measure
every
Mans
Life
,
and
the
manner
and
moments
of
their
Deaths
;
and
so
make
void
the
use
of
means
both
natural
and
moral
;
whereas
the
Lines
in
the
Hand
,
which
are
accounted
natures
Manuscripts
,
are
but
the
fouldings
of
the
skin
when
the
hand
bends
inwards
;
and
are
not
proper
unto
any
of
those
creatures
which
have
their
feet
always
extended
;
Age
,
Labour
and
Diseases
alter
them
,
and
sometime
obliterate
them
.
They
are
a
Book
fitter
for
Justices
to
discover
idleness
,
than
for
to
discover
future
events
;
their
Predictions
are
the
products
of
conjecture
rather
than
Art
;
and
they
deserve
rather
to
be
made
the
examples
of
severity
,
than
to
receive
credit
in
a
Christian
Nation
.
To
dream
that
Amulet's
Characters
,
Charms
and
Spels
,
are
of
any
virtue
in
curing
Diseases
,
is
vain
.
Because
St.
Paul's
Handkerchief
,
St.
Peter's
shadow
,
and
the
Hem
of
our
Saviours
Garment
miraculously
cured
some
in
the
primitive
time
;
therefore
to
think
our selves
still
obliged
to
the
use
of
extream
Unction
,
and
other
such
abolisht
ceremonies
of
healing
,
highly
argueth
a
crasiness
in
Mens
intellectuals
.
The
Reasons
why
those
miraculous
ways
of
cure
were
used
(
namely
the
confirmation
of
the
Gospel
in
its
first
plantation
)
being
ceased
,
the
way
of
cure
must
also
cease
,
We
cannot
probably
expect
a
Divine
blessing
,
with
such
means
as
have
no
natural
virtue
,
as
Words
,
Spels
and
Characters
.
If
one
Text
of
Scripture
carried
in
the
Sleeve
,
will
cure
an
Ague
,
the
Bible
carried
in
the
Pocket
,
might
cure
all
Diseas●●
But
Divine
Oracles
were
not
given
to
trifle
with
,
but
to
guide
our
Faith
and
Manners
,
and
to
direct
until
we
come
unto
that
place
,
where
there
will
be
no
need
of
Medicines
to
ease
pains
,
or
moral
Rules
to
render
them
effectual
.