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A42987 A short treatise shewing the causes and remedies of that general disease spread abroad throughout this nation, commonly termed by many the plague of the guts but it is very probable to bee that sort of flux, called by the name of dysenteria, or red-flux. With some other remarkable remedies for other diseases worthy to bee noted. Published by N.H. of Dorchester, in the county of Dorset for the good of those that desire their health. Try and trust. Try man as the instrument, but trust God as the helper. N. H. 1658 (1658) Wing H100A; ESTC R215851 7,379 24

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A SHORT TREATISE SHEWING The Causes and Remedies of that General Disease spread abroad throughout this Nation commonly termed by many the Plague of the Guts But it is very probable to bee that sort of Flux called by the name of Dysenteria or Red-Flux With some other remarkable Remedies for other Diseases worthy to bee noted Published by N. H. of Dorchester in the County of Dorset for the good of those that desire their Health Try and Trust Try man as the Instrument but trust God as the Helper LONDON Printed for R. Ibbitson 1658. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER OR Any one to whom these Presence shall come Health and Peace bee multiplied Christian Reader I Have as a Minister or servant unto thee prescribed away if thou wilt hearken to me as from God for thy good to bee a Physitian unto thee both for soul and body if thou wilt give thy heart to receive wholesome counsel and advice from God and my self by using and putting into practice what is here set down in this following Treatise The great and wise God knowing the inward frame and temper of all mens hearts knows how to suite an outward judgement upon any particular person much more upon a whole Nation according to the inward distemper of the heart and soul of man There is as I am informed a general Loosness amongst persons and that not or a few but many with terrible gripings in the body may not this fitly intimate and put us in minde of that general Loosness not onely in Religion for matter of Worship but also a great Loosness and Liberty in matter of Life and Conversation by giving way to the satisfying of the flesh and this is seen not only amongst prophane ones from whom wee can expect but little better but hath been and still is found even amongst those which have made Profession of the Truth and have been accounted as Professors of the same amongst them that are truly godly whereby they have fretted and grieved the Spirit of the Lord and have caused the Name of God to bee evill spoken of And this evill is not found onely in one corner of the Land but generally throughout all the parts thereof and therefore as the sin is so is the plague or punishment not onely in the City of London and the places adjoyning but it is spread here and there over the whole Nation Wherefore I think it is good for us to look about us and to see the hand that smites seeing it is not a mediate but an immediate judgement from God himself and therefore especially to bee sought unto And because it may bee those that are in Authority have too much winked at and have not put in execution the Law of God to wit against Blasphemy c. Therefore God hath now taken the power into his own hand and hath taken away many by death even those amongst others that were never guilty of any such horrible Crimes it may bee for the sins of others The people of the Lord were punished for the sin of Acha● and yet as far as wee know some of them whose names were written in the Book of Life Wherefore Christian Reader I would if I could advise thee as from the Lord that thou consider seriously of these things and desire true understanding from God The Plague is general and it requires general repentance not onely by a publick humiliation but every family and person a part by themselves with seeking and turning unto God Those that finde themselves guilty to bethink themselves especially and labour to amend for though the hand of God is not upon them in particular or whether it may or may not bee and so they may escape yet it may bee for their sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out against others And for those that have kept close to God whom God have preserved and have not yet fallen from their first Love labor stil to keep sure footing for holiness of life and soundness of doctrine That the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ may run on and bee glorified amongst them which are truly sanctified and to mourn in secret for Gods afflicting hand over his people A word to the wise is sufficient if so bee thou art wise for thy self and I am thine as thou art thy self in the Lord N. H. A short TREATISE SHEWING The Causes and Remedies of that general Disease spread abroad throughout this Nation commonly termed by many the Plague of the Guts but it is very probable to be that sort of Flux called by the name of Dysenteria or Red-Flux WHereas I am credibly informed that the Lord hath visited this Nation with a certain Disease not onely in the City of London but generally throughout the whole Nation I thought it my duty in charity through the instigation of certain friends to publish to the view of those whom it may concern as children and others of riper years certain remedies which I have by my own experience found out for many years since which was never before now made known unto the world and being made use of as it hath been upon many persons heretofore and upon some persons of late I never failed to my knowledge the first or second day within the space of eight and forty hours but it hath ceased and stopt without any prejudice to the person which may seem to follow by reason of the suddenness of the cure or any costiveness which I know will bee objected and feared by many And although the things prescribed for the cure of this Disease are mean and common yet think not meanly of those weak means which may through the blessing of God produce strange and wonderful effects And take this for a truth that although the Disease have held for a month or two or for a quarter of a year or more those two receits which are mentioned or set down with the mark of a star above the rest hath and as far as I know may through the blessing of God remedy this Disease according to the time before prescribed or sooner as I have found by experience the same night And besides this I have found for many years since that those persons which have accustomed themselves to Physick barely and nothing else have for the most part of them dyed though some have lingered a long time in it to wit two or three months And during that time they have been in extream torments by reason of those contrary humors and inward gripings of the Guts which have brought them to a Consumption of the whole and so have finished their end in such extream torments as cannot well bee expressed There are as I am informed many Physitians which terme this Disease to bee the Plague of the Guts the reason as I suppose is because most Physitians have not been acquainted with this Disease in this Nation though it is common in Ireland and as I have heard in Scotland but in plain in submission