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A45776	Levamen infirmi: or, cordial counsel to the sick and diseased Containing I. Advice concerning physick, and what a physician ought to be; with an account of the author's remedies, and how to take them. II. Concerning melancholy, frensie, and madness; in which, amongst other things, is shew'd, how far they differ from a conscience opprest with the sense of sin, and likewise how they differ among themselves. III. A miscellany of pious discourses, concerning the attributes of God; with ejaculations and prayers, according to scripture rule. Likewise an account of many things which have happen'd since the creation. To which are added several predictions of what may happen to the end of the world. The whole being enrich'd with physical, pious, moral & historical observations, delightful to read, & necessary to know. By D. Irish, practitioner in physick and surgery, now dwelling at Stoke, near Guilford in Surry, where he is ready to serve any person, to the utmost of his skill.	Irish, David.	1700 (1700)	Wing I1036; ESTC R221621	80,143	149

Blind or both but let such Rich men remember that if they would be partakers with the Poor in Heaven they must let the Poor partake with them of their good things on Earth for to feed the Poor cloath the Naked relieve Prisoners is the same as if such works of Mercy were done to Christ. The safest way of laying up Treasure is thus to make a Store-house of Heaven which at last day will afford no less than a Crown of Glory Make O Lord the way pleasant to me that leads to such an End 't is no matter what Raggs or Colours I wear with Men so I may walk with my Saviour in White and Reign with him in Glory Luk. 13.3 We must Love o●e another which is the very distinguishing mark of a Disciple of Christ as Malice Hatred and Revenge are the badges of an Antichristian Mind We must in all things be reform'd from the Evil of our ways especially from our neglecting God's Service and the Duties we owe to him nor must we be remiss in our Duties to our King to our Co●ntry and to our Neighbours if we be we may fall short of our glorious Expectations Indeed all Ordinances of God are as it were the very face of God and they who worship him therein do solemnly ●ppear before him therefore at such Seasons all Men are Bound to be holy and recollected especially Ministers when they Read or Preach God's Word God requires an exactness of Deportment of them in his Courts and 't is no wonder for do but observ● under the Law how choice he was about all thing● relating to his Worship The Tabernacle was mad● of th● best Wood purest Gold and finest Linnen In short every part of it was done according to God'● Prescription and Order Such as offer Sacrifice mus● be without Blemish God expects to be serv'd b● holy Men in the purest and holyest Manner pur● must be the Person and pure the Performance fo● Men carry the Temple of God about them and therefore ought to keep their Hearts and Spirits clean fo● the Reception of God ought they not then to b● very watchful over themselves when they are abou● Religious Duties esp●cially those whose duty it is to lead and enlighten others to obtain the Peace of God and Everlasting Rest But I 'le pursue this Subject no farther least I should too much r●semble a Sheep that leaps out of the Fold to lead the Shedheard I know well every one has his Infirmity the Green-sickness is the Maids and Covetousness the Disease of some Teachers who Preach up hospitality and other virtues to the People but will not go to the cost of putting their own Doctrine in Practice On the other hand every thing has its Virtue the Bee gathers Honey out of every stinking Weed and every Weed is of more value and use than to be thrown on a Dunghill 'T is the Apostles advise That we do all things for the Edification of others hence those that can ought to Read the Script●res and other good Books while those that cannot ought attentively to give ear and lead their lives according as the Word directs see D●ut 6.11 And to incite the Minds of People to a more strict degree of Piety it would not be amiss for Ministers to Write or if there be enough already Written to buy some Books of Instructions according to Scripture Rules and give away once a year to their Parishoners By this means the Sheep will know the voice of their Shepherd from the howling of devouring Wolves and also to keep them from wandring from Christs Fold and runing astray after Novelties thro' the Wilderness of this World of Errors I know there are many well-meaning People who make a Co●science of their doings and are free from the folly of those that run to several places that are not tost with every wind of Doctrine as those commonly are that like any Preacher better than their own whom God by his Providence hath set over them These would willingly Read what was thus given ●hem by their own Shepherd or Pasture nay some of the other fickle headed Men would also Read their Pastors gift purely out of Curiosity this I say would be a ready way to lead them to the house of the true Shepherd I mean not where Christ was Born at Bethlehem to Sing Gloria in excelsis but where Christ now is at God's Right Hand interceeding for all his Servants 'T is chiefly the Ministers Office to take care of Christs Flock who have the Power of the Keys the Power to remit Sins by teaching the Truth of Christs Word and daily Administring the Sacraments left as Conduit-pipes to convey his Grace to our hearts the doing of which being omitted by Preachers is the retaining of Men in their Sins for if Men be so wicked that they will not ●elieve in Christ Crucified after he hath been Preach'd unto them then their Sins are retained and the Truth is not in them Good Ministers have the Keys to open and shut Heaven by Preaching and Administring the Sacraments to their Flock all that truly Believe in Gods Word which is the only Rule we ought to follow shall undoubtedly be Saved It is not every one that can Pray or Preach hath Power to remit Sins no it is the Undefiled Faithful Godly Ministers who lead their lives answerable to the true Doctrine deliver'd in God's Word that can do it they open and shut Heaven as many good Prophets did by pouring out their fervent Prayers to God Almighty do perform great things One by Prayer staid the course of the Sun another by Prayer put it back and when the Clouds withheld from Raining three Years a third offer'd up his Prayers to Heaven for Rain and God was pleased to send dow● Rain to refresh the Earth that all things grew and great Plenty of all things made glad the he●rt of Man These instances make it appear what I before asserted and that Man has power with God to Theologize Astrology that is to put by or prevent by Prayers offer'd up to God what the Stars foreshew to Ensue by the Phaenomena's whereof Astrologers were wont to deter and frighten People from doing ill Let us fear God obey his Commands and Love one another and believe in his Word who promised that whatsoever his true and faithful Ministers should ask in his Name should if necessary be granted according to that gracious saying in the Holy Writ That ● what time soever a Sinner doth Repent of his Sins he shall have Pardon with this Proviso he become a New Creature by the amendment of his Life such may come in favour with Christ the head Shepherd of Souls who makes intercession with his Father for all those that Believe in him and observe his Commandments And now to comprise all in a little remember our Saviours great Commandment which was Tha● you Love one another and whatsoever you would that Men should do unto you that do you

Experience Practice and the con 〈◊〉 of Sacred Writers whose Example I purpose to ●low that with them I may enterprise every thing 〈◊〉 proceed orderly and produce an end to the ●onour of God and the good of my self and fellow ●●eatures The Scriptures contain the profound Misterie● of ●od's Excellence and Man's Salvation they are as ●earned Father saith So folded up by God that unless 〈◊〉 be re●d with that Spirit by which they were Written 〈◊〉 that with humility and a hearty desire to know and gove●n'd by them they cannot be understood unless 〈◊〉 Spirit quicken our understanding they are as a dead ●etter They have inde●d in them such a miraculous ●ight and depth that they may exercise the Wisdom 〈◊〉 of the most Learned yet do they also contain 〈◊〉 ●asiness and plainness that the most simple may understand them to t●eir Comfort and Instructio● The difficulties couch'd in profound Mysteries 〈◊〉 abate the Insolence of the Proud while the comf●●table Promises raise up the drooping Spirits of hu●ble Believers to the hopes of Eternal Salvation 〈◊〉 Sacred Volume is that wonderful River which alone both shallow and deep in the same pla●● wherein the Lamb may wade and the Elephant Swi● 'T is only disbelief and Sin that make them 〈◊〉 while Faith and good Works render them easie 〈◊〉 sinful vails of our hearts shade from us their meani●● nor can we open their difficulties but by the Key David which opens where no Man shuts and 〈◊〉 where no Man opens which only can open that Sea●● Book This considered it was not without Reas●● that Moses called God wonderful since he found his Words and Works to be so even past Mans fin●ing out and discovering A certain old Doctor 〈◊〉 the Ch●rch compar'd the Old Testament to 〈◊〉 Moon and the New One to the Sun for that 〈◊〉 Old Testament borrows its light from the New the Moon does hers from the Sun The Truth 〈◊〉 the New is contain'd in the Old and the Old revea● in the New In a word they both contain rich 〈◊〉 precious Comforts profound Learning grave Adm●nitions desirable Promises and dreadful Threatning all which are powerful Motives to Faith and go●● Works The Bible is the Word of God the Writers wher●of Writ after the dictates of the Holy Ghost and 〈◊〉 they Writ it even so it was and even so it is at 〈◊〉 present day and even so it will remain full and inti●● for he th●t caus'd it to be Writ for our Instr●ctio● and Rule will ever preserve ●t for us The Writings of Aristotle that Prince of Philoso●hers are Ancient and Profitable as also are many ●ther Books but in comparison of the Holy Bible ●hey a●e nothing to be regarded And here since I think an Historical Account of ●he Bible and its Translations will be well received ●ake ●he following Account Two Hundred Forty and One Y●ars before the Hu●anity of Christ the Five Books of Moses were Translated out of Hebrew into Greek at the charge of Pt●lemeus Philadelphus King of Egypt by Seventy Do●tors or Learned Men at Ierusalem in the time of ●Eliazer the High Priest by which we may un●erstand ●heir Antiquity and the great Value they obtain'd ●ven amongst the Heathens Then ●24 years after the Birth of Christ the Old T●stament was Translated out of Hebrew into Greek ●y a Iew named Aquila who was Converted to the Christian Faith in the time of Adrian the Emperor And 53 years after this Aquila the Bible was also Tr●nslated by Theodosius And 33 years after Theodosius it was Translated by Symmachus under the Emperor Severus And 8 years after Symmachus the Bible was Translated by one whose Name I have not but this Translation was call'd the Fifth Translation After this it was Translated by St. Hieronymus who mended and Corrected the Seventy Interpreters and Transl●ted it out of Hebrew into Latin which Translation with the Amendments of Beza is now used in ●he Church for the upholding of the Protestant ●eligion while the Roman Catholicks zealously stick to the Vulg●r Latin Translation which tho' very Ancient is not counted to be very Correct One Lyra is noted above others to be the best Hebrician and a diligent Translator of the Old and New Testaments The Bible is full of Divine things 't is the best and highest Book of God full of Comfort in all manner of Tryals and Temptations it teacheth Faith nourisheth Hope preserves Love and in fine Teacheth that after this poor miserab●e and precarious Life there is another which is Eternal and Everlasting We ought not to measure and censure the Scriptures according to our Sense and Reason as being byass'd by Passions and Errors but by diligent Prayer and Humility search after the Truth and by often putting this in Practice the Spirit of God will direct our Understanding to their true sense and meaning 't is the Holy Ghost that alone can Teach us here As well the Divi●e as the Disciple may without shame learn of such a Tutor if they intend to confound Heresies reduce Schisms and root out Errors observe ●he Scriptures saith Christ and thou shalt live Luk. 10. He 's only a good Pastor that is arm'd at all points with the Text and sufficiently Learned that is well grounded in the Bible but those that come to this Perfection have hearts prepared by God To those that he Reveals his Word to them he giveth Mouths to utter it God's Word is a Fiery Shield which is of proof against all the fury of Satan false Zeal and Error this Shield cannot be batter'd or crush'd by the greatest Violence God's Word remaineth for ever Protecteth all those that put their trust therein this is the Weapon that the Author of the Epistle to the H●brews calls a Two Edged Sword for it cuts through all opposition of Carnal and Diabolical Weapons The New Testament was written by Iews as well as the Old for the Apostles themselves were Iews and Paul was an Hebrew of the Hebrews yet by the Power of the Word they not only became Christians but Converted thousands to the same Faith for which in the End most of them laid down their Lives 'T is observ'd that in the Books of Moses nothing is so oft Rehearsed as this I am the Lord thy God that brought thee out of the Land of Egypt the cause thereof perh●ps was that they should not soon forget what God had done for them Then let us not now forget what Christ has done for us in Redeeming us at once from the Tyranny of the Law and Sin In the Apostles time the Gospel was Preached and ●he Believers were but a little Flock but now it is further spread abroad Christ himself said to his Disciples Ye shall do greater things or works than I. As if be should have said I have Preached in the Corn●rs in the Land of Judea but ye shall Preach openly ●n the house Tops that is Through the whole Vniversal World and shall make the Gospel

him the Knowledge of Nature in all her intricate Operations Faculties and Virtues that is discovered to him the secret Energy of all things contained in the Circuit of this Universe and at this day we see the same God preserves by means all those Beings he at first made without means In fine said the Emperor I will not adventure to be preserv'd by unexperienced Men lest I should Shipwrack my self upon the Rocks of horrid Ignorance but will look for the Continuance of my Life from those whose Experience under God has furnish'd them with the Me●ns and Methods of preserving Nature You see Reader ●n Example of a wise Emperor to teach thee a Les●on of necessary Caution Since the Lord has endow'd the Earth and its ●umerous Product with many Medicinal Virtues 't is 〈◊〉 well irreligious as 't is foolish in any to di●own their Being or to abhor their Use. From the Lord as we have elsewhere said cometh the Gift of Healing which also appears from Scripture seeing God is therein stiled the Only Physician God was the first Operator as you will confess upon calling to mind his taking out one of our Grand-Father Adam's Ribs whereof to make a Woman which thing was so wonderful that it may well be counted the greatest as well as the first Operation Our Blessed Saviour ●ook his Name from his healing Nature and to countenance our Practice made use of ordinary means as Clay and Spittle in Restoring Sight to the Blind not but that he was able to have alone perfected the Cure by his powerful Word without such means were it not that he meant to show us by his Example that with Means and God's Blessing thereon much may be done in Restoring Health to the Sick and Ease to those in Pain 'T is above 5700 Years since God first taught our great Grand-Father Adam the Virtues of all things and consequently furnish'd him with the main Materials fit for a Physician and Surgeon but as to the practick part by what I have already said the latter is more ancient Let us be moderate in our desire after Knowledge lest by a too hot pursuit we with Adam not only lose what we seek for but our primitive Science and Happiness into the Bargain therefore let us take our Saviour's Advice along with us First to seek after the Kingdom of Heaven and then all other things shall be added unto us Let us then take heed that we set not our Affections too much upon the things of this World but rather let us seek after the true Knowledge of God but we have no means to know God to purpose but by his Word therefore let us study his Word that we may have Eternal Life which Word will in the next World bring us to it and then we shall know the great Creator of the World and us and since even now all our little Knowledge Arts and Sciences come from God let us then wholly rely upon Him for except we abide in Him we can do no good thing John 15.16 Next I will give you to understand what manner of Men Physicians and Surgeons ought to be Omnibus aliis Medicus praestantior unus They ought to excel others in fearing God and eschewing Evil as much as Divines themselves for truly the Divine and Physician conveniunt in uno tertio they are both for Curing the Divine heals Corpus per Animam the Physician Animam per Corpus Every Divine is a Spiritual Physician and every Physician ought to be a Spiritual Divine tho' not by Profession yet by Practice for into their Hands God has put the Lives of those he lov'd so well that he Redeem'd them by the Blood of his only begotten Son St. Luke the beloved Physician was a Divine Evangelist and commends the Study of those great Books of God the Book of his Scripture and that of his Creatures since the glory of God and the good of his Creatures ought to be the Mark to which all the Endeavours of Physicians ought to be directed Physicians should by no means give the least Entertainment to such a Monster as Covetousness within their Breasts nor ought they to have any respect to Persons but go as freely to the Poor for a little Money or for nothing when Need requires as to the Rich for ample Rewards for those that give to the Poor lend to the Lord and may be sure God will reward them double-fold On the other hand a Physician is not bound to behave himself in this manner to the Rich but may take his Fee lawfully and cheerfully when it is offer'd but there are too many who are willing to have the Physicians Help but slow in Paying him Hence 't is observ'd that a Doctor appears to his Patient in three different Forms First when he tells the Patient there is hopes O then he appears as an Angel Next when the Cure is perform'd the Patient looks upon his Physician as a God But lastly when the Physician demands his Reward then his Patient takes him for a Devil Thus different Circumstances beget different Opinions in those hateful Minds that are corrupted by Avarice and Ignorance Therefore it is the Physicians and Surgeons Rule Accipere dum dolet to take the Sound Fee whilst the Sick Hand gives it Life is short Art long Occasion sudden Experience dangerous Judgment difficult Hence we may conclude there are but few good Physicians and yet it is not sufficient tho' the Physician or Surgeon do their Parts or Office unless the Patient and his Attendance do their Duty also whereby outward things may be as well order'd as those that are given inwardly this is the main Hinge upon which all the rest turn and therefore ought earnestly to be prest and all too little to make Servants diligent The Physician ought to be faithful and cautious in Practice for Life hangs as it were but by a slender Thread and is at best but short yet is apt to be made much shorter by many Accidents and those very small ones too Art is long if Theory and Practice are consider'd Diseases are sudden and if not suddenly removed may quickly ruine Past Experiments if not well understood may lead the Physician into Errour besides Judgment is very difficult through the Variety of Diseases and their Causes which by the Fault of the Sick and his Attendance are many times not perceived even by Physicians of greatest Abilities Astrology tho' in many of its parts is accounted ●idiculous yet is greatly if not only useful for ●hose that study Physick for without it the pre●ended Physician can never have the true Knowledge of the Crisis or Critical and Judicial Days It is most certain that Hippocrates and Galen the two Pillars of the Art of Physick found out the Use of Vegetables and their Natures as also many other Physical things by the Influence of the Stars But God is the Governour and Disposer of all their seve●al Virtues and when they are transplanted out