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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

this World where it is not to be found there i● no st●te of Life be it what it will but what is att●nded with Misery enough in those that live after the Flesh. Nay many times the very Courts of Justice torment Men abroad as m●ch as their Families care does at home the Country life is opprest with continual Labours at Sea there is confusion of D●ngers the Merchant teaches his Estate to Swim and he that Travels with Riches gives a great Temptation to Highway-men and exposes his Life and Mon●y to the mercy of Thieves the Rich are Plagu'd with the desire of Encreasing care of keeping and fear of losing Riches while the Poor are obnoxious to Scorn and Contempt Marriage in general is no more ●han a conjunction of mutual Perplexities and accidental Calamities Children are ●onuments of Care and for the most part very un●●rtain Comforts especially in these days and on 〈◊〉 other side a single Life oft proves a solitary ●ischief or inconvenience the Fruitful bring forth C●res and Barrenness is counted a Curse Youth is a tormenting Fury old Age a meer lump of Infirmi●ies and an incurable Disease Thus there is something in every life that proves the bane of our Happiness except we entirely give our selves up to the Service of God Mat. 6.24 No Man can serve two Masters God and the World he that is a Vassal to his Wealth can never make a true Servant of God he that is a Rebel to his lawful Prince is no good Subject of Christs tho' Religion be the Pretence The Parable of the Rich Man and many other places of Scripture make out how hard it is for such who trust in uncertain Riches to enter into the Kingdom of God Therefore mis●rable is the case of all covetous Rich persons Usurers Extorti●ners Thieves and Robbers not can we think better of the Envious Murderers Whore-mongers Sorcerers Idolaters Sabbath-breakers Swea●ers Drunkards Gluttons and such as are given to Detraction and Anger without cause calling their Brother Fool to these add lying Reprobates the Proud the Cruel and ●●ard-hearted Hippocrites the Sloathful and Unbe●iever and many pr●sumptuous Sinners all which a●e threatned to be cast into unquenchable Fire as unprofitable Servants They are such as prefer Vice before Virtue Iniquity before Godliness Falshood before Truth and their own dark works before the light of the Gospel Also among the unprofitable Servants may be reckoned the Rebellious who by belying their lawful Governours rob the Peoples hearts of Obedience and so fit them for Rebellion which is a kind of Witchcraft and spiritual The●● Nay those that corrupt the Minds of others by leud Examples Hippocrites Slanderers teachers of Lies whereby ●he Souls of th●ir Hearers are rob'd of Eternal Life a●e condemn'd All that foolishly attribute to th●ms●lves the benefit of Health Weal●h or Liberty and so deprive God of his Glory are hither refer'd such as purloi● from their Masters Parents Husbands Wives Friends or Neighbour● suffer them to incur any loss or detriment whi●h they might prevent are in the same Class with the former such as Rob their Neighbours either by false Weights Measures bad Wares or subtile Practices all Lawyers that make good Causes bad or Bad Good all Debtors that never design to pay all Creditors that cru●lly Triumph over the Bodies o● their poor insolvent Debtors by Imprisonment or any other kind of Oppression And lastly Envious Men who when they have done a Man what disgrace they ca●●y Words fall to the practice of unjust Deeds to over-throw and ruine those whom they causelesly Hate such sure cannot so much as have the least pretence to be Servants of God but on the contrary Slaves and Vassals of Satan Now to know who are unprofitable Servants I say ●●rst They are such as are Magistrates abusing their Aut●ority to the hurt of those they ought to Protect Secondly Such as are no Magistrates but either neglect their calling or deprave it by their wicked Practice Thirdly Rich men who relieve not the wants of the Poor with their Plenty Fourthly Learned and well instructed Christia●s who suffer the Ignorant to go Astray without giving them good Advice or necessary Instructions Touching those that have their Portion in the Sulp●urous Lake which burneth with Fire and Brims●one where Men und●rgo as 't is call'd the Second D●ath see Revel 21.1 By this Second Death is understood the deplorable separation of the Soul and Body for ever from the Beatifical Vision or Presence o● God and this is the Death which the Wi●ked must suff●r y●t the fulness of their Punishment will not be inflicted ●pon them till the day of Judgment when th●ir Souls and Bodies are reunited then they will receive their dreadful Doom and condign Punishment for their Evil Deeds for your further instruction herein see Luk. 16.22 23. the 8.28 the 10.23 ●nd the 12.30 Mat. 23.23.31 and 5.24 and 13.14 ●nd 14.31 Thess. 1.10 1 Pet. 3.19 Iud● ● ● 7. Acts 7.5 and in many other places the Scripture g●ves a large account of Hell and of its Torments of which none can doubt since our Blessed Saviour said That Heaven and Earth should pass away but hi● Word should never pass away Therefore unless we be regenerate and renewed in Christ our condition i● d●sperate hence let us with all speed Repent and streighten the unevenness of our ways according to the Level of God's Word and Commandments let 's Love one another and do as we would be done by ●nd shew the loveliness of our Faith by the uprightness of our Works For it is not every one tha● cryeth Lord Lord that shall enter into t●e Kingdom of Heaven No It is the doing the Will of God that dwelleth in Heaven that must bring us thither We must be Born again not of the Blood nor of the Will of the Flesh but of God who in Christ is our Father and will renew his own Image in us every day more and more and apply to us the Merits of Christ's Sufferings fo● the blotting out of all our Sins original and actual together with the guilt and punishment belonging to them Blessed is he therefore to whom the Lord hath not imputed Sin s●e Ezek. 18.21.2 Cor. 33.13 for to s●ch all the Righteousness of Christ is freely and fully imputed to the Reconcili●tion of them unto the Lord who approveth them as Righteous not taking notice of ever● fault but bearing with their Frailties and Infirmities Exod. 34.67 Rom. 4.8 The godly Man hath an assurance of God's Fatherly care and protection Day and Night which care God manifests in providing all things necessary for his Soul and Body so that the godly Man is sure of having enough ● God gives his holy Angels as Ministers a charge to attend upon the Righteous Psal. 34.7 And to prevent all da●gers the Angels pitch their Tents about the lust for their safety where ever th●y go yea God will d●fend them with a Cloud by day and with a Pillar of Fire by night and his Providence shall hedge them from the Power of the Devil see Iude 1.9 where 't is Recorded that Micha●l the Arch-Angel was set to keep the Body of Moses which being secretly hidd●n by God was sought for by Satan by which it appears that God's good Angels keep all such as live and die in the faith of Christ and in the fear of the Lord 2 Kings 6.17 The Eyes of the Lord are always op●n to see their State and also his Ears to hear t●eir Complaint and in his good time will deliver them out of all their troubles and bring them to the glory of the Church in her perpetual Triumph in the World to come when joyned to her Bridegroom Christ Jesus in Joy that shall never have an End a tast of which Joy is in some sort made manifest unto us in the Revelations cap. 2.22 Therefore let us all with St. Stephen say Come Lord Iesus come quickly and in the mean time the Lord g●ant that we may be always Purging out by true Faith and Repentance the Malignity of our Spiritual Diseases till we arrive at divine and saving Health that at the End of our Bodily Infirmities the great Physician may administer a Cordial to us of his own Living Water and grant that at the Night of Death when our Sun shall set the Sun of Righteousness may rise upon us with healing under his Wings and make our Souls as the Lame-man's body in the Gospel entirely whole and so elevate us to those Light Orbs and Heavenly Mansions where the Su● shall no more be our Light by Day nor the Moon by Night but the Lord our God shall be ou● Everlasting Light and Glory Which are the Hearty Prayers of READERS Your True Friend And Faithful Servant David Irish. Advertisement THE Small-Pox being now in many Places I thought it convenient to publish That if I see the Small-Pox break out of any or but newly come out I will tell them at first sight whether there be any Danger of Death by having them or not And I do affirm That I can with God's Blessing give an Antidote against them and of such Vertue to those that are not already infected that tho they eat and drink and be always with those that have them yet shall they not have them So God preserve us all from all manner of Contagious Diseases and f●om sudden Death Amen

in Physick His Advice concerning Melancholy Phrensie and Madness I Purpose dear Countrymen in this Discourse to shew the difference betwixt Phrensie Madness Melancholy and a Distressed Conscience opprest with the Sense of Sin with many other things not unprofitable for thee to Read nor unbecoming me to Write Before I define Melancholy for the clearer understanding of that wherein I mean to Instruct you it will be necessary to set forth the di●erse acceptations of the word Melancholy which therefore is very equivocal for that under one name it is so differently apply'd that it requires several Definitions according to its diversity of Significations Sometimes it signifies a certain fearful disposition of the Mind deviated from Reason and sometimes an humour of the Body commonly taken to be the Cause that the Reason is depraved through fear This Humour is of two sorts Natural or Vnnatural Natural is either the grosser part of the Blood ordained for Nourishment which through too great Plenty or immoderate Heat overchargeth the Body and yieldeth up to the Brain certain Vapours whereby the Vnderstanding is obscured or else is an Excrement ordained to be Emitted out of the Body through so many alterations of Natural Heat and variety of concoctions having not a drop of nourishing Juice remaining whereby the Body either in Power or Substance may be Relieved If this Excrement keepeth within Bounds it produceth less inconvenience or trouble to the Body or Mind but if it corrupt or degenerate further from it self and the quality of the Body then Perturbations and Passions are more Vehement and do so outragiously oppress and disturb the sedateness of the Mind that all the organical Actions thereof are mixed and affected I had like to have said infected with Melancholy-Madness and Reason thereby is converted in●● a vain fear or becomes a down-right Desperation and now the Brain is quite alter'd in its Complection being as it were transported into an Instrument of a different nature from what it was at first and I have observed that these Humours do according to the diversity of their setling fill the Patient with diversity of Passions and no wonder since thereby they diversly affect the understanding In a word they strangly alter the natural Inclination and Affection especially if by corruption of Nature Education or Custom the Party be rash and hasty The ●nnatural is an humour arising of the Melancholy before-mentioned or else from Blood or Choler totally changed as it were into another Nature by an unkindly heat which violently turneth these humours that before were obedient to Natures Government and by her kept in good order and decorum into a quality wholly repugnant whose substance and vapours gives such annoyance to all parts where it passes or is seated that it makes strange alterations in Mens Actions whether they be Animal Voluntary or Natural not depending on our Will And here observe that all Actions proceed from some faculty and that Man being composed of Body and Soul has two sorts of Faculties viz. Corporeal and Spiritual the Corporeal faculties are such as belong to Man as he is a living Creature and are common to him and even to Plants or else are such as belong to him as he is a sensitive Creature and are common to him and Beasts The faculties common to Man and Plants are three First The Nutritive by which he is nourished and converts Aliments into his own Substance Secondly The Auctritive faculty by which he grows bigger And lastly The faculty of continuing his ●pecies by which in his Off-spring his Nature as Ma● is preserved or continued The faculties common to Man and Beast are three that is Sense Appetite and Power to Move Sense is twofold External and Internal The Spiritual faculties of Man which are peculiarly proper to him as Man are three Vnderstanding Will Memory Now the Humours before mentioned make strange alterations in Mens actions from what faculty soever they proceed As to the Definition or what Melancholy ●s as was hinted before the things being divers ●●ough the word be the same yet the Definition must be diverse also Therefore Melancholy is of the Humour or of the Passion The Humour is either a Nutritive Iuice or an Excrement at this time then I will define the Humour to be no other than that part of the Blood which naturally is more gross than all the rest and the Excrement to be the superfluity of the same which if it putrifie assumes a far different Name Temper and Nature commonly called Black Cholar The Melancholy Passion is a doating of Reason occa●ioned by vain fear procured by the prevalency of ●he Melancholy Humour We divide this Disease into Melancholy Cephalick and Hypocondriack A Cephalick is when the disorder has its Residence ●bout the lower part of the Abdomen the Brain is ●hiefly affected which being disturbed Men frame ●trange Fancies and monstrous Idea's of things all Melancholy people are extraordinary fearful sad and ●nactive According to the order I have observed in divi●ing Melancholy it remains that I now speak of that ●hich is called Hypocondriack which for the most ●art renders those Afflicted therewith more stupid ●han any other sort doth insomuch that they are ●any times depriv'd of all Sense and Motion This ●ort proceeds from Flegm obstructing the Hypocondria ●nd Spleen Hypocrates asserts that the Soul in this Distemper 〈◊〉 distinctly affected with the weightier matter with●n and so neglects the Bodies Motions by reason of ●he Brains stupidity through the aforesaid Humour If the Brain be hurt by Communication from or by ●he Spleen Hypocondria or Womb then the Melancholy Humours are gathered there and then the symptoms ●ommonly are gathered from the Parts affected as it ●ppears in Child-bearing Women whose Lechia are ●●opt or in Maids when their Terms do not flow the ●lood is spoiled and becomes more fixt and is turn'd into a Melancholy Dyscrasie and that by this mea● this Distemper arises for which reason the Ancien●● blame the Spleen but our Opinion is that rather t●● Morbid Sourse than the Disease it self lies there Th● Famous Willis thinks that both the Heart and Bra●● in this Case are affected and some think the Corpore●● Soul to be the Subject of it Helmont thinks it li● out of the Brain and is in the Praecordia and abo●● the Mouth of the Stomach Our own opinion in sho●● is that it has its Residence in the Globous frame 〈◊〉 the Brain which being the principal part and fou●tain from whence the Animal Spirits issue out in●● every corner of the Body if they be dull langui●● and unactive the Hypocondria Spleen Liver Pancre●● Mesentery Womb c. being thereby deprived 〈◊〉 their Firmentations must needs suffer and be recept●cles of latent Evils The causes of excess of this Humour are diver● and all except it be received from the Parent spri●● from fault of Diet now altho' Meats and Drin● chiefly do yield matter to this Humour yet besid● we may add