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cause_n	body_n	disease_n	symptom_n	1,386	5	11.1695	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42495	A sermon preached in St. Pauls Church London ... February 28, 1659 being a day of solemn thanksgiving unto God for restoring of the excluded members of Parliament to the House of Commons ... / by John Gauden.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing G370; ESTC R24048	65,030	124

Ministers nor the same form of Church and State while they have so little equity so no piety or charity to each other while every petty person among the Prophets and people aims to set up a party or faction and every party designs to subdue others to set up it self and to oppress the common liberty and publick welfare which are only contained in those Laws that are made by the consent of all Estates in the Nation What peace can there be where there are so many tumults and strifes so many whispers and jealousies so many fewds and animosities in the brest and bowels of the same Nation for want of that rare Elixir of lawful and just government which only is able to compose the distracted spirits to give a just allay and temperament to all humors and parts in their due places and porportions except they be such as are indigestible to any good order and are better purged out than kept in the body Alas these pittiful partial applications these diurnal doses these horary medicaments these slight and superficial plaisters these verbal and decretal healings which some men have so gloried in and vapoured of are as ridiculous as they have been inefficacious unless these great Masters of their new arts these Galens and Hypocrates of Church and State were so in favour with some Esculapius as to partake of his Diety and so by the words of their mouthes or shadows of their bodies or touch of their garments to rebuke the Feavors of the body politick and immediately to cure as by miracle what they have so long tampered about to very ill purpose But as an ilfavored Physitian is an ill omen to his patient especially if he look ill from his being ill there being no great hope that the Physitian should cure others who doth not or cannot cure himself so the busie Practitioners on the Daughter of their people should do well first to commend their skill to the publique by giving some good experiments on their selves by curing their own corrupt hearts or crazy heads by recovering themselves from those vertigos megrims and falling sicknesses with which they have been so oft afflicted let them wash their own foul hands and cleanse their double minds let them cease to do evil and learn to do good Let them do all things not arbitrary ad libitum libidinem but as exact Physitians Apothecaries per pondus mensuram by weight and measure by the rule and standard of the Laws of God and man which give or restore or preserve to every one what is their own by such purchase donation descent and honest industry wherein their rights are made good by Law and which they have no way forfeited by any injury to the publique of which the Laws of the Land and lawful Magistrates are the only lawful Judges Let them not think by a little Fasting-spittle to cure the hurts of Church and State nor yet by their solemne feasts This is the fast and this the feast the Lord hath chosen comely for true relion and wholesome for the Nation To loose the bands of wickedness to undo heavy burthens to break every yoak of unrighteous decrees and acts to restore what is unjustly that is without law taken away from any man to do as they would be done unto to deal justly to all men to shew mercy even in deserved Justice and after all to walk humbly with God This do O ye Physitians of my people and you shall live This do and the daughter of my people shall live being throughly healed of the wounds she hath received in the house of her seeming friends For it was not an open Enemy of the heathens round about which hath done her all this hurt But her own Children Let them cease from being rebellious Children companions of Adulterers Robbers and Murtherers return to that duty they owe to their God and their civil Parents to their Country and their Church or to that pitty and compassion they ow to their Children and posterity whose teeth will certainly be set on edge by the sower grapes their fathers have eaten Jer. 31.29 Then shall health spring forth speedily righteousness shall go before and the glory of the Lord be thy rearward Then shall they be as Fathers and sons too of the Nation who shall build the old wast places repair the breaches and raise up the foundations of many generations which have been overthrown overthrown overthown after they had continued firme for many ages as to the stability of Church and State under Gods indulgence and the care of good Magistrates But since these Tamperers are so justly and severely reproached by God and the Prophet for their slight healing which was indeed none at all the more cruel by how much they were more cunning to keep the daughter of my people in continual pain and themselves in constant practice and pay It will not be amiss more particularly to examine in the sence of Gods Spirit and his Prophet whence this malice or mistake had its rise how this slight healing did befall the daughter of his people and how it is to be avoided as much as death and hell and devil First it comes by unskilful Empiricks such as neither understand the Science of Physick nor the Art of Chyrurgery neither the cause nor the symptoms nor the proper and specifick medicines for such hurts and diseases as Church and State may labor under which possibly may be as many as the natural bodies of men are subject to if a man had a true Anatomy of the parts and constitution with all accidental distempers incident to the body Politick from within or without When men of little or no literature of as little experience in matters of policy and prudence of mean capacity and education of small minds and narrow souls do undertake the cure who are easily deluded and gulled byassed and swerved with fair words specious pretences and partial yea private interests especially if these novel interests have any smack or tincture fucus or form of more than ordinary godliness when these easie shallow and inconsultive men of giddy heads and rash hands full of childish credulity and popular formalty come to the helm of Church and State to rule and steer all they look more to the spreading of their sails than to that due balast and lading or to that right cynosure and compass of Law and Justice which God and their Country have prescribed Gonsalvo whom Guicciardine calls the great Captain of his time was wont to say that a General or cheif Commander of an army had need have thirty years experience to breed him accomplished to all the abilities requisite to such a place on whose prudent conduct the lives of so many men depend Yea and whole Nations too truly no less time is needfull to train up a compleat Counsellor of State a meet Physitian for the daughter of my people It is