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A42149	The Catholique doctor and his spiritual catholicon to cure our sinfull soules a communion-sermon preach'd to the Right Honourable Sr. Robert Foster Lord Chief Justice of the King's bench, and the rest of the reverend judges, and serjeants at law, in Serjeants-Inn in Fleetstreet, on Sunday May the 26th, 1661 / by Matthevv Griffith ...	Griffith, Matthew, 1599?-1665.; Foster, Robert, Sir, 1589-1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing G2010; ESTC R2789	24,194	37

whole Series of the Creatures were subordinate and subservient to his absolute will and command Secondly Howe're other Physicians may cure some diseases yet they cannot cure all some maladies being in their own nature incurable but nothing was impossible to Christ he could cure all Comers And therefore St. John Baptist pointed at him and painted him to the Life with an En Ecce Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the Sin of the World Joh. 1. 29. Sin is the procreating cause of all Sicknesse in the Third of the Lamentations at the Thirty ninth Verse Man suffers for his Sins And this Physician taking away the cause the cure must needs follow Thirdly Though other physicians may sometimes be instrumental to hasten health yet never could any of them prevent death Contra vim mortis non est medicamen in hortis Their Cure is at most but a Reprieve no Goal-Delivery Interdum medica plus valet arte malum but this Physician in the Text is not only Morbifugus but also Mortifugus He alone Tryumphs over Death and the Grave as in the prophet O death I will be thy death O grave I will be thy Victory Christ by his Death hath both taken out and taken away the sting of Death so that now like a Serpent without a sting Deaths Malice is Toothlesse The Death of the Saints in Scripture is called but a dissolution a departure a sleep a resting in hope till Christ who is the Resurrection and the Life shall awake them Fourthly Other Physicians can only cure our bodies which are but one constituting part of man and the worst of the two but Christ both heals and saves the whole man yea all mankind if they will take his potions and live according to his prescriptions which must be observed and strictly too upon pain not only of Death but of Damnation Lastly Other Physicians use Phlebotomy and let their patient blood to cure them but Christ himself was let blood to save us So malignant and pestilential was the burning Feaver of our sins that if our Physician had not bled to Death we could not possibly have lived either the Life of Grace on Earth or the Life of Glory in the Heavens And so I have done with the first main part viz. The Physician in the consideration of whom because I have so enlarg'd my self I will handle all the rest with Laconick brevity The second thing considerable here is the Physick which this Physician administers and this saith St. John here is Blood for so stand the Words The Blood of Jesus c. The ancient Physicians had an excellent Receipt which they called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because it was a mixture of many bloods but why was this wast why such a mixture and of so many bloods when as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This Blood in the Text is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a soveraign Medicine for every Malady Nam cum me pulsat turpis aliqua cogitatio saith St. Augustine when any unclean thought assaults me I straight recul to the wounds of my Saviour when I stumble and fall foul through any strong infirmity the Meditation of my Saviours wounds raiseth me up yea when the Divel either openly like a roaring Lyon or privily like a subtile Serpent lyes in wait to devour me I both flye to and hide me in the holes of the Rock my Saviours wounds and I am safe Briefly there is none so catholick a remedy as the Blood of Christ for this contains in it vertually all the parts of Physick such as are Sweatings Vomits Unctions Minutions Potions Diets Watchings Exercises Clysters Cauterizings c. The spiritual Sweatings are sharp Agonies breathed out in brinish tears of true Compunction The Vomits are civil and religious publick and private general and particular confessions The Unctions are powerful and sweet smelling prayers The Minutions are Contributions to the necessity of the Saints The Potions are self-denyals and bearing Christs Crosse with many the like bitter potions The Dyets are religious fasts keeping under the Body and bringing it into subjection The Watchings are preparations against allurements to Sin and the Temptations of Sathan The Exercises are the practice of piety and the conscionable labours of men in their Callings Civil and Christian The Clysters are meeknesse longanimity and easinesse to pardon injuries and indignities The Cauterizings are Stigmata Jesu to bear in our bodies the marks of the Lord Jesus and all kind of persecution for Righteousnesse Sake All these are called and counted Soveraign remedies in their kind and yet I must tell you that they are neither soveraign nor remedies any farther then they derive their virtue and energy from the Blood of Christ which alone makes all our christian endevours sweet and acceptable to God as God himself testifies in the 3. chap. of St. Matthew at the 17 verse This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased As if he had said This singularly is eternally my substantially son naturally beloved transcendently in whom as in a common man I whom it once repented that I had made man am now well pleased with all men But we usually judge of the goodnesse of Physick by its operation and therefore I hasten to speak something of that yet that I may not make more hast then good speed let me sweeten your mouths after your taking this purge with that pious ejaculation of St. Augustine Inspice vulnera Christi pendentis c. Oh see the Wounds of Christ hanging on the Crosse the blood of him dying the price of him redeeming Caput habet inclinatum in Cruce ad osculandum c. His head is inclined on the Crosse to salute us his arms are stretch'd abroad to embrace us and his whole body is there exposed to redeem us And thus from the consideration of this Physician Jesus Christ his Son and his physick Blood I come now to enquire how this his physick works and this St. John shews in the very next word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cleanseth It is purging Physick for it cleanseth which is our next consideration The Epigrammatist wittily jeers a Patient that had taken such Pills as did not work Cepisti pilulas hodiè sed non operantur and he tells him withall that he might safely take such Pills on the Lords day they would not break the Sabboth sure because they would do no manner of work And as it is their sin who commonly take Physick on the Lords day so they were justly punished if the Physick so taken should not work But howe're bodily Physick sometimes works not kindly and sometimes not at all when God blesseth not the means because we abuse them yet the blood of Christ this Physick in the Text is wondrous operative it hath many and sundry admirable effects for it is Unguentum nostrae aegrotationis say the Fathers ornamentum nostrae conditionis munimentum protegens contra tentationes fulcimentum