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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

refreshment may they freely come unto thee by hearing thy Word to Repentance that the Angels in Heaven may continually have occasion to rejoyce at their happy Conversion Luk. 15.7 Amen See Iames 5.16 Mat. 6.14 and Esa. 66.2 where you may Read what you ought to do if you would have God forgive you your Sins hear your Prayers and grant your Requests Prayer is a vehement desire of the heart to obtain something at the hand of God who look●● not upon the Face as man doth but beholdeth the 〈◊〉 neither doth he listen to the sound of the ●outh but ●o the fervency of the Mind Therefore Christians Praying have their affections bent towards God they ●lways hunger and thirst after Righteousness The ●rayer of him who humbleth himself is accepted as appear'd by the Publican Luk. 18.19 Psal. 50 1● Mark 13.3.3 Coloss. 4.2 Luk. 11.9 Ioh. 6.23 How excellent a thing it is for Man to converse with God! this joyns Man in Society with Angels thro' ascribing with them due Praise and Glory unto the Almighty Let nothing dismay a Christian from Praying unto God for the Prayer of the Righteous is the Key of Heaven the Prayer of the Godly doth ascend and the Mercy of God doth thereby come down therefore we will Sing Praise unto Thee O Lord for as thou hast been our Defence in the day of our trouble even so I beseech Thee to protect and save us everlastingly Amen Let us with St. Paul Heb. 4.16 come boldly to the Throne of Grace that we may obtain Mercy That is let us in confident assurance of God's readiness to help us make our Addresses boldly and chearfully to the Throne of his Grace upon all occasions suing to our bountiful God for the Relief of all our Necessities and let us consider when we are about to offer up our Petitions to God by Prayer what ou● necessities and wants are before we ask least throug● temerity we ask amiss His freeness to give ma● well make us bold to ask his power to supply us may give us hopes to obtain what is necessary for us and his greatness ought to make us temper our Addresses with Humility as for choice of Words and Elegant long Harangues let us not be too solicitous for God regards not Eloquence and long Harangues so much as the sincerity of those that invocate his Majesty Men chiefly mind the neatness of expression God the Truth and fervency of what is exprest We are commanded to Pray without ceasing which is best done according to Scripture Rules because no Method is comparable to that which God has laid down for us and Christ taught us When we groan under the weight of any Affliction we shall ever find help by calling upon God desiring the assistance of the Righteous to be joyned with us in Prayer For the Prayers of the Faithful availeth much their help we are admonish'd to desire by the Example of St. Paul who said to the Romans I beseech you Brethren for the Lord Iesus Christ's sake and for the love of the Spirit that you strive together wi●h me in your Endeavours and Prayers to God for me ●or the light of ●is Countenance and for assisting in every Duty Rom. 15.20 Some define Prayer thus An humble lifting up of the Heart or a pouring out of the Soul to God in the Name of Christ it is crying Abba Father As Scrip●ure is God's Letter wherein he openeth his Mind to Man so Prayer is Man's Letter wherein he expresses ●is Mind to God A thought can fly speedily to the utmost part of the Earth but Prayer in a Moment ascends to the highest Heavens 't is as it were a speaking Trumpet one end of which being fastened to Man's mouth it carryeth the Petitioning voice to God's Ear tho' spoken near so softly Prayer hath a twofold advantage of some other Duties in regard its Influence is Universal and to ●ts Exercise an opportunity is never wanting A Christian cannot always hear or read God's Word out he may Pray continually Every Saint is God's Temple and he that carries a Temple about him ●ay go to Prayer when he pleaseth A good Chri●tian need not be very nice in chusing a place for De●otion since to him every house is a house of Prayer ●nd every place he comes to an Altar whereon he ●ay offer up to God a Sacrifice of Prayer yet De●ency is not to be forgotten as far as circumstance ●ill allow since even by it we express a kind of Devotion to our God but many alass are so far from being curious in this point that they forget to pay at all this Duty tho' most necessary to the obtaining their Eternal Salvation If we are in doubts about our Spiritual Estate let us in Prayer go to God who is marvellous in Council are we in Affliction let us call upon him for help and he will not only hear us but also in his good time deliver us Do's any affliction seize our Bodies which endangers our lives or disturb our tranquility let us by Prayer call upon him at Midnight and he will make hast to help us tho' we are troubled exceedingly in a Moment he can give us quiet and rest nay tho' we should be encompassed with Enemies driven to the greatest of Necessities perplex'd with Doubts threatned with Dangers or like Peter falsly Imprisoned and watched narrowly Night and Day lest we should make an Escape yet Prayer as another Moses will go before us and so engage God on our side that he will vanquish our Enemies relieve ou● Necessities unfold our Doubts prevent our Dangers convert our Bondage into Liberty and guide us all the way thro' the Wilderness of this World 'till we arrive at the Spiritual Land of Canaan and be Enroled Citizens of the Heavenly Jerusalem where Christ is infinitely exceeding that Ierusalem where Christ was and whither the Devout Iews went once a year to Worship And here it will not be amiss nor I believe unacceptable to my Reader to give him some account of the Earthly Ierusalem and its many Revolutions so much spoken of in Scripture and other Histories This Ierusalem by some called the Holy City and Throne of God was antiently a Fort of the Iebusites upon Mount Sion not conquer'd by the valiant Ioshua but was fully subdu'd by the victorious Arm of David who Built thereon the City unto which was adjoyn'd Mount Moriah and therefore call'd the Daughter of Sion where Abraham would have offer'd his Son Isaac where David built his Altar and Solomon his Beauti●ul Temple of which great things are by all Histori●ns Recorded 'T is Scituate in the midst of Nations ●t was the place of Holy Worship from this Moun●ain which for many things is justly prefer'd before ●ll others did flow those Salutiferous Waters that gave Life where ever they ran from hence Christ ●ent his Apostles as so many Spiritual Fishermen to ●atch the Souls of Men. In this famous City stood ●he Throne of David

Cor. 15.51 And lastly the Resurrection of the Deceased shall be by Christ effected at his Coming Christ as Man must judge Men as Men and so have Time to make his Judgment which in it self will doubtless be just Now this will take up a co●side●able time of the Thousand Years for Chris● will judge the whole World upon the Earth and ●h●●arth will be the Place of Judicature and all the Bo●ies that ever were mus● appear in a Place on the 〈◊〉 sit for that purpose I say on the Earth for 〈◊〉 in Heaven the Wicked cannot be to receive Sen●ence and only the Saints are caught up in the Clouds Satan and the wicked Hypocrites and o●●er Sinners will be sentenc'd into Outer Dark●es● As to the Place where this great Assize will be hel● the common Opinion is that it will be ●ear I●r●salem in the Valley of Iehoshaphat which Cosm●g●aphers assign for the middle of the Earth's super●●ies for if the termini à quibus be the four Parts 〈◊〉 the World then the terminus ad quem must be ●bout the Centre Another Reason is because the Angel told the Disciples That as they saw Christ ●s●e●d from Mount Olive● which is over the Valley of Iehoshapha● so He should in like manner descend ●rom Heaven Now that the said Valley or some Place adjacent to Ierusalem should be the place of Judgment 't is most probable because that as Christ was ●hereabouts Crucified and put to open shame so it is likely that thereabouts his glorious Throne ●hall be exalted in the Air when he shall appear in Judgment to manifest his Majesty and Glory and so He in that place will judge the World with ●ighteous Judgment where h● Himself was unjustly ●udged and condemned The Order he will observe in giving Judgment will as some think be first to pronounce the Senten●● of Absolution and Bliss upon the Elect because ●e will thereby encrease the Grief of the Reprobates that shall hear it and at the same time show that he is more prone to Mercy than Judgment more forward to Reward the Good than to punish the Wicked therefore he will in the sight and hea●ing of all the World say to his Elect Come ye Bless●d of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from th● Beginning of the World Come you now from Labou● to Rest f●om Disgrac● to Glory from the Iaws of Death to Eternal Life After this every Saint receives a glorious Crown from the Hands of their Righteous and Merciful Judge as the ample Reward which he promised o● his free Grace to all them that loved and hoped fo● this his last and to the Blessed everlasting appearing Then every one shall take his Crown and lay i● down as it were at the Feet of Christ the generous Giver and prostrating themselves shall with one Heart and Voice in a Heavenly Consort Sing P●aise and Honour and Glory and Powe● and Thanks b● unto thee O Blessed Lamb who sittest upon the T●ron● Thou by D●●th Redeem'd us from being Sons o● Wrath and Perdition to be the Children of God Out of every Kindred and To●gue and People and Nation thou hast made unto our God Kings and Priests to Reign triumphantly with Thee in thy Kingdom for ever Next follows the dreadful Sentence of Condemnation against the hardned Reprobates and evi● Angels immediat●ly after which Christ from his exalted Tribunal will arise waited on by his numerous Train of Elect and holy Angels with whom in Order and Array he will ascend Triumphantly unto the Heaven of Heavens and there present al● the Elect unto his Father saying Behold O Righteous Father these are they whom Thou gavest me I gave them thy Word and they Believed it I have ke●● them and none of them is lost Therefore l●t them Sing Praises to thee their God and King let them be glad and rejoyce and give honour unto thee for the Marriage of the Lamb is come and his Spouse hath made her self ready Hallelujah for the Lord God Omnipotent Reigneth Every thing tendeth to its proper Centre God ●s the Centre of our Souls our chiefest Good therefore the Soul like Noah's Dove cannot rest nor ●oy till she return and enjoy him she is ever desiring ●o keep a perpetual Sabbath with him to the Glory Honour and Praise of the Blessed Trinity to which ●appiness when we once Arrive we shall not only ●now our Friends departed in the Faith of Christ ●ut also joyn in a League of perpetual Friendship with all the Faithful that ever were or shall here●fter be our knowledge now is but imperfect then it will be compleat for we shall know as we are known of God or as the Angels know one another Come all you that thirst after true and perfect Knowledge and employ yo●r utmost endeavours to ●●ome Graduates in Christ's Heavenly University ●n this World the utmost pitch of Knowledge the ●ost diligent Students and the ablest Professors ●an with all their Faculties attain to is only the ●iscovery of the meer shaddow of our unspeakable ●reator but in Heaven we shall know God in rea●●ty and in him all things perfectly we shall know ●he manner of that stupendio●s work of the Creation ●e shall be able to solve the difficulty of making all ●hings out of nothing and conceive the amazing ●ist●ry of our Redemption In fine our Minds ●hich now labour in trifles with a Thousand invin●ible doubts will then be enrich'd with the know●edge of all things possible and we shall conclude as an undoubted Verity that in the Flesh we saw but a few of God's wonderful Works in comparison o● what shall be revealed then unto us Let us then labour for Heaven and like wise Merchants traffick for Eternal Life as a most precious Pearl which is worth our Purchase tho' it cost us all we have Mat 13. Abraham and Sarah left their own Country and Possessions to look for this City whose Founder is God David was so enamour'd with this Divine Mansion that he rather desired to be there a Door-keeper than to dwell in the richest Tabernacle of Wickedness It was into the Kingdom of Heaven that Elias so earnestly besought the Lord to receive his Soul to which he went most willingly tho' in a Fiery Chariot And St. Paul having but once seen 〈◊〉 glimpse of Heaven ever after desired that he might be dissolved to be with Christ and well he might for as David saith At God's Right Hand are Pleasures ●or ever more If Ruth left what is usually accounted most dear her own Country and followed Naomi her Mother in Law to dwell with her in the Land of C●naan which was but a Tipe of Heaven only upon the Fame which she had heard of the God of Israel tho' she had no promise of any Portion therein Ruth 1.16 With how much more alacrity ought we to follow our Mother the Church to go into the Heavenly Canaan wherein God hath given us an Et●rnal Inheritance assured to us