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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57063	A sermon preached before the Queen at White-Hall, August 21, 1692 by Nathanael Resbury ...	Resbury, Nathanael, 1643-1711.	1692 (1692)	Wing R1133; ESTC R35361	10,306	32

not able to move an arme or wink into a moment's rest not able to bear the least food or support of Nature much less to exercise the nobler faculties of Mind in any just thought or act of good reasoning This incidency to sickness and bodily diseases is founded partly in the frame of our Natures partly the common Accidents of Life but especially and without which that Divine Hand that made us would have secur'd us against all the Accidents of our nice and tender Composure the great in-let to all Calamity Sin and our fatal Apostasie from God 1. The very frame of our Natures We are so fine a piece of Workmanship wrought off with such Applications of Wisdom as well as Power and made up of such numberless dependencies all so tender and so easily interrupted that were we to consider the structure of our bodies the small fibers the necessary communication of parts the strange ways of conveyance for the nourishment of the whole it might rather be a wonder every moment that we feel our selves in health and order than any surprize to labour under an indispos'd Nature which may be so easily over turn'd by any peccant humour by the least obstruction in any of its parts by the redundancy as well as defect or decay of what in a just and equal temperament might be our support and defence However such is indeed our Contexture and Frame that the very necessary use and exercise of the several parts for the maintenance of the whole and of one another do's wear and decay them takes off their natural service brings in a gradual death upon some of our parts which becomes past all possibility of repair or revival and as the Learned Lord Verulam somewhere observes puts us in old Age under the torments of Mezentius that is tyes the living to the dead parts that are decay'd and have ceas'd their Functions to those that are alive and animated and still at work for the meer continuance of life and action So that Old Age is one natural and unavoidable disease which the strongest the best compos'd the best us'd Constitution cannot but fall under And thus the Wise man describes all the parts and organs of the Body as having by degrees spent themselves off into a perfect unserviceableness in Old age till the whole structure it self comes to fall and be demolish'd Eccles 12.2 3 6. When the Sun or the Light or the Moon or the Stars begin to be darken'd When the keepers of the house tremble the strong men bowe themselves and the grinders cease and they that look out of the windows be darken'd When the silver cord is loos'd and the golden bowl is broken or the pitcher broken at the fountain or the wheel broken at the cistern c. That is when all the faculties and powers of the Soul the leading and the rational the lower and the sensitive shall begin to be obstructed in their several operations and when the members of the Body shall betray their sensible decays the nerves loose and enfeebl'd the spirits low and unactive the leggs and hands trembling the teeth dropping out the optick juices of the eye drying up the brain with all its defences shatter'd the circulation of the blood slow and languid This is an unavoidable disease in nature and closeth in the dissolution of the whole But then 2. The common accidents of life point to us the incidency of humane nature to bodily diseases The constant returns of Spring and Autumn pestilential airs unhealthy seasons immoderate exercise or slothfull and undisturb'd ease unwholsome diet surfeits either by excess or something not of agreeable digestion maims or bruises by falls or quarrels natural propensities deriv'd from the loins of diseas'd parents when the stamina vitae the first threds of life if I may so express it are wove amiss and numberless other accidents which time wou'd fail to reckon up do necessarily expose the whole race of Mankind to distemper and infirmity that might every moment take off the lustre and desirableness of life 3. Lastly I add also a Consideration of Sin and our fatal Apostasie from God which was indeed the great and onely inlet to all humane Calamity For without this that Divine Hand that made us wou'd have secur'd us against all the accidents of our nice and tender composure It was Sin that brought sickness and disorder upon the Soul and Body of our first Parents which Adam cou'd not but derive upon his Posterity when he must needs beget one in his own Likeness and after his own Image By one man saith the Apostle sin entred into the world and death by sin Rom. 5.12 Now Sickness is the harbinger of Death and had its same both way and time of entry into the World with Death it self It was Sin that made the healthy and well temper'd Climate of Paradise too hot for our first Parents Sin that made the Earth so pregnant with noxious Vapours and other fatal issues of her Womb Sin that brought that Universal Curse upon the Creation that every thing prov'd so unkindly that had been made either for service or sustenance Sin that occasion'd that intire sickliness in the whole Constitution of nature that tainted our very Birth and Original who otherwise must have come into the World with that equal poise of temper that nothing wou'd have mov'd disorderly within nothing have assoulted impetuously without so as to have blasted or impair'd this noble composure of ours till it had pleas'd God in all the gentle disposals of his Providence to have call'd us out of this sphere of action to the immediate enjoyment of himself Some usefull reflections upon this observable 1. By all that has been said what reasons have we of thankfulness for every moments enjoyment or continuance of health it is that which is so much the brightness and joy of present life that without it no other advantages of Nature or Art can make the enjoyment of life so much as tolerable much less desirable and yet it is what may be broke in upon so easily that nothing but one-continu'd wonder of Divine Providence preserves it entire to any one of us Bless the Lord O my Soul who healeth all thy diseases who redeemeth thy life from destruction c. saith the Psalmist 2. As we should be thankfull for Health so also submissive in Sickness It is we see the common lot of humane Nature the Seeds of which we take in with our first Being Diseases and Maladies are the Rods in God's hand to discipline the good and punish the bad Nay I may further add They are frequently the natural products of some men's sins that do necessarily follow such or such vicious ways of life upon all which accounts we are owing to the good pleasure of the Divine Will where we enjoy so great a blessing any one day and have reason to submit when it is otherwise So much for that first Observable II. Come we