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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04461	Phármaka ouranóthen, the shadow of the tree of life: Or A discourse of the divine institution and most effectual application of medicinal remedies. In order to the preservation, and restauration of health. / By J.M.	Marlow, John, 1648-1695.	1673 (1673)	Wing M45; ESTC R214747	33,243	133

man may dye in a time when God forbids and yet dye when God permits and live out all Gods time who wickedly shortens his own The murmuring Isralites were buried in the wilderness notwithstanding their promise of seeing Canaan their infidelity anticipated their funerals The wages of sin is death and may as justly be payd in the morning as in the evening of our lives Indeed temperance doth not alwayes prove an Antidot against the Pestilence nor Abstinence a preservative against Famin nor innocence a security from the stroke of injustice but they are likely meanes The flagitious impiety of the old world sent a Deluge which possibly might have been prevented had their repentance been as visible as the Ninevites was who were repreived from execution after the sentence of death had passed upon them whereby omnipotence did demonstrate that he hath reserved a power in his own hands to length then or shorten the lives of men as he pleaseth and to make the sands in the glass of time run swift or slow according to his pleasure it is very observable how the Patriarks out-lived all their titles of consanguinity yet none lived to a compleat thousand years some indeed give this reason for it be cause God would make good his threatning to Adam that in the day he eat he should dye the death and so they would compute a day for a thousand years as St. Peter speaks but this is trifling and foolish A more probable reason may be to declare to the world the vanity of life when those who lived longest could not arrive to such a period which in comparison of Gods eternity is but a day CHAP. XXXVII SIn brought death at first and as sin increased death came near er by 500 years presently after the flood man sinned still and built Castles in the air and then it is reduced to 200 years and by Moses time half that remnant is taken away and threescore and ten is the period had God gone on still to shorten our dayes as we increased in sin our life by this time had not been a day long and therefore he no longer destroys the kind but punisheth the individual and sets it down for a rule viz. evil shall slay the wicked So that not one in 500 arrive at that state which they might attain unto by the course of nature but end their dayes in sin and folly and in a period appointed in anger we may easily observe how the blessing of health is contradicted by an impious life for from surfeting proceeds disolution of members relaxation of nervs fractures of bones inflamation of the liver crudities of the stomach which Solomon sums up besides the uncleanly consequences of lust which hunt for the pretious life and like a dart strike through the liver and the casual deaths caused by Jealousies and animosities thus providence intervenes and suffers not nature to take its course by reason of impieties CHAP. XXXVIII IT is observable that not a Son dyed a natural death before the Father for three thousand years untill Terahs time who was the first that taught the people to make Images of clay and corrupted the Worship of God his son Haron was snatched away by death before him The Jewish Rabbins do observe that during the standing of the second Temple there were 300 high priests but in the time of the first but 18 which stood within 10 years as long as the first which may be much attributed to their impieties It is thought by some of the antients that Balaam's wish to dye the death of the righteous was not only that he might be sav'd at last but also seeing what judgments God had purposed to bring upon the Moabites that he might come to his grave in a good old age with his father in peace we live by the word of blessing out of the mouth of God every command if observ'd like food and physick tends to the length of our natural as well as spiritual lives CHAP. XXXIX THe fear of God is the best Antidote against sickness as it is a direct enemy to sin which brought in death If sin destroy soul and body why should not piety preserve both If the sting of conscience torment body as well as soul doubtless peace of conscience releives both Why may not the soul as well conduce to the prolongation of the body as to the immortality of it Why may not the body have the perfection of life viz. health from the soul as life it self CHAP. XL. THe circumstantial actions of piety are influential towards the lengthening the lives of men as the sweet sleeps of temperate persons and their freedome from violent and inraged passions and the admirable contentment that dwells in a holy conscience these must necessarily conduce to a healthfull life Dying to sin is an excellent means to preserve life if men would try the experiment It is observed that the male heir of Ely's family dyed as soon as born for many generations according to a divine threatning until they set themselves unto a serious humiliation and solemn repentance We live not at an adventure but the manner and moments of our death come under a divine appointment the Jews could not prejudice our Saviours life untill his hour was come viz. that hour which by a special providence was appointed to be his last hour although St. Paul was in deaths often yet he dyed not before providence thought meet it is appointed to men once to dye that is it is once appointed to men to dye CHAP. XLI A Man may shorten his own dayes but he cannot shorten a Divine determination the date of Hezekia's life was lengthened with respect to himself but not in respect of Divine purpose that is the same be our time long or short CHAP. XLII Object But if Piety doe so prevaile with God to lengthen our lives how comes it to pass that many good and holy men dye whilst in the prime of their years Answer Those that reason thus doe not consider that the righteous may be taken away from the evil to come and by their deaths God may serve other ends of his Providence and yet make his promise good by recompensing Temporal with Eternal life Although God hath promised long life to them that obey yet he never promised that he would not borrow our natural lives as it were and make a glorious exchange CHAP. XLIII DEath may sometimes be a great mercy and life a great misery It is observed that from Adam to to the Flood by the Patriarks were eleven Generations but by Cains line eight they being shorter lived because God intending to bring a flood upon the World rescued the Elect from the fatall Deluge And the same reason is generally given in case Infants dye before the use of reason for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven Although Abijah came to his grave whilst young yet ther was some good thing found in him towards the Lord God of Israel

say to corruption thou art my father and to the worm thou art my mother and sister CHAP. LIV. ONe end of sickness it is to hide pride from man what a vain thing is humane power it will not avail in the day of sickness and death if God doe not withdraw his anger the proud helpers stoop under him men of high dègree are vanity although a man flourish like a green bay tree yet he shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither like the green herb Sickness teacheth us the vanity of strength though a mans bones be full of marrow yet when sickness coms his strength shall be dryed up like a potsherd How can our hands be strong in the day that God contends with us by sickness although a bow of steel hath been broken by our armes yet when sickness comes we are powred out like water and all our bones are out of joynt then the keepers of the house the arms will tremble and the strong men the limbs will bow themselves and we shall have reason to say verily every men at his best estate is all together vanity It may convince us of the vanity of children they are indeed mercies in themselves O that I were as in months past saith Job when my children were about me though the fare be but course yet it is the more pleasant to have these plants about the table but sickness eomes and then these sweet flowers like a posey wither that we must conclude childhood and youth are vanity An aking tooth will damp all the pleasures of the world CHAP. LXV HOw vain must the World be whose comforts are not valuable then whiles we have them not What will all the glittering nothings of the world be worth when God shall let fall great drops of burning wrath upon that part of our souls which is most tender when he shall with a heavy hand chafe our consciences with fire and brimstone when the worldling that wallows in thick clay shall behold that judge which Gold and Silver cannot bribe when the voluptuous will relish little pleasure in carnal delights God writing bitter things against him what a vain thing will musick be to him that hears nothing but the screeches of his own conscience what will cups avail him that must drink only a cup of Fury what are titles of honour to a man whose conscience calls him Reprobate CHAP. LXVI SUppose our tongues faultering our eye-strings broken our limbs trembling for fear of an arrest by this grim sergeant death mingle the best ingredients the world can afford it cannot make a cheering Cordial Honour is but a blast of Popular breath and like an eccho vanisheth into silence The misers Angils are all winged and fly away as an Eagle towards heaven Doth any man lye the safer because his bed posts are gilt doth our meal relish the better because served up in gold are our clothes more fit because more fashionable what is gold and silver but diversified earth and shining clay the entrails of the earth the place of its birth upbraid us for accounting them so precious the best perfumes are but the sweet of trees or the mucous excrement of a beast the softest silks are but the workings of a vile worm the most generous wines but puddle water straind through a vine and our choisest dellicacies are but dirt Cook'd up in various forms Why should we lay the foundation of our happiness upon such phantacies But sickness comes and gives us right notions of these things and it teacheth us the right conduct of our Passions to love these things as if we loved them not it is like wormwood to wean us from the breasts of the creature The most considerable design of sickness is to prepare us for Death and Judgement to make us listen to the strikings of the clock of time with the more attention to bring us to a more familiar acquaintance with that stinglesse Serpent and makes us apprehensive of our pilgrime state there is nothing in death to make it dreadfull to a good Christian many times our bitter cups are but as mornings draughts to eternity by sickness we knock at the gates of the grave every little accident stops our breath the roughness of a grape stone the reflections of a Sun beam the dust of a wheele the aspect of a star introduce death let us therefore with Joseph take a turn or two in our garden and visit our Sepulchre Old age is but a young death and a man may read the sentence of death in some mens foreheads written in the lines of a lingring disease CHAP. LXVIII ALthough we came into the world but one way we may go out a thousand Thus we see sickness hath many ends when it comes and unless these be answered we cannot expect its removal It is like a faithfull messenger it will not go without its message CHAP. LXIX ANother means to procure the influence of a Divine blessing is by imploring a Heavenly benediction by fixing our eyes upon Him who laid the sickness upon us We should look to the hills from whence cometh our help for our help cometh from the Lord that made heaven and earth it is he that wounds that must heal it is his hand that must make whole Hence David calleth the Pestilence a falling into the hands of God and when diseased he cryeth out Thy hand presseth me sore and I am consumed by the blow of thy heavy hand Diseases are called Gods arrows he shoots the arrow of a Consumption into the lungs of a man the arrow of a Fever into the heart of a man or the arrow of the Gout into the limbs of a man like a shot dear he walks and eats and sleeps yet the arrow sticks friends pull and Physitians pull but he may say Thy arrows stick fast in me If he give a commission to the small-Pox or any other disease then the wounds stink and are corrupt and the body is filled with a loathsome disease and there is burnings in stead of beauty Our times are in Gods hands he appoints the frequent returns of our distempers At the noise of his water spouts his waves and his billows pass over us He appoints how long the distemper shall last many continue in a languishing condition some years so that their lives hang in doubt as Moses expresseth it or as Heman saith of himself I am afflicted and ready to dye from my youth up and so Job complains I am made to possesse monthes of vanity and wearisom nights are appointed to me CHAP. LXXI SO may we observe men spitting their lives away notwithstanding their friends provide good dyet the Physitians prescribes good remedies the Minister puts up fervent prayers yet as Job speaks God is of one mind and who can turn him to restore health But when he speaks the word the man is healed I am the Lord that healeth thee is the name he gives himself and this is acknowledged by the