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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02758	Klinike, or The diet of the diseased· Divided into three bookes. VVherein is set downe at length the whole matter and nature of diet for those in health, but especially for the sicke; the aire, and other elements; meat and drinke, with divers other things; various controversies concerning this subject are discussed: besides many pleasant practicall and historicall relations, both of the authours owne and other mens, &c. as by the argument of each booke, the contents of the chapters, and a large table, may easily appeare. Colellected [sic] as well out of the writings of ancient philosophers, Greeke, Latine, and Arabian, and other moderne writers; as out of divers other authours. Newly published by Iames Hart, Doctor in Physicke.	Hart, James, of Northampton.	1633 (1633)	STC 12888; ESTC S119800	647,313	474

imployments is pluck'd away from the service of God for this is the true flight of a true Priest or Minister the rejecting and setting aside of all domesticall affaires and a certaine estranging of himselfe from his dearest friends to the end hee may deny himselfe to his owne who hath made choice of the service of God And Ierome saith the same Authour maketh two sorts of Christians one dedicate to the service of God and wholly addicted to religious duties who ought to absteine from all turmoyle or medling with temporall affaires as Clekes who have wholly given themselves to God Cyprian is also by him produced to testifie the same truth I will for brevities sake set downe but one of his sentences and omit the rest Such as are busied about spirituall imployments and heavenly matters ought not to be addicted to effeminate daintinesse and delights as also ought to absteine from all secular and earthly affaires and such as prove nothing else but snares And so far was this holy Father from giving way to the distractions of the Clergie that hee will not allow a Clergie-man so much liberty as to be an executor for his deceased friend which hee yet confirmeth out of the 9 Councell of Carthage where hee affirmeth that whatsoever in his last will and testament had nominated a Clergie-man for his executor there were no prayers to be made for him after his decease And the reason is there added to wit That such as prove any cause or meanes of distracting or withdrawing Priests and Ministers from the Altar ought not so much as once to be nominated before the Altar in the Priests prayers It were no hard matter for me to produce a many more such testimonies but for avoiding tediousnesse these shall suffice And as for the lawes of this land although I confesse they are defective in this particular yet must I needs confesse that the intentions of the law-makers were very honest and aiming at the publike good which may from hence be collected in that it is not allowed to any to practise this profession unlesse they have at least the approbation of the Bishop of the Diocesse who for this purpose is first to have a warrant under the hands of two Doctors of physicke But I wish this had beene betrusted to a set number of Physitians either of the Vniversities or college of London without troubling those of another profession and that for very good reasons as I could make it appeare Againe the good and laudable desire the sage Senators had of preventing this confused Chaos in calling in a commonwealth may from hence appeare that in another statute of the same Kings reigne they ordeine that no Surgeon take vpon him to play the Barber nor againe any Barber to play the Surgeon no not so much as to let blood And yet let the unpartiall Reader judge whether it be not an easier matter and of lesse danger for a Surgeon to shave a beard or a Barber to let blood cure a greene wound c. than for a Minister set apart for Gods service erring out of his owne orbe of divinitie to wait upon the necessities of the sicke and to compasse Sea and land not to make a proselite but to purchase a patient You take too much upon you sonnes of Levi. The premisses duely considered I cannot be so uncharitable as to thinke that the reverend Fathers of the Church give licence and allowance to such lawlesse intruders howbeit I wish they were more narrowly looked into And as ex malis moribus bonae leges oriuntur so I hope that so great a disorder and so prejudiciall to the common-wealth will at length in time and place not be forgotten But that this practice hath some pretext for it at least in seeming shew and that it hath some appearance to have been practised by the Priests under the Leviticall law some Clergie-men although to small purpose have pleaded as a part of their apologie and therefore I will remove this vizard It is true indeed there is a charge given to the priest concerning the cleansing of the Lepers but maketh nothing at all for their purpose In the first place therefore we are carefully to observe the scope and intention of this place of Scripture the which is also in all others carefully to be observed Divers doe hold that here Moses by Gods appointment recommendeth to his holy and select people cleannesse from all manner of pollution as may appeare as well by the purification of women preceding as also of other fluxes common to both sexes following immediatly after the cleansing of the Lepers To the outward ceremonie whereof saith Calvin howbeit wee be not tied yet are we Christians taught by the same not to suffer any corruptions to dwell amongst us whereby Gods pure worship and service may be defiled It may then plainly appeare that the intention of Moses was not here to give the Priests any authority or allowance to meddle with physicke the which may yet further appeare by the words of the same Author following In that God appointed Priests and that of the highest ranke it is an argument that here Gods spirituall worship is more aimed at than the health of the body And this hee setteth downe yet more plainely in these words following The Lord betrusted not here every Levite but the Sonnes of Aaron only who were of prime note and credit to this end that the authority of the action might be the greater Therefore the Popish Priests saith he not without great errour or rather impudency have drawne this jurisdiction unto themselves That which followeth is yet a more grosse mockage The officiall being the Bishops deputie as lawfull judge calleth before him Physitians and Surgeons by whose answers being instructed hee pronounceth sentence of whereof that he acknowledgeth himselfe altogether ignorant But to come to our purpose againe if wee should grant that here were some physicall directions addressed unto Priests yet would not this warrant every Parson and Vicar to practise physicke at his pleasure for here the command is addressed to the chiefe Priests the sonnes of Aaron onely and not to the rest whence all they would evince if the precept were perpetuall and they could prove their succession linially descended from Aaron better than those mentioned in Ezra for want of this put from the Priesthood would perhaps be this that the Bishop of the Diocesse might practise physicke Besides the text saith the Priest was onely to pronounce whether it were that loathsome disease of Leprosie or no the marks and signes whereof the Lord himselfe there setteth downe but that the Priest cured it or was yet warranted so to doe or inabled with any skill to effect such a cure remaineth yet to prove Again if this place gave any warrant or leave to practise yet were it onely in this lothsome disease of Leprosie from the which particular kinde our God of his singular