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A26126 The Christian physician by Henry Atherton, M.D. Atherton, Henry, M.D. 1683 (1683) Wing A4112; ESTC R35287 159,440 417

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The Christian PHYSICIAN By Henry Atherton M. D. Solus homo Sapientia instructus est ut Religionem solus intelligat haec est hominis atque mutorum vel praecipua vel sola distantia Lact. de Ira Dei. LONDON Printed by T. James for William Leach at the Crown in Corn-hill 1683. TO THE Right Honourable Lord JOHN Earl of Radnor Viscount Bodmin Baron of Truro and Lord President of his Majesties most honourable Privy Counsel My LORD WHen I at first drew out a Scheme of the ensuing Discourse I had the Honour of your Lordships Approbation and Encouragement to proceed upon those Topicks which caused me to sequester the vacant hours I could steal from my other occasions that I might employ them on these Meditations which having brought to some perfection and received the concurrent consent of a great Prelate of this Realm who gave himself the trouble to peruse them and me the honour to recommend them as worthy of publick view I could not in the least dispute to whom I should dedicate them for not only your Lordship's condescension at first in advising but indeed those many other Obligations which your Honour hath been pleased to lay upon me most justly challenge them and even the greatest of my Services Neither am I so fond to imagine that the offering of these to your Lordship's Feet doth cancel any former debt but rather I cannot but be sensible that if your Lordship design to patronize and shelter them from the storms of the World it will be infinitely increased I shall have the deeper score to pay and the greater pardon to beg for this presumption But I doubt not but that your Lordships good nature runs parallel with your other Vertues of which the World is a copious Index and therefore shall hope to obtain it together with your Honour's Acceptance of this small Acknowledgment That your Lordship may enjoy a long uninterrupted state of Health whereby you may be able to assist His Majesty in his great and momentous Counsels and as your Honour hath began may continue to be a prop and support to this our tottering Church and at length go late into Heaven are the hearty Wishes and constant Prayers of From Newcastle upon Tine Nov. 2. 1682. Your Lordships most humbly Devoted Servant Henry Atherton THE PREFACE THis our latter Age hath so much degenerated from the Piety and Simplicity of the Primitive Christians which were the only marks by which they were heretofore distinguished from the Heathen Nations as not only not to own and live up to those Principles of their Profession as Christians but instead thereof openly and avowedly to defend Irreligion and Hobbianism in their Arguments Atheism and Profaneness in their Lives even worse than Heathens To be Sober and Religious is now adays to be morose and ingentile if not hypocritical To be loose and debauched is the only modish thing To be able by Sophisms to baffle the Arguments of a well m●aning Christian is taken for the characteristick Note of Ingenuity and a pregnant Wit And on the contrary to use any perswasives to Religion and Piety savours of nothing but stupidity and folly Which things considered I cannot but fore-see what bad Entertainment this small Tract is like to meet withal abroad in the World especially among those who pretend to the most ripe Reason and keenest Wit whose custom indeed it is to make this ill use of it as to turn all sober things into Ridicule or Railery or else to dispute themselves out of their Duty which they will easily do when they suffer their understandings to be so frequently bribed by their vicious Inclinations There are I must confess many native defects in this Essay and to these I fear will be added the severe Censure of its being altogether impertinent at least I cannot nationally expect that it should be accepted by all or like the Manna fit every Palate however let it try it's fate it will fall into the hands of some serious and pious persons who may probably approve the de●●ign if not like the work and I hope with such whom I chiefly desire to gratifie it may meet with a candid and favourable reception The Reader may find here I must acknowledge many Excerpta and if I have not done right to every Author I desire him to charge it wholly upon the defect of Memory or want of inserting the Name in my common Place Book In my Second Section I have followed Cartesius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as judging his method very Argumentative How it comes to pass that the scandal of Atheism if it be now such even to a Proverb Ubi tres Medici duo Athei hath been cast upon those of our Faculty or whether there have been any just grounds for it I know not but this I am sure of that the knowledge of Second Causes and our frequent Converse with them ought rather to give us the clearer apprehensions of the First and by how much the Subject on which we continually employ our Minds and Studies is more noble and sublime so much the more divine ought to be our Speculations this good effect it had upon the Royal Prophet Psal 139.14 Who when his Meditations drew him to consider that he was fearfully and wonderfully made he presently breaks forth into Praises unto Almighty God and Acknowledgments of his marvellous Works Neither want we instances to take off that general Infamy of many Men truly pious in this Profession Even Hippocrates who flourished Four hundred ninety two years before Christ obtained the Title of Divine and that Character in his life that he was Vir Sanctis Moribus And to speak nothing of Galen Averroes Avicen and other Forreigners in this Art in whom Piety and Morality hath eminently shined we have lately had a more modern Hippocrates both of this Age and Nation who amongst other sweet Odours to perfume his Memory hath this that he was In toto Vitae statu Christianus But what need I mention any more when St. Luke himself was both Physician and Evangelist at the same time If I may by this small Treatise either silence the obloquies of some convince others or so far prevail with or encourage any as to lay aside their unreasonable Opinions and betake themselves to more religious and circumspect Lives I have my aim and shall think my self sufficiently recompenced for my weak labours If they fail of this I shall at least have that satisfaction in my own Breast that I designed them well ON THE Christian Physician Written by his Honoured AND Very much Esteemed Friend Dr. HENRY ATHERTON OF NEW CASTLE LEt now no more in Natures widest Round Be such a Prodigy as Atheist found Much less let on our Learn'd Physicians be Hereafter cast that blackest Obloquy Our good Physician having conquered Diseases which to death our Bodies led Aspireth higher yet and doth oppose Diseases more incurable than those If Precepts crown'd with good Example be