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Physicke for body and soule Shevving that the maladies of the one, proceede from the sinnes of the other: with a remedie against both, prescribed by our heauenly physitian Iesus Christ. Deliuered in a sermon at Buckden in Huntingtonsh, before the right reuerend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Lincolne then being, by E. Heron Bachelor of Diuinitie, and sometime fellow of Trin. Colledge in Cambridge.
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Heron, Edward, d. 1650.
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rottennes verse 12. the moath frets by degrees insensibly but rottennes ruins at once suddenly further Ephraim saw his sicknesse and Iudah his wound then went Ephraim vnto Ashur and sent vnto king Iareb forsaking God and making flesh their arme resting themselues vpon the brittle reede of mans strength therfore will I be to Ephraim as a Lyon and to the house of Iudah as a Lyons whelpe the Lyon is fierce and cruell but the Lyons whelpe is more bold saies Plinie for want of experience and more rauenous as being but newly blouded in the naturall course of deuouring This for temporall punishment As for eternall S. Aug. tels vs Si impius peccat in suo aeterno Impij amhulant in circuitu Deus puniet in suo aeterno if wretched man make no end in sinning walking in a circle of sinne as Dauid speakes of the wicked with his amplius Psal 11.9 yet a little more sleepe at least a little slumber in sinne God for iustice sake must make no end of punishing with his deterius worser and worser making those temporall plagues but as a praeludium to those aeternall ones where the worme of conscience neuer dyeth and the fire of Gods vengeance is vnquenchable Therefore if thou beest made whole sin no more least a worse thing happen vnto thee Out of all which praemises let vs deduce these briefe conclusions 1. From the commemoration of the benefit receiued It teaches that Beneficium excitat officium Gods bountifulnesse ought to stirre vp our thankfulnesse For as in euery donation there is a Giuer a Receiuer so there ought to be a thanksgiuer otherwise the knot of the three Graces is vnloosed and vertue is dishonoured What if wee compare our condition to the case of this diseased man we were bruised and wounded by that subtle Serpent who supplanted the first Adam and behold wee are made whole by the pretious balme of the second Adam his righteousnesse He was broken for our sinnes and by his stripes wee are healed Esay 53. What remaines but that we should apply this note of remembrance to our selues and so be stirred vp to offer alwaies to God the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiuing for our happie deliuerance and so much the more because it is more thanks-worthy that Christ hath healed our diseased soules quam quod sanarit languores corporum moriturorum Aug. in Locum then if He had restored our mortall bodies to perfect health Ingratitude being so odious a vice as the Heathen Orator Cicero said all other vices were cōprehended in that one as Irreligion towards the Gods disobedience towards our parents neglect of the welfare of our coūtrey Ethic. 4. which caused the ancient Graecians saies Arist to place the temple of Thankes in the middest of the streete 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that being obvious to theeie it might alwaies put men in minde of remuneration This temple was placed euen in the midst of Dauids heart who pondering with himselfe the infinite mercies and benefits He had receiued at Gods hands breakes forth with A Quid retribuam What shall I render vnto God for all the benefits c and resolues the question with this Accipiam calicem I will take the cup of saluation and giue thanks And with good reason for euen the sencelesse creatures may teach man his lesson Eccles. 1.2 All the riuers goe into the Sea sayes Ecclesiast shewing themselues tributaries to that place from whence they haue their originall So euery good gift temporall spirituall eternall flowing vnto man from the Ocean of Gods goodnesse man is bound by the law of retaliation to returne vnto him with all possible thankes for the same 2. From the Commonition Sinne no more the conclusion is That sinne is the cause of all affliction and diseases of the body The ancient Heathen dreamed that many maladies were of a diuine nature and from thence had power to subdue the strength and courage of the strongest body whereupon Plinie notes it that the Romans dedicated a Temple to the Goddesse Feuer to the end Plin. Nati-Christ lib. 2. Such were called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dij averun cantes that whereas her Deitie could doe them small good yet that shee would bee so good as to doe them no hurt Others ascribed them to constellation of Planets and to the apparition of Comets Nocte comaetae Sanguinei lugubre rubent aut Syrius ardor Ille sitim morbosque fereus mortalibus aegris Virgil. Blasphemous Porphyrie referred the contagion of the citie to the profession of Christian religion because after that had once gotten head Aesculapius the God of health was neglected Ex Moru de Rellig Hesiod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Greeke Poet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they walke broad of their owne accord vncontrolled but the Philosopher more truly yet after his naturall manner that diseases are not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ex Caelio Rhodig after the determinate councel of nature because Nature is not a step-mother seeking to destroy her children Sed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by a certaine consequence which the Physitian teaches to arise from the disproportion of the foure Primarie qualities Hotte Aristotle de morte vitae Colde Moist Dry especially heate and moysture when any of these vsurpe a tyranny ouer the rest the whole fabricke of this little world our body is put out of frame by the rebellious humours striuing to ouer-master one another But the sacred word of God conducts vs to the head and fountaine from whence all our diseases haue their issue and that 's from the sinne of our soule 1. Cor. 11. for this cause many are sicke and weake amongst vs. Sinne a thing so contagious vt vi exuperantia sua corpus quoque inficiat Chrys in Cor. 11. it flowes with such a sourse as it ouerflowes the whole vessell who if He had not sinned he had neuer been subiect to the arrest of any disease whatsoeuer Biel in sent Lumbard For whereas the Schoolemen obserue but three ordinarie waies open to his destructiō either the violence of man crueltie of beasts defect in nature against the 1. vniuersal iustice should so haue preuayled with men that neither offence should haue beene giuen nor defence required Againe the second the fiercest of beasts should haue been in such subiection to man that the litle child might haue plaied on the hole of the Basilik without hurt Esa 11.8 Bonad Arnob. lib. 6. cals mans body domicilium morborum Horat. and against the third he should haue had optimum qualitatum temperamentum perfectae sanitatis Such an equal temperature of these prime qualities as one should neuer haue bin praedominate ouer the other the humour radicall being maintained by the tree of life But by his disobedience forfeiting this large charter of his immunities to his soueraign Lord Tunc noua febrìum Terris incubuit cohors a whole army