Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	death_n	life_n	wage_n	10,497	5	10.9120	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89713	Hermetical physick: or, The right way to preserve, and to restore health. By that famous and faithfull chymist, Henry Nollius. Englished by Henry Uaughan, Gent.	Nolle, Heinrich, fl. 1612-1619.; Vaughan, Henry, gent,	1655 (1655)	Wing N1222; Thomason E1714_1; ESTC R209619	34,855	139

after she would remaine sound and unimpaired so that nothing of her Homogeneous essence and perfection could be saved from her by any Extraneous fire then without doubt both the way to and the miraculous Energie of this onely true and undeceiving medicine were in thy hands Section 5. Why Medicines cannot alwayes restore sick Persons to their former health O●waldus ●roll●us a cruly learned and expert Physician in his Preface to his Basilica Chymica doth most fully and judiciously handle this point His words are these It is observed sometimes that sick persons by the most convenient and effectual Medicines cannot be healed for some one or more of these eight subsequent reasons The first is because their appointed time or terme of life is come which by no humane wit or Medicine can be prolonged For there is no remedy upon earth by which our corruptible bodies can be freed from death the decreed penalty and the wages of our sinnes But there is one thing which if we add holinesse to it will keep back and restrain corruption renew youth and lengthen our short life as heretofore in the Patriachs Now though our life may be shortned and * prolonged yet because of the punishment for sinne we must by the immutable decree of the eternal Law unavoydably die for a conjunction of different Natures and things suppose a Spirit and a Body must necessarily induce a dissolution else we should state a Pythagorical Metempsuchosis or a revertency in ages as Plato did And in this Case the use of our universall and supreme Medicine will prove as vaine and ineffectuall as an old womans Recipe● because the Marriage of souls and bodyes ordained by an inevitable necessity for divorcement and separation can by no industry of Artists nor Ayds of nature be rendred perpetuall for the statute Lawes of the present things and their great Law-giver are inviolable It is impious therefore to seeke and impossible to find out such a Medicine that will carry us alive beyond those bounds which the very Father of life will not have us to transpasse The second reason is Because that sick persons are too too often brought to such a lamentable passe by the ignorance of unlearned Physicians and their pernicious Recipe's that the best and most virtual medicines can doe them no good their bodies being utterly poysoned and made immedicable by those fatal Tormentors and Executioners of mankind In this desperate ●ase most commonly is the Chymicall Physician called upon but then would I have him to call to mind that saying of Trophilus in Plutarch which affirms that man onely to be the compleat Physician {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and not to cast away but of vaine-glory their soveraigne and undeserved medicines to ●alve the credit of such detestable villaines whose infamy is past cure {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Let them beware also that they suffer not their Medicaments to be mingled with the sluttish and venemous compositions of others lest the ill consequence of such doings be laid to their charge and the success or good event if any comes to passe be arrogated by and ascribed unto those impudent and clamorous impostors for such a perverse and execrable envy possesseth these Medicasters that to disgrace those that are more learned and expert than themselves and to keep up their owne decaying repute they will if they can have that opportunity cast those Patients which are curable and towards recovery into an incurable and hopelesse condition Hence it comes to pass that amongst the common sort of people who suffer most by them they are publiquely saluted by the most apposite Title of Profest Poysoners The third reason is Because the Physician is called upon too late when nature is quite mastred or orecome and the disease hath got his full sway otherwise if convenient or proper medines were seasonable that is to say in a time of prevention by resisting the beginnings and first attempts of diseases administred no doubt but with Gods blessing and assent the consequence and effect would be happinesse and health The fourth reason is because the sick person will not punctually observe the Physicians prescriptions for it happens too often that Diseased people charge the Physician or his Medicines with those ill events which by some omission or irregularity contrary to that golden Law of the Locrenses in Ael●anu● they have drawne upon themselves The fifth reason is because the nature or peculiar propriety of some persons are not inclinable or adapted to health as we see some timber to be so tough and knotty and out of a certaine natural defect to degenerate into such an untowardnesse that by no force or Art it can be cleft or wrought And it happens very frequently that the time chosen for healing together with the indisposition of the Stars oppose the Cure for what ever Disease is unseasonably that is to say immaturely heal'd the party will be ever after subject to a relapse because it is the seasonablenesse or fulnesse of time that like harvest gives a firme and a fixed health A ripe Pear will fall off the Tree spontaneously but if we seeke to have it off while it is green we must either bruise the tree by shaking it or with more violence break off the bough Therefore if these considerations be neglected especially in the Cure of Astral diseases we shall but lose our labour and come off with prejudice Physicians also must religiously provide that the remedies they give prove not worse then the Disease therefore let them never advise their Patients to any impious course nor consent to doe those things which by salving the sore destroy the soule and the body too let it be their chiefe care not to hurt if they cannot help By doing so they will keep a good conscience which is a continuall ●east but for a bad one there is no medicine The sixth reason is because the disease is come to that pitch or confirmation from whence there can be no regress by the Laws of nature as in perfect absolute and confirmed bituminous massie sandy and stony coagulations for in such consummated Diseases no medicines can availe nor in a native deafnesse or blindness for what nature her selfe hath once deprived us off that cannot be restored by any Artists no more then corporall disproportions and birthmaimes or transpositions can be amended The seventh Cause or Reason is the sordid tenacious parcimonie of some rich Patients which makes the Physician for no Money is better disbursed nor more honestly gotten discontented and carelesse sometimes also the diffidence incredulity and suspition of Patients though the Physician be never so faithful and diligent hinders the operation of the Medicine and is a great impediment to the Physician himself The eighth and last reason is the wisdome and the goodnesse of God who without further toleration takes away the Patient lest being recovered he should commit more and more heynous offences against