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A25447 Religio clerici T. A. 1681 (1681) Wing A32; ESTC R200747 38,573 248

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reacht the Seat of their Reason and Judgment And thus such Artists as can best by tender Expressions and passionate Applications soften mellow and dissolve the loose and easie Passions of silly Women are forsooth the only able powerful men and they good Souls can Edifie under none but them When alas all this seeming effectual Operation is no better than just thus viz. the whining Holderforth and the Female Congregation being at that time tuned like two Viols exactly alike by the Magick of Enthusiastick Sympathy their Notes correspond of course and the Canting of the one immediately begets Sighs and Groans in the other I am of opinion that the highest Paroxysms of Vulgar Quakerisme have much the same Cause as Dancing to Musick in Fits of the Tarantula For I have with pity and pleasure both observ'd that the malignant Ferment hath been by degrees exhaled by their violent Sudorifick motions and when the poor Soul hath spent his Spirits and is tyred at his very heart then as he fancies the Spirit goes off and leaves working And I am inclined too to think that the cooler habits of this Religious disease in many of them are to be cured by Medicinal Drugs and a regular course of Pill Potion and Phlebotomy A timely Visitation of the Sick as 't is a charitable duty almost necessary so it belongs as properly to the Function of a Priest as to the Profession of a Physician and the careful Visits of a Ghostly Father should of right be more welcome and comfortable and accounted of higher import as the care of our Souls ought to be of dearer concern to us than that of our frail Bodies and yet with us Vbi desinit Medicus ibi incipit Theologus is a common woful practice For my own part I should think my self obliged by a timelier Assistance to minde my ghostly Patient of the dangers of his long Journey urge him to hearty Confession give him comfortable Absolution and Communicate to him the strengthening Viaticum of the Body and Blood of the Adorable Jesus How busie the restless malice of the Enemy of Mankinde may be at this time to insinuate Suggestions of Despair or presumptuous hopes of longer Life into Sick persons I know not but surely I am bound to examine the case and by seasonable Anticipations prevent at least the success of Satan's devices That the Devil by Injection can modifie our Thoughts and in a great measure rule the Faculties especially of weak sick persons who are now more retired within themselves and free from the sensible amusements and diversions of worldly objects I verily believe for he may make a very malicious and mischievous use of the advantages he hath over our Souls himself being a subtle powerful Spirit and therefore by eminency of like nature may have a very forcible Influence upon the Operations of our Spirit as to take a parallel Analogy from what appears in matter the contrary essence the Pressure or Collision of a stronger body alters we see the Figure of Extension in a weaker or as the dimension of soft Wax is by my hands now square then round and presently triangular or oblong Now the Advantages of these frequent Visits will not only be so to the Sick but will produce in us forcible habits of undaunted Indifferencie against the Fears and Apprehensions of Death in general and the nearer Approaches of it too when our selves are assaulted Our most proper Titles are Ghostly Spiritual and such like to intimate that 't is our Trade to be familiarly present and frequently assistant at Nature's grand Dissection of Soul and Body It will the better improve our Theologick Knowledge and Skill as an accurate diligence in Anatomick Exercises doth that of the Chirurgick besides that the company of a Divine Physician suits well with the Soul as she is ready to be dismantled of her walls of flesh and transmitted to the better Colony of the new Jerusalem To men of our Function the sight of Death should be no more terrible than that of our Breath and we may be ashamed that our profest hopes of the Bodies Resurrection and the immediate Felicity of our Soul falls short of the courageous Gallantry of many Heathens in braving the ghastly King of Terrours to his very face upon no better or very little more assurance of Immortality than that of surviving Fame and Glory or a fruitless Nomen crit indelebile nostrum I have known some of us that not want of Christian Charity but Courage in this point hath with-held from paying their last dutiful Offices to Sick persons and when a silly common Nurse shall attend alone in silent dismal Night-watches these men could not approach in open day without apparent damps of Consternation And yet 't is doubtless as natural to die as to live or as 't is to be born and the sight of a Coffin alters me no more than that of a Cradle Certainly if the strange appearance of the object startled us a silly Midwife hath greater reason to be scared at the odde and uncouth Circumstances that accompany Natures thrusting a Child into the world than we in duely preparing a departing man or woman for the familiar Womb of our common Mother I finde little more surprize or alteration in my self at the sight of a deceased Man than of any other dead Animal Nay why should I not on the contrary be much more amazed at this than that Since this is an absolute object of irreparable Mortality and a total Privation appears here in the other of one Moiety only and that but to the general Resurrection 'T is Opinion not Reason or Religion rules men Dying hath been the common trade and way of all flesh for almost Six thousand years and more dye by Weekly Computation than are born Nay this Champion hath made one single Field such a glorious Scene of his Pomp and Luxury that 500000 Spectacles of Mortality have been at once offered as Victims to the insatiate Fury of one bloudy Battle 2 Chron. 13. 17. And in such a small Circumscription of time and place as this I suppose we never heard nor ever shall of an equal number of Nativities To me to dye is gain saith St. Paul Phil. 1. 21. which besides an Enfranchisement and release from the many troubles of this Life and the acquisition of eternal Joy doth also import to me That by Death and Separation this Concrete becomes two distinct Essences and we are so far from vanishing into nothing that by the advantageous division of Soul and Body one single Being branches into a duplicity of Existences For our Corps thô silent and unactive in the cold Lap of common Fate looses not a whit of its title to Existence nay even in this ghastly Privation there still appear some weak remains and faint efforts of a Vegetative Soul But our Spirit shall mount up like an Eagle Isai 40. 31. on the wings of celestial activity and greedily grasp all the pleasures of