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<P>RARE
PHYSICK
FOR THE
CHVRCH SICK OF AN
AGUE
PRESCRIBING EXCELLENT
and mo&s;t accurate Phy&s;ick to be given to the
Church which has been &s;icke a
long time.</P>
<P>With the names of every particular Di&s;ea&s;e, and
the manner how &s;he contracted them, and
by what meanes, as al&s;o pre&s;cripts to
remedy the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Humbly commended to the Parliament, tho&s;e
Admirable phy&s;icians of the Church
and State.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> printed for <HI>W. T.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>Rare Phy&s;icke for the Church &s;icke
of an Ague.</HEAD>
<P>THE langui&s;hing Church being extreame
&s;icke of many dangerous di&s;ea&s;es, had once
began almo&s;t to &s;ing its <HI>ultimum vale</HI> to
the World, it was &s;o turbulently di&s;tracted by
the contentious opinions of &s;ome Schi&s;maticall
di&s;turbers thereof: And being in this deepe Ma|lady,
many in an hone&s;t deploration condoled her
e&s;tate; yet commi&s;erating her di&s;tre&s;&s;e farther,
they would not leave her de&s;olate of reliefe and
comfort, but did co unitely concurre in one una|nimous
contribution to elevate and re&s;tore her to
its former pro&s;perity and pri&s;tine health. Fir&s;t
then they agreed in a conclu&s;ive determination
to &s;end for all the Neighbours round to vi&s;it and
con&s;olate her: The Prote&s;tants were fir&s;t &s;ent
for, becau&s;e they were the next Neighbours to
her, who when they beheld apparently her de&s;pe|rate
&s;ickne&s;&s;e, every one endeavoured to adde a
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&s;alve thereunto; one would have ca&s;t her water,
but the two Univer&s;ities dammed up, and &s;topped
the running thereof, for feare it &s;hould runne to
<HI>Am&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">rdam:</HI> Another perceiving an ob&s;tacle
there, laboured to finde out her Di&s;ea&s;e, &s;uppo|sing
her to be &s;icke of the <HI>Mother:</HI> A third re|plyed,
that &s;he could &s;carce attaine to that ma|turity,
&s;ince &s;he laboured &s;o lately of a young
<HI>Suckling:</HI> Another an&s;wered, that &s;he was abu|&s;ed
by one living at the back-side of <HI>Brownes</HI> barn,
who <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ut of his running Hogshead broached &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">h
&s;trange and prodigious prophe&s;ies to his prick|ear'd
Auditors, that it &s;tuck deeply in her Sto|mack,
and from thence &s;he contracted &s;o great a
burning Fever, that many Books could not with|&s;tand
the Flame thereof. They &s;ent &s;econdly to
the Round-heads de&s;iring their a&s;&s;i&s;tance to help
this di&s;torted Church, but they were &s;o greatly
imployed at Cheap&s;ide-Cro&s;&s;e, that they could
&s;pare no time to come to her. The puritans were
next &s;ent for, but they were in &s;uch ha&s;ty prepa|ration
for New-England, that their con&s;ciences
could not &s;uffer them to &s;teale &s;o much time, to
comfort the &s;icke, which they never could en|dure
to doe in their lives. There are many pla|ces
for &s;everall men appointed, and yet I wonder
extreamely, that one &s;hould be deficient: There
is Newgate appointed for Theeves, Bridewell
for idle per&s;ons, the Counters for Drunkards,
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">gate for Debtors, Bedlam for mad men, and
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Ho&s;pitals for lame per&s;ons; yet among&s;t them
all (I wonder) there is no place for Fooles, but
in their New plantation (I thinke) they wil erect
an ho&s;pital<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> for Fooles, where they may doe ma|ny
miraculous deeds of charity, yet I hope &s;ome
of them will be wi&s;e enough to admit them&s;elves
there fir&s;t, becau&s;e charity begins at home. The
Famili&s;ts were next &s;ent for, but &s;ome of the
holy Brethren being a&s;leepe, the others were oc|cupied
by their wives in a conjunction copula|tive,
and being &s;o zealou&s;ly imployed, they could
not &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ffurate &s;o much time to come. Thus the
Church being variou&s;ly di&s;tracted between the&s;e
Sects, is involved in an irremiable labyrinth of
opinions, and hereupon recontracted &s;uch de&s;pe|rate
di&s;ea&s;es, that it &s;till requireth a more auxi|liary
remedy. The &s;ure&s;t way then, that I can
conceive herefrom, is to &s;end for the Doctors,
who I &s;uppo&s;e have more &s;ciential skil to re&s;olve
us of her malady, but they with their New Ca|nons
are &s;o imployed in the Tower to defend the
City, for they would otherwi&s;e willingly have
come, but only they &s;tumbled on the prote&s;tation
and the Tower &s;tood in their way, which hinde|red
their voluntary readine&s;&s;e: But in my opinion
it was well they were excluded by &s;o opportune
an ob&s;tacle, for otherwi&s;e (it is to be feared) they
would have rather brought her former dis<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">emper
to a deepe Con&s;umption, and &s;o con&s;equently
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&s;he might have layn on her death-bed: but thanks
be to the Omnipotent indulgencie of Almighty
God, who &s;ent true and skilfull Phy&s;itians unto
her, to cure her di&s;ea&s;e; I meane the Parliament,
that illu&s;trious A&s;&s;embly of both Temporall and
Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Phy&s;itians: The&s;e as &s;oone as
they fir&s;t per&s;picuou&s;ly perceived the dangerou&s;|nes
of the di&s;ea&s;e, which by the long negligence
of time &s;he had contracted, began fir&s;t to ca&s;t her
water, which made &s;o many Flye over the Ocean,
that then &s;he did &s;eeme re&s;pectively to recover.
And after, there was &s;ome hopes of pre&s;ervative
health remaining, they thought it mo&s;t expedi|ent
to give her next a &s;ound purge, which made
&s;o many impedimen all excrements of papi&s;ti|call
adherents be evacuated from her, that &s;hee
began to waxe &s;tronger and &s;tronger: Thus the
Church was delivered our of the almo&s;t incura|ble
di&s;ea&s;e of popery and &s;uper&s;tition, and &s;o
Flour&s;hed a while; till at length for want of
&s;trong &s;uporters &s;he became feeble againe, and by
the imaginarie countenancing of too much licen|tiou&s;nes,
<HI>&s;he</HI> is now &s;icke of the Staggers, and
unle&s;&s;e &s;he has another purge given her, and that
&s;peedily too, to purge her from Browniani&s;me,
nece&s;sarily &s;he will fall into the former, or as bad,
if not wor&s;e) di&s;ea&s;e: For as the one &s;welled
too high in popi&s;h opinions, and had almo&s;t o|verwhelmed
her, &s;o the latter dives &s;o low in He|re&s;ie,
that it will (it is &s;uppo&s;ed) almo&s;t &s;ink her:
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But the Judicious and phy&s;icall knowledge of
the parliament will no doubt accurately cure her;
the be&s;t way that I can conceive for her recovery
is to be let bloud, and then &s;ome hopes of refor|mation
may be expected to her great health and
pro&s;perity, the Kingdomes happine&s;&s;e, and the
Immortall Glory of tho&s;e illu&s;trious Phy&s;itians
of the Parliament.</P>
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