96 Bondinius de lefu Cbri(l i cla- ri'a e N gb- ria cap.5. 75 r¢7L >' ék.PQ< 4atSf C. it ero. Sexeea. B:c,taan. Hier W31E. ìro retiar.i tab. Ph7lofesp h. Qt.vBxaF¡,syeS Morbnr virtu- turn officinal vócat Amino fsus. No erulc(co, profitert,&e. It,.11 cc.epud rvici.tàdam, 1ßo. The r:ew- lsndcrs cure, Dar., .35. & 18.t0, A Cvrrnnentary upon the Gaf el Chap.4 tude love a man, if they will tru1him, and if theyhold Jimwor. thy of admiration, praifeand honour. Now none of there were wanting to our Saviour, as appeareth in this holy Hiflory, and as others have fully fet forth. Doworthily in Ephrata, and fo be fa- mous inBethlehem, Ruth 4 t t. And theybrought unto him allfekpeople ]. All that were ini{1 cafeand taking : For, Si vales, bene eft, faith one. And, Vita non eft vivere, redvalere, faith another. The Latines call a tick mane/Eger, which foine derive of 91,,,ui the voice of complaint and grief. And theStoiker when they affirmed, that to live a- greeably to nature, is to live vertuoufly and valiantly,' although the bodybenever foout oforder, they perceived when their own turn came to be tick ( faith one) Se magnificentiáis locutcs effe guam veriùs, that they had fpoken more trimly then truly. That were trtk'n with divers-difeafes and torments] That were befieged and hemmed inon every fide, as by anenemy flrait- ned and perplexed, fo that they knew not whither to look, only their eles were toward Chrifl. Difeafes and torments] As of thole that are put upon the rack : Pharaoh was fo when God extorted from him that conf I havefinned which (being gotten off) he foon bit in a- gain. Theword hereufed in the Originali, properly fignifieth the Tell or Touch-flone, wherewithgold is tried : and, by a borrow- edkinde of fpeech, is applied to all kinde of examination, and (peculiarly) to inquifition by torture,fo to any pain or painfull dif. cafes, as ofthe palfey, lunacy, c5-c. in this text, and Chap. 8.6. Asalto to the torments of hell, Ltik, 16. 23. whereof fickneflés are but a beginning, afore- tafte, a vey typieall hell to thofé thac havenot the fruits of their frcknef e. And this is all the fatts, e- ven the tangaway oftheirfinne, Ifa.27. I blush not to coafeffe ( faith a great Divine of Scotland) that I have gained more found knowledge of God andofmy felt, in this ficknefle, then e- ver I had before. Hippy fickncffe, that draws the lick matter out of the foul. Phyficians hold, that in every twoyears, there is fuch flareof ill humours and excrements ingendred in the body, that a vat' ofone hundred ounces will fcarce contain them.' Certain it is, ther's a world of wickedneflè and fiaperfluiry of naughtincfle (that bed of fpirituall difeafes) daily gathered and got together in , the finnefick-foul ; which thereforewe mull Ikon; to purge out by thepractice ofmortification; left Godpurge and n hkcn us to our,
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