Chap.2 wound thebody of his brother with,a material iní}rument,but all, the Tyrants in the world cannot finite the body with a difeafe, or command a man into ficknefs; though God thould fay to them as here to Satan, I give you leave, yet they mull leave that to Sa- tan : who're help is foniteinie begg'd by envious wretches, who would kill their brethren Without a Swordaand vex them unleen, Man muff have a weapon tornite, but Satan can finite and kill without a weapon,if God fay the word. Man can fpill the blood, but Satan can poyfon the blood :`I ècan infer the humours, and taint the fpirits more fulatilly, mote gaudily, then the molt skil- ful] Poyfòner in Rome': We Chewed before howfuddenly Satan can raife commotions in the ayre)flormes and tempefts there ; he can tlo the like in our bodies : for fuch are dirales. in the body as florins and tempefls in the ay-r. Storms make ( as it were) a confuliou among the Elerïfents, and are the dittemper of nature: difèafes make a conflation among the humours, and diftemper the conilitútion -and 1pirits of the body.It is laid ofthe woman inLuk 53. 16. that Satan had bound her 28 years ; Obterve in that, the power Satan had over the body,ifGod give him liberty to exercife it ; as cruel men can bind in ehaines,,and call the body into prifon. for many years, fo Satan . un'bin'd the body with a `lpirii o infirmity as with a chain. Secondly,obfèrve this, Thai health acidffrength_ofbody are a ve, r3, great blefoig : You fee Satan delires to try job by taking away this biding lat.', and he thought this would make yob cutíè Cod : you may- ice.rhe vamáe ofit by, his':defire to detlroy it. léalrh is the Prince ofearthly blefìngr. We fay, he lives mifirable that lives by medicines, Who toaaphold nature is in the continual nie ofArt. How rniferable then doth he Iive, whom Art and medi- cines cannot reflore to health, who is difèafed beyond the help of Phytick. I_might mind you likewife from this, to remember what fraile bodieswe live.in; even fuch,as have in them the feeds of all di lea{ès: , Sir; indeed is the feed of fickncfs and ofdeath. And hence it is that if the humours of the `body be a little ftirr'd,they quick- ly turn to a difèafe : and this houle ofclay is ready to diffolveand fall. What is the flrength of the body, that we should trill} it ? thaj, beautyof the body, thatwe fhouldbe proud ofit ? We fee . in yob.how quickly the flrength of it is turned into weaknefs, afad_the beauty ofit into blackueh All fief, i grafs; and all the goodli-
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