Chap. 5. An Expo*ion upon the Book of J O B. Vert,18 cannot heal what men have wounded but God is never at a hand, your old feflered fores, and wrankled wounds which have taken wind, difcourage not his chyrurgery. When a people are in fuch a pickle or pitiful plight, as the Prophet 'raja'h defcribes the kingdomeof j udab, Chap. r. 5., 6. The whole head is fick, and the whole, heart isfaint ;from theJoleofthe foot even unto the bead, there isno foundnefs in it, but wounds andbruifes, and petrifying, fores ; they have not been clofed, neither boundup, neither mollified with oyntment. When (I fay ) the cafeof a people is thus, and theyget no healer : Yea though a people ( like the woman, iLrk5. 2.5. have had an Tile of blood ( in Bloody battelc, which is now almoft Englands cafe ) many years ; and have fufered many things ofmany Phyfitians, and have (pent all that they have, andare nothing bettered, but rather grow worfe ; yet ifChriJi doe but touchfuch a fick, difeafed bleeding people in mercy, and they touch him byfaith, they (ball be healed, and their fountain of blood' will immediatelydry up. Or if thy condition, requires Come lon- ger operation, he can effetually take fuch a courfe for their cure: He is abundantly furnìfhed with all infiruments and abilities for-. the making ofaperfefl cure. Itas well obferved, that three things are necefï'ary for a Chy. rurgion. Fart}, He mull have an Eagles eye;,one that is good.at.,healing;. had need be good at Geeing. Secondly, He muff have a Ladieshand, foft and tender toIan. dle the fore gently... Thirdly, A Lions heart, a flout ffrong heart,for.,if hefaint, how.. Ihall his patient keep up his courage ? Theme three are exceeding neceffary in Chyrurgeryabo.ut natu- ral bodies, but much morehiChyrurgery about Civil and Eccle- fìaftical bodies,the healing ofChurchesand Kingdoms.Andwhere. than we find whither Thall we fend for Phyfitians, quallified with this Eagles eye,to look into all our Cores and fickneffes ? with this Ladies hand, to deal gently and tenderly. with our wounds?with this Lions heart, floutly and couragioufly without fears and faint- ings, to go thorough with the work ? Well, if men fhould not be found thus furnifhed, theLord is ; He bath an Eagles eye, an All - feeing eye, fcven eyes ofprovidence and wifdome,to look through our fores, and into all our di'ítempers he hath ( as in allufion we. mar fpeak ) a Ladies hand,foft and tender,to deal gently and gra- cioufly,.
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