O rnall extremities our recourfe Vpon the Fr ayafter muabe onely toGod. vp within ourdoores ; let Louru reuenge vs of this his prefumption. The Atheniansplaced Loues Statuabetwixt ultitercuricand Hercules,the one the god ofEloquence, the other of Fortitude. To (hew that Loue doth not confift fo much inwordes, as inworkes. Thouhaft vouchfafed, ôLord,to honour our brother with the name offriend,nowmanifeft the fameby thy ftrong arme,and thypowerful! hand. The fifth,was their hawing recourfe vntohim that had caufed this woundand was onely able to cure it. Firít,for that God ishighlyoffended that we fhould haue recourfe toany but himfelfe. Secondly,Becaufe noPhifition, norearthly phifickcan minifter health without thewill andpleafureof ourheauenly Phifi- tion,He esoundeth,and hemaketh srbole.The former is notifiedvntovs inAhaziah, who findinghimfelfe fore ficke ofafall through the Lattice windowof his vp- per chamber : fent (fearing he fhould die ofthat bruife)to confultwith Beelzebub the god ofEkron.Which Meffengers Elias meetingwithal!, Paidvnto them; 4-Reg. r. what is there noGodin Iliadthatyeegoe to inquire ofBeelzebub the godofEckron ? deliuer therforethis meffage front God veto your king, ThouAult not comedown ofee 4 t a. from the bedonwhich thouartgonevp, batfbalt eke thedeath. Hofa doth likewife complaine, That his Peoplehad recourfe in their doubts vnto Idolls, úYty Peo- ple askeconndat theirflockes. Lyrarenders it, infimulachre legni. This my Peo- ple is fo foolifh , that they goc toaske councell of a piece of wood. The fe- uentie Interpreters turneit thus, In virginfide: Whereupon Rupertum loath ob- ferued,That thiswas akind of fuperftition which cloue vnto them from the Chaldeans, fromwhom they had reeeiued this infection ; for it was a fafhion amongftthem, when they wouldknowwhatshould befall them, to throw vpa coupleof ftickes ashigh as theycould fling them ; or twoarrows tiedtogether, and marking theonefor good lucke,andthe otherforbad,theymumbled I know notwhat words, and that whichin thefallingfell vppermoft, did prognofticate rcvch.ar.ai. thefucceffe. Ezechiel reporteth, That theKing ofBabylon comming with a great arnrie,doubtingwith himfelfe,whither he fhould goe againft Rahab or le- rufalem, cowingwhere there weretwowayes to take, vfed this fuperítition- of the two Arrowes,9zerens diuinatiouem. The King ofBabell ftood at the partingof theway , at the head ofthe two wayes , confultingby diuination, and made his Arrowes bright,&c. and the lot lighted againft lerufalem. This difference thereis betwixt him that isaSaint of God , and him that is not ; that he inhis griefes hath recourfe firft vnto God, and next ro humane remedies; wheras theotherbath firfi recourfe vnto Phyfitions:& when they notifie to the former,tlaedangerwherein heis, hefalls toaconfeflionofhis fins, aheartie re- pentance, and tothe receiuingof thebleffed Sacrament. The Antients did pi- eture Health in the forme of ahandfome faire Damofell fitting in a Royal! Throne; forwithout health thereis no pleafure in royal! Thrones, in Scepters, nor in Crownes : for thebetterconferuation whereof, we aretovfe temperance in our dyet. TheSerpent is theSymboleof Prudence, withoutwhich itisim- poflible to preferue our health. Thefoolifh and vndifcreet man, that makes no reckoning of the fallingofyour Sereno's or euening dewes, oftentimes blafting thofe thatare in them ; as in Spaine, and thelikehot Countries;ofyour Stinnes heats, andyourSnowes colds, your foule and pockie Whores, look oftentimestheir healths, ifnot their hues. Butaboueall,wemuff haue recourfe vntoGod, for God is all inall ; andwithout God, littleimporrethtemperance, prudcnce,Phyfitions,or Phyficke. The.fixt confrderatioaof theirdifcretion, was, That they did propofe their miferie,
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