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2 Now (not unfitly) after the sickness in sin, follows the sickness for sin, which distributes it self into a double passion, corporal and spiritual.

2 Now (not vnfitly) after the sicknes in sinne, followes the sicknes for sinne, which distributes it selfe into a double passion, corporall and spirituall.

^t1 All corporal sickness is for sin. The sick man heard it from his heavenly Physician, Go thy ways sin no more least a worse thing come unto thee. So sung David in the Psalm; ^uFools, because of their iniquities are afflicted, their ⟨image 41⟩soul abhorreth all manner of meat, and they draw near to the gates of death. This Elihu grounds against Job, that sin causeth sickness: ^xSo that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat. His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen, stick out. Weakness proceedeth from wickedness: if the Soul had not sinned his body should not have smarted. Indeed this blow is easy, if we respect the cause that drew it on us. For if the ^bWages of sin be death, Sickness is a gentle payment, Sickness is the malady of the body, Death is the malady of sickness. But such is Gods mercy, that he is content to punish sometimes corporaliter, non mortaliter; and to put into our hearts a sense of our sins, by casting us down, not by casting us out. But whether the affliction be quoad introitum, or quoad interitum, a more gentle entrance or more piercing to death, all is produced by our sin.

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