Englands sickness, comparatively conferred with Israels Divided into two sermons, by ThoEnglands sicknes, comparatively conferred with Israels Diuided into two sermons, by Tho

How indulgently should we tender the health thereof? We keep our chicken from the kite, our lamb from the Wolfe; our fawn from the hound, our doves from the vermin; and shall we yield our darling to the Lyons, our soul to those murdering spirits, which endeavour to devour them? The Soul may be well, when the body is full of griefs: but ill goes it with the body, when the soul is sick. Nay even corporal diseases are often a means to procure spiritual soundness. Therefore one calls it ^g(optabile malum, cum mali remedium sit maioris,) a happy evil, which is the remedy of a greater evil. We may say of many healthful bodies, tutius aegrotassent, they might with less danger have been sick. Nusquam peius quam in sano corpore, ager animus habitat. A sick mind dwells not rightly in a sound body. But to find a healthful and sound soul in a weak, sickly body is no wonder. Since the Soul (before smothered with the clouds of ⟨p. 89⟩health) is now suffered to see that through the breaches of her prison, which former ignorance suspected not.

How indulgently should wee tender the health thereof? Wee keepe our chicken from the kite, our lambe from the Wolfe; our fawne from the hound, our doues from the vermine; and shall wee yeeld our darling to the Lyons, our soule to those murdering spirits, which endeuour to deuoure them? The Soule may bee well, when the body is full of griefes: but ill goes it with the body, when the soule is sicke. Nay euen corporall diseases are ofen a means to procure spirituall soundnesse. Therefore one cals it ^g(optabile malum, cum mali remedium sit maioris,) a happy euill, which is the remedy of a greater euill. Wee may say of many healthfull bodies, tutius aegrotassent, they might with lesse danger haue beene sicke. Nusquam peius quam in sano corpore, ager animus habitat. A sicke minde dwels not rightly in a sound body. But to find a healthfull and sound soule in a weake, sickly body is no wonder. Since the Soule (before smothered with the cloudes of ⟨p. 89⟩health) is now suffered to see that through the breaches of her prison, which former ignorance suspected not.