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

I yield, if in sickness we contract and narrow up the powers of our soul, and direct them (as our finger) to the grief of our bodies only; forgetting either that God strikes us, or that we have first stricken God: either flying to ill means, or affying to good means more then to God; our sickness may be deadly to body and soul too. ^hAsa was sick but of his feet, his feet stood far from his hart, yet because he relied more on his Physicians, then on his Maker, he died. Or if there shall be no less confusion and hurly butly in the faculties of the Soul, then there is distemperature in the parts of the body: when Reason which should be the Queen, and dwell in the highest and choicest room, is deposed from her government, When the Senses, which are the Court-guards, and the Princesses attendants, that give all admission into the Presence; ⟨p. 90⟩are corrupted: when the supreme faculties, which are the Peers, are revolted; and the Affections which are the Commons perverted: and all this insurrection and disturbance, dethroning the Queen, corrupting the Guard, drawing from fealty the Peers, and the Commons from allegiance, wrought by those violent passions which are refractory and headstrong Rebels, having once gotten head. Alas, how far is this miserable distemper and perturbation of these spiritual parts, above the distress or distraction of the corporal members? neither is the future peril hereof only more full of prodigious desolation, but even the present sense is also more tetricall, piercing, and amazing with horror.

I yeelde, if in sicknes we contract and narrow vp the powers of our soule, and direct them (as our finger) to the griefe of our bodies only; forgetting either that God strikes vs, or that we haue first stricken God: eyther flying to ill meanes, or affying to good meanes more then to God; our sicknesse may be deadly to body and soule too. ^hAsa was sicke but of his feete, his feet stood far from his hart, yet because he relyed more on his Physitians, then on his Maker, he died. Or if there shall bee no lesse confusion and hurly butly in the faculties of the Soule, then there is distemperature in the partes of the body: when Reason which should be the Queene, and dwell in the highest and choisest roome, is deposed from her gouernement, When the Senses, which are the Court-guardes, and the Princesses attendants, that giue all admission into the Presence;