1. Because usually sickness and pains languishing or tormenting, make the first changes in the Body, and the natural Death is violent. This Hezekiah complained of with a mournful accent, He will cut me off with pining sickness: 1from day even to night thou wilt make an end of me. I reckoned till morning, that as a Lion, so will he break all my Bones. A Troop of Diseases are the forerunners of this King of Terrors. There is a preceding encounter, and sometimes very fierce, that Nature feels the cruel Victory before it yields to this Enemy. As a Ship that is lost by a mighty tempest, and by the concussion of the Winds and Waves loses its Rudder and Masts, takes in water in every part, and gradually sinks into the Ocean: So in the shipwreck of Nature, the Body ⟨p. 26⟩is so shaken and weakened by the violence of a Disease, that the senses, the animal and vital Operations decline, and at last are extinguished in death.
1. Because usually sickness and pains languishing or tormenting, make the first changes in the Body, and the natural Death is violent. This Hezekiah complained of with a mournful accent, He will cut me off with pining sickness: 1from day even to night thou wilt make an end of me. I reckoned till morning, that as a Lion, so will he break all my Bones. A Troop of Diseases are the forerunners of this King of Terrors. There is a preceding encounter, and sometimes very fierce, that Nature feels the cruel Victory before it yields to this Enemy. As a Ship that is lost by a mighty tempest, and by the concussion of the Winds and Waves loses its Rudder and Masts, takes in water in every part, and gradually sinks into the Ocean: So in the shipwrack of Nature, the Body ⟨p. 26⟩is so shaken and weakened by the violence of a Disease, that the senses, the animal and vital Operations decline, and at last are exstinguish'd in death.
- 1Isa. 38.
