The beatitudes

3. The third particular is, That Christ is the Only Physician. Acts 4.12. Neither is there salvation in any other, &c. There's no other Physitian besides. ¹Non plures medici sed satis unus erit. The Papists would have other healers besides Christ, they would make Angels their Physicians; all the Angels in heaven cannot heal one sick soul; indeed they are described by their wings, Isa. 6.2. but they have no healing under their wings. Papists would heal themselves by their own merits. Adam did eat that Apple which made him and his posterity sick; but he could not find any herb in Paradise to cure him; our merits are rather damning than healing; to make use of other Physicians and ⟨p. 489⟩medicines, is as if the Israelites in contempt of that brazen Serpent which Moses set up, had erected other brazen Serpents. O let us take heed of that turba medicorum. Indeed in bodily sickness it is lawful to multiply Physicians; when the Patient hath advised with one Physician, he desires to have others joined with him; but the sick soul, if it joins any other Physician with Christ, it surely dies.

3. The third particular is, That Christ is the Only Physitian. Acts 4.12. Neither is there salvation in any other, &c. There's no other Physitian besides. ¹Non plures medici sed satis unus erit. The Papists would have other healers besides Christ, they would make Angels their Physitians; all the Angels in heaven cannot heal one sick soul; indeed they are described by their wings, Isa. 6.2. but they have no healing under their wings. Papists would heal themselves by their own merits. Adam did eat that Apple which made him and his posterity sick; but he could not finde any herb in Paradise to cure him; our merits are rather damning than healing; to make use of other Physitians and ⟨p. 489⟩