Mens sana in corpore sano. A discourse upon recovery from sickness. Directing how natural…

First. Remember, That the Sin of our First Parents, was the First Parent of all our Sickness. All our Sicknesses, are but the Execution, of that Primitive Threatening, in Gen. 2.17. In the Day, that thou sinnest, thou shalt surely Die, If Crudities, and Obstructions, and Malignities, are the Parents of our Sicknesses, 'tis very sure, that Sin is the Grand Parent of them, and the Sin of our First-Parents is the First Parent of them all. We read, in Eccl▪ 9 18. of, ONE Sinner destroying much Good. I find, some Jewish Rabbi's take our Father Adam, to be meant by that ONE Sinner. Our Health is no small part of the Good, which ha's been Destroyed by him. Had our First Parents Eaten of the Tree of Life, doubtless a confirmed State of Perfect Health, both in Themselves and their Off spring, had been the Fruit of it. But our First Parents ⟨p. 23⟩criminally applied themselves to the Forbidden Tree of Knowledge: This proved a Tree of Death both to Themselves […] their Off-spring; and Sicknesses are among the Punishments of that nefandous Crime. Alas; Our Father Ate Sour Grapes, and our Teeth are set on Edge! When that Expression is used about our Lord Jesus Christ, [Heb. 2.9.] He TASTED Death for us; I make no doubt, that it is an Elegant Allusion, unto the Way, whereby Death at first came into the World; This was by Tasting the Forbidden Fruit. As Death, so Sickness, the Inchoation of Death, is but the Bitter Taste of that unhappy Action! Yea, The Breath of the Old Serpent, whereto Mankind in our First Parents hearkened, has poisoned us all. The poison, which that Serpent, who is, The Angel of Death, has insinuated into us, has disturbed our Health, as well as depraved our Heart. Sin, Sin, was that which opened the Flood Gates for a Flood of Wretchedness, to rush in upon the World; and Sickness is one Instance of that Wretchedness. Cursed SIN; I Indict thee, this Day, for Murdering of the World.

First. Remember, That the Sin of our First Parents, was the First Parent of all our Sickness. All our Sicknesses, are but the Execution, of that Primitive Threatening, in Gen. 2.17. In the Day, that thou sinnest, thou shalt surely Dy, If Crudities, and Obstructions, and Malignities, are the Parents of our Sicknesses, 'tis very sure, that Sin is the Grand Parent of them, and the Sin of our First-Parents is the First Parent of them all. We read, in Eccl 9 18. of, ONE Sinner destroying much Good. I find, some Jewish Rabbi's take our Father Adam, to be meant by that ONE Sinner. Our Health is no small part of the Good, which ha's been Destroy'd by him. Had our First Parents Eaten of the Tree of Life, doubtless a confirm'd State of Perfect Health, both in Themselves and their Off spring, had been the Fruit of it. But our First Parents