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HONOVR the phisition :: 1.1 for necessitie: for the Highest [ 1] hath created him. † For al medicine is of God, & it shal [ 2] receiue gift of the king. † The knowlege of the phisition shal [ 3] exalt his head, and in the sight of great men he shal be praised.
† The Highest hath created medicines of the earth, and a wise [ 4] man wil not abhorre them. † Was not bitter water made [ 5] * 1.2 sweete by wood? † The vertue of these thinges is come to [ 6] the knowlege of men, and the Highest hath geuen knowlege to men, for to be honoured in his meruelous thinges. † Curing with these thinges he shal mitigate paine, and the [ 7] apothecarie shal make confections of swetenes, and shal make ointments of health, and his workes shal not be con∣summated. † For the peace of God is vpon the face of the [ 8] * 1.3 earth. † Sonne in thine infirmitie contemne not thy self, [ 9] * 1.4 but pray our Lord, and he wil cure thee. † Turne away from [ 10] sinne, and direct thy handes, and from al offence cleanse thy hart. † Geue sweetenes and a memorial of fine floure, and [ 11] make a fat oblation, and geue place to the phisition. † For [ 12] our Lord created him: and let him not depart from thee, because his workes be necessarie. † For there is a time when [ 13] thou maist fal into their handes: † and they shal beseech our [ 14] Lord, that he direct their rest, and healing; for their conuersa∣tion. † He that sinneth in his sight, that made him, shal fal [ 15] into the handes of the phisition. † Sonne vpon the dead [ 16] shed teares, and beginne to weepe as hauing suffered doleful thinges, and according to iudgement couer his bodie, and neglect not his burial. † But :: 1.5 for detraction beare bitterly [ 17] the mourning of him one day, and be comforted for the* 1.6 heauines, † and make mourning according to his desert one [ 18] day, or two, because of detraction. † For by heauines death [ 19] hasteneth, and it couereth the strength, and sorow of the hart boweth the necke. † In abstraction sorow is permanent: and [ 20] the substance of the poore is according to his hart. † Geue [ 21] not thine hart into heauines, but expel it from thee: and re∣member the latter endes, † and forget not: for neither is [ 21] there returne, and him thou shalt profit nothing, and thou shalt hurt thy self. † Be mindful of my iudgement: for thine [ 23] also must be so: to me yesterday, and to thee to day. † In the [ 24] repose of the dead make the memorie of him to rest, and com∣fort* 1.7 him in the departing of his spirit. † :: 1.8 The wisdom of [ 25] a scribe in the time of vacance: and he that is lesse in action, shal receiue wisdom. † With what wisdom shal he be reple∣nished, [ 26] that holdeth the plough, and glorieth in the goade, driueth oxen with the prickle, and conuerseth in their workes, and his talke is in the breede of bulles? † He wil [ 27]
geue his hart to turne vp furrowes, and his watching in the feeding of kine. † So euerie craftsman and workemaster that [ 18] passeth the night as the day, that maketh grauen seales, and his continual diligence varieth the picture: he wil geue his hart to the similitude of the picture, and his watching wil perfect the worke. † So the yronsmith sitting by the anuil and [ 29] considering the worke of yron. The vapour of the fire wil parche his flesh, and he striueth in the heate of the fournace: † The noyse of the hammer reneweth his eare, and his eye is [ 30] against the similitude of the vessel. † He wil geue his hart to [ 31] the finishing of the workes, and his watching wil polish to perfection. † So the potter sitting at his worke, turning the [ 32] wheele with his feete, who is alwayes set in carefulnes for his worke, and al his working is in number: † With his arme [ 33] he wil fashion the clay, and before his feete he wil bend his strength: † He wil geue his hart to finish the vernishing [ 34] thereof, and his watching wil make cleane the fournace. † Al [ 35] these haue hoped in their handes, and euerie one is wise in his owne art. † Without these a citie is not built. † And they [ 36] shal not inhabite, nor walke therein, and they shal not leape [ 37] high into the congregation. † Vpon the iudges seate they [ 38] shal not sitte, and the ordinance of iudgement they shal not vnderstand, neither shal they declare discipline and iudge∣ment, and in parables they shal not be found: † but they [ 39] shal confirme the creature of the world, and their prayer shal be in the worke of their art, applying their soule, & searching in the law of the Highest.
Mans bodie naturally nee∣deth sustenāce & sometimes phisike, and so doth his soule; which as it is more excel∣lent, so it ought to be more regar∣ded.
Exo. 25.
Isa. 38.
Spiritual in∣firmitie requi∣reth spiritual phisike.
To auoide euil speach, shew that thou art truly sorie for the death of thy freind. But moderate thy sorow, lest it hurt thy self.
Prou. ••5. & 17.
2. Reg. 12
VVhen pa∣stores haue ley sure from pre∣aching they may then pro∣fite others by writing. So S. Paul, not only preached, but also writte. So likewise the Doctors of the Church and o∣ther holie fa∣thers.