A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children by J.B.

LXII. Of Physick:

PUrging Physick, taken to heat or cool, Worketh by Vomit, Urine, Sweat or Stool; But if it worketh not, then we do fear The danger's great, the Person's Death is near. If more be added, and it worketh not; And more, and yet the same's the Patients Lot. All hope of Life from Standers-by is fled, The Party sick is counted now as dead.

Comparison.

Count ye the Sick, one that's not yet converted, Impenitent, Incredulous, Hard hearted: In whom vile Sin is so predominant, And the Soul in it's Acts so conversant; That like one with Diseases over-run, This man with it at present is undone.

Now let the Physick be the Holy Word, (The Blessed Doctrine of our Dearest Lord.) And let the Doses to the Patient given Be, by Directions of the God of Heaven. Convincing Sermons, sharp and sound Rebukes, Let them be Beggars, Knights, Lords, Earls or Dukes: You must not spare them, Life doth lie at Stake, And dye they will, if Physick they don't take.

If these do finely work, then let them have Directions unto him that can them save. Lay open then the Riches of his Grace, And Merits of his Blood before their Face. Shew them likewise, how free he is to give His Justice unto them, that they may live. If they will doubt, and not your Word believe, Shew them, at present they have a Reprieve; On purpose they might out their Pardon sue, And have the Glory of it in their view.

Instances of this Goodness set before, Their Eyes, that they this Mercy may adore. And if this Physick taken worketh well, Fear not a Cure, you save a Soul from Hell.

But if these Doses do not kindly work, If the Disease still in their Mind doth lurk: If they instead of throwing up their Vice, Do vomit up the Word, loath Paradice: Repeat the Potion, them new Doses give, Which are much stronger, perhaps they may live: But if they serve these as they serv'd the rest, And thou perceiv'st it is not to them Blest: If they remain incorrigible still, And will the Number of their Sins fulfill; The Holy Text doth say that they must dye; Yea, and be damned without Remedy.