The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

VERS. X.

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Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath days?

THESE are not so much the words of Enquirers, as Denyers. For these were their dicisions, in that Case, s 1.1 Let not those that are in health use physic on the Sabbath day, Let not him, that labours under a pain in his loyns anoynt the place affected with oyl and vi∣neger: but with oyl he may, so it be not oyl of Roses, &c. He that hath the tooth ach, let him not swallow vineger to spit it out again, but he may swallow it, so he swallow it down. He that hath a soar throat, let him not gargle it with oyl: but he may swallow down the oyl, whence, if he receive a cure, it is well. Let no man chew Mastich, or rub his teeth with spice for a cure; but if he do this, to make his mouth sweet, it is allowed. They do not put wine into a sore eye. They do not apply fomentations or oyls to the place affected, &c. All which things, however they were not applicable to the cure wrought by Christ, (with a word only) yet they afforded them an occasion of cavilling; who indeed were sworn together, thus to quarrel him; that Canon affording them a further pretence, t 1.2 This certainly ob∣tains, that what soever was possible to be done on the Sabbath Eve, driveth not away the Sab∣bath. To which sense he speaks, Luke, XIII. 14.

u 1.3 Let the Reader see, if he be at leisure, what diseases they judge dangerous, and what physic is to be used on the Sabbath.

Notes

• s 1.1

  Maimon. in Schabb. c. XXI.
• t 1.2

  Talm. Schabb. cap. XIX.
• u 1.3

  ••n Hieros. A∣vodah Zara••▪ fol. 40. 4.