Heart-sick, wounded England and Ireland healed and saved now, not too good news to be true, by the appearance of an old man, a state-physitian, discovering all (or at least, very many) of its epidemical diseases, by prescribing and applying, not hurtful, poysonous, dear, forreign, French, fraudulent drugs, but wholesome, sound, cheap, faithful, domestick, English simples.

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Heart-sick, wounded England and Ireland healed and saved now, not too good news to be true, by the appearance of an old man, a state-physitian, discovering all (or at least, very many) of its epidemical diseases, by prescribing and applying, not hurtful, poysonous, dear, forreign, French, fraudulent drugs, but wholesome, sound, cheap, faithful, domestick, English simples.
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Peisley, Jeremiah.
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London :: printed for the author,
1689.
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Social problems -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- Early works to 1800.
Ireland -- Social conditions -- Early works to 1800.
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"Heart-sick, wounded England and Ireland healed and saved now, not too good news to be true, by the appearance of an old man, a state-physitian, discovering all (or at least, very many) of its epidemical diseases, by prescribing and applying, not hurtful, poysonous, dear, forreign, French, fraudulent drugs, but wholesome, sound, cheap, faithful, domestick, English simples." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53939.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.

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Heart-sick, Wounded England and Ireland Healed and Saved, Now, not too Good News to be True, BY The Appearance of an Old Man, a STATE-PHYSITIAN, Discovering all (or at least, very many) of its Epidemical Diseases, by Prescribing and Applying, Not Hurtful, Poyso∣nous, Dear, Forreign, French, Fraudulent DRUGS, But Wholesome, Sound, Cheap, Faithful, Domestick, ENGLISH SIMPLES.

Containing Certain PROPOSALS, Viz.

  • 1. The Propagation of the GOSPEL.
  • 2. The Ruine and Suppression of Sin, Superstition, and Popery.
  • 3. The Advancement of Piety, Vertue, and Integrity.
  • 4. The Resurrection and Revival of all, or most Lawful TRADES, especially those Two great Ones, HƲSBANDRY and WEAVING.

Wherein a Way is Shewed;

  • 1. How all the Poor of England may be set on Work, the Parishes Eased, and the Poor more Comfortably Provided for than Ever.
  • 2. How Dearness of Provision, Scarcity, especially a FAMINE in England, may be prevented for Ever.
  • 3. How Ill Husbandry, Idleness, and Poverty, may be prevented for Ever.
  • 4. How all the Lands in England may be far better Improved for Ever.
  • 5. How the KING'S REVENUE may be Increased many Thousands per Annum, and yet every In∣dividual House-keeper in England made Richer Five Shillings per pound, in the Use of one Commodity every Year, for ever.
  • 6. The Native Commodities of England Advanced, and yet the Price of all manner Necessary Provision for the Life of Man far Cheaper, Viz. Beef at a Penny, Mutton and Pork at one Penny half-penny per Pound, in the Dearest Places of England, even London, for Ever.
  • 7. The preventing of Breaking any more Persons in England, either out of Knavery or Necessity, for Ever.
  • 8. The preventing any more Rebellions in Ireland by the Irish, against the Government of England, for Ever.
  • 9. The Undermining of our English Trade, and unlawful Exporting our Native Commodities by Forreigners out of England, for Ever.
  • 10. The making England a Rich, Fruitful, Plentiful, and Powerful Countrey, preventing any more Forreign Invasion, and Enabling the King of England to give Laws (especially by Sea) to the Ʋniverse.
  • 11. The Numbers of Poor wonderfully Lessened, and the Swarms of Vermine that now live by Thieving and Cheating, Banished for Ever.
  • 12. The Conversations of Men Inspected, and yet their Hearts in Love United.
  • Lastly, The Groans and Sighs of Poor, Necessitous, and Half-starved Wives and Children, put to an End in England for Ever; with many other Great Blessings coming on the Nation, too Numerous here to be Incerted: Plainly Demonstrated by those three Grand Teachers of Men and Christians,
    Scripture, Reason, and Experience.

  • 1. By One who is by Birth, a Gentleman.
  • 2. By Countrey, Oxfordshire.
  • 3. By Trade, a Sword-Cutler of London.
  • 4. By Habitation, a Parishioner of St. Leonard Shorditch, in Long-Alley, next the Ball in Cross-Dagger Court:
Called, JEREMIAH PEISLEY.

Is there no Balm in Giliad? Is there no Physitian there? Why then is not the Daughter of England Healed?
I would have Healed them, and they would not be Healed. There was a Poor Man Saved a Great City, but no Man remembred that Poor Man.
Can we find such a One as this is, in whom the Spirit of God is?
Forasmuch as God hath shewed three all this, therefore, &c.
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