[ 1459] Sicknesse, immediately inflicted by God.
HIppocrates gave this Counsel to all Physitians that resorted unto him,* 1.1 that when they went upon any occasion to visit their Patients, they should consider with themselves, Whether there were not Divinum quiddam in morbis, the stroak of God in the sicknesse; because then (as it should seem) he held the cure to be desperate,* 1.2 and that it was but in vain to administer any Physick: Well! This was but one Doctors opinion, And by the leave of so eminent a Man, the disease was not Mortal; For then no Sicknesse were curable, because that in every disease there ••s the stroak of God, Quicquid patimur venit ab alto, There is no Si••knesse so l••••t••e, but God hath a Finger in it, though it be but the a king of the little Finger: And though there be in the body but onely one disease that is called sacer morbus, yet is it most certain, that there is sacrum quiddam in omni morbo, the hand of God in every Sicknesse, and yet every sicknesse is not unto Death, as Christ himself t••stifieth, Ioh. 11. 4.