r's fever will not be controll'd."

We must use our prayer and physic both together: and so no doubt but our
prayers will be available, and our physic take effect. 'Tis that Hezekiah
practised, 2 King. xx. Luke the Evangelist: and which we are enjoined,
Coloss. iv. not the patient only, but the physician himself. Hippocrates, a
heathen, required this in a good practitioner, and so did Galen, _lib. de
Plat. et Hipp. dog. lib. 9. cap. 15._ and in that tract of his, _an mores
sequantur temp. cor. ca. 11._. 'tis a rule which he doth inculcate, [2814]
and many others. Hyperius in his first book _de sacr. script. lect._
speaking of that happiness and good success which all physicians desire and
hope for in their cures, [2815]"tells them that it is not to be expected,
except with a true faith they call upon God, and teach their patients to do
the like." The council of Lateran, _Canon 22._ decreed they should do so:
the fathers of the church have still advised as much: whatsoever thou
takest in hand (saith [2816]Gregory) "let God be of thy counsel, consult
with him; that healeth those that are broken in heart, (Psal. cxlvii. 3.)
and bindeth up their sores." Otherwise as the prophet Jeremiah, cap. xlvi.
11. denounced to Egypt, In vain shalt thou use many medicines, for thou
shalt have no health. It is the same counsel which [2817]Comineus that
politic historiographer gives to all Christian princes, upon occasion of
that unhappy overthrow of Charles Duke of Burgundy, by means of which he
was extremely melancholy, and sick to death: insomuch that neither physic
nor persuasion could do him any good, perceiving his preposterous error
belike, adviseth all great men in such cases, [2818]"to pray first to God
with all submission and penitency, to confess their sins, and then to use
physic." The very same fault it was, which the prophet reprehends in Asa
king of Judah, that he relied more on physic than on God, and by all means
would have him to amend it. And 'tis a fit caution to be observed of all
other sorts of men. The prophet David was so observant of this precept,
that in his greatest misery and vexation of mind, he put this rule first in
practice. Psal. lxxvii. 3. "When I am in heaviness, I will think on God."
Psal. lxxxvi. 4. "Comfort the soul of thy servant, for unto thee I lift up
my soul:" and verse 7. "In the day of trouble will I call upon thee, for
thou hearest me." Psal. liv. 1. "Save me, O God, by thy name," &c. Psal.
lxxx