unto me all ye that are heavy
laden, and I will ease you," Mat. xi. and we know that there is one God,
"one Mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ," (1 Tim. ii. 5) "who gave
himself a ransom for all men." We know that "we have an [2840] advocate
with the Father, Jesus Christ" (1 Joh. ii. 1.) that there is no "other name
under heaven, by which we can be saved, but by his," who is always ready to
hear us, and sits at the right hand of God, and from [2841] whom we can
have no repulse, _solus vult, solus potest, curat universos tanquam
singulos, et [2842]unumquemque nostrum et solum_, we are all as one to him,
he cares for us all as one, and why should we then seek to any other but to
him.

MEMB. IV.

SUBSECT. I.--_Physician, Patient, Physic_.

Of those diverse gifts which our apostle Paul saith God hath bestowed on
man, this of physic is not the least, but most necessary, and especially
conducing to the good of mankind. Next therefore to God in all our
extremities ("for of the most high cometh healing," Ecclus. xxxviii. 2.) we
must seek to, and rely upon the Physician, [2843]who is _Manus Dei_, saith
Hierophilus, and to whom he hath given knowledge, that he might be
glorified in his wondrous works. "With such doth he heal men, and take away
their pains," Ecclus. xxxviii. 6. 7. "when thou hast need of him, let him
not go from thee. The hour may come that their enterprises may have good
success," ver. 13. It is not therefore to be doubted, that if we seek a
physician as we ought, we may be eased of our infirmities, such a one I
mean as is sufficient, and worthily so called; for there be many
mountebanks, quacksalvers, empirics, in every street almost, and in every
village, that take upon them this name, make this noble and profitable art
to be evil spoken of and contemned, by reason of these base and illiterate
artificers: but such a physician I speak of, as is approved, learned,
skilful, honest, &c., of whose duty Wecker, _Antid. cap. 2._ and _Syntax.
med._ Crato, Julius Alexandrinus _medic._ Heurnius _prax. med. lib. 3. cap.
1._ &c. treat at large. For this particular disease, him that shall take
upon him to cure it, [2844]Paracelsus will have to be a magician, a
chemist, a philosopher, an astrologer; Thurnesserus, Severinus the Dane,
and some other of his followers, require as much: "many of them cannot be
cured but by magic." [2845]Paracelsus is so stiff for those chemical
medicines, that in his cures he will adm