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busy a bishop ;) (a) ye should be the more careful, and wakeful in your charges. 

 Follow the rule prescribed to you by St. Paul, be careful to exalt and instruct, 

 in season, and out of season : and where you have been any way sluggish 

 before, now waken yourselves up again with a new diligence, remitting the suc 

 cess to God, who calling them either at the second, third, tenth, or twelfth hour, 

 as they are alike welcome to him, so shall they be to me his lieutenant here. 



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Plutarch in his Morals, says, &quot; You have naturally a philosophical genius, 

 and are troubled to see a philosopher have no kindness for the study of medicine. 

 You are uneasy that he should think it concerns him more to study geometry, 

 logic, and music, than to be desirous to understand whether the fabrick of his 

 body as well as his houses be well or ill designed. Now among all the liberal 

 arts, medicine does not only contain so neat and large a field of pleasure as to 

 give place to none, but plentifully pays the charges of those who delight in the 

 study of her with health and safety : so that it ought not to be called the trans 

 gression of the bounds of a philosopher to dispute about those things which relate 

 to health.&quot; 



The following extract is from Dr. Garnet s Lectures. 



&quot; Physiological ignorance is, undoubtedly, the most abundant source of our 

 sufferings ; every person accustomed to the sick must have heard them deplore 

 their ignorance of the necessary consequences of those practices, by which their 

 health has been destroyed : and when men shall be deeply convinced, that the 

 eternal laws of nature have connected pain and decrepitude with one mode of 

 life, and health and vigour with another, they will avoid the former and adhere 

 to the latter. It is strange, however, to observe that the generality of mankind 

 do not seem to bestow a single thought on the preservation of their health, till it 

 is too late to reap any benefit from their conviction. If knowledge of this kind 

 were generally diffused, people would cease to imagine that the human constitu 

 tion was so badly contrived, that a state of general health could be overset by 

 every trifle ; for instance, by a little cold ; or that the recovery of it lay con 

 cealed in a few drops, or a pill. Did they better understand the nature of 

 chronic diseases, and the causes which produce them, they could not be so un 

 reasonable as to think, that they might live as they chose with impunity ; or did 

 they know any thing of medicine, they would soon be convinced, that though 

 fits of pain have been relieved, and sickness cured, for a time, the re-establish 

 ment of health depends on very different powers and principles.&quot; 



Sir William Temple, in his Essay upon the Cure of the Gout by Moxa, says, 

 &quot; Within these fifteen years past, I have known a great fleet disabled for two 

 months, and thereby lose great occasions, by an indisposition of the admiral, 

 while he was neither well enough to exercise, nor ill enough to leave the com 

 mand. I have known two towns of the greatest consequence, lost contrary to all 

 forms, by the governors falling ill in the time of the sieges. 



&quot; I have observed the fate of Campania determine contrary to all appearances, 

 by the caution and conduct of a general, which were attributed by those that 

 knew him, to his age and infirmities, rather than his own true qualities, acknow 

 ledged otherwise to have been as great as most men of the age. I have seen 

 the counsels of a noble country grow bold or timorous, according to the fits of 

 his good or ill health that managed them, and the pulse of the government beat 

 high or low with that of the governor. And this unequal conduct makes way 

 for great accidents in the world : nay, I have often reflected upon the counsels 

 and fortunes of the greatest monarchies rising and decaying sensibly with the 

 ages and healths of the princes and chief officers that governed them. And I 

 remember one greatminister that confessed to me, when he fell into one of his usual 

 fits of the gout, he was no longer able to bend his mind or thoughts to any public 

 business, nor give audiences beyond two or three of his own domestics, though 



() See a sermon of Latimer s. 



