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Wormwood, for the others will do but little good. 

 Again, near the sea many people live, and Seriphiaa 

 throws near them, and therefore is more fitting for their 

 bodies, because nourished by the same air ; and this 1 

 had from Dr. Reason. In whose body Dr. Reasoa 

 dwells not^ dwells Dr. Madness, and he brings in his 

 brethren, Dr. Ignorance, Dr, Folly, and Dr. Sickness, 

 and these together make way for Death, and the latter 

 end of that man is worse than the beginning. Pride was 

 the cause of Adam's fall j pride begat a daughter, I do 

 not know the father of it, unless the devil, but she 

 christened it, and called it Appetite, and sent her daugh- 

 ter to taste these Wormwoods, who finding this the least 

 bitter, made the squeamish wench extol it to the skies, 

 though the virtues of it never reached to the middle re* 

 gion of the air. Its due praise is this : It is weakest, 

 therefore fittest for weak bodies, and fitter for those 

 bodies that dwell near it, than those that live far from it; 

 my reason is, the sea (those that live far from it, know 

 when they come near it) casteth not such a smell as the 

 land dd'th. The tender mercies of God being over all 

 his works, hath by his eternal Providence planted Se- 

 riphian by the sea side, as a fit medicine for the bodies 

 of those that live near it. Lastly, it is known to all that 

 know any thing in the course of nature, that the liver 

 delights in sweet things, if so it abhors bitter; then if 

 your liver be weak, it is none of the wisest courses to 

 plague it with any enemy. If the liver be weak, a con- 

 sumption follows. Would you know the reason? It is 

 this, a man's flesh is repaired by blood, by a third coh- 

 cofition, which transmutes the blood into flesh; it is well 

 I said concodtion • if I had said boiling every cook 

 would have understood me. The liver makes blood, 

 and if it be weakened that it makes not enough, the 

 flesh wasteth ; and why must flesh always be renewed? 

 Because the eternal God, when he made the creation, 

 made one part of it in continual dependency upon 

 another. And why did he so ? Because himself only is 

 permanent to teach us. That we should not fix our af- 

 fections upon what is transitory, but upon what endures 

 for ever. The result of this is, if the liver be weak, and 

 cannot make blood enough, (I would have said san- 



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