Excerpt from Church and King: A Thanksgiving Sermon for the 29th of May, Written in Defence of Our Happy Constitution in Church and State, With Forcible Arguments Against Toleration of Heretics and Schismatics If the reader 18 curious to know my reafon for afl'ociatmg thel'e ideas of the doctor and the apothecary, he may 'find it in the following note, which contains an abllzraet of Dr. Garden's glorious Sermon before the corporation of London' at St. Paul's, -1639. The textis, jer. Viii; H. I It has fix parts - a patient, the tick church of England - her burr hei pretended bealmg - the c/mzt of ir - thofe magniloquent mountcbanks, fazzatz'a - and laltly, the true way of Isralmg by that catholicon epijcopacy -the doftor' s patient is his daughter, his lifter, his mother, a forfaken virgin, 'a rich married wife, and a poor defolate widow' -this good lady has got fielh wounds, ulcers, gangrenes, pufiules, angry biles, running ifl'ues, and fifiulas; {he is plethoric, and con fumptive; her fpirits are flat, and her head is cracked; the has got the itch and the fcratch, and her inward wounds are bleeding, and in this miferable plight fome violent fans of Belial commit a horrid rape upon her. - Prefently they bring falves, elexirs, and diurnal dofes, and fin g At [aft comes Dr. Gauden, and applies 3' lenitives, unguents, and poltices, and cleanfes feliere'd places, cures falling and fainting fits, and all the other fedity, which that unmannerly medicalter, the dwil, had caul'ed by his erue'tations. All this and ten times more, at St. Paul's Cathredal, before the Lord Mayor, and all the city magifirates - the feveral livery companies - the Lord General Monk - the clergy, gentry, ladies, and populous - by their humble fervant, john Gauden, D.D. Afterwards Lord Bilhop of Exeter. (eoted Robin fan's Tranflation of Claud, vol. I. P. 384, 5. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.