[2811]  ------“non Siculi dapes
Dulcem elaborabunt saporem. 
Non animum cytheraeve cantus.”

[2812] “Non domus et fundus, non aeris acervus et auri
        Aegroto possunt domino deducere febres.”

[2813] “With house, with land, with money, and with gold,
        The master’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. lxxxii.  Psal. xx.  And ’tis the common practice of all good men, Psal. cvii. 13. “when their heart was humbled with heaviness, they cried to the Lord in their troubles, and he delivered them from their