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Rev. John Wesley's Valuable Primitive Remedies; Or an Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases
Rev John Wesley's Valuable Primitive Remedies Or an Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases Author:John Wesley General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1880 Original Publisher: O. W. Gordon Subjects: Traditional medicine Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Mi... more »llion-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PREFACE. When man came first out of the hands of the Great 'Creator, clothed in body, as well as in soul, with immortality and incorruption, there was no place for physic, or the . art of healing. ? Vs he knew no sin, so he knew no pain, no sickness, weakness, or bodily disorder. The habitation wherein the angelic mind, the Divine Particulse Aurae, abode, . although originally formed of the dust of the earth, was liable to no decay. It had no seeds of corruption or dissolution within itself; and there was nothing without to injure it; heaven and earth, and all the host of them were mild, benign, and friendly to human nature. The entire creation was at peace with man, so long as man was at peace with his Creator. So that well might the morning stars sing together, and all the sons of God shout for joy. 2. But since man rebelled against the Sovereign of heaven . and earth, how entirely is the scene changed? The incorruptible frame hath put on corruption, the immortal hath put on mor l ality. The seeds of wickedness and pain, of sickness and death, are now lodged in our inmost substance; whence a thou- sand disorders continually spring, even without the aid of ex- ternal violence. And how is the number of these increased by -very thing round about us ? The heavens, the earth, and . all things contained therein, conspire to punish the rebelsagainst their Creator. The sun and moon shed unwholsome- influences from above ; the earth exhales poisonous damps from beneath; the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, the fishes of the sea, a...« less