The Moderate:
Impartially Communicating Martial
Affaires to the KINGDOM of P.P. Soudors
ENGLAND.
From Tuesday September II. To Tuesday September 18. 1649.
IT argues depth of Wisdom in the most learned of Physicians,
that when they administer a Portion to the body
of the diseased, they look more to the removal of the
cause, then the effects of the distemper; Well Knowing,
That if the former be taken away, the latter will cease,
and if not, then the Patient may Possibly receive case at
Present; but the cause being continued, the disease is
not at all abated, but Possibly increased by a Surious
inundation of a more forcible and inraged Humor,
which running violently into all the vital parts of the
Body, may (its conceived) indanger the Patient more then formerly. But Some
may object, Its a sin to give Physick to those that are well, and not diseased; To
which its answered, That when the whole body is so distempered, that it takes no
rest, can receive no sustenance, is oppressed, poor and needy, and cryes out night
and day for a little case a little comfort, hath always the pangs of death and the
terrors of destruction upon it, That if such a Body should not be sensible of its
own sad Condition, it was much to be pitied, and Jamented by all men.
September II,
News came this day to the House, that Oxford was quieted, and most of the
Councel of Agitators secured by Colonel Ingles by, the Narration where of take at
large.