Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Physician: Whether being with the sick, he have especially & before all things exhorted them to have a firm, and undoubting faith in God, without whom no medicine is available and wholesome.
Whether for recovery of his bodily health he have advised and prescribed to his patient any things that be hurtful and dangerous to the health of his soul, as all those things are, that be not warranted by the word of God, but directly against the remedies which the Lord hath ordained.
As when they prescribe unto them superstitious observances, peevish calculations and childish mawmetries [sic], &c. Also when they bear their patient in hand or make him to think that some certain Saints have power to send & also to take away this or that disease: as though God were not the only governor of all things did not depend on him.
For the reference, see Andreas Hyperius on the sins of physicians against the first commandment.
Whether for recovery of his bodily health he have advised and prescribed to his patient any things that be hurtful and dangerous to the health of his soul, as all those things are, that be not warranted by the word of God, but directly against the remedies which the Lord hath ordained.
As when they prescribe unto them superstitious observances, peevish calculations and childish mawmetries [sic], &c. Also when they bear their patient in hand or make him to think that some certain Saints have power to send & also to take away this or that disease: as though God were not the only governor of all things did not depend on him.
For the reference, see Andreas Hyperius on the sins of physicians against the first commandment.
