A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c.

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1719
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Credit: A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Job (20. 17.) accounts one of the greateft Evils which fhall happen to the Wicked, is. He /ball not fee Honey and Butter. WhenHfafb (Pfalm %i. 16.) would ex- prefs how God would have blefled the Ifrae- lites, he faith, He jbould have fed them with the finefl of the Wheat*, and with Ho¬ ney out of the Rock Jbould I have fatisfied him. Which in this Place muft fignify fine Diet. A delicious Banquet is defcribed in Solomon's Song (5*. 1.) I have eaten my Honey-Comb with my Honey ; I have drunk my Wine with my Milk. And (I think without being profane) we may here remember Was men¬ tioned by Homer as part of the Entertain¬ ment which Hecamede made for Nefor and Patroclm. It plainly appears they accounted it a prin¬ cipal and mod delicious thing, in that we find they affedted to exprefs what was plea- fant, delightful, rich, good, and valuable by Honey. The promifed Land was fet forth and com¬ mended for a Land flowing with Milk and Honey fExod. 3, 8.) And a Land of Oil and Honey (Dent. 8. 8.) How fweet are thy Words unto my Tafle, yea fweeter than Honey to my Mouth (TfaL 1x9, X03.) CP leaf ant Words are as an Honey-Comb, fweet to the Soul (Trov. 16, 24.)
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