Whoſoeuer commeth to me, and heareth my ſayings, and doeth them, I will ſhew you to whom he is like.
1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym;Robert Burton], “Cure of Deſpaire by Phyſick, good counſell, comforts, &c.”, inThe Anatomy of Melancholy.[…], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire:[…][Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps,→OCLC, partition 3, section 4, member 3, subsection 6,page707:
His mercy is apanacea, a balſome for an afflicted ſoule, a Soveraigne medicine, an alexipharmacum for all ſinne, a charme for the Divell, his mercy was great toSolomon, toManaſſes, toPeter, great to all offenders, andwhoſoever thou art, it may be ſo to thee.
