Hey, many old remedies were herbal and not all were inert placebos either. Modern pharmacology, in spite of all the miracle medicines it has, might have its own biases. I say the best of both is the Lord’s good provision.
Cowper is an illustrative figure. He, sadly, never seemed to penetrate theologically past the “frowning providence” to a Lord that actually conducted trials for the exercise to the good of His children, even if the children partly failed the trials. Doesn’t mean Cowper failed to have salvation, or lost the salvation, but this lack of faith and his shallow vision did a number on his spiritual life. He was paralyzed by the Calvinist vision (in some versions at least) of a predetermined damnation for a mortally unknown and unknowable set. This now strikes me as a thoroughly inadequate theology and if I had to assert something it would be a “Calminian” vision. But to some stricken by the ordeal, it comes as a seeming conviction that they have committed the unpardonable sin, and it issues from hell not from heaven.
I do not know how any man presumes to judge FOR the Lord nor do I understand why so many are so willing to forfeit eternity for the short time we have here.
I can’t imagine it at all.