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A28194	Ostenta Carolina, or, The late calamities of England with the authors of them the great happiness and happy government of K. Charles II ensuing, miraculously foreshewn by the finger of God in two wonderful diseases, the rekets and kings-evil : wherein is also shewen and proved (I.) that the rekets after a while shall seize on no more children but quite vanish through the mercy of God and by means of K. Charles II., (II.) that K. Charles II is the last of kings which shall so heal the kings-evil / discovered by the hand of the Lord upon his unworthy servant and His Majesties subject, John Bird ...	Bird, John, 17th cent.	1661 (1661)	Wing B2954; ESTC R5738	69,269	100

last words of Ailredus Ammirantibus qui aderant tantam c. declaring that those which saw this cure performed by the King were thereupon amazed seeing so strange an effect do argue that this kinde of cure was not performed by any other King before nor by himself until this time And to this Prince Tagautius a French Writer ascribes the first cure of this disease in such manner in England Institution Chirurg lib. 1. In the next place let us consider the Nature of the Kings-evil which is a Malady most like to the Disease in Isaiah spoken of before consisting in Bruises and putrified and corrupt Sores and to this we may joyn the other part of the Description in Wounds also For what are those apostemous Swellings in this Disease but of the nature of Bruises which contain corrupt blood or 〈◊〉 in them And nothing more common in the Disease then Corrupt and Mattury Ulcers And wounds are properly taken for solution of continuity as Physicians call it without sanics or corruption and from an outward cause so the word here expounded wounds signifies such a solution of continuity and is a part of the disease of that state not of sin but of suffering from cruel men and unjust as in this disease of the Kings-evil where the swellings if the bones be rotten or the corruption cannot otherwise easily break out are oftentimes wounded by the Chirurgians knife Thirdly We are to consider more accurately the Person to whom the Lord first gave this great Gift of Healing the Kings-evil First in respect of his DIGNITY and DESCENT Secondly in regard of his ORDER and PLACE of SUCCESSION Thirdly in the addition of his new SIR NAME Fourthly In respect of his ADVENTURES For all which in few words this may suffice First he was by his DIGNITY King of England and by his DESCENT King Edward III before the Conquest was the natural and legitimate son of Egelred which Egelred was the son of King Edgar and yonger brother unto King Edward II who for that he was innocently murdered by the counsel of his Stepmother as is supposed Queen Alfrith after that he had reigned King a very short time was sirnamed the Martyr according to Ailredus in the said History pag 409. speaking thus A●●rat interim boati regis martyris Edwardi hujas nostre pricipis patrui praeclara solemnitas qui ab impiis sine culpâ perc●●ptus creditur innocentiae martyri● coronatus that is to say It was upon the great Feast day of S. Edward King and Martyr Uncle to our Soveraign that now is who for that he was causlesly murdered by wicked 〈◊〉 is beleeved to have received the crown of martyrdome for his innocence Thus much for this K. Edwards DIGNITY and DESCENT who first of our English Kings healed the KINGS-EVIL Secondly for what concerns this King Edward in his ORDER and PLACE of SUCCESSION he being the brothers son as was abovesaid to Edward the Martyr was notwithstanding the Fifth King in ORDER and COURSE of reigning from the former Edward taking both terms inclusively and accounting those Kings which reigned together for one and by the name of one of which Holy Scripture affords us more then one example Thus Edward the Martyr the First Egelred the Second Edmund Ironside the Third Hardicanutus the Fourth Edward the Confessor the Fifth Thirdly for his new SIRNAME the CONFESSOR that he was ordinarily called Edward the Confessor and for his HOLINESSE witnesseth Henry Knighton Canon of Leicester in his first book ch 8. De Eventibus Anglia Iste supradictus rex sanctus Confessor dictus est Edwardus III saith he that is This holy King Edward III was named the Confessor Whereunto adde the words of the Chronicle attributed unto John Brompton Abbot of Jereval pag. 956. of the Edition 1652. Iste rex Edwardus ab infantiâ deum diligens bonas consuetudines suas primarias pro honore terreno non commutavit fed cunctis diebus magis ac magis omni sanctitate casitute humilitate munditiâ Deum sanctam Ecclesiam dilexit panperesque ob amorem Dei tanquam fratres suos charos habuit dilectos nos largis elecmosynis aperto corde voluntate bona saepe respexit plures in Angliâ statuit leges bonas quae pro majari parte adhac in regno tenentur Which in English is This King Edward the Confessor from his childehood fearing God did not change his wonted goodnesse for earthly honour but daily encreased in all kinde of sanctity chastity humility and purity loving God and holy Church and such was his love toward God that he loved the poor tenderly accounting them his brethren and bestowing large and continuall almes upon them in singlenesse of heart and true affection and enacted more good laws in England then were before which for the most part are of force in the kingdome at this day Fourthly In what pertains to King Edward the CONFESSORS ADVENTURES he was by reason of an Usurper forced to shift for himself and to live as a banished man in Normandy for so writes Ailredus De Sancto Edwardo Confessore ac Virgine pag. 366. in the forenamed Volume of Historians Edwardus frater Edmundi filius Edelredi qui in Normanniâ exulabat that is Edward the brother of Edmund Ironside who lived in Normandy in Banishment From which place of his exile he was sent for by the testimony of the History called John Bromptons Abbot of Jerevall not written but set out by him Edwardus à Normanniâ vocatus King Edward saith the Historian was sent for out of Normandy But how welcome the King was and to whom Let us hear the words of Ailredus in the place aforesaid Veniens igitur in Angliam Edwardus ab universo clero populo cum maximâ exultatione suscipitur But when King Edward came into England saith he he was welcomed by all the Clergy and People of the land with all expressions of joy and some of the reasons of that great and universal gladness are in the same place exprest by the same Ailredus in this manner Homo mansuetus magis pace quàm armis regnum protegens habebat animum irae victorem avaritia contemptorem superbiae expertem which is He was a milde Prince who defended his Kingdom more by peace then by war of such a frame of minde that he could bridle his anger hated covetousness and was void of all prids Now I shall by Gods grace shew unto you in what manner it hath pleased Almighty God out of these Two Diseases the REKETS and KINGS-EVIL to foreshew unto us our Publike SINS and MISERIES and the AUTHORS of them and DELIVERANCE from them in One and the SINS we have been publikely guilty of and our MISERIES which we have within these twenty years undergone with the PERSON who shall by GODS mercy deliver and set us free from these long and miserable afflictions in the Other KING CHARLES II our DELIVERER Of which

so intitled in the Writings of Learned men and is so to be accounted for giving Testimony with his blood to that which in the secret thoughts of his heart he judged to be the Truth King Charles II our Gracious Soveraign for better cause then his Predecessor King Edward the Confessor hath deserved that name for his Majesty hath made a Holy and Royal Confession with his mouth Wherefore I most humbly Almighty God in whose hand are the hearts of Kings so to dispose his Majesties heart and I humbly beseech his Majesty to be entreated that he will not suffer such men who have opened their mouths in vows to the Most High God to be enforced either to revoke that which cannot be recalled or being pious skilful and faithful laborers for that cause to be excluded from working in the Lords Harvest And I do with confidence believe that my prayer is heard in heaven and will be upon the earth Whereunto if there be need of more marks which may shew that King Charles II was designed to be the Antitype of Edward the Confessor though the distance of time betwixt them be the space of 600 years or more for Edward the Confessor died about the year 1066. having reigned much about the time of twenty three years See Henry Knighton and John Brompton in Edward the Confessor adde and observe that K. Charles II our Royal Soveraign succeeded his martyred Father CHARLES I after so many Governors and Governments and no more as Edward the Confessor succeeded after Kings the Martyred Edward Moreover two of those one in the Types the other in the Antitypes are strangely of one Name and in the same Order of Governing that is the III. Let us compare them Edward the Martyr I Egelred II Edmund Ironside III Hardicantus IV Edward the Confessor V. The ANTITYPE Charles the Martyr I Common-wealth II Oliver Protector by-named Ironside III Richard Protector IV Charles our Gracious Soveraign Confessor V. Now according to Example in the Balm according to Scripture and reason as that precious oyle ceast to be when Christ had suffered and as the substance being come the shadow goes away and there is no reason to expect a signe when the thing signified thereby is now come I conclude that our Royal Soveraign will be the last of the Kings of this Nation to whom God will give the gift of healing the KINGS-EVIL Now Reader take here notice of the Pride Malice and Subtlety of the Devil and his Emulation of Almighty God who hath so wound himself into the mindes of Impostors and thorow them into the perswasions of the ignorant and rude multitude that the seventh son in order from the first without any daughter born betwixt is able to cure that Disease which we call the KINGS-EVIL And this Imposture is frequently undertaken and performed by stroaking with the hand and the Minister thereof is called a Stroaker This I say is attributed by some to a seventh son by others to a seventh son of a seventh son Which albeit a lye from the father of lies the devil immediatly proceeding doth nevertheless declare the devils knowledge and fore-knowledge of our Royal Soveraign King CHARLES II his virtue And as the Lord will win glory unto himself from all Creatures and all Things for to this purpose they were by him created so will he likewise from Satan and his practices even to illustrate and confirm though against the mindes of the Serpent his Glory and Truth This is the matter the Prerogative which the Lord hath given to the Kings of England and among but far above them to our Dread Soveraign Charles II the devil having a foresight of in his counsell which he giveth to Impostors doth secretly thereby acknowledge and yet defaceth but not wholly by adding somewhat of his own For it is true that a seventh son of a seventh is indued with Power from above not only to cure the bodily malady called the KINGS-EVIL as others have had but to take away the Evil of the Kingdom and is his Royal Prerogative which none of his Predecessors have had This Profession of curing this Malady is held out ordinarily in this form viz. The seventh son without a daughter born betwixt them cures the KINGS-EVIL In which expression the devil as he hath wont to do abuseth the truth three waies 1. By speaking ambiguously as he did use in the Oracle of Apollo leaving it uncertain whether Son be in those words to be taken according to the common acception of the word or otherwise 2. By leaving out some part of the matter which notwithstanding sometimes I have heard used and which serves to discovery of the truth and that is these words of a seventh 3. By adding words thereto wholly false such are without a daughter born betwixt and putting Son after seventh so making it to be of a seventh son Thus did Satan speak doutfully when he told our first parents They should be as God or Gods knowing good and evil The word there signifying God and also damned Spirits and knowing good and evil to be interpreted both knowledge of speculation and knowledge of feeling joy and sorrow the later of which Adam and Eve felt as did those lost Angels As for leaving out part of the truth the Devil was guilty thereof when speaking unto our Saviour to fast himself down from a pinnacle of the Temple he used this expression Mat. 4. 6. If thou be the Son of God cast thy self down For it is written He shall give his Angels charge concerning thee and in their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone in which words taken out of Psa 91. 11 12 these words are left out by the devil to keep thee in all thy waies Lastly by adding words the devil corrupteth the truth which he did when he spake unto Saul unto the truth which he spake in part by aujoyning lies 1 Sam. 28. And the Lord hath done by him saith the devil concerning David truly as he spake by me which was false for the Lord spake not so by the Devil but by the true Samuel What I affirmed before That a seventh son of a seventh shall cure the KINGS-EVIL and to be understood in such manner as abovesaid of the Person of King Charles II doth thus appear Account all the Descents from father to son that is in a right line from King Henry VII to our Dread Soveraign now reigning taking and including both terms we shall finde them to be seven so that our Soveraign last in order is the seventh son of a seventh understand Henry For it is common in Scripture not to call the grandchildren sons only as Josiah is said Matth. 1. 11. to have begotten Jeconiah but those which after many generations have come out of the loins of a man by the name of sons to such a one as the children of Israel of Esau But more nearly to our purpose Enoch is