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A23652 Cheirexokē [sic] the excellency or handy-vvork of the royal hand. Allen, Thomas, d. 1684.; Harris, Thomas, 17th cent. 1665 (1665) Wing A1050; ESTC R1159 22,944 43

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illucfacile moventur they move to and fro and yet are not easily removed quaedam insertae oriantur and are frequently disseminated clean though the Vessels as Veins and Arteries They are for the most part Tumours consisting of Equality neither soft nor hard but of a medium betwixt both The Peripheria round and it has been generally observed that those persons which have been most affected with it either they themselves or some of their nearest Relatives have been all along for the most part Round as the World has gone too long Sublata causa tollitur effectus The Cure of all Diseases is wrought by a depulsion of the Cause Tactus quasi Tactus vim habet solam Tangendi The Touch as Touch hath only the power of Touching Otherwise by consequence that certain virtue which is in the body were it noxious would also by the same Touch be communicated but the Touch it self hath not this virtue Seeing then that other Diseases may proceed from one and the same Cause in some other parts of the body the same Touch might prove Energetical for their removal but being it cannot be so the Cure must either be miraculous or wholly attributed to the Imagination of the Patient but we cannot believe it to be miraculous for in times past the Apostles and Primitive Christians both for the further Illustrating of God's Glory and augmenting of Christian Religion manuum impositione multos sanârunt have healed many by a Touch and most true it is God will not have miracles inconsiderately wrought for the pleasure of any man So that the Apostles have signified to us that That which they did was not by their own power or by virtue and power of the Touch and in their own strength but by the Indulgence and special Mandate of the Great Jehovah Therefore those Seven Sons of Shevah the Jew who attempting by the same name to conjure the Devils have by induring their horrid violence sufficiently felt the punishment of their temerarious and unadvised boldness Hence we may conclude That 't is not lawful for ordinary persons to assume so great a power their skill in healing is not the Gift of God as appeareth by the quality of the persons who are generally ignorant and prophane for which very cause God will not reveal his Counsels to them but to them that truly fear him 'T is true if it be his pleasure he can bring Good out of Evil. There are in the world too many of these prodigious and seducing Juglers which do probably some small inconsiderable things These Simpletons through the pretence and reputation of Divine power may cure some simple wounds which only required Union which Nature would have done her self Thus they daily make a noise with their forged miracles and make any Truth of any falshood be it never so notorious and a prejudicated opinion of such mens supposed sufficiency they themselves being not really able to discern betwixt right and wrong Good and Evil they are great Usurpers upon other mens Rights against whom I shall advance the Avant-guard of all my might and force not only to batter but totally defeat depress and lay these evil Spirits who have no more dangerous snare than this condition of Faith that those who will have help or succour at their hands must believe they can do them good As to the Imagination it being divers in some fronger in some weaker we may suppose nothing but an uncertain Event can be expected from an uncertain Cause The unreasonable part of Fancy juggles too much with the judgments and understandings of men that they can scarce contain themselves from believing and consulting with some ridiculous folly thus able is Imagination not only to deceive sense but obscure our Reason If there be any good which the World fancies in them they have it by Accident by the power and virtue of Fancy wherein is neither certainty nor continuance Hoc privilegium sanandi strumas est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 divinum planè munus The power of Curing this Evil is vouchsafed solely to the Kings by the Grace of God of Great Britain and France and denied to other Christian Kings non proprietaete personarum sed Divino privilegio non verborum tantum facultate nec medicorum auxilio sed constantis fidei vehementis cogitationis vi sanitas speretur 'T is a Legacy bequeathed to then by God himself Holy Remigius a Reverend Bishop in France with whose Unction this power flowed to the Kings of France as the best Interpreter doubtless of this matter hath declared That this excellent Virtue is granted to Kings so long as they shall remain constant in the Christian Faith intimating It would cease if they forsook or fell from it and so long as Faith remained either in King or Kingdom he foretold by the Spirit of Prophecie he should be a victorious King But alas his Divinity here fail'd him for not long before our distractions in England we being assistant to the Spaniard the French were much worsted of which sayes one and not impertinently When Wars in England once began Then flourish'd France and not till than Picardie was most part of it in a Flame the Scene was laid by Cardinal Richelieu to introduce the Scots he had all the qualities requisite to work a change of State by his prudence the Stroke was diverted he directed his designs to make that Nation flourish which he lived to see effected those that have but the least Spark of Love for the Glory of that Country when they read but that name it must needs raise in them an esteem never to be forgotten Edward the Confessor that had the reputation of a singular Piety was deemed by the People one that could work Miracles he cured not only those which priviledge descended to his Successors but other Ulcers and Swellings which his Successors could not This being therefore a Prerogative belonging only to the fore-mentioned Kings is wholly wrought in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ it would therefore be a too audacious tempting of Providence for other Kings on whom she would not graciously bestow the gift to attempt it Further 't is worth the observance That the Kings to whom God granted it had it not been upon condition that they would not transmit this power to their Successors unless they were legitimate and did remain stable in the Christian Faith For if an Assassinate or an Usurper such there have been too late and God knows what Fates yet attend Kingdoms should dethrone a lawful Prince he could not together with his Kingdoms acquire this virtue Quippe pro Imperio though Cromwel durst do any thing and wrought no lesse then Miracles for his time he never so much as offered at this That good King Charles the First of ever blessed memory when captivated by those imparallel'd Miscreants as his manner was and as Tokens of his great love to many that had not deserved that kindness at his hands he cured