consist in two things 1. In a more full evident and more infallible Discovery of Gods secrets unto those old Prophets for the Causes which have been alledged 2. In causing the Prophets to whom such Visions came to understand them either instantly and at first sight of them or if not with the sight of them immediatly yet at least after Fasting and Prayer all concurring nevertheless to declare that the Revelation of them came immediatly from God and was not helpt then forward with Study and Labour For the first Difference although S. Paul acknowledgeth that he with the rest of his brethren knew in part and prophesied in part yet is that so to be understood as with relation to the more perfect knowledge and revealing Gods mysteries in the life to come and partly that we should know that neither S. Paul himself nor the Prophets before him did partake of all Gods minde and counsel The Apostle knew not certainly whether a beleeving husband having an unbeleeving wife yet content to dwell with him ought or ought not to put her away 1 Cor. 7. 12. But for what he did know and the necessary things which were to be known he and the rest of the Prophets may be said according to Christs promise to his Disciples to have all things shewn unto them Touching the second Difference it is evident that Ezekiels Vision which he saw Ezek. 1. 1. was immediatly understood by him For the heavens saith the Prophet were opened and I saw Visions of God and v. 3. And the hand of the Lord was there upon him which is in that very place the illuminating Spirit of God was upon me Unto Daniel the words of the Angel are Dan. 9. 23. At the beginning of thy supplication the commandment came forth and I am come to shew thee for thou art greatly beloved therefore understand the matter and consider the Vision This you see was granted upon supplication but in these later times as it is first the Lords gift to set us to consider those Visions which he sends it is next the Lords blessing upon our labor and study or running to and fro in making us understand them Nor are such Visions sent immediately or conveyed mediately unto us in these days understood at the first instant as then they were nor much of such Visions to be understood although in their own nature capable of being understood until a certain time come I shall not need to use any other testimony hereof then that of Daniel Dan. 12. 9. And he said Go thy way Daniel for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end But whether now adays God hath sent Visions and Signes of things to come and what he intends to bring upon the earth or to acknowledge our Blessed Saviours words true that there shall be Signes c. or rather that they are not now to be expected but nearer the end of the world let us hear the words of that wise heathen man Cicero whether it be found true by experience that God hath sent forewarnings unto the world of what matters of great moment he intends to do For to do so in behalf of his great love to his children and their necessities is most reasonable Thus writeth Cicero in his first book De Divinatione Vetus opinio est jam usque ab heroicis ducta temporibus eaque populi Romani omnium gentium firmata consensu versari quandam inter homines Divinationem quam Graeci 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 appellant id est praesensionem scientiam rerum futurarum It is saith he an old opinion derived from those long-past forgotten times of the antient Heroes that there is such a kind of Divination to be found among men as is the foreknowledge and foresight of things ensuing which the Greeks name Prophecy This the Philosopher proving not from the bare opinion of one or two nor of all nations which in such a case were little worth but the opinion being grounded upon the particular and concurring observations and experiments of all is to be esteemed an argument of great moment For the same Author in the same book a little after addeth Gentem quidem nullam video neque tam humanam atque doctam neque tam immanem atque barbaram quae non significari futura à quibusdam intelligi praedicique posse censeat Which is I can finde no Nation neither civil and learned nor savage and barbarous which is not of this opinion That future things are not only foreshewn but that some there be which can understand them and foretell what shall come This observation and opinion grounded thereon of all nations I shall confirm by the Judgement of an Authour a Papist in Profession yet in his opinion a very Atheist who instructing Princes in all kinde of wicked Arts which may serve to advance their greatnesse even to the mocking of Almighty God by making a semblance of Religion to delude the people is forced to confess though unwillingly and against himself that Troubles and Wars are ordinarily and miraculously foreshewn to such whom it concerneth to know them Machiavil is that man who in his first book and 36. Chapter of his Discourses upon Livy writes in the Italian tongue what sounds thus in English Great Troubles which are to befall Cities and Provinces are usually foretold and this is done either by certain Signes and Tokens or else by the Presages of men Then afterward he proceedeth in this manner As I shall willingly confess the Cause I am ignorant of so that notwithstanding the thing is true it cannot be denied by examples which may be produced both in former and later times but I must acknowledge that all great Troubles which have befallen any City or Countrey have been commonly foreshewn and premonstrated either by Presagers or some Revelation or by Prodigies and Signes in heaven Who lastly in the same place is driven to acknowledge that these Premonitions and Forewarnings do proceed from a knowing and Loving Nature in naming and describing of which Machiavil goes no farther then the Heathen which taught him calling them Spirits and Intelligences Unless haply saith he in the said Chapter the air be full of Spirits and Intelligences which foreseeing things which are to ensue and grieving at mens adversities do by such forerunning Signes make them known to men that they may make timely preparation and defense against them Next among those which profess Christianity whether they be of the Church of Rome or of the Reformed Religion it is a received opinion on both sides That God doth give miraculous Forewarnings in these days I shall not need name more then those three great lights of the Reformed Protestant Profession Orthodox Judicious and Learned Calvin Perkins and Ussher which every one acknowledge what I have said touching miraculous Admonitions the first in his Comment upon Mebuchadnezzars dream the second where he adviseth to examine when a man pretendeth
Disease do pourtray unto us their cunning fraud combinations injustice cruelty with the rest of their eminent Sins In the Disease it self let us first consider the Pathognomik and most constant Signe and Symptome thereof which is the HEAD OVER-GREAT For the understanding whereof if we call to minde that in Holy Scripture a HEAD is a GOVERNOR or person chief in rule as where the Princes of the Tribes are stiled the Heads of the children of Israel Numb 13. 4. and when the Husband is named Head of the wife Eph. 5. 23. for Head in both Testaments is near seventy times set for the chief and for Rulers and that it is proper not only to the Hebrew but to the Greek and Latine nations and to our own language to call Magistrates and Rulers our Heads we will not I hope deny but that it is fitly enough exprest by the OVER-GREATNESS of the HEAD describing the OVER-GREATNESS of such men by assuming unto themselves and growing to so great POWER to have been the most certain and unremoveable cause of our late afflictions For much power is called great power where the Angels are stiled Greater in Power 2 Pet. 2. 11. By the Greatness of the head therefore is very aptly set out unto us the taking and gaining too-much power to have been the first and great cause of the misery which we have undergone from those which were set over us In the next place the SOBER GRAVITY of the FACE of such children comes to be examined and we may joyn thereunto the more then ordinary WIT and UNDERSTANDING found in such children far beyond what is found in others of that age This argues in what sense and signification head is to be taken that is in no other than as a HEAD of WISEDOME Counseil and GRAVITY this last being a discreet behaviour of a man such as may serve for the begetting of awe and reverence in inferiors that their governors be not despised and this is exprest in and mesnaged very much by the SADNESS of the COUNTENANCE Eccles 7. 5. Anger is better then laughter for by a sad look the heart is made better And whereas it is observed that the NOSES of such which are troubled with this Malady are UNPURGED remaining dry without distillation of Rheum which in other children abounds this is to let us understand that these our swelling heads which thus ruled over us although they seemed to cleanse themselves by removing Malignants which they named PURGING of the HOUSE again and again from sitting among them yet did not these Heads PURGE THEMSELVES from nor yet cast out from among them Malignity and Malignants but did notwithstanding retein in themselves their sins and vices such as least become a Court of Justice Oppression and Delay among many other less scandalous sins PURGING in the Scripture is casting away the FILTH of SIN 2 Tim. 2. 21. If any man saith Paul therefore purge himself from these he shall be a vessel unto honor From the Nose I come unto the TEETH which in such children become all ROTTEN and FALL out or else beyond the custome in other yong children they for a great space TOOTHE NOT. The Signification whereof that we may understand we are to consider that the TEETH are those Bones which God hath given unto us for grinding and CHEWING MEAT by which the body is nourished We likewise knowing that PREACHING of Gods word is termed FEEDING of Gods flock because thereby is administred unto the hearers FOOD for their SOULS for it keeps the soul by that profitable knowledge knowledge being hungred after by the soul as meat by the body from eternal death to everlasting life in feeding upon Christ by faith Well therefore may those PASTORS which prepare by breaking it after grinding in their mindes and hearts the Bread which came down from Heaven contained in the Holy Word be accounted and be typified by TEETH in which sense the same are to be understood Cant. 4. 2. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn which come up from the washing which all of them bear twins and Chap. 6. 5. Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing whereof every one beareth twins and there is not one barren among them The TEETH of the CHILDE of GOD whereof the King is Head are the PREACHERS the ROTTEN TEETH are to be expounded such Ministers which being CORRUPT and UNSOUND in their LIVES DOCTRINE and FAITH unto all which the Holy Ghost in Scripture gives such names have been removed from the Church But NOT-TOOTHING and LATE-TOOTHING doth imply that SOUND PREACHERS which should painfully skilfully and uprightly prepare nourishment for the Body of Christ which is his Church should here in England be MUCH and LONG WANTING withdrawing and hiding themselves leaving the mouth empty as it were those places where they should be fixed as it hath proved most true also in the event because of unlawful oaths and engagements against their Sovereign to be laid upon them which with a good conscience they could not submit unto and for the like un just causes The ARM BONES of such children as labour of the REKETS turn CROOKED the Mystery whereof we shall finde by Scripture phrase ARMES in Gods Word noteth sundry times military Forces and ARMIES and this not without just reason in a fleshly arm men put their confidence and the strength thereof for by the strength of their arm they yield their sword for offence and defence The Armes of the wicked shall be broken saith David Psa 37. 17. and in armed men the strength multitude and valor of them Princes place their confidence In this sence Armes are to be taken where God speaking by his Propher and foretelling the destruction of the king of Egypts forces by the King of Babylons army nameth the forces and armies of them boâ—â— Armes Ezek. 30. 22. I will break his Pharaohs Arme and ver 24. And I will strengthen the arm of the King of Babylon Now let us search in the same place for the meaning of this word CROOKED Here we may finde that whensoever men once INTIRE and as it were STRAIGHT which figure in the limbs is the just and proper shape shall become by what means soever BOWED from their former STRAIGHTNESS and turn to be worse they are for this declining accounted and reputed CROOKED For which cause the Israelites are intitled a crooked generation Deut. 32. 5. and for the same cause the people of the Jews are by S. Paul who formerly had walked in the ways of the Lord uprightly which the Gentiles had not done meant where he saith Phil. 2. 15. In the midst of a naughty and crooked generation Hereby the Almighty and Just Lord by inflicting such CROOKED ARMES upon our children doth not only punish us mediately in the persons of them but would have us to be premonisht that by the Signe of CROOKED ARMES he was for our sins sending against us
Lord was wont to send them Prophets in evil and sinful times Prophets so inspired with his Spirit that they knew infallibly and did shew unto that people most certainly what things both good and bad and how they should befal them that their oppressors and the wicked might not live secure nor the oppressed and righteous be discouraged But in a short time after our Saviours Ascension such Prophets which were thus miraculously instructed ceased to be among men By which difference of the times those from these it might at first seem either that God loves not the Christians so tenderly as formerly he did the children of Israel or at least that the Christians now adays have no need of such forewarnings as the children of Israel were wont to have Divine and miraculous premonitions were so usuall to them that they accounted it and complained of it as an affliction when they wanted them This appeareth true from the words of Asaph a man left in Judea when the rest were carried into Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar complaining of the want of a Prophet and Signes which they were formerly accustomed unto to declare and foretell how long their captivity after the present destruction of the City and Temple was yet to last For thus he speaketh Psa 74. 9. We see not our Signes there is no more any Prophet neither is there among us any that knoweth how long Albeit Jeremiah the Prophet had formerly prophesied unto them of 70 years captivity and Daniel and Ezekiel were both now in Chaldea and did prophesie Whereby it appeareth as I said that Asaph was left in the land and that he speaketh of the remainder of the Jews which were left in the same place with him and lastly that this Psalm was written after the carrying away of Jeremiah into Egypt Concerning the difference of those old times before our Saviours coming from these although we should grant it true and we must grant it to be so in some kind touching Prophets yet is the Assumption false to conclude from thence That God loves not the Christians so tenderly as formerly he did the children of Israel for how little soever the Lord loveth any of his children he accounteth and nameth them his Jewels and is as tender of them as of the apple of his eye who spared not his onely and beloved Son but gave him to dye for the least of them all But this is an inestimably greater favour then to premonish and forewarn them of that which is to come a thing which he hath done even to his greatest enemy the devil though for a different end from that for which he forewarns his children letting him know his secret counsel touching Saul and his Sons For did not the Lord reveal unto Satan that Saul and his three sons should be slain even as it came to pass and the Spirit told Saul the day following 1 Sam. 27. 19. And while we consider that the Lord is unchangeable in his love For he is not a man that he should repent this cannot be the cause want of Gods love that Christians are without divining Prophets In the second place as little reason is there to say That we which are Christians have no need of forewarnings of our suffering nor of our deliverance As if the oppressions in Egypt were more than under the Pope and these not seven-fold greater then those as the burning in a fiery furnace or in fire than making and burning of brick by and in such a place or the thraldome of the body greater then of the soul or the length of the captivity under Pharaoh which lasted not in all two hundred and fifteen years more tedious then under Antichrist who began to reign above a thousand years agoe Whereupon neither of these two Causes being to be admitted want of love from the Lord toward his people and no need of Premonitions and likewise necessarily admitting and confessing it to be truth Fully illuminated and infallibly inspired Prophets have not been found and are not now to be expected much after our Saviours leaving the earth it behoveth us to enquire after the reason of this thing Of which by Gods grace I find there are Two Causes 1. Why we may not look for such Prophets in these times which are fully illuminated and infallible is the End and the consideration thereof for which such Prophets were sent by Almighty God for the information of his people which being accomplished and come and past that which points to that end is not necessary any longer Such Prophets were instituted to be forerunning Types and Figures of Christ thereby to signifie that there was a Prophet to come after them like unto themselves but greater who should fully and infallibly know the Lords mind and counsels For thus saith Moses of our Saviour who was to be exhibited in the flesh and making himself the Type of Christ Deut. 18. 15. The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee of thy brethren like unto me unto him ye shall hearken In respect of whom some though not all of the Prophets had power at some not at all times to work certain Miracles and alluding to this it is said The Prophets were unto John 2. Prophets were more fully enlightned before our Saviours coming than in these times there can be found any for another cause even for their sakes to whom their Prophecies and Messages were sent that is because of the people The Prophets were sent principally to call men to repentance thus speaketh the Lord Jerem. 7. 25. Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the Prophets daily rising up early and sending them V. 26. Yet they hearkened not unto me nor inclined their ear but hardened their neck they did worse then their fathers The different condition of the people therefore is a second cause why the old Prophets were more enlightned and infallible then the Prophets or Preachers which now are for so are Preachers called by the Apostle Paul or necessarily are required to be In those old times the understanding of the people of Israel concerning God and heavenly things was very small witnesse the Apostles themselves who were conversant with Christ when Peter reproved our Saviour speaking of his suffering death telling his Master that this should not befall him that he should not dye Yea the Lord threatens his people blindeness of mind and stupidity of understanding greater then formerly they had by the mouth of Isaiah calling it fatness of heart for fat is insensible For which cause if the Prophets should not have shewn before their eyes great and wonderfull matters they would not have beleeved and if such Prophets had not also had extraordinary knowledge they would have wanted a guide if they had not also been indued with infallibility the people would certainly have fallen into errours And notwithstanding
Revelations whether the man be honest which is the relator and also not distempered in his mind the third in his Treatise De Successione Ecclesiarum where he maketh mention of the Prodigies which happened about the year M. after our Saviour But the ancient Heathen did make such an account of Prodigies that they instituted certain Officers which were named for their number at first Quinque viri afterward Decemviri last of all Quindecimviri that is the Five Ten Fifteen Men whose office was to perform Rites and Ceremonies and they were as Livy shews to look after those Portents by consulting their ritual books for the finding out such Rites and Expiations as might divert the anger of their gods which they judged those Portents did foreshew If the Heathen by the light of naturall reason had so much knowledge as to judge such strange things must contain mysteries within them pertaining to their Gods it is a great folly unbeseeming Christians so to be deluded with the Philosophy of Aristotles School as to attribute all wonderful works whether in heaven or on earth either to the workmanship of Nature or to the errors thereof that School being more athiest then the unlearned and barbarous nations To which sort of men Professors of that false-named science called wisedom as the name Philosophy soundeth but as S. Paul truly speaketh unduly so called in sundry matters If you shall shew a Signe in Heaven or earth which hath formerly appeared as Comets Haloes Suns c. they will render you an imaginary and naturall reason If such a Meteor appear as was not heard of before they have recourse forthwith unto phansy and frame a cause in their own brains of that of which before they never had sight nor experience concluding it must be so because they think it so Thus do they make Gods Signes called by Heathen men monstra ostenta portenta and prodigia which Cicero well observes because according to their names they point at something to be useless things and of no effect at all Others there are many which do acknowledge that the Lord doth now adays by wonderful Signes premonish us of things to come and doth point at also as with the finger such things as we too much neglect as to bid us regard them which will hardly consent that it is in the power of any man since the days of the Prophets and Apostles to open the mysteries and untye the riddles of such Divine Tokens Whose reason is because the Infallible Spirit hath long since departed from the children of men It will not be sufficient to return unto their reason the Observations of all Nations before-mentioned gathered from Presagers nor yet the Observation of Machiavil which I related yet let them consider what is spoken by Cicero in his 2. Book de Divinatione Qualis autem ista mens est deorum si neque ea nobis significant in somnis quae ipsi per nos intelligamus neque ea quorum interpretes habere possimus similes enim sunt dii si ea nobis objiciunt quorum neque scientiam neque explanationem habeamus tanquam si Poeni aut Hispani in Senatu nostro sine interprete loquerentur that is What I pray mean the gods by this if they shew such things to us in our dreams which we can neither understand of our selves nor any else make us to understand for if the gods shew us such matters which neither we our selves can know what they are nor any other can declare unto us they do just as if Carthaginians or Spaniards should speak in the Romane Senate without an interpreter The reason which the Philosopher giveth why Visions sent by a Divine Power cannot but be of the nature of things which may be understood tends to this purpose to shew that otherwise the labor of sending them such messages were wholly vain which indeed is true it being repugnant to the wisedom of the Almighty to do any thing much more great and extraordinary things to no purpose But it is clear from Holy Scripture that such extraordinary Divine admonitions as Visions are were therefore sent from God unto men on purpose that they might be understood and that they might learn by them somewhat they knew not or disregarded before These are the words of Elihu Jobs best friend Job 33. 14. For God speaketh once yeatwise yet man perceiveth it not v. 15. In a dream in a Vision of the night when deep sleep falleth upon men in slumberings upon the bed Wherefore it is to be concluded that it is the fault of men that Gods Signes and wonders are disregarded To the reason which was objected the Departure of the Infallible Spirit from the children of men so as if for that cause we cannot now be assured of Gods secret Counsils I answer Although we have not at this time as of old it was with the Prophets and Apostles a full and clear light like unto theirs there is yet light enough given to men that will pray for and search after it for a sufficient understanding of such Signes and Visions as the Lord sends in these times The Ministers of the Gospel in these ages are not indued with that light of knowledge in the waies of God as the Prophets and Apostles were who were promised that they should be led into all truth as befitting such rules as were to be delivered by them for all posterity to be perfect yet is there sufficient knowledge given unto them to the begetting of faith and salvation of mens souls and this above other men Rom. 10. 14. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not beleeved and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a Preacher Which Preachers of Gods Word therefore have sufficient knowledge for the work of the Ministry and building up of the Church their appointed work as the Prophets and Apostles had more light and infallibility in them befitting their businesse Even so although the infallible Spirit remain not among the Sons of men in all parts of Gods Word yet is there enough to be obtained for the sufficient understanding of his Mysteries whether written or sent miraculously that is of his word and wonders For if this be not so to what purpose is the accounting of the Number of the Beast commended to our search although shewn to John alone precisely Rev. 13. 18. Here is wisedom let him that hath understanding count the Number of the Beast All in vain were this Admonirion if we must despair by any means to attain the knowledge of the Beasts Number Although we must acknowledge the difference betwixt the knowledge which the Apostle had of it and ours by him it was presently seen and understood by us after much search and hardly yet to perfection Moreover it will undoubtedly be objected and in favour of the former Reason That there are at this day none to be found which can presage
wonderful Disease in its Nature this is much more to be wondred at in the CURE What notable Cures have been done in QUEEN ELIZABETHS time by her Royal Hand reade the Learned Treatise of D. Tooker de Charismate Sanationis Let those which doubt hereof which I know some do which nevertheless love and honour the King repair to the Court with his Majesties leave and there behold multitudes toucht by his Royall Hands and comparing the condition of such who have been toucht afterward with what it was before shall finde this vertue ascribed to his Majesty true and so resolve their doubts Yet what doth this wonderful Remedy work in the mindes of those which behold and feel it more then wonder and astonishment Doth it cause any other effect in the most wise and learned Certainly it doth not only they account the utmost of the thing to be a singular blessing to our Nation whose King God hath indued above other Princes with such a blessing to his subjects But we know that miraculous mercies have been Signal also else the raising of the dead man by the touch of Elisha's dead body 2 King 13. 21. and the restoring of life unto the childe of the Shunnamite by him had not been wrought but to shew the vertue of Christs death and the applying of Christ unto us who are dead in sins as the Prophet joyned his own unto the childes body 2 King 4. 34. although they were mercies withall Moreover it encreaseth the wonder of our Kings Gift of Healing that his power extends not so far as to heal all other diseases like as the Struma why not the Feaver the Gout Palsie c. and that all Patients and why every one receive not benefit by his Royal Hands All this must of necessity cause wonder in those that consider all this even to astonishment But wonder never was the utmost end for which the Lord at any time did send his Miracles which indeed is nothing more than an inthralling and captiving of the understanding and reason that it can move no farther which comes short in us of the end which the Lord aims at in his marvellous works Much less doth wonder distinguish one work from another Our Saviour did his Miracles to shew and make them know he was the promised Messias which when they saw all men as the Evangelist tels us marvelled But did this effect answer the end which the Lord intended thereby Plainly it did not Much less doth astonishment and amazement at the sight of the Lords mighty and strange works make any the least difference between them but that one Answer must be given of them all as I wonder at these strange things or God knows what they mean Admiration indeed is the way which God hath ordained for men to look up for a higher Workman than ordinary as when a man is led into a maze or labyrinth he is taught by nature to seek a way out which needs must be the Author of so great a matter and as the work it self is not light and vulgar that is wrought so must it be for some extraordinary end which ought to be sought out The wondring at these two Diseases hath seized upon many but it hath pleased Almighty God of his meer mercy to make known unto me the Causes why they were sent his love unto King Charles II and his Pity toward the long distressed people of England by the Gracious and Happy Government of our Royal Master For what am I in knowledge or learning more nay I am less then others that I should attribute the knowledge of these Mysteries to my self But in a time of great wickedness and affliction in a time of the sadness of my heart presently after the Lord had delivered me from a sickness past hope of recovery about ten years since which is not hard to prove the Lord made this known unto me Blessed be his Holy Name so that there is nothing altered in the Interpretations saving that of late some few things have by Gods Grace been added as an enlargement But that I may finde out the signification of the second Disease the KINGS-EVIL it will be necessary that it be enquired whether the cure of this Disease hath alwaies been performable by our Kings of England and if not who and what he was who first of our English Kings had this Gift of Healing given unto him as it is called the Disease of the KINGS-EVIL for being cured by the King The Gift of healing the Struma now called the KINGS-EVIL we shall finde to have been given by the Lord first of all Kings of England to King Edward III before the Conquest commonly named Edward the Confessor by the following words of Ailredus Abbot of Revesby De Vita Miraculis Edwardi Confessoris among the ten English Historians printed at London for Cornelius Bee 1652. page 390. Adolescentula quaedam nuptiis tradita duplici laborabat incommodo nam faciem ejus morbus deformaverat amorem viri sterilitas prolis ademerat Sub faucibus quippe quasi glandes ei succreverant quae totam faciem deformi tumore faedantes putrefactis sub cute humoribus sanguinem in saniem vertebant indè nati vermes odorem teterrimum exhalabant A little after he annexeth this which follows Jubetur autem in somnis adire Palatium ex Regiis manibios sperare remedium quibus si lota si tacta si signata foret reciperet ejus meritis sanitatem In English thus A very yong woman which was married was afflicted with two infirmities for her face was not only disfigured by a Disease but she was barren also which drew away the affection of her husband from her For under her jaws there grew a sort of kernels which by their swelling made her look deformedly and the humours corrupting under her chin turned her blood into mattur which breeding worms sent forth a very stinking savour At length she was warned in a dream to go to the Court and that the King should cure her so that if she were washt stroak'd and sign'd by the Kings hands she should receive a perfect cure by the Kings merits Then this Author declaring her repair to King Edwards Court and likewise the performance by the King in the Ceremony of what was desired adjoyns to his former Discourse that which follows Subitò ruptâ cute cum sanie vermes ebulliunt resedit tumor dolor omnis abscessit ammirantibus qui aderant tantam sub purpurâ sanitatem tantam Sceptrigeris manibus inesse virtutem that is All on the sudden the skin breaks the worms and mattur drop out the swelling fals all the pain goes away all that stood by being amazed to see such a cure to be performed in Royal Robes and such vertue to proceed from hands which held a Sceptre For not only the mention of healing the Struma in this manner is first found in the History of King Edward and the praise thereof attributed to him but those