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A47663	The secret miracles of nature in four books : learnedly and moderately treating of generation, and the parts thereof, the soul, and its immortality, of plants and living creatures, of diseases, their symptoms and cures, and many other rarities ... : whereunto is added one book containing philosophical and prudential rules how man shall become excellent in all conditions, whether high or low, and lead his life with health of body and mind ... / written by that famous physitian, Levinus Lemnius.; De miraculis occultis naturae. English	Lemnius, Levinus, 1505-1568.	1658 (1658)	Wing L1044; ESTC R8382	466,452	422

applyed when it was his condition and he was tossed with the same tempests and Waves Psalm 51. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit Also that expostulation of his with his own Soul or rather that lamentation Psalm 41. Why art thou disquieted oh my soul and why art thou so troubled within me hope in God because I will yet praise him And again when he had recovered peace of conscience and all sadnesse was dispelled he saith Enter into thy rest oh my Soul because the Lord hath rewarded thee Psalm ● thou hat given me joy and gladnesse of heart So then if we have done all things against equity and an evill will drives a man contrary to right understanding and direction of the mind and rules of reason af●erwards the remembrance of wicked deeds will torture the mind of any man What will the confidence of Conscience do Whereas others fenced and supported by a good Conscience they relying upon and depending on the testimony of a secure mind never fear nor fright at it no not when miseries come as the Plague War Famine and want of all things nor are they dejected for persecutions or the rage of Tyrants for though such be the frailty of human nature that there is no man who is not troubled at sudden assaults and is afraid of them an example whereof we have in our Saviour Christ Math. 26. when he was to be offered up yet an honest man and he that depends on Gods protection stands firm and fearlesse against all dangers that are near him and sustains himself by that means in despite of them all So David when he was straightned on every side Psalm 26. opposed a couragious and an undaunted spirit to all dangers For being garded and environed by the power of the Almighty God he speaks with the greater confidence Though an Host should encamp against me my Heart shall not fear though war should rise against me in this will I be confident Likewise Iob. Though he kill me Job 13. yet will I trust in him But wicked ungodly impious naughty men though they be guarded and encompassed with a great retinue and defended with abundance of wealth having great store of Lands and Possessions and want of nothing yet are they racked in their minds and are afraid of all things Prov. 12. and as the Wise man saith Their Soul is pierced with the Conscience of their wicked deeds as with a Sword For when they call to mind the mischief they have done they presently tremble wax pale look about and are afraid of the safest means as if the furies of hell hurried them along For there is in every man an imbred choice of things by nature What is the Law of nature a judgment and distinction of good and bad and the knowledge of God is printed in their Souls which Saint Paul calls the Law or Instinct or conduct of nature Rom. 2. whereby we are carried to what is honest and we abhor what is ill every mans conscience as he saith bearing him witnesse and their thoughts excusing or accusing one another Wherefore great is the force and vertue of conscience in all actions of our lives so that a Man though horrid things be objected against him will maintain his constancy and will allwaies persevere in his counsel and resolution he hath undertaken and will not fear or tremble or dread with any threatnings if he have done nothing amisse But he that is guilty of a crime and his mind is polluted with it thinks the punishment to be alwaies before his eyes and destruction to persue him continually For fear which makes the bloud hide it self and deads the spirits rising from the conscience of sins takes away a mans courage Conscience changeth the form of the body and changeth his countenance and the habit of all his body so that in the midst of all his jollity in dancings and banquettings and in Conjugal embracements he feels the rack and tortures of Conscience whereas integrity of life makes all calm peaceable quiet and no trouble at all which one thing may be a forcible argument that the mind of man came from God and is moved by his power A strong argument of immortality and guided by his spirit and direction and that the Soul lives after death which when some years are past when the Supream Judge shall please to judge the world shall again unite with the body after a wonderful manner In the morning early the force and sting of Conscience is most clear the fumes and fuliginous vapours being discussed Conscience what time of the day it shews it self wherewith the mind from the actions or banquets of the day before as from gluttony drunkennesse revelling and the like was oppressed so that about that time especially the mind recollects what was formerly done and thinks on such things that she approves or dislikes So saith the Prophet Why the Conscience shews it self in the morning Psalm 5. Esay 50.26 Ecclus. 39. Thou wilt hear my voice in the morning Oh Lord in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will look For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickednesse the Lord shall listen unto me in the morning in the morning will I attend unto thee The just shall deliver his Soul that he may watch unto God that made him God O my God I watch for thee in the morning So then to those that newly wake Psalm 62. when they have eaten nothing nor drank the affects of the mind and Conscience do most represent themselves and God warneth men early in the morning For what admonishment or wholesome Instruction can be offered to men when they are drunk with Wine or crop-sick with gluttony So I know many men who when the memory of their former ill life troubles them often they presently drown'd themselves with drink that they may forget all the wickednesse they have committed and that the remembrance thereof may not secretly steal upon them yet the next day the mischief became raw and did more cruelly torment their minds For the like hapneth to these men as it doth to men that are diseased A simile from sick men who will not disclose but conceal the Ulcers and sores they have about them whereby they are more bitterly tortured inwardly to which the Prophet David alludes when he saith Psalm 31. The place of the Psalmist explain'd When I kept silence my bones waxed old through wy roaring all the day long The sin and terrour of his Soul and unquietnesse of his mind and pressures of conscience did so drive him to confesse his wickednesse and yet he could not be drawn to confesse his sin and to purge it away by true repentance But the regulating of mans life by institution the habit of his body Who want Conscience and imbred humours are of great consequence

Resurrection strengthens feeble minds and all comfort in the greatest dangers is in the faith of the Resurrection let us set this faith against all the terrours and temptations wherewith the Devil endeavours to overthrow and weaken our minds and let us hope assuredly in him who is the Author unto us of so great advantage and liberty What Christ's Birth did The long expected birth of our Saviour did exceedingly raise the Souls of men to a high hope of salvation and confidence of it His conversation amongst men his upright life his doctrine and lastly his death which he suffered for us to free us from destruction did confer much thereunto What Christ's Resurrection did But the truth of his resurrection did effect this that when he had got the victory over death no man need to doubt of his salvation but ought to hold a firm hope that what hath been done already in Christ their head shall be perfected in them also Wherefore all our hope depends on our Saviours Resurrection whereby he vanquished death and thereby he pulled out the sting of death that is sin that bred the Enmity between God and us Wherefore since we have obtain'd so great felicity by the death and resurrection of Christ Peter 1. let us not be removed from the truth but let us endeavour to partake of the fruit of so much good works and look steadfastly upon him who by his singular favour and mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope by Christs rising from the dead and hath restored us to life that shall never end and hath assigned unto us an immortal Inheritance pardoning all our offences Colos 2. and blotting out the hand-writing that was against us The memory of this benefit should be alwaies before our eyes especially at our last conflict The Resurrection should still be in our minds when detesting all the wickednesse of our former life we must oppose against Satan sin death and hell the immense mercy of God the Father by out full assurance in Christ by whom there is provided certainly for us salvation and remission of all our sins and reconciliation by his blood By him we have admission and entrance unto the Father He is the propitiation for our sins Considence in Christ gives us courage For so God loved the world that he gave his onely Sonne to redeem us that every one that believes in him trusts in him and relyeth on his promises may not perish but have everlasting life Which confidence raiseth our minds to bring forth good fruits by works of charity whereby we love God above all things and our neighbour for his sake Mat●h 25. What Faith dictates Charity performs For a working Faith begets charity and charity nourisheth faith Faith joyn'd to Love So in the foolish Virgins lamps the light of faith went out because there wanted oyl of charity Wherefore this faith and confidence of promised mercy that is infused into our hearts by the Holy Ghost must be stirred up and nourished in us that by the merit of Christ our Mediatour we may cry Abba Father For the Spirit of Adoption Gal. 4. and the earnest of our Inheritance raiseth up our hearts and comforts us with the redemption and possession purchased for us and takes from our minds all fear and trembling and terrour of Conscience and makes us acknowledge Gods favour presence and mercy and that we may attain Redemption and Reconciliation by the help of Jesus Christ whom God hath set forth to be our peace-maker through faith in his blood Wherefore being justified by faith we have peace with God and a settled Conscience and a quiet mind so that all distrust and desperation is discussed and we apprehend certain hopes of the Resurrection and Immortality and doubt nothing of our salvation so that we depart from hence chearfully to our heavenly Country and place of rest to enjoy everlasting comfort with our Redeemer And that these things may never slip out of our minds and so great a benefit may never be forgot Christ instituted his holy Supper The Communion whereby we may remember and recollect what he hath done for us that our mind may be elevated and grow hot with the frequent meditation of the new Covenant to adore him and receiving his body and blood we may be united to him and may conceive certain hope and trust of his great love and mercy to us whereby he was willing to dye for us Which wonderful work we ought daily but especially to meditate on at our end when death approaches The Lords Supper that our minds may be settled and we may firmly believe in him and we may give him continual thanks for that inestimable gift of our salvation by the shedding of his blood whereby he wiped away all spots of sin from us and freed us from dear of death and from the cruel tyranny of our great Enemy the devil so setting us at liberty Therefore by this mystical Bread and holy Sacrament we are assured that Christ is in us and we in him and that we are joyned to him by the most firm bond of love Heb. 8. Whence it is that being born up with certain hope as with a staff we are confident to receive those things that faith infused into us by the Spirit prompts us with and perswades us unto for from faith as the root spring forth the branches of charity James 2. that yield plentifully the fruits of good works For works testifie that faith is alive and safe and sound in all parts of it There must be choice of works For saving faith is never without good works that are pleasing to God but as a good Tree brings forth both leaves and fruit Since therefore those heroick and divine vertues inspired by God which are so joyned together that they can never be asunder are so necessary to salvation the mind must be daily busied in them that after the troubles of this life are past after that we have approved the profession of our faith and shew'd it openly which God requires we should do Sinners are Justified by Faith in God and exerciseth us therein we may come to those riches that Inheritance those rewards that God hath appointed for them who in the conflict of this life have employ'd their Talent as they ought to do Ezek. 18. wherein if they have erred the next way to salvation is to lift up their souls to God and to commit themselves wholly to his great mercy Wherefore depending on his clemency in hopes of mercy which he denyeth to none that repent Heb. 4. Let us come with boldnesse to the Throne of Grace that we may find mercy in time of need And let us continually from our very heart speak in the ears of our merciful and placable Judge those words of the Prophet Psal 148. Enter not into Judgment with thy servant Psal 119. O Lord because in thy sight