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A05311	The sanctuarie of saluation, helmet of health, and mirrour of modestie and good maners wherein is contained an exhortation vnto the institution of Christian, vertuous, honest, and laudable life, very behoouefull, holsome and fruitfull both to highest and lowest degrees of men ... / written in Latin verie learnedly and elegantlie by Leuinus Lemnius of Zirizaa, physitian, and Englished by H.K. for the common commoditie and comfort of them which understand not the Latine tongue ...	Lemnius, Levinus, 1505-1568.; Kinder, Hugh.	1592 (1592)	STC 15454.5; ESTC S3877	132,793	266

disproueable not colde The doctrine of Christ excelleth all wisedome not without authority and power but liuelye wholesome effectuall diuine and godly and bringeth beatitude and felicity vnto man which onely must be acquired and obtayned of Christ who is the fountaine of all wisedome and goodnesse Colos 2. And in whome dwelleth all the fulnesse of GOD bodily by whome wee are complete By him as Saint Paul sayth Colos 1. God the Father hath deliuered vs from the power of darkenesse and translated vs into the kingdom of his beloued sonne by whome wee haue redemption in his bloud euen the forgiuenesse of sins God hath poured all things on Christ most aboundantly Who is the Image of the inuisible God the first begotten of all creatures because that by him all things are created which are in heauen earth visible inuisible thrones dominations principalities powers Al things are created by him for him and hee is before all things and by him all things haue their being And he is the head of the body of the Church the beginning first begottē of the dead that in al things he might haue the preeminence and obtayne the principalitie For it pleased the Father that the fulnesse of all thinges should dwell in him and by him to reconcile toward himselfe all things being pacified appeased by the bloud of his Crosse Seeing therefore that God the Father hath giuen and bestowed hath shed and poured on Christ all thinges so liberally plentifully and aboundantly let vs labour and striue to come with all speede possible vnto this most plenteous neuer-wasting and euer-lasting fountaine and let vs be bolde with must assured trust and effectuall confidence to aske hope and expect euery thing of him let vs enterprise and take in hand to bring any thing to passe by him The force of faith If thou intend to driue away Diuels to heale diseases to deliuer and rid thy selfe out of daungers to destroy venemous beastes to expell the pernicious power of poison and abolish the hurt thereof to moue mountaines out of their place remember that all these thinges must be atchieued and accomplished by the strength and power of Iesus Christ and by vndoubted affiance in him For Christ promiseth that all thinges shal be plain manifest open and easie vnto him that beleeueth and trusteth in him Which most comfortable promise it pleased him to confirme vnto his Apostles in his last Sermon before he was taken vp into heauen When he saieth Mar. 16. Goe yee into all the whole world and preach the Gospell to euery creature Hee that shall beleeue and bee baptised shall be saued but hee that will not beleeue shall be condemned And these signes shall follow them which beleeue In my name they shal cast out diuels they shall speak with new tongues they shall driue away and destroy Serpentes and if they drinke any deadly thing it shall not hurte them they shall lay their handes on the sicke and they shall be well that is to say at the touching of them they shall waxe healthfull and bee hole and sound Al these things shal be alwaies prest and ready when the fruite and profite of the Gospell shal require a miracle But indeed these things are alwaies wrought and performed in the hearts of men by the ministers of the profession of the Gospell Miracles wrought in mens harts and minds when as they driue and pluck filthy vices and abhominable sinne out of mens mindes when as they heale the sicknesses and diseases of the minde with the effectuall power of the spirite and with holesome doctrine when as they doe deliuer and set the heart at liberty from coueteousnesse hatred wrath euill concupiscence crafty false and malicious surmises and accusations backebiting and slaundering and other renemous affections and doe adorne the minde with diuine holy and godly giftes Whether herbes and precious stones be of any power or auaileable efficacy in driuing away Diuels and expelling other hurtfull things CHAP. 58. ALthough herbes haue such peculiar vse and commodity and such speciall force and strength naturally by the wonderful work of the Creatour of nature that they be meete conueniently vsed and necessarily applyed for the sustenaunce and medecine of mens bodies Herbes effectuall vnto many things yet notwithstanding some herbes are nobly commended of old and auncient writers because they bee good helpes against mischieuous hurtes and doe driue away and expell all kinde of enchauntments witchcraft and sorcery These are called remedies against all ill and mischiefes or preseruatiues against poyson and sorcerie because they put away and expulse whatsoeuer thinges are hurtfull Pearles indued with secret efficacie noyous and grieuous to man And this vertue is attributed not onely to herbes but also to pearles and precious stones which efficacy they haue not of their first fourme and qualities that is to say of the temperature of heate of coldnesse of drinesse and moystnesse but by a peculiar power specially pertaining to their kinde and by a secret effect and hidden propertie the cause whereof can not bee declared Lodestone Amber or Aumber Ieate Saphire So the Lodestone by rubbing of it draweth iron to it The Ieate stone and Aumbre that Beades were made of draweth chaffe and little strawes The Saphire which is of the colour of the skie light watchet or bluncket preserueth chastity Iacint Chrysolit The Iacint and Chrysolite being worn in a ring on the finger resisteth the pestilence Emeraude The Emeraud and Prasine stone which are green stones doe make the heart merry Turquoyse The Turquoyse saueth and preserueth from slipping falling and rushing against any thing or if any such thing doe happen it keepeth the body safe from hurt Corall Corall put on the necke driueth away troublous and terrible dreames and mittigateth the feare that children haue in the night Carbuncle Sardine The Carbuncle and Sardine stone commonly called Corneol so named of the redde berye of the Cornelier Tree the fruit whereof is like to heppes prouoketh mirth and gladnesse and maketh a man cherefull and causeth him to haue a goodly faire fresh florishing colour by reason that the bloude hath ready passage and course throughout the body So other precious stones haue power do excel in other vertues some in one some in another do chase driue away hobgoblins or night spirits fairees or elses that do bewitch infantes the night mares or hegges and euil spirites of the aire if we may giue credence to the monuments and workes of auncient wryters So amongest herbes there bee some which preuaile against those diseases and horrible maladies which are much like vnto the malicious vexations grieuous afflictions and horrible tormentes of Diuels Of which sort be these Horr●ble diseases are are driuen out by the helpe of herbes melancholy frensie madnesse falling sickenesse or foule euill and most grieuous and cruell diseases which come to maides

not one things which are on the earth and direct erect al our cares studies cogitations desires and delights vnto Christ Iesus which sitteth at the right hand of God that our conuersation may be in heauē with him And for him that true incorruptible and vnspeakable treasure to iudge all these things to bee but dung Philipp 3. And for the winning of him to thinke and count al these things but losse that we may be found in him that is not hauing our owne righteousnes which is of the lawe but that which is through the faith of Christ euen the righteousnes whiche is of God through faith 2. Cor. 4. And that wee should not looke on the things which are seene but on the thinges which are not seene Mat. 6. And that like the foules of the heauen and the lilies of the field which liue and growe without care and toile of this life wee should not weary our selues in labouring for the meate which perisheth but labour for the meat which endureth vnto euerlasting life Ioh. 6. which the sonne of man shall giue vnto vs. For as the Israelites walked iourneyed and wandered in the great wildernes fourtie yeares Psal 66 107. and passed through manie probations tribulations before they did goe in and possesse that good land that flowed with milke and honie which the lord had promised and sworne vnto their fathers to giue them Euen so the same our good God which so conducted his peculier people and proued them with many miseries afflictions before he brought them to that plentifull land doth in like maner by his fatherly prouidence and fauourable protection leade vs his adopted children Galat. 4. Ephes 1. whom he hath receiued by grace through the great wide wildernesse of this wicked wretched world In which our iourney towardes that happie and heauenly countrey that continuing citie to come Heb. 11. 12. he trieth vs with manie kind of troubles and calamities Psal 66. 78. Ioh. 14. and causeth vs as the Psalmist saieth to go through fire water before he bring vs forth to that welthie place that pleasaunt land that celestiall habitation those eternall mansions that supernall Ierusalem the mother of vs all Galat. 4. Coloss 1. Act. 14. the euerlasting kingdome of his deare sonne Iesus Christ vnto which we must enter through many tribulations This is that precept which our Sauiour doth inculcate into the eares and hearts of all them which will folow him and become his true disciples Luc. 9. namely to forsake and denie themselues take their crosse paciently that is to say to suffer constantly all tribulations that the lord laieth vpon them Hebr. 12. 1. Cor. 9. And to cast awaie euery thing that presseth downe as riches cares and voluptuousnes And so abstaine that they may get the maisterie and finally so runne that in Christ Iesus they may obtaine victoriously and be crowned with him triumphantlie Vnto this continuall bickering and warfare wherein the church of Christ militant here on earth is continually exercised he himselfe being our most mightie and puissant Capitaine doth animate and encourage vs most comfortably with these wordes Ioh. 16. Be of good comfort saieth he I haue overcome the world For he hath conquered the Deuil the world sin damnation death and hell for vs and hath loosed all our sorowes Therefore this holy heauenly diuine contemplation raiseth lifteth vp our harts our cogitations our studies our sences desires and loue from vaine pleasures vnto the true and euerlasting treasures according to that effectual and pithy praier of Dauid O turne awaie mine eyes least they behold vanitie For indeede all things are vaine Psal 119. Wis 13. except the knowledge of God and most miserable are they that are destitute thereof Now as concerning the Knowledge of a mans selfe wherewith euery Christian ought to be instructed endued there is almost no naturall mortall and earthly man no not commonly among the heathē much lesse among true Christians but that by the vse of reason and quicknes of wit infused by nature he vnderstandeth and perceiueth himselfe to be created and ordeined of God to a far better happier and more excellent end purpose then all other creatures voide of reason wit iudgment ouer whiche creatures God the creator hath made and constituted man lord ruler gouernour Psal 8. And in the creation of him which as Dauid saith is wonderfull and fearefull he hath made the fashion Psal 139. forme shape of his body straight vpright towards heauen wherby he is admonished to lift vp his heart vnto heauen set his loue on heauenly things and not to fix and cast down his cogitations vpon earthly things only but to haue mind continually on that diuine Genes 1. spirituall and immortall substaunce whereof his soule is a likenes and image And to cōsider that in this his meruailous creation hee excelleth all other liuing creatures whose bodily shape is in forme prone and groueling downe towardes the earth being created and ordained vnto corruption Rom. 8. and subiect vnto vanitie and destinated to perish with the earth whereas contrariwise man is appointed and assigned thorowe faith in Christ Iesus vnto immortalitie and eternall felicitie in heauen This certaine persuasion and true opinion the poet vndoubtedly seemed to haue fixed and stablished in his mind declaring the same in these elegant verses Ouid. in 1. lib. Metamorph Os homini sublime dedit coelumque videre Iussit erectos ad sydera tollere vultus which may be englished thus God gaue to man a face on high And heauen to behold And visage straight lift vp toth ' starres Commanded him he should But whosoeuer will knowe him selfe rightly and perfectly must cōsider that mā consisteth of two parts namely the bodie and kthe soule whereof the one is subiect to corruption the other is incoruptible the one perceiued sensible thother inuisible the one subiect to death the other immortall the one a deuine spirituall and heauenly substaunce the other a grosse and fraile lumpe of earth which turneth into earth againe In euery faithfull vertuous and godly Christian the soule which is the highest or chiefe●… part of the mind or spirite or power intellectiue being led by the Spirite of God ought to rule the body and the lustes appetites and desires therof And the bodie as a seruaunt or minister vnto his lord maister ought alwaies to be obedient to the good and godly motions of the Spirite as the Apostle teacheth saying If ye mortifie the deeds of the body by the Spirite ye shall liue And a little after he saieth Rom. 8. The same Spirite beareth witnes with our spirite that wee are the children of God So that wee haue two witnesses that is to say Gods spirite and ours which is certified by the Spirite of God which must haue domination ouer the affections lustes

vineyarde diligently and faithfully which is a part of charitie For the Lord God who searcheth the hearts and rei●… and looketh into mens thoughts Eccles 23. whose eies are 〈◊〉 thousand times brighter then the Sunne beholding all the wayes and workes of men he I say knowet● all the minde will intent desire and affection of 〈◊〉 faithfull seruants Psal 38. and their gronings are not hidd●… from him Surely all the faithfull disposers and towards of the holy mysteries and secrets of God 〈◊〉 of the manifold graces of Iesus Christ haue gr●… cause to lament these euill and woful daies Reuel 12. wherein the diuell is come downe to the inhabitants of the earth that is to those that are giuen to the wo●… and fleshly lusts and to bewaile the blindnesse 〈◊〉 hardnes of mans heart whose imaginations are 〈◊〉 euen from his youth Gen. 8. and the great wickednesse 〈◊〉 man on the earth so that the earth is corrupt before God Gen. 6. and filled with crueltie because all flesh 〈◊〉 corrupt his way vpon earth For euen as it was in 〈◊〉 dayes before the deluge or floud when those ob●…rate and obstinate Giants contemned the preachi●… and despised the warnings of Noe the friend of God the eight person a preacher of righteousnesse 2. Pet. 2. 1 Pet. 3. yea rather were disobedient vnto our Sauiour who in spirit preached vnto them by the mouth of Noe So now it is to be feared Ierem. 9. yea rather with heades full of water and with eyes that haue a fountaine of teares the pastours of Christs flocke haue cause to weepe day and night because so many wanton worldlings lie weltring in wickednesse and turne the grace of God into voluptuousnesse Iude. beeing fulled asleepe in carelesnesse and caried headlong to perdition with contempt of the worde of God Ephes 2. 2. Tim. 2. Now vndoubtedly is the time come wherein the prince of darkenes beareth such sway in the children of disobedience and holdeth so many disobedient wretches captiue at his will Now doth that malicious aduersarie that roring lion walke and let about 1. Pet. 5. seeking and gaping for his pray most perniciously deuoureth so many sillie miserable and succourles soules cruelly Now because the hirelings of whom we haue to too many care not for the sheepe Iohn 10. but leaue them without succour and defence and flie from them the woolfe commeth vpon them with insaciable rapacitie and greedinesse and catcheth and scattereth the sheepe and maketh lamentable hauocke of the poore afflicted flock of Iesus Christ Now verelie yea euen now at this present Reuel 12. the great Dragon that olde Serpent called the diuell and Satan sheweth his rage and hath great wrath because he knoweth that hee hath but a short time Mat. 4. For hee is the Prince of this worlde which title he vsurpeth and chalengeth to himselfe and he rideth vpon wanton wicked worldlings as it were vpon a horse And this is the cause that there bee so many workers of iniquitie Mat. 7. 2. Thess 3. so little faith on earth so fewe faithfull followers of Christ We are they vpon whome the ende of the worlde is come for whereas the Apostle sayth Hebr. 9. that Christ in the ende of the worlde hath appeared once to put away sin by the sacrifice of himselfe To which wor● the Apostle Saint Peter agreeth 1. Pet. 4. and saith Nowe the end of all things is at hand how much more now may this our time and age bee called the ende si● that we are come so much nearer vnto the day of the Lord For now all those euils calamities sorrowes which our Sauiour foretolde should come vpon the earth are come in deed and those true prophecies of the infallible truth it self are now most certeinly fulfilled Mat. 24. and most manifestly verified For iniquitie is increased yea it aboundeth and hath the vpper hand vpō the face of the whole earth Charitie is cold yea it is extreemly frozen The Disciples of Christ are afflicted yea they are hated and persecuted euerie where among all nations And although indeed here in England the light of the louing mercifull countenance of our good gracious long suffering God doth now at this present shine among vs most cōfortablie blessed be his holy name therfore yet it is to be feared yea surely it is rather to be expected that our sinfull securitie noughtie negligence and horrible ingratitude will verie shortly and sooner then many thinke turne away his fauourable face from vs and set his face with heauie displeasure and indignation against vs and take away these his great blessings of peace tranquillitie trueth and prosperitie from vs. For when they shall say peace and safetie 1. Thess 5. then shall suddaine destruction come vpon them Ought not we then to looke dailie and continually for these imminent perilles and punishments Seeing therefore that all these calamities and afflictions present are iustly come vpon this wicked worlde and manie m● grieuous sorrowes are to be looked for 2. Pet. 3. what maner persons ought wee to bee in holy conuersation and godlines looking for and hasting vnto the comming of the day of God Howe great cause haue wee to watch that we may be readie for the comming of the Lord Happie are those wise virgins who hauing oyle in their lampes Mat. 25. are readie to meete the blessed bridegroome Iesus Christ and do enter with him vnto the glorious mariage of him that most louing husband with his Church that is the congregation of all faithfull soules dispersed vpon the face of the whole earth and knit together in one by faith and by the confession of his holy name through the operation of his holy Spirite Ephes 5. Which Church hee hath sanctified and appointed to bee his spouse or bride holy chaste and without reprehension Mat. 22. Happie are those ghests that come in thither clothed and adorned with the most precious wedding garment of his righteousnesse of a pure affection and vpright conscience wherewith all they are inuested that assuredly and constantly beleeue in him and in whome by his righteousnesse grace reigneth vnto euerlasting life Happie are those seruants whom their lord when he cōmeth shall find well doing Mat. 24. Luke 12. 19. For such good faithfull seruants wil the Lord himselfe commend in the presence and hearing of their brethren and make them partakers possessours of his vnspeakable ioyes Happie are they that so continue to the end for they shal be saued These are they that be clothed with white garments euē with the innocencie sinceritie perfect righteousnes of that immaculate lambe Reuel 7. whō he hath purged washed cleansed and purified with his most precious blood These are they whom hee that rideth on the red horse persecuteth Reuel 6. euen Satan with his blooddie tyrannie But the Lord will for their sakes shorten these euill wofull