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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

enough admire Him His very Gesture was a Net to catch their Good Wills Exegit ibi monumentum aere perennius quod nec imber edax nec Aquilo possit diruere To whose everlasting Honour be it spoken notwithstanding all the Exigencies that God had brought him under all the Stratagems Politicks and Fetches laid to ensnare Him He still withstood them and continued steadfast being Resident some years where a contrary Religion was openly professed and maintained Home-bred Incendiaries there were too many but eternal praises be given to the King of Kings ours was out of their reach as to offer the least violence to Him and therefore made it their work to reach him with their Tongues and if possible murther Him that way persuading the People that He was warping towards Popery To their shame never to be wip'd off be it retorted and our Churches Glory asserted He has been the same Defender of the Faith and Protestant Cause in the midst of the greatest Temptations and strongest Adversaries His Title was our Fame the Truth of it our happiness and will be His for which very cause as a reward of a pious Constancy against all Extremities God wrought this for Him the greatest of Miracles and yet the highest of Benefits to him and to this Nation His Restauration which has fill'd the World with astonishment as our Hearts with exceeding great Joy and indeed 't was impossible it should be otherwise so much stability and Divine qualities as He is truly endow'd with Heaven must needs be fore'd to do some more than ordinary miraculous Act for a Person on whom it had bestowed so many Bonus Princeps à Domino datur God was His Guide abroad the Blessed Star that directed Him and the Shield that protected Him and at last gave Him to us let us blesse Him for Him Have but a Retrospect to His Princely Christian Patience know that he might have had Forein Aid but se malle vinci suis Armis quàm Alienis victorem esse he rather sat down peaceably conquer'd with His own men then to be Conquerour with an Army of others These were Endearments great Love on His part if there be not a Return on ours we are worse than the vilest sort of men God you see destin'd his Twelve years Exile that He might appear to us in greater Lustre and Transcendency His Regress brought forth our Sun which moving in His own Sphere shines most gloriously and rises only to do us good with healing in His Wings Plots we have had without number laid and discovered by the first Contrivers of them but this of His Majesties Return was a just and a real plot upon those Regicides to bring them to condigne punishment to whom I durst once have appealed and to their own Consciences if they did not more repent them of what they fail'd to do than what they did They boasted themselves Cods Children Saints and what not But alas they were the Sons of men and wicked men too un-sanctified Saints their Actions spoke them They should have born a filial duty to their Lord and King 'T is labour in vain to endevour to dis-joyn where God has made a firm Concatenation tied a knot not to be untied by frail mortality many a good turn he has pleas'd to do us but after His Return to us being none of the meanest Blessings we ought to Return to God Almighty all sorts of Devoirs otherwise we don't deserve it 'T was not the Healing Convention that did it but the great and sacred Councels of Heaven Let us not make our selves wiser than our Maker study not to withstand or oppose what he has appear'd so miraculous in Undoubtedly Monarchy is the most secure and most preserving form of Government upon Earth Submit your Wills to Providence no Oracle you can better rely upon she knows what is best for you yeild to it and your reward followes you He that rebels against his lawful Prince rebels against his God questionless he that would destroy his Soveraign would also destroy his God standing in his way so united are the Affairs of God and a King he is in his Office like to Him and subordinate to Him You see that Serpentine Egg of Conspiracy is no sooner laid but 't is addled he that is omniscient is not to learn which way ye intend to steer your Stratagem but he prevents ye in it The Divel he sets his Emissaries to work and sits as Chair-man in your Magical Conventions to render Kings contemptible and bring them into disgrace The Plot 's no sooner over but the old Serpent he gives them over too you see they are no sooner arrested by the Magistrate but his power immediately ceases in not being able to hinder the Justice of the Almighty his force is broke he cannot rescue them from it They sin against God in Heaven and his Church on Earth and therefore 't is thought meet that they should hang betwixt both as being unworthy to enter the one or tread longer upon the other These confident sons of Mars melted away like Snow before our Sun such is the difference betwixt prosperous wickedness and persecuted Innocency They much mistake that think Divine Justice sleeps when it does but wink a while at such Offenders Those Sons of Belial some of them have felt Gods Justice here and I have that charity for them may they find mercy in Heaven Machiavel reports in his Questions upon Livy that the French had once their Kings in such Esteem and Reverence that they thought every thing did become them that they did and that nothing could be more disgraceful to them than to give any intimation that such or such a thing was not well done by their King being absolutely possess'd they could not do a-miss I would to God this so excellent a virtue had been first wafted over into England with their fashions and that 't were now A la mode 'T is a capital Crime and not venial to Touch but Gods Anointed Davids heart smote him that he cut off but the hem of Sauls Garment The Romanes would have Rebellion to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 maximum crimen and though a King hath not sanc̄titatem vitae yet if he have sinctitatem unctionis we are to honour him he may erre and have his failings 't is true yet in such a case we are not to take up Gladium vindictae but Scutum Patientiae we must help our selves not by a violence against him but by a holy violence the force of prayer with God we must be in charity with him would we be entertain'd by him whose Title it is to be the Prince of Peace we must live peaceably with him we have all the reason in the world so to do Il ne parle pas au Roy qui veut sayes the Monsieur Not every one that would may speak to Kings but such is the great affability and condiscention of ours he desires that the most despicable the