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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

tame as all kinds hens and birds fed up at house Psal 8. Heb. 1. But Man to whom all these things are made subject hath obtain'd something far beyond them for beside his gift of speaking he hath reason a Mind and soul partaking of a heavenly and a divine nature For the mind of Man was taken out of the divine Mind and can be compared to nothing but God nor referred to any natural being Wherefore Man must strive to come as near to his Maker as he can and to make himself like unto him For since God hath exposed all other living Creatures to feed and eat downward he hath made Man onely with his Countenance upwards from the ground to behold the Heavens the house of his habitation both with his Mind and Eye whereof we shall treat more at large in the following Chapter CHAP. II. Man's Worth and Excellency Man Gods chief workmanship WHen as our most great and good God is to be highly admired in the things created that are obvious unto us in every place and are beheld both with our minds and eyes yet chiefly his Wisdome appears in Man For nothing in the world though it be comely and excellently made can be compared with the Excellency of Man so that from Man God would have the valuation of his own Excellence to be made and that mortals should thus have a character of his Divinity That is he would have us all brought to know and adore him the great Work-master by the contemplation of Mens own Minds and knowledge of themselves For nothing more clearly represents God than the mind of Man Whereby man was made like unto Gods Image and similitude Mans mind is the Image of God For Man is the most expresse representation of God wherefore by reason of his outward and inward beauty and vaste Endowments he well deserved to be called A little World because that God the most bountiful Father and Maker of all things did abundantly pour forth into Man all their vertues for for his sake all things were brought to light and all things obey his use and are set forth for that end Psal 8. The Kingly Psalmist confesseth the same and uttering arguments of a grateful mind Thou hast made him saith he but little lower than the Angels and as it were a God thou hast clothed him with glory and honour and hast set him over the works of thy hands He obtained this prerogative even from the beginning of the world Man is Ruler of the world so that all things when they flourish and are in being do dutifully obey and serve mans use So Genesis the first God confirmed the Principality and chief Government of all the rest unto Man Be fruitfull and increase fill the earth and subdue it and rule over all Fishes in the waters Birds in the Ayr and all beasts that move upon the face of the Earth But of that divine mind in man whereby he comes next unto God and of the internal gifts of his Mind Reason and Understanding whereby he excells Beasts other Writers have spoken at large and because it belongs not to this place I shall leave off to speak more of it The comelinesse of Mans body But I will mention a few things concerning his body and what are of kin to that and depend of it For the excellent and beautifull form thereof is very fit and agreeable to the manners of his mind The fashion of his body is tall and lifted up towards Heaven his countenance is high and looks upward the symmetry of all the parts and of the whole or the exact proportion of it is much spread abroad by Heathens and such as are far from our Religion So that I cannot but wonder at the negligence of our Men who either seek nothing at all or else they do coldly and carelesly seek into themselves and the works of Nature David the onely admirer of Nature whereas David a Magnificent King contemplating more closely and carefully the nature of man began to be elevated and to burn with the Love and admiration of so great a Work-master For thus he writes his praises with such and such like Testimonials I will praise thee Psal 138. O Lord because I am wonderfully made thy works are wonderfull my soul searcheth and knoweth it right well thou knewest all my bones when I was fashioned in the secret place and when I was wonderfully formed in my Mothers womb Thy eyes beheld me being yet unmade David's Exclamation upon his admiring of God and in thy bock were all my members written which day by day were fashioned Thy knowledge is wonderfull unto me whereby I was made I cannot understand it For when saith he I throughly search out my self and when I diligently consider the structure of my body the excellency of my Soul and the force of my Mind and I cannot by Reason and Judgment attain thereunto I both adore thy Majesty and embrace thy bounty Now let us a little set that most comely form aside and the other parts of the Body visible and we will consider of the scituation of the internal Bowels the powers of the natural faculties the nerves arising originally from the brain the arterial pipes from the heart and the propagation of the veins from the Liver also the faculties and powers of the Soul whereby she doth produce and perfect her functions Three spirits in Man To these may be added that etherial spirit that is the seat or naturall heat and the vehiculum thereof which is divided into 3. divisions and is distinguished by so many places as the animal to the Brain the vital to the Heart and the natural to the Liver This being that it nourisheth and quickens the body by its naturall heat and moysture that are both instead of fuel and affords forces to perform Action What things uphold the Spirits therefore these three parts are carefully to be refreshed and restored with sleep wine nourishments exercise Yet these must be used moderately for if they be immoderate or unseasonable they may put a man from his right Mind and bring him to many ill diseases and affects Mans Mind is full of fiery vigour Aenead 6. and His first beginning was not from the Land But Heavenly yet if his body be Faulty and earthly grosse dead limbs not free From sad diseases fears and pains and grief Distempers and great cares do rule in chief Then is this fiery spirit shut within The dark prison of 's body The Tyranny of the Passions Wherein the Poet comprehends the four Passions of the mind which rising from Intemperance do trouble the mind of man and make it by many wayes wonderfully unquiet Lastly let us direct our eyes to those things that give the species to all these that is let us examine the workmanship of forming and figuring the Child which is such a one and so great that every one though he be stranger

as we see the flowing and ebbing of the Ocean to break forth and dilate it self all abroad which although it be not plainly perceived in Summer daies and is less presented to the eyes yet thou dost perceive it either by smell or dost apprehend the hidden poyson in thy inmost bowells And as these very things work destruction to the body and bring in deadly poyson so sweet smells and fragrant hearbs do stir up the spirits and do cherish and recreate the heart it self the fountain of life Which even any one of a dull Judgment can perceive when he seeth the strength weakened by swounding and fast a sleep by the defect of the mind to be restored and stirred up by sweet smells But these mean things being let alone afterwards by the assistance of the most high God I will relate more secret things For which if I shall seem to any one to have wholly searched out the secrets of nature and the uses under weak and very unconstant reasons and a very small proportion of judgment and with no trimmed sentences to have furnished nature with no store I would desire him to be perswaded that I rather afford and demonstrate matter of writing to the learned then take it up before hand But I have attempted and undertaken to handle those things not with so great hope and confidence of accomplishing it as desire and will to try it and also that I might the better deserve of my Advocate and that I might more oblige my Citizens by this service But after Plato Persius doth stir up to attempt things of this kind and doth desire that this should be paid to our Countrey and Citizens as a due benevolence For so he doth prick us up to the consideration of things to the study of vertue to searth out those things which are profitable to men O wretched men ye ought to learn and show The cause of things and what we are to known Or to what end we 're made on earth to live What order or what bounds doth nature give To gentle-sliding Rivers and what measure Of silver or what 's lawfull to wish for pleasure What good doth money afford how much we owe Unto our Country and what we should bestow On neighbours what direction God doth give To thee how thou in humane things dost live Therefore I will try what I can perform or wherein I can go forward if I do not proceed in every thing exactly I may beg pardon for my fault and so much the more justly because the argument of the appointed Work is so great and doth stretch it self forth so unmeasurably so that it requires infinite labour and no mean Witt to accomplish every thing exactly The chief City of Laconia in Peloponnesus and adorn that * Sparta for its honour and amplitude Which if Horace in a homely and very easie argument Doth pardon faults which want of care doth cause Or are neglected by humane Nature's Laws By how much the more is it convenient to wink at and keep silent most things in so great difficulties and not to cut every thing as 't is said to the quick For it can scarcely be expressed how great wearinesse is to be born patiently by Physitians what labours are to be undergone what troubles complaints and bewailing speeches are to be endured at home and abroad when they follow their own affairs and diligently employ their assistance to their Citizens when all their study and industry doth consist in action their no lesse troublesome then gainful practice doth suffer no liberty no time to take breathe so that when they meditate on those things that were dispatched in borrowed hours that is in convenient service they are scarce at leisure to write them much lesse to make them perfect Which when it daily happeneth true and these kind of occupations do continually environ me at home and abroad all things scarcely and very hardly could be perfected according to my mind but when the consideration of Nature did onely delight me neither a more acceptable Argument could be thought upon it seemed good to me to write of its Miracles more at large and make all the Works of Nature more known Wherefore after I had dedicated these four Books of the Miracles of Nature to ERICUS King of Swedland the most invincible token of this New Year I do purpose to adde Two of the same Argument in short whereby the most Serene King having brought to an end and quieted the War which he undertook by Sea and Land against some conspiring Enemies by most excellent vertue and the greatnesse and courage of an high and invincible Mind might be refreshed more abundantly by the Contemplation of Nature and Things Having required this of William Simonds a Printer of Antwerp that he would bring these honourable and notable examples into the favour of the King's Court and of the desirous Reader which when he promised to accomplish and very truly performed by the industry of Christopher Plantin I think to finish the rest suddenly if it be so that no hindrance happen and our Heavenly Father grant constant and durable health For I hope it will be so that some new thing will come forth at the next Franckford Mart whereby at length the studious Reader may delight himself For Newes and Delight is the encouragement and allurement of Reading and Learning especially where the thing is declared very evidently and with convenient words and serious things are mixt with merry and profitable with sweet and pleasant which very thing I have studied to perform according to my power by that moderation of practice that I may no where digresse from comelinesse no where passe beyond the limits of honesty An Index of all the Chapters contained in this BOOK The Contents of the Chapters contained in the First Book Chap. 1. OF Nature Gods Instrument Page 1 Chap. 2. Man's Worth and Excellen Page 6 Chap. 3. It is most natural to procreate one like himself and men ought to use it reverently as a divine gift and Ordinance of God Page 8 Chap. 4. Of the likeness of Parents and Children whence it is that outward accidents are communicated to the Children and the Mothers Imagination is the cause of the production of many Forms Page 10 Chap. 5. Of the strange longing of Women with child and their insatiable desire of things And if they cannot get them they are in danger of life Page 16 Chap. 6. That a Woman doth afford seed and is a Companion in the whole Generation Page 18 Chap. 7. Whence growes the Sex and Kind that is whether of the two Man or Woman is the cause of a male or female Child Page 20 Chap. 8. Of Prodigious and Monstrous Births and by the way what is the meaning of the Proverb Those that are born in the fourth Moon Page 22 Chap. 9. By what means he that will may get a Boy or a Girle and by the by whence Hermaphrodites are bred and people

because they looked for succour and help elsewhere and not from God and took no counsel from him not asked any answer from him God govern● our actions Prov. 8. who rules over all and hath the dominion and Empire of the whole World For by him as Solomon saith Kings Reign and Princes do justice By me Princes rule and Nobles even all the Iudges of the Earth Counsel and Equity and Prudence and Strength and Honour and Power are his he gives them their power and Jurisdiction to govern and rule their subjects by God is the first cause Since therefore all things are brought to passe by the will of God and he is the prime cause of them all we must beg with all our might from him for a happy successe on all our businesse and that he would be pleased to grant unto us all things good and necessary to live well and happily by Christ gives us warning of this when he saith First seek the Kingdome of God and his Righteousnesse Math. 6. Luk. 12. and all other things shall be freely administred unto you of his bounty and added thereunto That is the most happy begining of the day which is begun from the contemplation of heavenly things from the Evangelical doctrine and praysing the Majesty of God CHAP. XLIX The morning early is the best time to fit our minds and to lift them up unto God The morning is fit for prayers THere is no part of the day so fit to pray unto God as the morning is For then the mind is more lively the darknesse of the night being gon and is more fit to conceive wholesome cogitations The sacred Scriptures every where restify that the hol● Prophets were wont to do so For David being in a strait saith My voice shalt thou hear in the morning O Lord Psalm 5. Psalm 61. In the morning will I dire●t my prayer unto thee and will look up In the morning shall my prayer come unto thee Chap. 17. So Esaiah In the morning shall the Lord hearken unto me that I may listen unto him who giveth me warning And again Chap. 26. My Soul desired thee in the night season with my spirit within I will seek thee early By which words the Prophet shews that all his mind and all the faculties of his Soul The place of Esay interpreted and spirits both vital and animal were fixed upon God continually so that no time should passe without the thoughts of him but all our words deeds and thoughts of our heart should be directed unto God CHAP. L. When the day is ended we must examine our mind for an account of the actions we have done that day We must require a reason of our actions and examine our minds AT even examine thy mind concerning all thy words and deeds done or spoken that day so when the day is ended before you settle your self to sleep take an account of every dayes actions and ask thy mind for a reason thereof what evill thou hast amended this day what vice thou hast opposed in what thou art grown better what addition hath been made to piety and what progresse thou hast made in vertue Wherein he failed Virg in vir●●on what 's done in time what not What good there came by such or such a deed What 〈◊〉 let slip what ac●ion was be got Th●●●●●ter ●●d born ●●●●ged and at need What help be lent or done what grief might breed It can hardly be spoken how quiet and peaceable the mind of man will be We must daily hold a purpose of amendment and what sweet rest and sleep a man will take when as with a purpose of amendment one discusses the clouds of his mind with such thoughts But because the action of the day and such things as we see in the day-time do sometimes hinder our sleep we must carefully labour to passe the day with honest employments that nothing fall foul upon the mind that may hinder our rest and make us sleep unquietly Let the actions of the day be honest CHAP. LI. Let no man flatter himself in his faults or extenuate his evill deeds Faults must not be extenuated IF any thing be done foolishly and contrary to right reason and honesty and decency never think how you may flatter your self in your errours or extenuate your faults by excusing them for excusing of sin breeds confidence of sinning and gives occasion to commit the same sins again So when David had observed how much mischief proceeded from this errour of this mind Psalm 146. The place of the Prophet David explained he said Incline not my heart O Lord to malitious words to find out excuses for my sins In which words he prayes that an evil mind or intention may be far from him which wicked men being troubled heap one wickednesse upon another and they extenuate and lessen their sins and will suffer no fault to be laid to their charge By which blindnesse and darknesse of mind it comes to passe that when the mind is once hardned in sins and bound with evill desires it falls daily to worse and worse and sinks down without any hope of comming forth To which appertains that of Solomon The wicked when he is come into the depth of sin Prov. 18. despiseth counsel that is he is perswaded he hath done no harm and is not much troubled for the wickednesse he hath committed but as the same writer saith Confusion and reproach follow him Whereby he shews that he undergoes so great losse of his reputation and is so branded with infamy that he shall hardly ever after procure or deserve the name of an honest and upright man A wicked man mind is hardned by wickednesse After the same manner are they hampered who when they have offended and are fallen into any sin will not acknowledge and confesse it though the wrack of their conscience extort it from them but they are silent and hold their peace and hope that in time all shall be forgotten A simile from the nature of children For it falls out with them as with boyes who will not leave off when they are forbidden especially where they hope it may be concealed and may not come to their Parents Ears We have examples hereof in Adam and C●●n and in their posterity to whom original sin was derived Confession 〈◊〉 away sin Wherefore those that desire to have peace of Conscience and not to be ●o●cured must not ●●●ive to conceal or deny their sins but must confesse them unto God For to acknowledg and confesse out sins is the means to p●●●ure forgivenesse and washes away all spors and foolnesse from us Silence aggravates our sins Psalm 31. but to conceal and deny our faults exasperates the evil and makes our cause the worse Which David having proved in himself said because I held my peace my bones consumed through my daily complaining pain and anguish indeed