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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01014	Doctor Fludds answer vnto M· Foster or, The squeesing of Parson Fosters sponge, ordained by him for the wiping away of the weapon-salue VVherein the sponge-bearers immodest carriage and behauiour towards his bretheren is detected ...; Doctor Fludds answer unto M. Foster.	Fludd, Robert, 1574-1637.	1631 (1631)	STC 11120; ESTC S102376	121,816	230

diuell was ordained for another vse quite contrary vnto the pious and mercifull act of healing The Minor is proued by that which is said already as also the words of our Sauiour are very efficacious for this our purpose For when he had cured one that was both blinde and dumbe and possessed with an euill spirit so that as the Text saith He that was blind and dumbe could see and speake The Pharises said This man casteth out diuells no otherwise then by Belzebub the prince of diuells But Christ answered Euery kingdome diuided against it selfe is brought to naught and euery house or citty diuided against it selfe shall not stand so if Satan cast out Satan hee is diuided against himselfe Whereby it is cleare that being all diseases as well internall as externall are by Gods decree inflicted by the diuell and his angels as being created ministers by which and in which God vseth to execute vengeance and to punish mortall creatures It were a wrong vnto the Office assigned vnto him in or immediately after his creation to worke violence against his owne subiects by casting them out or curing the harmes they haue effected Wee haue many places in holy writ to confirme that Satan and his angels are contrary to the Art of curing and are alwayes ready to hurt with sicknesses and afflict with death but we c●…not find one to testifie any curing faculty in him As for example It is sayd that there was power assigned vnto the foure Angells which were by God made presidents of the soure Windes to hurt the earth the Sea and the trees Now euery one of these were Princes of many Legions of euill and wounding spirits Againe the Prophet saith God commeth from the South the heauens were couered with his glory and the earth was full of his praise at his feet was death or as S. Ieremy ha●…h it Egredietur diabolus ante pedes eius the diuel ●…ill goe forth before his feete but other interpreters say the pestilence went before him and the contagion raging and destroying in the South And Dauid saith Doe not feare the plague raging in the South as some interpreters haue it But S. Ierome saith a Daemonia meridiano from the D●…on or spirit of the South We find that it was Satan that was Gods Instrument or Organ by which hee wrought his will on Iob and thereupon hee said to his Creator Lay thou but thy hand vpon him c. by which words it may be signified that he vsed more reuerence vnto his Creator in that his acknowledgement then Mr. Foster doth in making this Organ of sickenesse a peremptory and absolute actor as well in the effect of healing as destroying namely of himselfe and not as hee is onely the Organ or Instrument by which God doth essentially worke his owne ends of vengeance against offenders This therefore was he that wounded patient Iob with a foule botch or vlcer and incited in his spirits a fiery feauer which made him thus to cry out in his anguish The arrows of the Omnipotent are grieuous against mee their poyson drinketh vp my spirits and the troubles of God which are sharply set against mee doe oppose mee where hee attributed all vnto God and not vnto Satan who is his wounding Organ Also Dauid saw the destroying angell of the Lord betwixt heauen and earth with a naked sword in his hand extended against Ierusalem who strucke a great many with the pestilence Also Iehoua sent the killing angell into the campe of the Assyrians who destroyed euery valiant man at armes in one nights space Also Moses by the destroying Organ of God vsing in steed of the weapon-curing-salue which was contrary to his office art and skill the aspersion of an infectious powder afflicted the Egyptians with vlcers and pustules Now that it is not the Angelicall Organ but God himselfe in the Organ which doth essentially act and strike it apppeareth by this place where Ieho●…a saith Circa mediam noctem ego egressurus ero in medium Aegypti morietur omnis primogenitus about midnight I will goe out into the midst of Egypt and euery first borne shall die But in the next Chapter it is said Iehoua transibit praeter portam illam non sinet interfectorem seu percussorem seu vastatorem domos vestras vastare God will passe ouer that dore and will not suffer the destroyer to strike or hurt your houses Whereby it is apparant that the essentiall Act of God is present with the organicall destroyer and doth act in it Lastly to shew you that it was wicked spirits which by the agitation of their Creator did cause these diseases in Egypt the Kingly Prophet argueth in these words before mentioned Immisit in eos iram in dignationis suae iram tribulatinem per malos angelos Hee sent amongst them the fiercenesse of ●…is anger wrath and indignation by euill angells I can prooue this by many more examples of holy Text namely how God doth punish and plague with sickenesse diseases and death by these his destroying ministers or organicall causes which hee created of set purpose to performe his will in this afflicting manner but it cannot be prooued that hee did imploy them in the contrary office namely in that of healing and curing For when he is pleased to cure or heale he hath an infinity of good Angels to performe that office all which are concluded vnder the dominion of the Archangel Raphael which therefore hath that name Quasi medicina Dei as who should say the medicine of God I must therefore conclude that as the onely act of God is as well to wound as to cure so hath he ordained Instruments or Organs to serue his turne in the execution ofboth these operations which are so contrary one to the other in condition as light is to darkenesse or good to euill Now that it is the act onely of God as well to heale by his good Organs as to strike and wound by his destroying Organs wee learne out of many places of Scripture Si plaga afficiet Iehoua Aegyptum qui plagis afsecit sanat cum conuersi fuerint ad Iehouam If God will afftict Egypt with plagues hee that ●…leth with diseases can againe heale the afflicted when they turne vnto him And yet Dauid confesseth that he did afflict them with euill angels and Iob saith Deusest qui vulnerat medetur percutit sanat It is God that woundeth and cureth he striketh and healeth and yet it was Satan which was Gods hand to act Iobs misery And in another place Ego occidam viuere facia●… percutiam sanabo non est qui de manu mea possit cruere I will kill and I will make to liue I will strike and I will heale and there is not one that can escape my hand And Salomon Tu vitae mortis potestatem habes deducis ad portas inf●…ni