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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

made me to cry out and complain but it made me not confesse my faults But forthwith he intends to open his sins unto God whom he certainly knows to be ready and easy to forgive his sins when he or any man repents heartily and hates his sins Wherefore trusting in God I said I will confesse unto God against my self my own iniquity and thou forgavest the wickednesse of my sin God is facil to pardon For such is the love and good will of God toward men such is his mercy and easinesse to be intreated that so soon as men purpose to repent he remits their transgressions Which he makes plain by Esaiah thus Chap. 65. And it shall be that I will hear them before they call and whilst they yet speak I will listen unto them Whereby he shews that his favour and loving kindnesse is ready that if a man onely purpose to lead a better life God presently forgives him the wickednesse he hath done So we read in Ezechiel Chap. 18. at what time soever a sinner shall repent of his wickednesse I will remember his iniquities no more CHAP. LII We must refer unto God all the good ●hat befalls us All the good that befals a man he must refer unto God IF in this frail and mortal body and momentary and vanishing life any thing befalls thee that is royal splendid magnificent If a man have large possessions and revenues if he have abundance of wealth and rich●● and he live in honour and renown dignity glory If his mind be endued with the knowledge of many things and he hath prudence and Wisedome if his body be in health and lively or if any thing more happen unto him you must acknowledge that you have received all this from God who is a most mercifull and munificent father from whom commeth every good gift Saint Paul recals unto this thankfullnesse the proud person who is swoln with an empty conceit of himself 2 Cor. ● and he takes away from him all his confidence in these words what hast thou which thou hast not received and if thou hast received it why boastest thou as though thou haddest not received it God urgeth the same Chap. 9. and speaks it to every man in Ieremiah Let not the Wiseman glory in his Wisedome Let not the Strong man glory in his strength nor the rich man in his riches but let every man glory in this that he knoweth me He that glorieth saith Saint Paul 1 Cor. 1. 1 Cor. 10. All our good comes from God let him glory in the Lord from whom we have abundantly obtained all good things by Jesus Christ who is made by God unto us Wisdome Justice Sanctification Salvation and Redemption But that no man may applaud or flatter himself or vaunt himself too insolently of his external or internal gifts Saint Paul admonisheth us that we carry this treasure in earthen vessels that is in frail and dying bodies whereby every man may understand that this must be ascribed to the vertue and power of God and not to mans strength For as all the Light Wisdome Vertue and Justice that is in a man must be referred to God and to the Father of Lights from whom all good and perfect gifts descend as St. Iames the Apostle testifies Chap. 1. So all the fault and wickednesse that is in mans mind what blindnesse and ignorance there is what corruption and depravednesse must all be ascribed to our pernicious will and no fault can be imputed unto God For sin and the transgression of Gods Law brought upon us all miseries All sin proceeds from our mind Wisd 1. calamities diseases of body and mind and lastly death it self and this sowed in our minds all readinesse to do what is evil CHAP. LIII There must be consideration had in making choice of what course of life we are determined to lead Deliberation in choosing our course of life IN choosing the course of life you mean to lead and wherein you purpose to rest and continue unto your old age this first of all must be thought upon to enter upon all things with consideration and not rashly to addict your self to any Calling from whence afterwards if you should repent your self you may not lawfully return and depart from it For they who in their younger years enter upon any course of life before they understand what they do and to what they are by nature prone unto and yet bind themselves unto it for ever they lead an uncomfortable life and full of trouble and sorrow if at any time as commonly it fals out they prove to be weary of that condition or they find themselves not able to undergo the burden of it Wherefore let no man inconsiderately tye himself in chains but before he enters upon any course of life let him take time to deliberate what Calling he hath most mind unto and what Trade he liketh best In which deliberation as Cicero perswades L. 1. Offic. every man must consider his own inclination and so using all care in regulating his life he may persevere in the purpose he hath undertaken Some err by errour not by will For many who strive for the best things are deceived not so much by their will as by the errour of the way they light upon and they wander from the mark that Christ hath set before us to superstition and a false shew of Religion But from Christ chiefly must we fetch our helps of salvation who alone being our Pilot John 10. we sail in this Sea of the world unto our desired harbour He is the dore that makes an entrance for us to the Father He is the way the truth and the life We must seek for salvation from Christ from which Satan attempts to turn us who changing himself into an Angels of light by wicked Teachers thrusts into mens minds falshood for truth doubtfull things for certain things counterfeit things for what is sincere and for safe things such as are hurtfull unto us Adam was deceived by a shew of truth This was the first imposture of our enemy whereby he set upon Adam and he cast a mist and darknesse upon his mind and he defrauded him who was simple and overcredulous by a shew of truth and he forbears not to do the same to all his posterity and by abolishing the sincere worship of God and saving Religion to bring in superstition idolatry false doctrine and doubtfull and dangerous courses of life and lastly to use all devices to draw mankind from the true knowledge of God by extinguishing the light of truth and putting out the brightnesse of faith and so to bring upon the mind an Egyptian and utter darknesse CHAP. LIV. Of lawfull society in Matrimony Definition of Matrimony MAtrimony is an undivided and lawfull conjunction of Male and Female which was appointed by God partly to bridle our ●usts and to shun unlawfull and wandring copulation

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