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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

of mischief that long custome procures boldnesse and confidence unto this Sex that if any man begin to grow weary of them and would fain be quit of them it cannot be done but by a tumult For they will mingle heaven and earth together when once they hear of a divorce or when upon any discontent arising they fear they shall be shut out of dores Those Concubines which the Priests keep in their houses to live with them are examples sufficient for these men are forbid lawfull Matrimony and are commanded to lead single lives which is a thing exceeding hard and laborious for lusty men that are full of natural moysture Wherefore they erre as much as can be and are wholly deceived in the choice of humane society Copulation without marriage is a burden to the Conscience who suppose that they live in peace who being free from a wife keep a Concubine in their houses or hunt after one abroad to take their pleasure and whose company they can enjoy when they please when as oft-times besides the unquietnesse of their minds and torture of Conscience there riseth more trouble and molestation by a friend that is so kept for a time and more jealousy and suspition than from a lawfull and laithfull wife which is sole●only marryed to live with us so long as welive No slate of life is void of trouble And though in this estate as in many more sweet and fowre are mingled together sadnesse and joy bitter and pleasant cloudy and clear weather nor are there jarrings wanting in this course of life with contentions quarrels and affections of jealousy as there is no kind of life happy in all things yet no fault is to be put upon the order of Matrimony For however many inconveniencies accompany Matrimonial life and these men are busied with many cares great anxieties and disturbances in educating and bringing up of their children 2 Cor. 5. as Saint Paul testifies in providing for their families yet mutual love sweetneth and mitigates all the rest and the procreation of children according to Gods Ordinance Now children are the delights and singular joy of Matrimony for conjugal love increaseth and is fostered thereby Children are the pleasure of Marriage and on both sides thereby is there great comfort taken But if contrary to our will and desire we chance to have no off-spring Want of children must be born patiently and that the hope of posterity is deferred for many years yet must we hold the promise made in wedlock sacred and we must so continue between us a mutual society of life that one may bear up another as fruitfull Trees planted hard by do uphold the Vine by which it is prooped and as it were marryed and taking hold of them by its tendrils it grows very high and spreads very far For as a Vine wanting props and stayes falls down upon the earth A comparison of a Vine and Matrimony so Matrimony and houshold affairs run to ruine unlesse they be upheld by the mutual support of man and wife But if there be any fault in this society if any distempers tumults Mens affections and not nature to be blamed quarrels or suspicions arise we must ascribe them rather to mens affections and ill manners than to this ordinance For they are not the vices of marriage but of depraved nature and of a troublesome mind contracted from the guilt of original sin upon which all the fault must be laid CHAP. LVI How it may be obtained that death may not prove fearfull to a Man that naturally fears it SInce in humane affairs there is nothing firm and constant but all things are transitory frail and uncertain We must not trust in transitory things and the best things are subject to ruine it is not for any man to admire or to love these things too much and be affected with them out of measure But rather let every man lift up his mind and thoughts upward to heaven and there contemplate things that are solid and eternal For whoever with a full confidence in God the Father through Jesus Christ is lead with certain hope and expectation of immortality he need not sear any chances that shall hang over him or inconveniences he hath no cause to be frighted with diseases calamities and dangers or with death it self which they especially fear who are destitute of Gods Spirit and have no true knowledge of God For such as place their trust in God are supported by his holy Spirit and they stand undaunted against all adversities Rom. 8. ● Tim. 1. Galat. 4. ● John 4. with a couragious mind and as Saint Paul saith we have not recei●●● the Spirt of bondage and fear but the spirit of adoption of power and of love whereby we cry boldly Colos 2. Abba Father For in this saith Saint John is our love made perfect that we may have confidence in the day of Judgment There is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out all fear for fear breeds pain or trembling Wherefore that we may shake off all fear and not be daunted at death or any thing else that may make us tremble let us cast all our hope wishes thoughts confidence upon our most bountifull father through Jesus Christ Christ overcame death who hath purged us with his own bloud and hath set us at liberty from fin and the tyranny of death blotting out and taking away the hand-writing which was against us whereby we were bound to the Devil and were indebted to him A simile from such who are oppressed by bonds The Dutch say In hem ghebonden teghens hem verbonden But that Christ might support fearful and fainting minds and might shew that all hope and confidence must be placed in him he saith Be of good chear I have overcome the World Now the Prince of this world is Judged that is he that brought in death John 16. John 12. is driven away by my death and is condemned to Judgment and is spoiled of all power of doing harm The Prince of this World is come and hath found nothing in me Christ is formidable to Satan By which comfortable words he shews that Satan and all his confederates by reason of sin in this world have no power against Christ or his members that firmly believe in him and are engrafted into him These saving and comfortable words work thus much upon the minds of men that depend upon his help Comfortable sentences that shaking off all fear of death they fortify themselves cheerfully against the greatest tempests that can arise Psalm 19. Psalm 26. Psalm 3. Psalm 22. and become invincible and with great confidence break forth into these sayings My eyes are still toward the Lord for he shall pull my feet our of the snare God is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear The Lord is the upholder of my life of whom shall I be afraid If an army

no truce no delayes or times to deliberate but as enemies in war as fire in houses Plague in a City and as smoot in Corn hasten to destroy all Nor must a man be frighted or leave off from what he undertook though he seem to go about it when the Star is malignant and is against him In acute diseases the Stars are to be neglected So in the Pleuresy Quinsey Inflammation of the Lungs and Liver we must neglect the extream observation of the Stars and Aspects of the Planets and make haste to open a Vein in time though it be in that part that the Moon then governs A Simile from Natures industry For as when a Tempest is coming and the winds rage the Pilot though the Tide be against him and the wind not prosperous doth maturely provide for his safety and strives with Ores and Sails to gain a safe harbour for his Ship to ride in lastly as a husbandman at the season of sowing A simile from the industry of the Husbandman or mowing dispatcheth all in haste for fear of rain for early sowing oft-times deceives us but late sowing alwaies so the Physitian supported by reason and experience at the first occasion and opportunity offered assoon as he can endeavours to apply a safe remedy looking more to the superfluity of humours and fiercenesse of the disease than to the Stars The courses of the celestial bodies are indeed to be observed Gen. 1. How the Stars are to be observed Esay 47. Hier. 10. which God hath appointed for signs and seasons for years and dayes and moneths but excluding all rash vanity and impudence of foretelling events which Esaias and many more do blame and speak against and do utterly disdain those that dare speak confidently and deliver their Judgment concerning any mans fate that is of that thing which God hath ordered and appointed for him and what fortune he shall have what successe and event shall happen to any man There are principall men of greatest respect that I have sometimes argued with who refer to the revolutions and aspects of the Stars the progresse and increase of publick affairs as also the defects and decay of them the mystery of Religion innovated or restored and such tumults as arise because of it and the persecutions great part whereof fall upon innocent men that is such who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus 2 Tim. 3. whereas the propagation of the Gospel whereby faith by the spirit of the Lord and confidence that we rest upon him by are kindled in our minds by the free will of God doth proceed from the eternal will of the Father which as St. Paul saith was hid with God Ephes 3. who created all things by Jesus Christ and was revealed in his time to those which he hath made heirs and partakers of the promise by Christ So truth being revealed Religion is not ruled by the Stars but by Gods spirit he thought good by the bright splendour of his word and Gospel at what time he pleaseth to root out errours superstitions Idolatries and beat down impieties and to establish his true worship and to write in mens minds the knowledge of himself which was determined and appointed by God before the world was made or the heavens adorned with Stars Astrologers should lift up their minds to God Wherefore let them that depend too much on the Stars and look no higher nor ever think of God that made them forbear to make celestial things as their minds and Souls are subject to the Star's inclinations For though the bloud and the other humours The humours are ruled by the Stars and the spirits both vital and natural endure the influences and forces of the Stars manifestly yet the mind and Soul were taken from the Antient-pattern of the divine nature and cannot be driven by force of the Stars nor doth the Soul find any hurt or help from them unlesse you will say perhaps that it is affected by consent with the body For the mind of man his reason understanding Mans mind is different from the Stars will knowledg or Faith and confidence that we rely upon God by love of Religion and adoration wherein is contained the chiefest worship of God and whereby it subsists proceeds from that eternal mind that is immutable nor is mans mind moved by any other force to do what is best and good for mans salvation than by Gods inspiration and instinct of his divine spirit So when other living creatures are carried on by force of nature Mans mind is ruled by Gods spirit and not by the Stars man alone is guided by reason and counsel so he keep within the compasse of his condition and do not wholly degenerate from that dignity and excellency God hath given him CHAP. XVI The counsel wherewith I use to gratify young men that they may have beards betimes and that a comely Doun may grow upon their chins By the way a fit comparison of Grasse and Corn with the Hair and Locks of Man MAids that are marriageable and desire to be married suddenly wish chiefly that they may grow comely and decently tall Maids love to seem beautifull and young men to lock manly that they may be thought to be ripe and fit for Husbands and may get them Suiters But young men wish that they may have mens forces and may soon have hair upon their chins and comely Beards Those that want heards are not thought to be so manly For besides the Dutch other Nations think that such as are smooth and want Beards are not so strong for Venus-sports and fit to get children that many men are unwilling to marry their daughters to them though it be sometimes otherwise and such as have no beards nor down on their chins shew themselves men in the marriage-Bed though more frequently for want of heat their forces fail and natural faculties decay and they want children so much hoped for That the beard may grow it must be often shaved But those that desire to have Beards and take care to make it grow must have that grasse often mowed that so the pores being loosned and by often agitation the heat being called forth that draws out the humour the hair may break forth the more abundantly which must be practised chiefly in the Spring at what time of the year heat and moysture increaseth The comparison of Grasse and hair and is diffused into those parts For where the beard is often shaved the hairs grow thicker as Grasse doth for hairs are in some respects like Grasse and twigs that being oft mowed and cut down grow the faster and the more abundantly Wherefore young men that have no beard appearing and look like boyes if they will hear me must use the Rasour oft For if the chin and upper lip be continually wet and soked with warm water the heat and humour that flyes to those parts will be

created that are in the compasse of the Heavens or comprehended in Sea or Land Which the Prophet David the chiefe admirer of Gods works doth testifie in these words O Lord our God how excellent is thy name in all the World For thy magnificence is exalted above the Heavens What is man that thou art mindfull of him Psalm 8. or the Son of man that thou so regardest him Thou hast made him little lower than the Angels that thou mightest crown him with Glory and worship thou hast set him over the works of thy hands Thou hast put all things under his feet c. In which words he declares how much God respects man next unto Christ and how great reckoning God makes of man to whom the world is made subject and obedient that not onely all things created are exposed for his use and profit but also Christ died for man by whose favour and merits the Father gives all things unto us abundantly CHAP. IV. How great Man's thankfullnesse should be unto God BUt this principally should stirr up exceeding great love and reverence in man toward God that when he was estranged from God and for breaking his Commandements cast down unto eternall death Mans reconciliation our Heavenly Father by the singular favour we enjoy for Christs merits received us into his mercy For Christ taking pity of mans misery reconciled man to his Father by shedding his own blood and conquering death and breaking the yoke of the most cruel Tyrant to whom man was bound and indebled he brought him back beyond expectation to his former liberty and restored him to his Inheritance of his heavenly Kingdome So that as St. Paul saith we are no longer strangers and Forrainers from God but Citizens and Heirs and friends Ephes 2. and of the houshold of God built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himselfe being the chiefe corner stone by whom we have admission and entrance unto the Father in one spirit Wherefore since every one of us is ingrafted by the help of saving doctrine by faith and the washing of regeneration into Christ and as St. Paul saith have obtain'd grace and inheritance Tit. 3. by the renovation of the holy spirit that he hath powred forth upon us abundantly it is fit and the restauration of our salvation requires it that placing all our hope and trust upon so magnificent a Father and upon his Son Jesus Christ who hath destroyed death and sin we should submit our selves to him and conform unto him our lives We must approve our lives to God manners and customes and with all purity of Mind and holy and unblameable conversation with daily and earnest prayer we should procure his favour to us and endeavour to win his love and gracious acceptance CHAP. V. What Baptism adds to Man and what it minds him of What Baptism doth BEcause Baptism or sacred washing is the first Entrance into the Church and company of the faithfull and is the very gate and footstep this is it that leads us to hope and confidence of Salvation For by Faith and Repentance that is by detesting our former life and by mortifying our bodies and by renewing of our minds we are ingrafted into Christ who hath wiped off and cleansed us from all spots and abolished all faults of our souls applying this external Sacrament unto us and by infusing the holy Ghost into our hearts whereby being assured of our Salvation we cry Abba Father Which double and continually ingeminated invocation is so effectual and present help that it will obtain all things from our munificent father if so be that a man direct his prayers and desires and groans unto God for Christ his sake For by this Leader and Mediatour who hath deserved favour for us 1 John 5. James 1. with his own bloud we obtain all things that are good for us and our prayers are never in vain and uselesse For so mercifull a Father will never stop his ears to their requests Prayers are effectual by Christ Deut. 6. Levit. 7. for whose sake and redemption he gave his onely begotten Son to dye CHAP. VI. Next unto God we must love our neighbours BUt since we are chiefly to love God to whom we owe all things Mark 12. Luke 10. Love towards God and for whose service man is bound to employ all his force that is in his heart mind and service so also he must be loving to his neighbour that is to man who is of the same nature and condition with him and must love him as himself So that each man must willingly lend his help unto him and when there is need and an opportunity offered which also it is fit we should seek for and take to assist him with Moneys and counsell For this is the principal fruit of our faith and is a sincere and no counterfeit testimony of our true Christian profession Love to our neighbour CHAP. VII How great should be the piety of children towards their Parents MOreover as we owe all to God much to our country and friends so it is no small matter that we owe unto our Patents But what respect and honour we ought to shew unto them I need not speak any more or prescribe since naturally every one is enclined to love his own even the very heathen as Christ testifies so that this love though we do our duties Math. 5. deserves no commendation but is our duty and must be done if we will be blamelesse But this must from our child hood be daily inculcated unto every man that he love heartily and entirely his Parents by whose means and ministery he enjoyed his first being and life Children must love their Parents Prov. 28. that he obey them in all things that equity and reason shall dictate unto him as Christ is said to be subject to his Mother Mary and to Joseph For Piety is acceptable to God Luk. 2. and the service and obedience we shew to our Parents is approved by him which is also carefully commanded in the Old and New Testaments Exod. 20. Deut. 5. Math. 25. Ephes 5. Math. 7. Mark 4. That is is a witty saying of Pittacus the Philosopher Such duty as you shew to your Parents expect the same from your children To which respects that speech of Christ that is more large Such measure as you mete the same shall others measure to you again For from the errour and negligence of this it commonly falls out that children are unruly and disobedient to their Parents that when they come to years they scorn to hear their Parents instructions and that sometimes by a deserved and just retaliation and revenge because their Parents were not obedient to their Parents before them but were stubborn and untoward CHAP. VIII How every Man ought to behave himself toward his Master MAster 's that instruct you and adorn your mind with principles of Learning We must

were encamped against me my heart should not fear I will not be afraid of thousands of people that shall compasse me about If war rise against me I will trust in him Though I walk in the middle of the shadow of death I will fear no evill because thou art with me Though he should kill me Job 13. I will trust in him that is if he should set before me the terrours of death and I were to lose my life yet will I trust in him who by his providence will find a way to preserve me Psalm 117. Heb. 13. Jeremiah 17. The Lord is my help I will not fear what flesh can do unto me And that of Jeremiah behold they say where is the word of the Lord let it come And I was not troubled following thee my Shepheard and I desired not the day of man Lord thou knowest The place of Jeremiah expounded That is I look for help from no other place but from thee alone so that I neither regard nor fear those who threaten my destruction Be not thou a cause of fear to me thou that art my hope in the day of my affliction let them fear and let not me be afraid Saint Paul inflamed with the same heat of faith and leaning on Gods protection confidently pronounceth that nothing any where is so formidable and horrible that can make godly minds afraid or divide them from their love and relyance upon God For saith he I am certainly perswaded Rom. ult that neither death nor life nor Angels or invisible substances nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor any other creature can be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Saint Pauls confidence doth make others more bold Psalm 30. So Saint Paul pronounceth constantly that he who is engrafted into God the Father by Christ will stand unmoved against all terrours from whence soevever they may arise against the incursions and fightings of enemies against the horrour of death which either the enemies purpose to bring or the law of nature or diseases do bring upon him What can take away the fear of death Wherefore since nothing is more effectual to take off fear of death from the minds of men than a firm confidence in God Christ being our Leader whereby we conceive a certain hope of a resurrection and expectation of eternity let all men make haste and strive to come to this let every one embrace and cherish this saving doctrine and fix it in their minds by this let them strengthen themselves when the greatest troubles are at hand by this let them pacify and quiet their conscience by meditatio● hereof let them wipe off all grief of mind and discusse all sadnesse and sorrow that may befall them for death of Parents or Children To this belongs that excellent consolation of Saint Paul 2 Thes 4. wherewith by a certain expectation of a Resurrection and of eternity he corroborates the Thessalonians We must not lament the dead as the Gentiles do and he will have them refrain from weeping not lament for their friends departed as the Gentiles do I will not have you ignorant brethren concerning those that are asleep not as dead but asleep that you grieve not as those who have no hopes of a Resurrection for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again Death is a sleep so those that are a sleep by Iesus shall God bring with him Again when he withdraws the Philippians from earthly things Phil. 3. and recalls them to solid things he saith Our conversation is in heaven from whence also we look for the Lord Iesus Christ who shall transform our vile bodies and make them like unto his glorious body according to his mighty power whereby he subdues all things unto himself Wherewith is the fear of death to be discussed By which words Saint Paul perswades them to comfort and support themselves in their afflictions by a love and desire of eternity and in the conflict of this life that they should fear nothing that might turn them away from a better life whereunto Christ hath opened the way for us by the power of his Resurrection Wherefore when we come to the last day of our life and death is near which is formidable to all men unlesse they rely upon Christ or when we think of any such thing in the time of health or if want calamity diseases or other miseries of life afflict us let us refer all our desires hope and wishes unto Christ who by his death hath endured the punishments due unto us who hath pardoned all our sins We must look upon Christ Colos 3. 2 John 2. 1 Tim. 2. Esay 50. and is become the propitiation for all our transgressions who is our advocate as Saint Iohn faith and Mediatour unto God the Father who is the reconciler of God to men and who as Saint Paul saith made himself a redemption and a sacrifice for all In him is appointed salvation ●ite and resurrection By him we have accesse and an entrance in one spirit unto the father Ephes 2. Colos 1. John 2. By the shedding of his bloud we have obtained redemption and remission of our sins Because it pleased the father that in him should all fullnesse dwell and to reconcile all things by him who hath made peace by his bloud Since therefore we have an high Priest Heb. 4. as he saith in the Hebrews who hath entred into heaven Jesus the Son of God who was in all points tempted as we are Christ is the peace-maker between God and man yet without sin who is touched with the feeling of our infirmities let us come boldly unto the throne of Grace that we may find mercy to help in time of need We being supported by the defence of so great a Captain How the mind must be confirmed when death comes and compassed with his guard against all the monstrous designs of the devill which presently vanish when the light appears we subsist against sin death hell and are transported from the uncertain station of this life unto our desired harbour and blessed mansion And if any misfortune or inconvenience befall a man in the course of this life if any man chance to be cast upon any difficulty of his life to be pressed with poverty tortured with diseases to be vexed by his enemies if any destructions or calamities come on if wickednesse abound and the innocent are oppressed and murdered wholesome and true doctrine be contemned In Christ there is a consolation against calamities heresies and pernicious opinions do spring up and that perverse errours are sowed in all places in so great a confusion of things let every man look unto Christ let him seek for safety from him and rely wholly upon him Christ is our sacred Anchor in a tempest Psalm 25. and confirm himself by him as by