Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	believe_v	faith_n	heart_n	7,913	5	5.2011	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89713	Hermetical physick: or, The right way to preserve, and to restore health. By that famous and faithfull chymist, Henry Nollius. Englished by Henry Uaughan, Gent.	Nolle, Heinrich, fl. 1612-1619.; Vaughan, Henry, gent,	1655 (1655)	Wing N1222; Thomason E1714_1; ESTC R209619	34,855	139

administer no Med●cine● whose forces or operative virtues in taking away the disease he is not throughly acquainted with unlesse he be well assured that they cannot indanger nor prejudice a person that is in health by such trials he may safely and profitably discern what his Medicines can and what they cannot effect IV. He must administer nothing that hath in it a manifest poyson unlesse the venome be first wholly and actually separated or taken out V. He must before the administration of his Medicines remove all impediments that are likely to oppose or weaken their virtues and this must be done either by himself or by another viz. by a Surgeon HE must let blood take away all luxations set broken bones c. And afterwards apply his Medicines inwardly or outwardly or both wayes as need requires VI He must prescribe such a Dyet both of Meat and Drinke as will be agreeable to his Patients present exigencie and for the furtherance or assistance of nature and the restoration of health VII He must carefully observe a just Dose in all his Medicines with respect had to their operations and to the strength of the Patient VIII He must never administer any of his Medicines without sanctifying them in and with the blessed name of JESUS CHRIST Whatsoever ye doe saith the Apostle of the Gentiles in word or deed doe all in the name of the Lord JESUS giving thankes to God and the Father by him Colos. 3. 17. Section 7. How the sick man should behave himself while he is in a course of Physick I. Let the sick person acknowledge that he hath deserved and drawn upon himselfe the just anger of God by his frequent sinnes and that it is by his righteous permission that he is visited with sicknesse II. Let him by an unfeigned penitence and a godly sorrow reconcile himhimselfe unto God through the merits of his Saviour putting on an holy resolution to become a new man and afterwards let him draw near to the throne of Grace and intreat God for mercy and his healing assistance III. After reconciliation and invocation of the divine Aide let him send for the Physician and Physick being taken let him not doubt of Gods mercy and his own recovery THat is to say let him certainly believe that there is communicated and infused by the gift of God into the medicine which he hath taken such an innate vertue as is effectual and proper to expell his Disease If he doth this the event will be answerable to his faith and the Medicine will in all circumstances work successfully A firm credulity chearfull hope and true love and confidence towards the Physician and the Medicine saith that great Philosopher Oswaldus Crollius conduce as much to the health of the Patient yea sometimes more then either the remedy or the Physician Naturall faith I meane not the faith of Grace which is from Christ but the imaginative ●aith which in the day that the first man was created was then infused and planted in him by God the Father and is still communicated to his posterity is so powerfull that it can both expell and introduce Diseases as it manifestly appeares in times of infection when man by his owne private imagination out of meere feare and horrour generates a Basiliscum Coeli which infects the Microcosmical Firmament by means of the Imaginants superstition according as the Patients faith assists or resists To the faithfull all things are possible for faith ascertaines all those things which are uncertaine God can by no meanes be reach'd and injoy'd of us but onely by faith whosoever therefore believes in God he operates by the power of God and to God all things are possible But how this is performed no humane wit can find out This onely we can say that ●aith is an operation or work not of the Bel●ever but of him in whom he believes Cogitations or thoughts surpasse the operations of all Elements and Stars for while we imagine and believe such a thing shall come to passe that faith brings the worke about and without it is nothing done Our faith that it will be so makes us imagine so imagination excites a Star that Star by conjunction with Imagination gives the effect or perfect operation To believe that there is a medicine which can cure us gives the spirit of Medicine that spirit gives the knowledge of it and the Medicine being known gives health Hence it appeares that a true Physician whose operations are natural is born of this faith and the spirit I meane this spirit of nature or star of medicine furthers and assists him according to his faith It happens oftentimes that an illiterate man performes those cures by this imaginative faith which the best Physicians cannot doe with the most soveraigne medicines Sometimes also this bare perswasion or imaginative faith heales more and more effectually then any virtue in the exhibited Medicine as it was manifestly found of late years in that famous Panacea or All-heal of Amwaldus and since his time in that new medicinall spring which broke out this present yeare in the Confines of Misnia and Bohemia to which an incredible number of sick persons doe daily resort No other cause can be rendred of these Magnalia or rare Physical operations then the firme and excessive affection of the Patient for the power which worketh thus is in the Spirit of the receiver when taking the medicine without any fear or hesitation he is wholly possessed and inspired as it were with an actual desire and beliefe of health for the rationall soule when stirred up and enkindled by a vehement imagination overcomes nature and by her own effectuall affections renewes many things in her own body or mansion causing either health or sicknesse and that not onely in her own body but Extraneously or in other bodies The efficacy of this naturall faith manifested it selfe in that woman with the bloody Issue and in the Centurion Hitherto are the words of Crollius IV. When the Patient is del●vered from his disease and restored to his former health let him heartily and solemnly give all the glory to the Supreme All-mighty Physician let him offer the sacrifice of Thankes-giving and acknowledge the goodness and the tender mercies of the Lord And let not the Physitian forget to performe his duty by a thankeful and solemn acknowledgement of Gods gracious concessions by choosing and enabling him to be his unworthy instrument to restore the sick And this he must do not onely because it is his duty and a most deserved and obliged gratitude but also out of a wise Christian caution to avoid those judgements which are poured upon the negligent and ungratefull by the most just jealousie of the irresistible and everlasting GOD unto whom alone be rendred by Angels and Men and by all his creatures All Praise and Glory and perpetual thanks in this the Temporall and in the eternall Being Amen FINIS * It was not long before the publishing of this peece that I was told by a very noble Gentleman that in his late travailes in France he was acquainted with a young French Physician who for a long time had beene suiter to a very handsome Lady and having at length gained her consent was married to her but his Nuptial bed proved his Grave for on the next morning he was found dead It was the Gentlemans opinion that this sad accident might be caused by an excessive joy and for my part I subscribe to it for a violent joy hath oftentimes done the worke of death this comes to passe by an extreame attenuation and diffusion of the animal spirits which passing all into the exterior parts leave the heart destitute whence followes suffocation and death Scaliger Exercit. 310. gives the reason of this violent effusion and dissipation of the Spirits Quia similia maxime cuprint inter se uniri ideo spiritus veluti exire conantur ad objectum illud ex●ernum● atum ac jucundum ut videlicet cum eo vniantur Illudque sibi maxime simile reddant If any will suspect that together with this excessive joy there was a concurrency of the other excess mentioned by my Author I permit him his lib●rty but certainly I thinke he will be deceived * Extrarious signifies such a substance that is quite another thing and of another disposition than ours is * I promise my English Reader that if God will blesse me with health and his performing assistance I will shortly communicate to him according to the Hermetic principles a most accurate Treatise of Meteors their Generation Causes qualities peculiar Regions and Forms what spirits governe them and what they signifie or fore-shew * Animalls Vegetals and Minerals ☞ * The terme of life is moveable not fixed conditionall not positive as appears by that commandement which S. Paul observed to be the first with a promise and by many other reasons which cannot be inserted in this place