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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

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

it first it most be harrowed then it grows warm and by the vapours and fostering of the ground it grows up into a green blade which being fed by the fibres of the roots grows up by degrees and lifting up a knotted stalk begins to be shut up in the cods as growing nearer to be ripe and when it comes forth of them it sends forth corn in full ears which is defended from small birds with a fence of ears I passe over the force of all things that grow out of the earth for from a little kernel of a Fig Plants renewing shew a resurrection from a Grapestone and from the smallest seeds of other plants we see huge Trees and boughs and roots to grow Do not sprigs plants roots branches sciences buds do that which will make the Resurrection of mans body seem to be no absurdity Chrysostome after Tully doth wonderfully enlarge upon this admirable force of Nature and highly commends the Earth 1 Thes 4. Hom. 7. that is the Mother of all things The earth next after God the Parent of things For the life of all things is from the moysture of the Earth Herbs Trees all sorts of flowers admirable in their kinds for smell and sight proceed onely and are nourished by the fruitfulnesse of the ground Thick Ayre turns to water which falling upon the Earth from above waters the earth the Suns hear again rarifies it and turns it to Ayre and there are many mutations of that kind that will make a man admire as much as the resurr●ction doth For example Natures work the Vine out of the moysture of the Earth brings forth not onely branches and tendrels that are of sowre tast but also sweet juice and pleasant Grapes The Date tree is a rugged barky tree and produces sweet dates full of juyce and liquor like Wine An example from the structure of Man Also the seed from whence a man is made how comes it to produce and frame ears arms hands heart lungs nervs arteries flesh bones grisles membranes what man can understand this there are so many differences and varieties in mans body or qualities humours forces vertues functions all proceeding from the seed onely Do you not think it strange how a soft and moist humour should congeal to be a hard cold bone how meats should be changed into fresh red bloud and the food should turn into veins arteries nerves muscles ligaments tendons Since therefore nature daily doth so many things that the mind of man cannot comprehend who can deny but that the God of nature can do as much in raising dead bodies Nature Gods Instrument as nature that is but Gods instrument doth daily in fostering and preparing of the seed that is corruptible You may see the corn when it is moistned grow up again into a seemly plant and to bring forth thick leaves Examples of the Re●urrection out of Ciprian and will you not believe that a man buried in the earth may rise again and return to his former lustre Therefore Cyprian who is said to have made the Creed by Pauls example illustrates our Creed by the nature of seed For saith he if any man mingle divers kinds of seeds together and sows them unparted or casts them every where into the earth will not every seed after its kind spring up again in its proper season and have a stalk proper to its own form and kind So the substance of flesh though it be diversly scattered here and there when God pleaseth shall revive again in the same shape it was when it died and so it comes to passe that not any confused or strange body shall be restored to the several souls but to every soul the same body it had before that by consequent according as they lead their lives here a good body may be crowned or an ill body be tormented with its own soul Wherefore I think that Paul could not better set forth the type of the resurrection than by the similitude of seed sown in furrows of the earth A Simile from Seed sown For what it is in nature to hide seed in the earth the same it is in the resurrection to bury a dead body and what it is for seed to grow again and become a plant is same with mans rising again A body subject to corruption is committed to the ground but that shall revive all feeblenesse of nature being taken from it That is buried in the earth which was subject to many Infirmities calamities diseases it shall rise again lively An Example from a body wasted quick free from all infirmities and weaknesses An example will make it clearer A sick man that is spent with a strong disease grows pale and looks wan sad swart ill favour'd earthly and his whole body grows so lean and consumed that his lively juice being spent you cannot know him But this man by good Physick and wholesome diet recovers and grows fat and well liking and his skin grows so fine that you would think he were painted So in the resurrection the same body comes up again but more glorious and there will appear in it no marks of the old corruption An example of this was first begun in Christ who by nothing did more effectually declare his Divinity than by his triumphant Resurrection That example of his must be shew'd forth in all by his vertue who as Paul saith shall change our vile bodies and make them like his glorious body according to his power whereby he can subject all things unto himself Phil. 2. 1 Thess 4. Wherefore the Apostle would not have us to be tormented with fear of death or to grieve over-much for it For they that sleep in Christ shall be raised by the Word of God and shall live everlastingly with him Which our Saviour foretold that it should so come to passe John 5. The hour shall come that all that are in their graves shall hear his voyce and they that have done well shall come forth to the Resurrection of Life and they that have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation By which words he comforts dejected minds Distrust and confidence what they can do that they should not faint under dangers but to wicked and unpenitent men they strike terrour and amazement who would never make an end of sinning unlesse they consider'd that after this life the rewards of sin and godlinesse shall be paid unto men Chap. 14. 19. Wherefore Job in his worst condition when nothing was wanting to make him miserable comforts himself with this certain hope I know that my Redeemer liveth and I shall rise out of the Earth in the last day and I shall see God my Saviour in my flesh whom I shall behold my self and not another for me This hope is laid up in my brest that is no man shall take from me this confidence and assurance Since therefore all hopes of obtaining salvation The

he had given occasion to the Enemies of God to blaspheme and not onely to insult over Gods people but to revile and speak hardly of God himself But to passe to the other part of the Argument It falls out sometimes that children for the Parents faults undergo some marks and notes of Infamy and Ignominy and some disgrace comes unto them thereby For example if the Mother commit adultery When children are forced to carry their Parents faults if she be a drunken sot or noted for any notorious crime part of this disgrace is derived to her children So if any one be born by incest or unlawfull copulation or by natural conjunction but before marriage whence by custome such children are called natural the people will commonly scoff at such children What children are natural and deride them as the nature of mortal men is to be rash petulant reproachfull Mans reproachfulnesse and injurious but this reproach proceeds commonly from men of depraved manners and affections since the children are in no fault For the writers of the Gospel were not ashamed in setting down our Saviours Genealogy to reckon up many that were not lawfully begotten in the state of Matrimony Homil. 3. in Math. which Chrysostome thinks was done purposely and so do many more that no man might grow proud by the dignity of his progenitours nor be dejected if he were born of mean Parents or that were not famous for their vertues so they themselves endeavour and contend to do what is worthy to be commended For every man is ennobled by his own worth and not by that nobility he derived from his Predecessours by his birth Let no man be proud of the nobility of his Parents And as an idle worthlesse man is not made glorious by his Parents vertues or glorious country he was born in so a noble minded man is not to be dishonoured for his Parents faults For race and birth are not our works Nor ours can be said Metamor L. 13. To which purpose speaks the Satyrist Juvenal Satyr 8. If thou be noble as Achilles stout What is true nobility Born from Thersites base I had rather Than thou should'st like Thersites prove a lowt And boast that Achilles was thy Father All which shews that true nobility and honour are not to be so much measured by the stock and noble descent men come from as by their own vertue integrity of life and sincerity of manners And Lastly that men of good parts are not to be despised though they be of mean place or Parentage if they aim and endeavour themselves to perform noble actions Which is shewed in that whole narration of Ezechiel where this matter is fully amplified and the rash Judgements of men and their inconsiderate and reproachfull speeches against God are strongly convinced and reprehended CHAP. II. Wherefore when men grow well after a disease do their genitall parts swell and they naturally desire copulation and of this matter here is a safe admonition and wholesome counselset down WHen people that were sick recover of their diseases they do not presently grow well and regain the strength they had but they are restored by good diet and wholesome nutriment for though the disease be shaken off and the Feavourish heat extinguished yet there remain in the body still some prints and impressions of the health dejected and cast down so that by reason of feeblenesse no part almost can well perform its office when we should use them Venery ill for such as are newly recovered onely the genital parts ordained for procreation of children recover first and get strength to do their businesse and are very prone thereunto and lusty yet it is very pernicious to use venerious actions in this case But these are certain and undoubted arguments that health is restored and that no reliques of the disease stay in the body when the genital parts swell and stand stiff though all the other parts are weak and feeble and can do nothing in conjugal matters nor can endure ●he labour of it I think the reason is because the obstructions of the veins are taken away and the passages are opened and the Liver and Reins Why such as recover are prone to venery and other parts destinated to distribute the nutriment do first enjoy the benefit of the nourishment from meats and therefore are restored before the rest whence it follows that they grow strong and are abundantly filled with natural and vitall spirits by the motion and agitation whereof the obscene and secret parts swell and are frothy and lustfull when the remotest parts as the feet arms shoulders ankles hips thighs neck cheeks are later watred with alimental and vitall juice When therefore the secrets by the office of the Liver are filled and fatted with exquisite and wholesome nutriment they first of all recover and get strength that upon the least lustfull thought the Cods swell and shew what force they have Signs of health in boyes Also young Boys shew some tokens of this for though those parts be weak in them and want the faculty of generation yet the spirits stretch them out and cause erection and they grow stiff by their lying on their backs wich is a sign they are well and in good health So though men newly recovered be weak and feeble and being wasted with the disease Erection of the genitals sign of health their body is lean and starved yet that secret part which Tully calls Mentula first gives signs of health restored For in regard of nearnesse the nutriments are first carried thither and because that part● is joyned to the principal parts and produced from one stock of veins nerves and arteries Venery hurtful for men that are sickly If then those that are freed of their disease and upon growing to be well fall to venery before it is fit and the strength of their bodies will allow the vitall spirit and purer juice being exhausted they are mortally afflicted and all grows worse and worse with them For the more sincere and pure part of the nutriment and the dewy humour wherewith the dry and decayed parts are wet and moistned is drank up and cast forth like to Cream whence it falls out that the forces that began a little to increase fall again and are cast down But as for women the reason is otherwise for they are not so much wearied by copulation as men are but rather they get strength by it so that some who are extream letcherous sometimes fain themselves sick for this very cause that they may allure their husbands to embrace them and to lye with them Lascivious women Hence the Low-Dutch have a Proverb The Wife that is sick would alwaies have something Whereby they mean that when their wives are sick it is not alwaies for sweet wines and delicate meats but for something else that men can better please them with then by presenting them

of the Womb but because this misery and pain in travel was brought in by God Gen. 3. by reason of the fall of Adam and Eve and this punishment was laid upon her the man also being cast into a condition of misery not inferiour to it For the most part in the ninth Moneth the Matrix parts and the os pubis being loosned the Woman striving what she can and desiting to thrush forth what is a burden to her and the child breaking forth by an imbred strength and by the conduct of nature which help the Woman lacks when the child is born dead For a child that is quick and lively labours no lesse in this work than the woman and strives to come forth to draw in the outward Ayre Yet there are many that when 9 Months are compleatly ended Tenth Months births are not delivered till the tenth such births Hippocrates calls births of the tenth month namely the tenth Lunar Month being begun that is perfected in 28. dayes to a month and not fully ended Wisd 7. So the Wiseman saith he was ten months formed in the Womb and coagulated of the seed of the man and woman from pleasure that comes by copulation By like reason they that have now passed the sixth Month in which no child born can live because the parts want strength and are entred upon the seventh and are gon two or three weeks in it are said to be born in the 7th month The same reason serves to reckon weeks and months by which are terminated in a certain number of dayes for the former week or month being past and the following begun from this is the reason of the time deducted and the course that the woman went with Child is ascribed to that from that month the great bellyed woman is in or the Child is born is the Account made as it useth to fall our in 7 or 9 turns of the Moon The like reason serves in reckoning of years either from Christs incarnation or passion so that the inscription is dated from the following yeare as for the beginning of the first month Why a child is vitall born at seven months the precedent month being neglected and defaced It is not besides reason that a Child should be vitall at seven months but there is a certaine cause for it For the Child by an imbred force and order of Nature doth then turn it selfe about and changeth its place for larger room A simile from a Captain in War And as a Captain in Warr marcheth to some other place when the place he is in is too narrow or difficult or he want necessaries for food yet so that in pitching his Tents and quarters the Souldiery allwaies keeps watch and is ever ready for all events of warr and sudden force that might fall on and is prepared against the assaults of the enemy so if in that moment of time whereby in the seventh month that motion of nature useth to be stirred the time of Child-birth chance to happen and the Infant come forth with joynt forces of the Mother assisting him without doubt it will be vitall A simile from such as cannot sleep in the night But the like hapeneth to this Infant as it doth to those that watch in the night and turn themselves to the other side and seek to lye on the softer part of the bed that is not so much pressed down and if any thing unlooked for befall them or any sudden occasion hinder them that they cannot turn themselves againe in their beds they presently leave their beds and shaking off sleep though the night be not quite spent they hasten to do what they are urged unto But if any accident unlookt for befalls them that are fast asleep they quake and tremble and if they goe about any thing it is confusedly and without all order that the businesse can have no good or succesfull end as it useth to fall out in the eighth month wherein the Infant being come to rest begins to be refreshed again and to enjoy its lodging in the womb and nutriment from the Mother Some are born in the 7th month whose bodies are loose and not not firme and that have but weak naturall heat A simile from ripning of fruits but being helped by the care and industry of Nurses they will last long and live many yeares For it happens to them as it doth to apples and other fruits of Trees that fall or are pulled off too soon which fruiterers and haglers hide in straw and bury in chafe that they may grow ripe in time and fit to be eate For such Infants by the labour and care of their Mothers or Nurses gain strength and by fostering grow strong and by this help they prolong their dayes for many yeares which can be obtain'd by no means in a Child born the eighth month for such a one seldome lives because that motion of Nature is quiet and asleep which agitation is wont to proceed from a certain cause both from the Mother and the Child Wherefore being tyred by that strugling in the 7th month it begins to regain strength and to be fostered untill the set time it ought to remain in the Mothers Womb. A Child in the eight month seldome lives Hence if any distemper or perturbation arise and the Child be driven forth of its place and habitation it is deadly by reason of an externall cause and that is against natures order Saturn an enemy to Children which is also exasperated by Saturn a cruel and hurtfull Planet to Children that by the coldnesse of it dejects their strength wherefore it is safe to stay in the womb till the 9th month that they may recollect their forces and just firmnesse For when the ninth month begins to come the Child sinks down for want of nutriment and falls low to the neck of the Matrix seeking to come forth to the light and is desirous to be released Sometimes in the very heat of birth and hastening it slips through the slippery parts the Womb giving way without the help of any Midwife suddenly as a ripe apple falls with the least touch of it which is most common to them whose Matrix is wide and the Infant hath all helps together being sufficiently enabled to come forth For such as have narrow month'd wombs bring forth with difficulty and painful labour with all the force they have From this pressure and hard travel A morall from hard labour John 16. our Saviour draws a most fit comparison and comforts and encourageth mightily his followers that they should not faint nor be discouraged by reason of calamities and persecutions which they suffer for the Gospell since by the example of a woman in Labour all their sorrow shall be turned to sudden joy and solid consolation Wherefore he shews that danger is at hand anxiety sadnesse and trembling but all these things by joy unexpected arising and by the