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A28194	Ostenta Carolina, or, The late calamities of England with the authors of them the great happiness and happy government of K. Charles II ensuing, miraculously foreshewn by the finger of God in two wonderful diseases, the rekets and kings-evil : wherein is also shewen and proved (I.) that the rekets after a while shall seize on no more children but quite vanish through the mercy of God and by means of K. Charles II., (II.) that K. Charles II is the last of kings which shall so heal the kings-evil / discovered by the hand of the Lord upon his unworthy servant and His Majesties subject, John Bird ...	Bird, John, 17th cent.	1661 (1661)	Wing B2954; ESTC R5738	69,269	100

Revelations whether the man be honest which is the relator and also not distempered in his mind the third in his Treatise De Successione Ecclesiarum where he maketh mention of the Prodigies which happened about the year M. after our Saviour But the ancient Heathen did make such an account of Prodigies that they instituted certain Officers which were named for their number at first Quinque viri afterward Decemviri last of all Quindecimviri that is the Five Ten Fifteen Men whose office was to perform Rites and Ceremonies and they were as Livy shews to look after those Portents by consulting their ritual books for the finding out such Rites and Expiations as might divert the anger of their gods which they judged those Portents did foreshew If the Heathen by the light of naturall reason had so much knowledge as to judge such strange things must contain mysteries within them pertaining to their Gods it is a great folly unbeseeming Christians so to be deluded with the Philosophy of Aristotles School as to attribute all wonderful works whether in heaven or on earth either to the workmanship of Nature or to the errors thereof that School being more athiest then the unlearned and barbarous nations To which sort of men Professors of that false-named science called wisedom as the name Philosophy soundeth but as S. Paul truly speaketh unduly so called in sundry matters If you shall shew a Signe in Heaven or earth which hath formerly appeared as Comets Haloes Suns c. they will render you an imaginary and naturall reason If such a Meteor appear as was not heard of before they have recourse forthwith unto phansy and frame a cause in their own brains of that of which before they never had sight nor experience concluding it must be so because they think it so Thus do they make Gods Signes called by Heathen men monstra ostenta portenta and prodigia which Cicero well observes because according to their names they point at something to be useless things and of no effect at all Others there are many which do acknowledge that the Lord doth now adays by wonderful Signes premonish us of things to come and doth point at also as with the finger such things as we too much neglect as to bid us regard them which will hardly consent that it is in the power of any man since the days of the Prophets and Apostles to open the mysteries and untye the riddles of such Divine Tokens Whose reason is because the Infallible Spirit hath long since departed from the children of men It will not be sufficient to return unto their reason the Observations of all Nations before-mentioned gathered from Presagers nor yet the Observation of Machiavil which I related yet let them consider what is spoken by Cicero in his 2. Book de Divinatione Qualis autem ista mens est deorum si neque ea nobis significant in somnis quae ipsi per nos intelligamus neque ea quorum interpretes habere possimus similes enim sunt dii si ea nobis objiciunt quorum neque scientiam neque explanationem habeamus tanquam si Poeni aut Hispani in Senatu nostro sine interprete loquerentur that is What I pray mean the gods by this if they shew such things to us in our dreams which we can neither understand of our selves nor any else make us to understand for if the gods shew us such matters which neither we our selves can know what they are nor any other can declare unto us they do just as if Carthaginians or Spaniards should speak in the Romane Senate without an interpreter The reason which the Philosopher giveth why Visions sent by a Divine Power cannot but be of the nature of things which may be understood tends to this purpose to shew that otherwise the labor of sending them such messages were wholly vain which indeed is true it being repugnant to the wisedom of the Almighty to do any thing much more great and extraordinary things to no purpose But it is clear from Holy Scripture that such extraordinary Divine admonitions as Visions are were therefore sent from God unto men on purpose that they might be understood and that they might learn by them somewhat they knew not or disregarded before These are the words of Elihu Jobs best friend Job 33. 14. For God speaketh once yeatwise yet man perceiveth it not v. 15. In a dream in a Vision of the night when deep sleep falleth upon men in slumberings upon the bed Wherefore it is to be concluded that it is the fault of men that Gods Signes and wonders are disregarded To the reason which was objected the Departure of the Infallible Spirit from the children of men so as if for that cause we cannot now be assured of Gods secret Counsils I answer Although we have not at this time as of old it was with the Prophets and Apostles a full and clear light like unto theirs there is yet light enough given to men that will pray for and search after it for a sufficient understanding of such Signes and Visions as the Lord sends in these times The Ministers of the Gospel in these ages are not indued with that light of knowledge in the waies of God as the Prophets and Apostles were who were promised that they should be led into all truth as befitting such rules as were to be delivered by them for all posterity to be perfect yet is there sufficient knowledge given unto them to the begetting of faith and salvation of mens souls and this above other men Rom. 10. 14. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not beleeved and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a Preacher Which Preachers of Gods Word therefore have sufficient knowledge for the work of the Ministry and building up of the Church their appointed work as the Prophets and Apostles had more light and infallibility in them befitting their businesse Even so although the infallible Spirit remain not among the Sons of men in all parts of Gods Word yet is there enough to be obtained for the sufficient understanding of his Mysteries whether written or sent miraculously that is of his word and wonders For if this be not so to what purpose is the accounting of the Number of the Beast commended to our search although shewn to John alone precisely Rev. 13. 18. Here is wisedom let him that hath understanding count the Number of the Beast All in vain were this Admonirion if we must despair by any means to attain the knowledge of the Beasts Number Although we must acknowledge the difference betwixt the knowledge which the Apostle had of it and ours by him it was presently seen and understood by us after much search and hardly yet to perfection Moreover it will undoubtedly be objected and in favour of the former Reason That there are at this day none to be found which can presage