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A23652
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Cheirexokē [sic] the excellency or handy-vvork of the royal hand.
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Allen, Thomas, d. 1684.; Harris, Thomas, 17th cent.
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1665
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Wing A1050; ESTC R1159
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in Company with a Chyrurgeon who most audaciously and peremptorily vaunted That he could never cure the King 's Evil till he had possessed himself with some of His Majesties Lands It was an Article in His Atheistical Creed That this virtue went along with them though in his undue possessions I am yet to learn of any that ever yet adventured upon it upon this Account or that ever he experimentally found that success never any yet prospered in Rebellion God alwayes will withdraw his Blessing from the bloody Hand From the Influence of a good King distils the Balm that cures the Kings Evil how many thousand in a year does he invite to draw neer to him amongst whom probably some are admitted that he might most justly have commanded rather a distance who when time was would have laid their hands heavy upon him had not God prevented it Nevertheless he is pleas'd to forget it and lay his more tenderly upon them Oh! may he in a more peculiar manner be successful unto them had he the Spirit of distinguishing yet his goodness is such that he would not withdraw his helping hand from them like a true Angel of God he does Good for Evil he freely accepts them and relieves them in their necessities is kind to his worst foes and remits like an Excellent Prince and a good Christian the wrong they have at any time done him Nay those that would not do him so much right as to afford him their Assistance to help him to his do not blush to claim an inherent right to this Priviledge nay they suppose themselves born to it though him not long since to nothing Me thinks they should be diffident of a blessing yet since they have so much esteem for their King and that through his good fortunes he is credulous may he be fortunate in the highest degree they may rest satisfied that God has endued him with so much power as to effect this so great and eminent a work may they live to have just Cause to repent them that they have so evilly entreated him May they shew their Contrition by living as becomes Loyal Subjects then they shall not want my prayers that God may wipe away that bloud which lies upon them Beneficium postulat Officium Every benefit that we receive from our King doth challenge a duty at our hands Not long since all humane Learning was trampled under feet His Return has bless'd us with the Resurrection of it Before we had many Lords that vaunted much of Religion but they divided it into so many Sects and Errours nay Blasphemies according as the necessity of their Evil designs and policy led them that one might well have asked what the Religion of England was But blessed be God that has restor'd our Princes as at the first and our Counsellors as at the Beginning Novares nova cantica for new mercies we must find new praises God has restor'd us to the Life of our Life our Liberties and our Possessions before there were great pretences of Laws and a free born people and what not and these were 't is true necessary to those that had no Title We stand before God this day the Subjects of many Blessings being under the Power and Jurisdiction of an imparallel'd Prince Carendo magis quà m habendo by the want of a King we should know the better how to value him not to be thankful for him and Gods mercies to us in it is the death and destruction of mercies not to acknowledge them is as it were to make them our Adversaries I would have them well husbanded that they might be Reservations to greater mercies As our thankfulness must appear in our Obedience towards God so it must in our Obedience towards our King Great Britain's Oake had an immature untimely fall and yet there was one Royal one preserv'd to be Protector to Him Regis Regni Robor Robur may we be loving to the Branch though we were unfaithful to the Root A Day of Special Deliverance calls for a Day of Thanksgiving His Majesty took too long a Progress in other Princes Dominions but that the great Divinity thought good to have it so now he may take one in His Own Kingdom And 't was once supposed that after His great and miraculous Conquest of Restauration He would have visited that place of Worcester God would have been pleased with such a Sacrifice But alas he has scarce yet had a Vacation from Persecution The first thing that Theseus did after the Victories over his Enemies was to sacrifice the Spoils to the Tutelar Gods As Hercules wore the Lyon's Skin as a Memorandum of his Victories so may His Majesty as an Addition to His Royal Coat though never wear it out of His Memory nor we neither as an Emblem of that great and wonderful deliverance The Royal-Oke To perpetuate the remembrance of which I wish in that very place an Hospital or Chappel were erected and Demeasnes for the maintenance of it where there might be an Annual solemn Procession I would not have this done by His Majesties Own Hand but to His Hand by the publique Stock as an acknowledgement to the King of Kings for that unspeakable mercy in the preservation of Ours Perhaps I may have the Return of a severe censure for offering thus far yet it cannot be said that I interpose in a businesse wherein I am not concern'd for I conjecture my self as much as any and could His Majesty but be sensible of the thousandth part of the Passion which I have ever had I bless God for it and solely for Him I should have Pardon from Him for taking this Freedom He is the Ocean from whence flows those Rivulets of good Will which in Gratitude like them would oblige us to make our Returns Gratitudo est Gratiarum Actio not a bare Thanks-saying but a Thanks-giving we cannot do too much for him that has done so much for us he has stanched that Issue of Blood under which we so long groan'd and has made it his work to bring us into acquaintance with Peace and Prosperity will we be thankfull for these and why not for health Prayers and Praises ought to be alwayes like the Angels of Jacob's Ladder ascending and descending When you approach His Majesties presence in tendency to the work in hand go the right way and you 'l be sure not to fail of your end Say with holy David ' his thy work O Lord not mans power Thy sacred Institution not mans Invention It has been a question in the Scholes An liceat uti verbis ad morbos pellendos It shall now be put out of dispute for God has promised that what soever we shall ask in his name by Divine ejaculations shall be done unto us Behold the modesty of His Sacred Majesty in the very Act express'd Deus sanat omnes infirmitates nostras I Touch and God heals No charm like this Divine Sentence in the Lips of the King
illucfacile moventur they move to and fro and yet are not easily removed quaedam insertae oriantur and are frequently disseminated clean though the Vessels as Veins and Arteries They are for the most part Tumours consisting of Equality neither soft nor hard but of a medium betwixt both The Peripheria round and it has been generally observed that those persons which have been most affected with it either they themselves or some of their nearest Relatives have been all along for the most part Round as the World has gone too long Sublata causa tollitur effectus The Cure of all Diseases is wrought by a depulsion of the Cause Tactus quasi Tactus vim habet solam Tangendi The Touch as Touch hath only the power of Touching Otherwise by consequence that certain virtue which is in the body were it noxious would also by the same Touch be communicated but the Touch it self hath not this virtue Seeing then that other Diseases may proceed from one and the same Cause in some other parts of the body the same Touch might prove Energetical for their removal but being it cannot be so the Cure must either be miraculous or wholly attributed to the Imagination of the Patient but we cannot believe it to be miraculous for in times past the Apostles and Primitive Christians both for the further Illustrating of God's Glory and augmenting of Christian Religion manuum impositione multos sanârunt have healed many by a Touch and most true it is God will not have miracles inconsiderately wrought for the pleasure of any man So that the Apostles have signified to us that That which they did was not by their own power or by virtue and power of the Touch and in their own strength but by the Indulgence and special Mandate of the Great Jehovah Therefore those Seven Sons of Shevah the Jew who attempting by the same name to conjure the Devils have by induring their horrid violence sufficiently felt the punishment of their temerarious and unadvised boldness Hence we may conclude That 't is not lawful for ordinary persons to assume so great a power their skill in healing is not the Gift of God as appeareth by the quality of the persons who are generally ignorant and prophane for which very cause God will not reveal his Counsels to them but to them that truly fear him 'T is true if it be his pleasure he can bring Good out of Evil. There are in the world too many of these prodigious and seducing Juglers which do probably some small inconsiderable things These Simpletons through the pretence and reputation of Divine power may cure some simple wounds which only required Union which Nature would have done her self Thus they daily make a noise with their forged miracles and make any Truth of any falshood be it never so notorious and a prejudicated opinion of such mens supposed sufficiency they themselves being not really able to discern betwixt right and wrong Good and Evil they are great Usurpers upon other mens Rights against whom I shall advance the Avant-guard of all my might and force not only to batter but totally defeat depress and lay these evil Spirits who have no more dangerous snare than this condition of Faith that those who will have help or succour at their hands must believe they can do them good As to the Imagination it being divers in some fronger in some weaker we may suppose nothing but an uncertain Event can be expected from an uncertain Cause The unreasonable part of Fancy juggles too much with the judgments and understandings of men that they can scarce contain themselves from believing and consulting with some ridiculous folly thus able is Imagination not only to deceive sense but obscure our Reason If there be any good which the World fancies in them they have it by Accident by the power and virtue of Fancy wherein is neither certainty nor continuance Hoc privilegium sanandi strumas est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 divinum planè munus The power of Curing this Evil is vouchsafed solely to the Kings by the Grace of God of Great Britain and France and denied to other Christian Kings non proprietaete personarum sed Divino privilegio non verborum tantum facultate nec medicorum auxilio sed constantis fidei vehementis cogitationis vi sanitas speretur 'T is a Legacy bequeathed to then by God himself Holy Remigius a Reverend Bishop in France with whose Unction this power flowed to the Kings of France as the best Interpreter doubtless of this matter hath declared That this excellent Virtue is granted to Kings so long as they shall remain constant in the Christian Faith intimating It would cease if they forsook or fell from it and so long as Faith remained either in King or Kingdom he foretold by the Spirit of Prophecie he should be a victorious King But alas his Divinity here fail'd him for not long before our distractions in England we being assistant to the Spaniard the French were much worsted of which sayes one and not impertinently When Wars in England once began Then flourish'd France and not till than Picardie was most part of it in a Flame the Scene was laid by Cardinal Richelieu to introduce the Scots he had all the qualities requisite to work a change of State by his prudence the Stroke was diverted he directed his designs to make that Nation flourish which he lived to see effected those that have but the least Spark of Love for the Glory of that Country when they read but that name it must needs raise in them an esteem never to be forgotten Edward the Confessor that had the reputation of a singular Piety was deemed by the People one that could work Miracles he cured not only those which priviledge descended to his Successors but other Ulcers and Swellings which his Successors could not This being therefore a Prerogative belonging only to the fore-mentioned Kings is wholly wrought in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ it would therefore be a too audacious tempting of Providence for other Kings on whom she would not graciously bestow the gift to attempt it Further 't is worth the observance That the Kings to whom God granted it had it not been upon condition that they would not transmit this power to their Successors unless they were legitimate and did remain stable in the Christian Faith For if an Assassinate or an Usurper such there have been too late and God knows what Fates yet attend Kingdoms should dethrone a lawful Prince he could not together with his Kingdoms acquire this virtue Quippe pro Imperio though Cromwel durst do any thing and wrought no lesse then Miracles for his time he never so much as offered at this That good King Charles the First of ever blessed memory when captivated by those imparallel'd Miscreants as his manner was and as Tokens of his great love to many that had not deserved that kindness at his hands he cured