Several choice histories of the medecines [sic], manner and method used in the cure of the plague ... / translated into English, with his own annotations upon every history.

Isbrand van Diemerbroeck

Date:: 1666

Credit: Several choice histories of the medecines [sic], manner and method used in the cure of the plague ... / translated into English, with his own annotations upon every history. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$- . Famous Hi^ories of m Cardanm devarietate return, lih ? <$. cap. 93- You may read alfo hl ieii-ne opinion of who of the fame mind with cfr^- thejej . „ mav ke feen further of tins thing in him De u.urtMe, n\ tmS ScJ£r de fulnitate, Ex.ramion. 3 5 5- But all feem ' jeceived who would underhand the nature of things out of nantre by their’ natural ingeny; therefore in this cafe let it fuft.ce V‘ fp :h:iv.!5 of which we can have no certainty, to believe the Scripture * which as to the form, quantity, fubftance, aftions, See. S'1irh tiv indeed fatisfie us as to thefe things, wholly writ for our I fL'I The facred Writ tells us, that oftentimes Angels have anneafed to holy men, that Prophets have feen Viiions, fometimes one fometimes another, and that all thefe were done by Divine Power who is there doth not believe? Is it not therefore wicked, ’ r as decent, for a Chriftian to enquire of the nature of thefe Spirits, what their longitude or weight is, how they are lm- nelled to their aftions, and made vifible, by what means,and which Pwan1tey defcend from the air ? That there are certain diaboheal i l r Z »hp Stricture doth tell us; thus the Devil appeared to £w hi the form of?a Serpent, and in the form of Samuel to King Saul, who told him his misforune. >$