• Tertul. ad sc~pu ta-r, V1R.S.T4o ;;An·Jh:pajition, 'WithNotes 3. In the more common l:lfeof it afterward; all were not healed that were anointed ; God gave out his grace and power as he faw good; for the effect did not depend ppon anointing, but the prayer of faith; and ifall that were anointed had recovered, rhere would have been no mortality in the ~rimitive times. ~ad wrou~ht ·then as he worketh now by tlfe ordmary means,fomnmes bleffing them, fometimes leaving them ineffeduall , all depending upon his free pleafure and operation. 4· When it did ceafe we cannot tell; when it thould ceafe we may eaGiy jadg, if we will but underfiand the nature, ufe, and end; the rite ct:afoo when the gift ceafed, which God bath taken from the wmld almofr thefe 1500 yeers;gift"S of healing are coupled with other miraculous gif~s,M~tt. Io.S. Mar.6. r_;. M~r16. 17,1g. and ceafed when t-hey ceafed;at the firO: miffion of the Apoftles.,to gain the world,ChriH invefi-ed them with thefe gifr-s,As a tree newly fet needet-h watering,wbich afterwards we elifcontinue; fo after Come {pace of time, thefe difpenfations ccafed; for miracles would ~ot • have been miracles, but reckoned among ordinary effects, iffiirt cominued : he fi;tl provideth for his own , but not in that fuperna– r-ural way , and healeth as he feeth caufe; when mm can rell:o.re the effeR, let them re.fiore the rite; otherwife, why iliould we keep up anaked aHd idle ceremony? Thtts we fee when it lhould ceafe; but when miracles. did ceafe, is not eafy tobe defined; if the fiory be true in * T erN~<IIi4n , they continued fome 2.oo. yeers af. ter ChriR; for he fpe-aketh ofoneProcu!Hs aChriftian, that anoiA– red S tverus and recovered him; PrqculHm Chrijtia111-um qt~i Tor– pacio~ nomina.batur, Evodi.e proC'Hrlltorem, qui eum per oleum t~liqua-11do curavera.t , & in pa.latio [Ho h~tbuit ufque Ad mortem ejus. Some fufpe8: th.e fiory becaufeofthe fuangenefs ofthe names; Proculus and Evcclia , and the filence of other Authors about this thing, though Pt~mele faith, that in the Ma:r-tyrologies, on theCa– lends of Dectmber, there is mentionmade ofone PrrJculus a Prietl: near Rm1e, in a place·where Severus d-id ufe to refott i ever fince that patfage, there is a d€ep filence ofit in Hifior-ies. · .. 5. Popithanointing, or extr-eam Unelion, is ameer hypocnt•cal Pageantry: It mufi.be prepared.by aBtlhop,,heated with thus many breathings,inchantedwith uttering fo many words-! The members anointed a-re their eyes, ears, nofe, mou·th; and.for greater intil;'e– 'nefs, the reins and feet; in women the J.V·avel : The form; Bl thiS
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