Chap,t, according to S` 2v1 n rTH E vv. 303 the holy difeafe. For the Priefts, to enrich themf lres, per- fwaded the fuperftitious people, that this difeafe, as being fad- dain, hidden, and for molt part incurable, was an immediate hand ofGod, and could be cured by none but Prietts. The medi- dicines they gave, were much like that cf the French Mounte- bank, who was wont to give in writing tohis patients, for cu- ring all difeafes, theft following vcrítis ; Si vis curari de morbo nefcio quali, C8f1° cram Accipias herbetne, fedqualmnefcio, nec glom : rbeet, parr t, cap, tb. Pangs nefcio quo, curabere nefcio quando. They are thus Englifhed by one. Your pain,I know not what, doe not fore flow, To cure with herbs, which whence I date not know. _ A nfvvcr to Place them, (well poun't)I know not where,and then D. cure. You (ball be perfeet whole, I know not when. And Ifuy to this man Coe, andhe goeth, &c.] King Ferdinands mbaffadourr, being condu:ted into thecamp ofthe Turks,wor.- rrrh. tiered at theperpetual) and dumb (hence offo great a multitude: jet 7 r s. the Souldiers being fo ready and attentive, that they were no o- therwife commanded, then by the beckningofthe hand, or nod cf their Commanders, Tamerlan, that warlike Scythian, had his menat fogreat command, that no danger was to themMore tbid:sta. dreadfull, thenhis difpleafure. end to my f rvant, doe this andhe doeth it.] Such a f:rva^.t is every Saint tohis God ; at leaf$ inhis delire and endeavour. Such a Centurion alto is he over his ownheart, which he bath at hiss right hand, as Salomon faith : that is, ready prelt to obey God in all partsand points ofduty. There were (even forts of Pharifet: Tabat d. treat And one was Phariffus, ,quid d-eGeo facere, facial?) illnd: So Pita. cap;. they wouldneedsbe called. But the true Chrittian onely is fuch a one in good earnett, as thePharifee pretends to be. Verfc i o. He marvelled,andfaid, &c.] What can be fo great a marvel), as that Chrìli marvelleth ? So he wondered at his own work in Nathaniel, Ioh. r.q7. and at his own love to .mifcrable mankinde, when he calls himfelf Wonderful), Counfellour, &c. Ifa,y.6. He wondered not, as the D;fciplcs did, at the magnifi- cenceofthe Temple: he was not a whit taken with all the bear ty and bravery ofthe world let before him by thedevil, as it were in a land-skip : but at the Centurions faith he much marvelled, X
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