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PART V:THE NOTORY ART OF SOLOMON
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cover: but if he answer, I am very grievously ill, or worse and worse;
then doubtless conclude, He will dye on the morrow: But if he answer,
I know not how my state and condition is, whether better or worse;
then you may know likewise, That he will either dye, or his disease will
change and alter for the worse. If it be a Childe, that is not of years
capable to make an answer; or that the sick languish so grievously, that
he knoweth not how, or will not answer, say this Oration three times;
and what you finde first revealed in your minde, that judge to come to
pass of him.
Furthermore if anyone dissemble and seek to hide or cover his infirmity;
say the same Oration, and the Angelical Vertue shall suggest the truth
to thee. If the diseased person be farre off; when you hear his Name, say
likewise this Oration for him, and your minde shall reveal to you whether
he shall live or dye.
Ifyou touch the Pulse of anyone that is sick, saying this Oration, the
effect of his Infirmity shall be revealed to you.
Or ifyou touch the Pulse of any Woman with Childe, saying the same
Oration, it shall be revealed, whether she shall bring forth a Male or Female.
But know, that this Miracle proceeds not from your own Nature, but
from the Nature and Vertue of the holy Angels; it being a part of their
Office, wonderfully to reveal these things to you. Ifyou doubt of the Virginity
ofanyone, say this Oration in your minde, and it shall be revealed to
you, whether she be a Virgin, or Corrupt.
Here follows an efficacious Preface of an Oration, shewing what Verture
and Efficacy you may thereby prove every day.
Ofthis Oration Solomon saith, That by it a new knowledge ofPhysick is to
be received from God: Upon which, he hath laid this command, and calleth
it, The Miraculous and Efficacious Foundation ofthe Physical Science; and
that it containeth in it the quantity and quality of the whole Physical Art
and Science: wherein there is contained, rather a miraculous and specious,
then fearful or terrible Miracle, which as often-soever as thou readest the
same, regard not the paucity of words, but praise the Vertue of so great a
Mystery: For, Solomon himself speaking of the subtility of the Notary Art,
wonderfully extolls the Divine Help; to wit, Because we have proposed a
great thing, that is to say so many and so great Mysteries of Nature, contained
under so specious brevity, that I suppose them to be as a general
Problem to be proposed in the ordination ofso subtile and excellent a work;