The Works of Henry Vaughan

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...The imagination is inflamed, when the stomack is ofifended by some object of sence. Such perturbations happen often, and men are frequently inclined to vomit, when they looke earnestly upon those Ejectments which another hath cast up. VI. Fourthly, The imagination is inflamed, when any person imagines or fancies, that paine or trouble he is in, to be intolerable for him, and incurable. 30 Hence it comes to passe, that men despairing of their health or redemption, contrive their owne death, and make themselves away. Of violent Illation, which is the sixth and last cause of the extrarious Cause. Violent Illation is performed two wayes, Corporally, and Spiritually. 12 Apparitions G: Apparition 16;; 34 C1-IAP. CA1-IP. 16;; Corporally, when a man or woman is wounded, thrust, or shot, or fallen, or their bones broken. II. Spiritually, when by the meanes and ministry of will spirits, a man or woman is either blinded, or maimed, or any extraneous visible matter, is inzzisibly and without manifest violence, conveyed into, and lodged in their bodies, or when they are by any other preternatural wayes and meanes set upon and ajlicted. no That such things may and have been done, we shall prove by the truth of this following relation. In the year of our Lord, r 539. there lived in the village of Fugesta, within the Bishoprick of Eisteter, a certaine Husbandman, named Ulrich Neusesser, who was grievously pained in the Hypochondriacal Region, with most violent and sharp stitches; whose fury and persistance made him send for a Chirurgion, and (incision being made) there was found, and taken out of his side, an Iron Naile, which lay under the skin, without the least external symptome, or discoloration of the part. This notwithstanding, the pain ceased not, ..