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The goodnefs of the Creator every where extended, created every thing for the ufe of ungrateful man ; neither did he admit any of the theologifts, or divines, as afiiftants in council, how many or how great virtues he fhould infufe into things natural. But there are thofe who venture to meafure the wonderful works of God by their own Sharpened and refined wit, whereby they deny God to have given fuch virtue to things ; as though man (a worm) was able, by his narrow and limited capacity, to comprehend Omnifcience ; he therefore meafures the minds of all men by his own, who think that can- not be done, which they cannot underhand. They therefore can only deve- lope the myfteries of nature, who being verfed in the art of Cabala, Fire, and Magic, examined the properties of things, and draw, from darknefs into light, the lurking powers of Man, Animals , Vegetables , Minerals , and Stones ; and, feparating the crudities, dregs, poifons, heterogenities, that are the thorns implanted in virgin nature from the curfe. For an obferver of nature fees daily (he doth difiil, fublime, calcine, ferment, dijfiolve, coagulate, fix. See. there- fore we who are the minifters of nature do feparate, &c. finding out the caufes and effects of every phaenomena (lie produces.
Now, as magnetifm is ordained for the ufe of man, and for the curing of the various diforders incident to human nature, we (hall firft touch upon the grand fubjedt of magnetifm, known to pofiefs wonderful properties, and which are not only evident to every eye, but (hew us fufficient grounds for our admitting the poflibility and reality of magnetifm in general.
The loadftone pofiefies an eminent medicinal faculty againft many violent and implacable diforders. Helmont fays, that the back of the loadftone, as it repulfes iron, fo alfo it removes gout, fwellings, rheum, &c. that is of the nature or quality of iron. The iron-attradling faculty, if it be joined to the mummy of a woman, and the back of the loadftone be put within her thigh, and the belly of the loadftone on her loins, it fafely prevents a mifearriage, already threatened ; but the belly of the loadftone applied within the thigh and the back to her loins, it doth wonderfully facilitate her delivery.
Likewife the wearing the loadftone eafes and prevents the cramp, and fuch like diforders and pains.
Uldericus
MAGNETISM*
II