A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

And so also he is permitted by God to inflict Persecutions and Crosses and ordinary Diseases on the just, but when he is Gods Executioner of extraordinary Plagues, especially on the Head, depriving men of Sense and Understanding, and working above the bare Nature of the Disease, this is called his Possession.

And as most evil Motions on the Soul have Satan for their Father, and our own Hearts as the Mothers, so most or many bodily Diseases are by Satan, permitted by God, though there be Causes of them also in the Body it self. And when our own Miscarriages, and Humours, and the Season, Weather, and Accidents may be Causes, yet Satan may by these be a superior Cause.

And as most evil Motions on the Soul have Satan for their Father, and our own Hearts as the Mothers, so most or many bodily Diseases are by Satan, permitted by God, though there be Causes of them also in the Body it self. And when our own Miscarriages, and Humors, and the Season, Weather, and Accidents may be Causes, yet Satan may by these be a superiour Cause.

And when his Operations are such as we call a Possession, yet he may work by means and bodily dispositions; and sometimes he worketh quite above the power of the Disease it self (as when the unlearned speak in strange Languages, and when bewitched Persons vomit Iron, Glass, &c) And sometime he doth only work by the Disease it self (as in Epilepsies, Madness, &c.)