An essay for the recording of illustrious providences

2. When Bodily Diseases are removed by the use of natural means, the matter upon which the Evil Spirit was wont to operate being gone, he does no more disturb and disquiet the minds of men as before that he did. The passive disposition in the Body ceasing, the active affliction caused by the Devil ceaseth also. Rulandus Writes of Possessed persons who were cured by Emetic Medicines, clearing them of those melancholy humours, by means whereof the Evil Spirit had sometimes ⟨p. 263⟩great advantages over them. This also Pomponatius does by many Instances confirm. Sennertus likewise has divers passages to the same purpose. Also we see by frequent experience, persons strangely hurried by Satan, have by the blessing of God upon the endeavour of the Physician been delivered from those woeful molestations. Ferrarius, Delrio, Burgensis, and others, Commenting on 1Sam. 16. conceive that the Ingress and Egress of Evil Spirits depends upon the humours and dispositions of the Body; which Assertion is not universally true: For sometimes the Devil hath laughed at the Physicians, who have thought by Medicinal Applications to dispossess him. Examples for this may be seen in Fernelius and Codronobus. Wherefore Voetius in his Disputation, de Emergumenis, Page 1025. speaketh cautiously and Judiciously, in asserting that we may not suppose that the Devils taking bodily possession of this or that person, depends wholly upon corporeal dispositions; nevertheless that natural Distempers sometimes are an occasion thereof.

2. When Bodily Diseases are removed by the use of natural means, the matter upon which the Evil Spirit was wont to operate being gone, he does no more disturb and disquiet the minds of men as before that he did. The passive disposition in the Body ceasing, the active affliction caused by the Devil ceaseth also. Rulandus Writes of Possessed persons who were cured by Emetic Medicines, clearing them of those melancholly humors, by means whereof the Evil Spirit had sometimes ⟨p. 263⟩great advantages over them. This also Pomponatius does by many Instances confirm. Sennertus likewise has divers passages to the same purpose. Also we see by frequent experience, persons strangely hurried by Satan, have by the blessing of God upon the endeavour of the Physitian been delivered from those woful molestations. Ferrarius, Delrio, Burgensis, and others, Commenting on