the like may be cured? and if
they may, whether it be lawful to make use of them, those magnetical cures,
or for our good to seek after such means in any case? The first, whether
they can do any such cures, is questioned amongst many writers, some
affirming, some denying. Valesius, _cont. med. lib. 5. cap. 6. Malleus
Maleficar_, Heurnius, _lib. 3. pract. med. cap. 28._ Caelius _lib. 16. c.
16._ Delrio _Tom. 3._ Wierus _lib. 2. de praestig. daem._ Libanius Lavater
_de spect. part. 2. cap. 7._ Holbrenner the Lutheran in Pistorium, Polydore
Virg. _l. 1. de prodig._ Tandlerus, Lemnius, (Hippocrates and Avicenna
amongst the rest) deny that spirits or devils have any power over us, and
refer all with Pomponatius of Padua to natural causes and humours. Of the
other opinion are Bodinus _Daemonamantiae, lib. 3, cap. 2._ Arnoldus,
Marcellus Empyricus, I. Pistorius, Paracelsus _Apodix. Magic._ Agrippa
_lib. 2. de occult. Philos. cap. 36. 69. 71. 72. et l. 3, c. 23, et 10._
Marcilius Ficinus _de vit. coelit. compar. cap. 13. 15. 18. 21. &c._
Galeottus _de promiscua doct. cap. 24._ Jovianus Pontanus _Tom. 2. Plin.
lib. 28, c. 2._ Strabo, _lib. 15._ Geog. Leo Suavius: Goclenius _de ung.
armar._ Oswoldus Crollius, Ernestus Burgravius, Dr. Flud, &c. Cardan _de
subt._ brings many proofs out of Ars Notoria, and Solomon's decayed works,
old Hermes, Artefius, Costaben Luca, Picatrix, &c. that such cures may be
done. They can make fire it shall not burn, fetch back thieves or stolen
goods, show their absent faces in a glass, make serpents lie still, stanch
blood, salve gouts, epilepsies, biting of mad dogs, toothache, melancholy,
_et omnia mundi mala_, make men immortal, young again as the [2791]Spanish
marquis is said to have done by one of his slaves, and some, which jugglers
in [2792]China maintain still (as Tragaltius writes) that they can do by
their extraordinary skill in physic, and some of our modern chemists by
their strange limbecks, by their spells, philosopher's stones and charms.
[2793]"Many doubt," saith Nicholas Taurellus, "whether the devil can cure
such diseases he hath not made, and some flatly deny it, howsoever common
experience confirms to our astonishment, that magicians can work such
feats, and that the devil without impediment can penetrate through all the
parts of our bodies, and cure such maladies by means to us unknown." Daneus
in his tract _de Sortiariis_ subscribes to this of Taurellus; Erastus _de
lamiis_, maintai