tions and
forms of exorcisms still in the church; besides those in baptism used, they
exorcise meats, and such as are possessed, as they hold, in Christ's name.
Read Hieron. Mengus _cap. 3._ Pet. Tyreus, _part. 3. cap. 8._ What
exorcisms they prescribe, besides those ordinary means of [2807]"fire
suffumigations, lights, cutting the air with swords," _cap. 57._ herbs,
odours: of which Tostatus treats, _2. Reg. cap. 16. quaest. 43_, you shall
find many vain and frivolous superstitious forms of exorcisms among them,
not to be tolerated, or endured.

MEMB. II.
_Lawful Cures, first from God_.

Being so clearly evinced, as it is, all unlawful cures are to be refused,
it remains to treat of such as are to be admitted, and those are commonly
such which God hath appointed, [2808]by virtue of stones, herbs, plants,
meats, and the like, which are prepared and applied to our use, by art and
industry of physicians, who are the dispensers of such treasures for our
good, and to be [2809]"honoured for necessities' sake," God's intermediate
ministers, to whom in our infirmities we are to seek for help. Yet not so
that we rely too much, or wholly upon them: _a Jove principium_, we must
first begin with [2810]prayer, and then use physic; not one without the
other, but both together. To pray alone, and reject ordinary means, is to
do like him in Aesop, that when his cart was stalled, lay flat on his back,
and cried aloud help Hercules, but that was to little purpose, except as
his friend advised him, _rotis tute ipse annitaris_, he whipped his horses
withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel. God works by means, as Christ
cured the blind man with clay and spittle: _Orandum est ut sit mens sana in
corpore sano_. As we must pray for health of body and mind, so we must use
our utmost endeavours to preserve and continue it. Some kind of devils are
not cast out but by fasting and prayer, and both necessarily required, not
one without the other. For all the physic we can use, art, excellent
industry, is to no purpose without calling upon God, _nil juvat immensos
Cratero promittere montes_: it is in vain to seek for help, run, ride,
except God bless us.

[2811] ------"non Siculi dapes
Dulcem elaborabunt saporem.
Non animum cytheraeve cantus."

[2812] "Non domus et fundus, non aeris acervus et auri
Aegroto possunt domino deducere febres."

[2813] "With house, with land, with money, and with gold,
The maste