Magia Adamica

self is no lavish insatiable Glut, but a most nice delicat essence. This appears by those fits, and pangs she is subject to whensoever she is overcharg'd. In common, customarie Excesses there is not any, but knows this Truth by Experience, indeed in spiritual sins, the Body is not immediatly troubled, but the Conscience is terrified, and surely the body cannot be very well, when the soule it self is sick. We see then that Corruption, and sin do not so much agree with us, as they doe disturb us, for in what sense can our Enemies be our friends, or those things that destroy Nature, be agreeable to Nature? How then shall we judge of the Gospel? Shall we say that the praeservation of Man is contrarie to Man, and that the Doctrine of Life agrees not with Life it self? God forbid: The Laws of the Resurrection are founded upon those of the Creation, and those of Regeneration upon those of Generation, for in all these God works upon one, and the same Matter, by one and the same spirit. Now that it is so, I meane that there is a Harmonie between Nature and the Gospel, I will prove out of the Sinic Monument of Kim Cim priest of Judaea. In the yeare of Redemption 1625. there was digg'd up in a Village of China call'd Sanxuen, a square stone, being neer Ten measures of an hand-breadth long,