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THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY
otherwise supplied, as Lavater writes, and so they are deluded. "And God often winks at these
impostures, because they forsake his word, and betake themselves to the devil, as they do that
seek after holy water, crosses," &c. Wierus, lib. 4. cap. 3. What can these men plead for
themselves more than those heathen gods, the same cures done by both, the same spirit that
seduceth; but read more of the Pagan god's effects in Austin de Civitate Dei, l. 10. cap. 6. and of
Aesculapius especially in Cicogna l. 3. cap. 8. or put case they could help, why should we rather
seek to them, than to Christ himself, since that he so kindly invites us unto him, "Come unto me
all ye that are heavy laden, and I will ease you," Mat. xi. and we know that there is one God,
"one Mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ," (1 Tim. ii. 5) "who gave himself a ransom
for all men." We know that "we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ" (1 Joh. ii. 1.)
that there is no "other name under heaven, by which we can be saved, but by his," who is always
ready to hear us, and sits at the right hand of God, and from whom we can have no repulse, solus
vult, solus potest, curat universos tanquam singulos, et unumquemque nostrum et solum, we are
all as one to him, he cares for us all as one, and why should we then seek to any other but to him.
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