Tobias — Chapter 6

to thee : forthefe are neceffarie & pro- fitable for medecines, 6. Whichwhenhe had done , he rofted the (c) fiefh therof, and they tooke it with them in the way : the reft they falted which might fuffice them,til they came to Rages the citie of Mcdes. 7. Then Tobias askedthe Angel, & faid to him:] befcech thee brother Aza- rias, tel me what remedies {hal thefe thefe things haue, which thou haft: bid *and a Wer, Ve 1% * and hart.v. 8. and he hath a daughter nained Sara, and OF TOBIAS. 887 bid me Keep of tie fi.h? 8. And the Angel anfwering,fayd to-him:If thou put alicle peece of his * hart vpon coales , the (d){moke therot driuech out al kinde of diuels,cicher tro manor trom woman fo that it cometh no more vnto them. 9. Aad the gale is aucilable to annoynt tne e1es , in which there thal be whice blemilh.and they thal be healed.te, And To- ms bias favd.to him : Where wilt thou that we tarie? And the Angel an- oe God cone ferme, fayd : Here is one named Ragucl, anere kialman ot thy (ibe, curring with he hath neither man child, nor jpacural cautes, anie wonan child betide her, 1meAlhis fubttance is due to thee, and “ hofe good thou nrav{t rake her to wite. 13. Aske her therfore of her tather,and-he nealure is wil ciuc her thee to wife. T4. Then Tobias an{wered, and fayu : Hheare Ne initeaments thar ihe hath been deliuered to feuen hufbands , and they are dead :.y¢a ) varurally vm and I naue heard, hata diuel kiiled chem. 15.1 am atrayd thertore , lett ipt,as when thefe things may happen to me alfo : & whereas am the onic childe _Deigaue. of my parents, 1 may bring downe their old ave with forow. visto(ejhel. /2S0% fo the: (d3 Diuels who exalted them- fclucs as equal with God, arc iuftly inade fubiect to cor- as “fo receiue matrimonie,that they exclude Gou from themfclues, & trom the tyre, the diuel inal be driuen away. 20. Bur the (f ) fecond night ; - . . clinde by pue- 16, Then the Angel Raphacl fayd to him: Heare me, and Lwilthewe re thee whothev are, on whom the diuel can preuat.c, 17, Por they tnat their mind,& fo giue themf{eluesto cheir luftjas horfe and mule, whica haue not vaderitandinz , ouer thensche diuel hath power, 18, Butthou - * . 4 - . when thousaalt take her, entring into the chamber , for three daies be ‘Soutinenc. from her, and thou wale glue thy {eit £0 aothiag els but to prayers with her. 19, And tne fame night, the * liuer of the fa feton thou thalt be admitted in the copulation of the holie Patriarciis.21.Aad the third nightthou ibalt obtey-e a blefling that found children may be procreared.of you, 22. And when the third night is pait, thou malt take the virgin wich the feare of our Lord ,moued rather tor loue of childeren then for Juft,chatin the feed of Abraham thou mayilt obtayne bleffing in children,

S. Paul also calleth flesh of flesh therof, and Plinie lib. 9. c. 19.

Diuels who exalted themselves as equal with God, are iustly made subiect to corporal creatures. God concurring with natural causes, whose good pleasure is to instruments naturally ript, as when Christ gave sight to the blinde by putting clay on his eyes. Joan. 9. Sometimes more apt, as when he fed manie with few loaues, Joan 6. So the Angel by Gods appointment vsed this meanes to expel the diuel.

Into the place where good soules rested, none then hauing accesse into heauen. See Annot. Gen. 37.

The second night he asked and obtayned this grace; for he knew not his wife vntil the fourth night. v. 22.