one with that of the Palsey specially if it be caused of cold and grosse humours To helpe a man of this spirituall trembling these intentions must be respected First to purge his heart by repentance from those fowle and feculent corruptions wherewith it is infected and being cleane himselfe he will more charitably censure of others Then teach him to lay the heauiest loade on himselfe and to spare others True wisedome from aboue is without iudging without hypocrisie The wisest men are the least censurers they haue so much a doe to mend all at home that their neighbours liue quietly enough by them Set him a good affection and he will haue a good construction Minister to his soule a draught of charitie which will clense him of suspition for Charitie thinkes no euill None It thinkes no euill vnlesse it perceiue it apparantly To credite all were sillinesse to credite none sullinnesse Against his timorousnesse he hath an excellent receit set downe by God himselfe Feare not the feare of the wicked but sanctifie the Lord of hosts himselfe let him be your feare let him be your dread The way for him to feare nothing as he doth is to feare one thing as he should Awfull reuerence to God doth rather bolden then terrifie a man They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion which cannot be remooued but abideth for euer They may be moued they cannot bee remoued from what is good from what is their good their god This course may cure his paralyticke soule only if it shall please God to be his Physician Immoderate Thirst and Ambition Disease 10 THere is a disease in the bodie called immoderate thirst which is after much drinking desired and answered a still sensible drinesse By this I would I suppose not vnfitly expresse that spirituall disease Ambition a proud soules thirst when a draught of honour causeth a drought of honour and like Tullies strange soyle much raine of promotion falling from his heauen the Court makes him still as drie as dust He is a most ranke Churle for he drinkes often and yet would haue no man pledge him Cause THe disease is caused in the body through abundant heate drying vp moysture and this is done by hot cholericke or salt humours engendred in the stomake or through Feuers burning or Ecticke Signes and Symptomes THe Signes of the disease are best discerned by the patients words The cause of Ambition is a strong opinion of honour how well he could become a high place or a high place him It is a proud couetousnesse a glorious and Court-madnes The head of his reason caught a bruise on the right side his vnderstanding and euer since he followes affection as his principall guide Hee professeth a new quality called the art of climbing wherin he teacheth others by patterne not so much to aspire as to break their neckes No staire pleaseth him if there be a higher and yet ascended to the top he complaines of lownesse He is not so soone layd in his bed of honour but hee dreames of a higher preferment and would not sit on a seate long enough to make it warme His aduancement giues him a fresh prouocation and he now treades on that with a disdainfull foote which ere-while hee would haue kissed to obtaine Hee climbes falling towers and the hope to scale them swallowes all feare of toppling downe Hee is himselfe an Intelligencer to greatnes yet not without vnder-officers of the same ranke You shall see him narrow-eyed with watching affable and open-brested like Absolon full of insinuation so long as he is at the staire-foote but when authoritie hath once spoken kindly to him with Friend sit vp higher he lookes rougher then Hercules so bigge as if the riuer of his bloud would not bee banked within his veines His tongue is flabellum Diaboli and flagellum iusti bent to scourge some flatter others infect infest all Agrippina Neros mother being told by an Astrologer that her sonne should be Emperour but to her sorrow answered Let my sorrow be what it will so my sonne may get the Empire He hath high desires low deserts As Tully for his Pindinessus he spends much money about a little preferment and with greater cost then the captaine bought his Burgesship hee purchaseth incorporeall fame which passeth away as swift as time doth follow motion whose weight is nothing but in her name wheras a lower place well managed leaues behinde it a deathlesse memory Like a great winde he blowes downe all friends that stand in his way to rising Policy is his post-horse and he rides all vpon the spurre till he come to None-such His greatest plague is a Riuall Nec quemquam iam ferre potest Caesarue priorem Pompeiusue parem Tolluntur in altum vt lapsu grauiore ruant He is a child in his gaudy desires and great Titles are his rattles which still his crying til he see a new toy He kisses his wits as a Courtier his hand when any wished fortune salutes him and it tickles him that he hath stolne to promotiō without Gods knowledg Ambitio ambientium crux Ambition is the racke whereon hee tortureth himselfe The court is the sea wherein he desires to fish but the net of his wit and hope breakes and there he drownes himselfe An old courtier being asked what he did at Court answered I doe nothing but vndoe my selfe Cure FOr the bodily disease caused of heate and drinesse Physicians prescribe Oxicratum a drinke made of vineger and water sodden together a chiefe intention in them is to procure sleepe c. To cure the immoderate Thirst of Ambition let him take from God this prescript He that exalteth himselfe shall be brought low but he that humbleth himselfe shall be exalted That he who sets himselfe downe in the lower room heares the masters of the feasts inuitation Friend sit vp higher That a glorious Angell by ambition became a Diuell and a Lucifer of his sonnes the king of Babylon that said I will exalt my throne aboue the starres of God is brought downe to hell and to the sides of the pit That the first step to heauens Court is humilitie Blessed are the poore in spirit for theirs is the kingdome of heauen That he who walkes on plaine ground is in little danger to fall if he do fall he riseth with small hurt but he that climbes high is in more danger of falling and if he fall of killing That the great blasts of powerfull enuie ouerthrow Oakes and Cedars that oppose their huge bodies and passe through hollow Willowes or ouer litle shrubs that grow vnder the wall That the higher state is the fairer marke for misfortune to shoote at That which way soeuer the ambitious man lookes he finds matter of deiection Aboue him behold a God casting an ambitious Angell out of heauen an ambitious king from the societie of men but so respecting the lowlinesse of his handmaiden that all generation
heires shall neuer be sought after His vessell hath three leakes a lasciuious eye a gaming hand a deified belly and to content these hee can neither rule his heart nor his purse When the shot comes to be payd to draw in his company is a quarrel When he feeles want for till then he neuer sees it he complaines of Greatnes for ingratitude that hee was not thought of when promotions were a dealing When his last acre lies in his purse he proiects strange things and builds houses in the ayre hauing sold those on the ground he turnes malecontent and shifts that hee neuer had Religion If hee haue not learn'd those trickes that vndid him Flattery and Cheating he must needs presse himselfe to the warres Hee neuer before considered adposse but advelle and now hee forgets velle and lookes onely to posse Take him at first putting forth into his sea of wealth and profusenesse and his fulnesse giues him Languentis stomachum quem nulla ciborum Blandimenta mouent quem nulla inuitat orexis His stomach so rasping since his last meale that it growes too cowardly to fight with a chicken then he cals for sport like sawce to excite appetite and when all failes thinks of sleepe lyes downe to finde it and misseth it In the conniuence of his securitie harlots and sycophants rifle his estate and then send him to robbe the hogges of their prouander Ioues nuts acornes In short time he is dismounted from his coach disquantitied of his traine distasted of his familiars distressed of his riches distracted of his wits and neuer proues his owne man till he hath no other At last after his houering flight hee drops to a center which is a roome in the Almes house that his father built Cure FOr his Cure I will not meddle with his estate I know not how to cure that but for his soule let him first take a pill of Repentance for howsoeuer hee hath scowr'd his estate he hath clog'd his conscience and it must be purged Binde vp his vnruly hands so lauish and letting flye Pull off from his eyes that filme of errour that hee may distinguish his reproouing friends from his flattering enemies Coole his luxurious heate with Solomons after-course the banket of his pleasures being done that for al these things God will bring him to iudgement That beggerie is the heire apparant of riote as the yonger sonne in the Gospell wee haue too many such yonger brothers That his answer to those that admonish his frugalitie is built vpon a false ground My goods are my owne as the Parasites said of their tongs whereas he is not a Lord but a Steward and must one day reddere rationem dispensationis The bill of his reckoning will bee fearefull Item for so many oathes Item for so many lies Item for drunkennesse Item for lust c. Nay and Item for causing so many Tauerne Items which were worse then Physicke bils to his estate To conclude if Death finde him as Bankerout of spirituall as of worldly goods it will send him to an eternall prison The Iaundeis and Profanenesse Disease 14. ICterus or the Iaundeis is a spreading of yellow choler or melancholy all ouer the body To this I compare Profanenesse which is an epidemiall and vniuersall spreading of wickednesse throughout all powers of the soule Cause THe Iaundeys is caused sometimes accidentally when the bloud is corrupted by some outward occasiō with out a Feuer or through inflammation and change of the naturall temperament of the liuer or through obstruction of the passages which goe to the bowels c. The causes of Profanenesse are an affected ignorance a dead hart a sensuall disposition an intoxicate reason an habituated delight in sinne without sense without science without conscience Signes and Symptomes THe Symptomes of both the Iaundeys and Profanenesse need no description their externall appearance discolouring the one the skinne the other the life saue both Physicians much labour if it be true that the knowledge of the disease is halfe the cure He hath sold himselfe to wickednesse for the price of a little vanity like Ahab or let a Lease not to expire without his life At first sight you would take him for a man but he will presently make you change that opinion for Circe's cup hath transform'd him His eyes are the casements that stand continually open for the admission of lusts to the vncleane rest of his heart His mouth is the diuels trumpet and sounds nothing but the musicke of hell His hand is besmeared with aspersions of bloud lust rapine theft as if all the infernall serpents had disgorged their poysons on it Hee loues Sathan extremely and either swimmes to him in bloud or sailes in a vessell of wine His heauen is a Tauerne whence hee neuer departs till hee hath cast vp the reckoning Hee is ready to sweare there is no God though hee sweares perpetually by him Religion is his footstoole and Policy his horse Appetite his huntsman Pleasure his game and his dogges are his senses He endeuours by the continuance of his sports to make the motion of pleasure circular and the flame of his delight round as the Moone at full and full as bright The point of his heart is touched with the Load-stone of this world and he is not quiet but toward the North the scope of wickednesse He hath bowled his soule at the marke of sensuality and runs to hell to ouertake it If the diuell can maintaine him a stocke of thoughts let him alone for execution though to bastard his owne children and water on his fathers graue To conclude he is but a specialtie of hell antedated and striues to be damned before his time Cure HIs Physick as in some Iaundeis must be strong of operation for the drynesse of the ones stomacke of the others conscience doth eneruate the force of medicines The speciall intentions of his cure are strong purgations and bloud-letting If the law of God doth not purge out this corruption from his heart let him bloud by the law of man manacle his hands shackle his feete dispute vpon him with arguments of yron and steele let him smart for his blasphemyes slanders quarrels whoredomes and because he is no allowed Chirurgion restraine him from letting bloud Musle the Wolfe let him haue his chaine and his clogge bind him to the good behauiour and if these vsuall courses will not learne him continence sobrietie peace try what a New-gate and a grate will doe If nothing let vs lament his doome Their end is damnation whose God is their bellie and whose glorie is in their shame who minde earthly things Apoplexie and Securitie Disease 15. THe Apoplexie is a disease wherin the fountain originall of all the finewes being affected euery part of the body loseth both mouing sense all voluntary functions hindred as the wheels of a clocke when the poyse is down To this I liken Securitie which though it be not sudden
palsey for that takes away motion and this giues too much though not so proper and kindly This spirituall disease is a cowardly fearefulnesse and a distrustfull suspicion both of actions and men He dares not vndertake for feare of hee knowes not what he dares not trust for suspicion of his owne reflection dishonestie Cause THis euill in the body is caused generally through the weaknesse of the sinewes or of the cold temperature of nature or accidentally of cold drinke taken in Feuers Old age and feare are not seldome causes of it This spirituall palsey ariseth either from the weaknesse of zeale and want of that kindly heate to be affected to Gods glory or from consciousnesse of selfe-corruption therby measuring others The first is Fearefulnesse the second Distrustfulnesse Signes and Symptomes THe Signes of the palsey are manifest of this not very close and reserued He conceiues what is good to be done but fancies difficulties and dangers like to knots in a bul-rush or rubbes in a smooth way Hee would bowle well at the marke of Integrity if he durst venture it Hee hath no iourney to goe but either there are bugges or he imagines them Had he a pardon for his brother being in danger of death and a Hare should crosse him in the way he would no further though his brother hang'd for it He owes God some good will but he dares not shew it when a poore plaintiffe cals him for a witnesse hee dares not reueale the truth lest he offend the great aduersary He is a new Nicodemus and would steale to heauen if no body might see him He makes a good motion bad by his fearefulnesse and doubting and hee cals his trembling by the name of conscience Hee is like that Collier that passing thorow Smithfield and seeing some on the one side hanging he demaunds the cause answere was made for denying the Supremacie to King Henry on the other side some burning he askes the cause answered for denying the reall presence in the Sacrament some quoth he hang'd for Papistry and some burn'd for Protestancie then hoyte on a Gods name I hill bee ne're nother His Religion is primarily his Princes subordinately his Land-lords Neither deliberates he more to take a new religion to rise by it then he feares to keepe his old lest he fall by it All his care is for a ne noceat Hee is a busie inquirer of all Parliament acts and quakes as they are read lest hee be found guilty He is sicke and afraide to dye yet holds the potion in a trembling hand and quakes to drinke his recouery His thoughts are an ill ballance and will neuer be equally poysed Hee is a light vessell and euery great mans puffe is ready to ouerturne him Whiles CHRIST stands on the battlements of heauen and beckens him thither by his word his heart answeres I would faine be there but that some troubles stand in my way He would ill with Peter walke to him on the pauement of the Sea or thrust out his hand with Moses to take vp a crawling Serpent or hazard the losse of himselfe to find his Sauiour His minde is euer in suspicion in suspension and dares not giue a confident determination either way Resolution and his hart are vtter enemies and all his Philosophy is to be a Sceptick Whether is worse to doe an euill action with resolution that it is good or a good action with dubitation that it is euill some body tell me I am sure neither is well for an euill deede is euill whatsoeuer the agent thinke and for the other Whatsoeuer is not of Faith is sinne Negatiuely this rule is certaine and infallible It is good to forbeare the doing of that which wee are not sure is lawfull to bee done Affirmatiuely the worke being good labour thy vnderstanding so to thinke it Feare rather then profit hath made him a flatterer and you may reade the statutes and his Land-lords disposition in the characters of his countenance A Souldier a Husband-man and a Marchant should be ventrous He would be Gods Husband-man and sow the seeds of obediēce but for obseruing the wind weather of great mens frowns He would be Gods factor but that he feares to lose by his Talent and therefore buries it He would be Gods souldiour but that the world and the diuell are two such shrewd and sore enemies He once began to prosecute a deed of charitie and because the euent crossed him he makes it a rule to do no more good by As he is fearefull of himselfe so distrustfull of others carrying his heart in his eyes his eyes in his hands as hee in the Comedy Oculatae mihi sunt manus credunt quod vident Hee knowes nothing by himselfe but euill and according to that rule measures others Hee would faine bee an Vsurer but that hee dares not trust the Law with waxe and paper He sweares damnably to the truth of that he affirms as fearing otherwise not to be beleeued because without that othing it he will credit none himself The bastardy of swearing lays on him the true fatherhood Hee will trust neither man nor God without a pawne not so much as his Taylor with the stuffe to make his clothes he must be a Broker or no neighbour Hee hath no faith for he beleeues nothing but what he knowes and knowledge nullifies beleefe If others laugh he imagines himselfe their ridiculous obiect if there bee any whispering conscius ipse sibi c. it must be of him without question If he goes to law he is the aduocates sprite and haunts him worse then his owne malus genius Hee is his owne Cater his owne Receiuer his owne Secretary and takes such paines as if necessitie forced him because all seruants hee thinks theeues He dares not trust his mony aboue ground for feare of men nor vnder ground for feare of rust When he throwes his censures at actions his lucke is still to goe out and so whiles he playeth with other mens credits he cousins himselfe of his owne His opinion lights vpon the worst sense still as the Fly that passeth the sound parts to fastē on a scab or a Dorre that ends his flight in a dunghil Without a Subpaena these timorous cowherds dare not to London for feare lest the citie aire should conspire to poison them where they are euer crying Lord haue mercie on vs when as Lord haue mercie on vs is the special thing they feared The ringing of bels tunes their hearts into melancholy and the very sight of a corps is almost enough to turne them into corpses On the Thames they dare not come because they haue heard some there drowned nor neere the Parliament-house because it was once in danger of blowing vp Home this Embleme of diffidence comes and there liues with distrust of others and dies in distrust of himselfe onely now finding death a certaine thing to trust to Cure THe Cure of this bodily shaking is much at
Ignorance to Arrogance nescience to negligence simple imprudence to politicke impudence and I know not how too much light hath made men blind At first they knew not when they sinned now they would know to iustifie their sins they defend that wherein they offend and buy Sicknesse with as great expence of time wit money as the anguished Atheist would health Sickenesses in mens Soules are bred like diseases in naturall or corruptions in ciuill bodies with so insensible a progresse that they are not discerned till they be almost desperate as the franticke endures not bonds nor the Lethargicall noise or as it was once sayd of the Romanes that they could neither endure an ill Emperour nor obey a good one so wee may say of our selues no lesse then Liuy of that State Nec vitia nostra nec remedia ferre possumus wee can better brooke our maladies then our remedies There is say Physicians no perfect Health in this world and man when hee is at best enioyes but a neutrality But the Physicians of the Soule complaine further That wee are all as an vncleane thing and all our righteousnesse are as filthie ragges c. and in many things wee sinne all We may say with the Prophet not so much for our punishments as our sinnes The whole head is sicke and the whole heart faint From the sole of the foote euen vnto the head there is no soundnes in it but wounds and bruises and putrifying sores The Methode TO pursue this Argument I would willingly dispose the tenour of my speech into this method 1. to describe the disease 2. to ascribe the signes 3. to prescribe the remedie And whereas Physicians begin their medicinall institutions or instructions at the Head as the most noble part of the body the principall seate of the wits the beginning of all the organicall sences and the proper house and habitation of the animall vertue though Philosophie attributes that supereminent dignitie to the Heart and I for metaphors sake without contention suffer my selfe to be led after their rule behold I apply to the Head first which if I could cure it would more easily discerne the infirmities of the descending parts In the Head and other corporall parts there are many diseases which I will not contend to find out desiring onely to say not all but enough I will borrow so much Timber out of Galens wood as shall serue me for a scaffold to build vp my Morall discourse Head-ach and Braine sickenes Disease 1. HEad-ach is diuers say Phisicians according to the causes proceeding some of colde some of hot of drinesse of moisture of blood of choler of flegme windynesse drunkennesse of an offending stomacke There is an Head-ach called the Migram Hemicrania possessing lightly one side of the Head and distinguished by a seame that runnes along in the skull There is a disease in the Soule not vnlike this and they that labour of it are cald Braine-sicke men They may haue some pretty vnderstanding in part of their heads but the other part is strangely sicke of crochets singularities and toyish inuentions wherein because they frolicke themselues they thinke all the world fooles that admire them not They are euer troubling themselues with vnnecessary thoughtfulnesse of long or short white or blacke round or square confounding their wits with Geometrical dimensions studying of Measure out of measure A square cap on another mans head puts their head out of square and they turne their braines into dry wooll with storming against a garment of linnen New Albutij to moote the reasons why if a Cap fell down it brake if a Spunge it brake not why Eagles fly and not Elephants There be such students in the Schooles of Rome what shal be done with an Asse if he get into the Church to the Font vncouered and drinke the water of Baptisme vpon the strange hazard of a Clarks negligence and an Asses thirst entring the Church which are vncertaine they make themselues Asses in certaine Or if a hungrie Mouse filch the Body of our Lord c. Braue wits to inuent Mouse-traps These curiosities in humane but much more in diuine things proue men braine-sicke Cause THe Cause of the Migram is the ascending of many vaporous humours hot or cold by the veines or arteries The Cause of this spirituall Migram or braine-sicknesse is the vnkindly concurrence of ignorance arrogance and affectation like foggy mistes and cloudes obscuring smothering the true light of their sober iudgements and bearing their affections like a violent winde vpon one only point of the Compasse new-fangled Opinion Like the Gyants sonne they must haue sixe toes on a foote they hate not to be obserued and had rather be notorious then not notable Opinion is a foote too much which spoiles the Uerse New Physicke may bee better then olde so may new Philosophy our studies obseruation and experience perfecting theirs beginning not at the Gamoth as they did but as it were at the Ela but hardly new Diuinitie not that an ancient errour should be brought out against a new truth A new truth nay an old newly come to light for Errour cannot wage Antiquity with Truth His desire is to be crosse to regularity and should he be enioined a Hatte a Cappe would extremely please him were he confined to extemporall and enthusiasticall labours he would commend premeditation and studie which now he abhorres because they are put on him He is vnwise in being so bitter against Ceremonies for therein hee is palpably against himselfe himselfe being nothing else but Ceremonie Hee loues not the beaten path and because euery foole sayth he enters at the gate hee will climbe ouer the wall whiles the dore of the Church stands open hee contends to creepe through the windowe The Brain-sicke are no lesse then drunke with Opinion and that so strangely that sleepe which helps other drunkards doth them no good Their ambitious singularity is often so violent that if it be not restrained it growes to a kind of frenzy and so the Migram turnes into the Staggers Heerein because we will not credit their Positions nor receiue their Crochets in our set Musicke they reele into the lowe-Countries Signes and Symptomes Physicions say of the Migram-affected that in the violent fit of the passion they can abide 1. No noyse or lowd speech 2. Not cleare light 3. Not to drinke Wine 4. Nor almost to moue at all c. Our Braine-sicke Nouelist is described by such tokens 1. Lowd speech hee loues not except from his owne lippes All noise is tedious to him but his owne and that is most tedious to the companie Hee loues to heare himselfe talke out of measure He wonders that the senses of all his hearers doe not get vp into their eares to watch and catch his mysteries with attention and silence when as yet himself is more Non-resident from his theme then a discontinuer is from his charge 2. The cleere
some herbe of Grace an ounce of Patience as much of Consideration how often he giues God iust cause to be angry with him and no lesse of meditating how God hath a hand in Shimeies rayling that Dauid may not bee angry mixe all these together with faithfull confidence that God will dispose all wrongs to thy good hereof be made a pill to purge choler To conclude let reason euer be our Iudge though passion sometimes be our sollicitour Parit ira furorem Turpia verba furor verbis ex turpibus exit Ira ex hac oritur vulnus de vulnere lethum Wrath kindles fury fury sparkes foule words Those let out wounds and death with flaming swords Enuie a consumption Disease 4. ENuie fitly succeeds anger for it is nothing else but inueterate wrath The other was a franticke fit and this is a consumption a languishing disease in the body the beginning of dissolution a broching of the vessell not to be stopped till all the liquor of life is run out what the other tabe is in the body I list not to define by reason that this spiritual sicknesse is a consumption of the flesh also and a pining away of the spirits now since they both haue relation to the body their comparison would be confusion Enuie is the consumption I singularly deale withall which though I cannot cure I will hopefully minister to Cause THe cause of Enuie is others prosperitie or rather an euil eye shot vpon it The angry man hath not himself the enuious must haue no neighbour Hee battens at the maligneds misery and if such a man riseth he fals as if he were Planet-strucke I know not whether he could indure to be in Paradise with a superiour He hates to bee happy with any company Enuie sits in a mans eyes and wheresoeuer through those windowes it spyes a blessing it is sicknesse and death vnto it Inuidus petat a Ioue priuari vno oculo vt auarus quòd priuetur ambobus The enuious man would have happily one of his eyes put out as the couetous should lose both A Physician beeing asked what was the best helpe to the perspicuity of the eyes affirmed Enuy for that like a perspectiue glasse would make good things appeare great things Fertilior seges est alienis semper in agris Uicinumque pecus grandius vber habet He is euen quarrelling with God that his neighbours field beares better corne and thinkes himselfe poore if a neere dweller be richer Hee will dispraise Gods greatest blessings if they fall besides himselfe and grow sullen so farre as he dares with the Prince that shal promote a better deseruer There is no law perfect if hee was not at the making it Hee vndertakes a great worke and when hee cannot accomplish it hee will giue leaue to none other No man shall haue that glory which hee aspired and missed An Aesops dog in the manger because he can eate no hay himselfe hee will starue the horse Poyson is life to a Serpent death to a man and that which is life to a man his humidity and spettle they say is death to a Serpent the rancorous sustenance which a malicious man liues of is the misery and mischiefe to a good man and a good mans prosperous felicity is the malicious mans death God hath in iustice appointed it to be a plague to it selfe Among all mischiefes it is furnished with one profitable qualitie the owner of it takes most hurt Carpitque carpitur vna suppliciumque suum est vt Aetna seipsum Sic se non alios inuidus igne coquit The enuious is a man of the worst diet and like a strange Cooke shewes himselfe nay and conceates pleasure in pining so that his body at last hath iust cause to sue his soule on an action of dilapidations He finds fault with all things that himselfe hath not done He wakes whiles his enemie takes rest Parum est si ipse sit foelix nisi alter fuerit infoelix His affections are like lightning which commonly scorch the highest places He creepes like a Canker to the fairest flowers By putting in a superfluous syllable he hath corrupted one of the best words turning amorem into amarorem loue into bitternesse A Philosopher seeing a malicious man deiected asked him whether some euill had happened to himselfe or some good to his neighbour Signes and Symptomes THe Signes of this disease are giuen by the Poet. videt intus edentem Vipereas carnes vitiorum alimenta suorum Pallor in ore sedet macies in corpore toto Nunquam recta acies liuent rubigine dentes Pectora felle virent lingua est suffusa veneno A pale face without bloud and a leane body without any iuyce in it squint eyes black teeth a heart full of gall a tong tipp'd with poison Amazednes makes the face pale griefe drinkes vp the bloud looking on mens prosperitie makes the eyes squint and cursing the teeth blacke It were well for him on earth that he should dwell alone It is pittie hee should come into heauen for to see one starre excel another in glory would put him againe out of his wits I wonder when he is in hell whether hee would not still desire superiority in anguish to sit in the chaire though he receiue the more torments The enuious man is so crosse to God that he is sure of punishment hee hath in present one like to the nature of his offence For his sinne whereas GOD brings good out of euill hee brings euill out of good For his punishment whereas euen euill things worke together to the good of the good euen good things worke together to his euill All the happinesse lights on him that is enuied for it goes well with him with whom the malicious thinkes it goes too well Cure HIs Cure is hard euen as with a tabe in the body too much Physicke makes him worse Crosses are fitly called Gods physicke whereby if God will cure him hee must minister them to those hee hates Strange that one man should bee healed by giuing physicke to another Two simples may do him good if he could bee wonne to take them a scruple of content and a dramme of charity If these be giuen him well stirred in a potion of repentant teares he may be brought to wish himselfe well and others no harme and so be recouered Idlenesse the Lethargie Disease 5. IDlenesse in the soule is a dangerous disease as the Lethargie in the body The very name of Lethargie speakes the nature for it is compounded of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 forgetfulnesse and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 slothfull and so consequently is defined to be a dul obliuion The Idle man is a piece of base heauy earth moulded with muddy and standing water Hee lyes in bed the former halfe of the day deuising excuses to preuent the afternoones labour Hee cannot endure to doe any thing by himselfe that may be done by Attourney Hee forestalls perswasion inducing
him to any worke by forecasting the vnprofitablenesse he holds businesse mans cruellest enemie and a monstrous deuourer of time His body is so swolne with lazy humours that he moues like a tunne vpon two pottle pots Hee is tempted to couetice for no other reason but to bee able to keepe seruants whom hee will rather trust then step out to ouersee Neither summer nor winter scape the blame of his lazinesse in the one it is too hot in the other too colde to worke Summer hath dayes too long winter nights too cold hee must needes helpe the one with a nap at noone the other with a good fire He was very fit to be a Monke spare him an early masse and he will accept it yet howsoeuer he wil rather venture the censure then forsake a lazy calling Cause THe Cause of the Lethargie is abundant flegme ouermuch cooling the braine and therby prouoking sleep which putrified in the braine causeth a feuer The cause of Idlenesse is indulgence to the flesh a forgetfulnesse of the end of our creation a wilfull digression from man for the lazy wretch is a dormouse in an humane huske To man motion is naturall the ioints and eyes are made to moue and the mind is neuer asleep as if it were set to watch the body Sleepe is the image of death sayth the Poet and therefore the Church-sleeper is a dead corps set in his pew like a coffin as if the Preacher were to make his funerall Sermon He sings out haruest like the Grashopper therfore may at Christmas dance for and without his dinner He riseth at noone to breakefast which he falls to vnwashed and remoues not out of his chaire without a sleepe Whilst hee sleepes the enemy ouersowes the field of his heart with tares Hee is a patient subiect for the diuell to worke on a cushion for him to sit on and take his ease his miserie is that his damnation sleepeth not His bed is his hauen his heauen and sound sleepe his deitie The standing water stinkes with putrefaction And vertue hath no vertue but in action If he be detain'd vp late he lyes downe in his cloathes to saue two labours nothing shall make him bustle vp in the night but the house fired about his eares which escaping he lyes downe in the yard and lets it burne Hee should gather mosse for he 's no rolling stone In this hee is a good friend to his Countrey he desires no innouation he would scarse shift ground tenne leagues though from a cottage to a Mannour He is so loth to leaue the tap-house in winter that when all leaue him he makes bold with the chimney corner for his Parlour If euer in a â—â—gne hee lights vpon a humour to businesse it is to game to cheate to drinke drunk to steale c. and falls from doing nought to doe naughtily so mending the matter as you haue heard in the fable The diuell mended his dames legge wheÌ„ he shuld haue put it in ioint he brake it quite apieces Signes and Symptomes SYmptomes of the Lethargie are a great pulse beating seldome as if it were full of water a continuall pronenesse to sleepe that they are scarcely compelled to answer a question You may know a lethargicall Idle man by a neglected beard vnkemb'd hayre and vnwash'd face foule linnen cloathes vnbrushed a nasty hand smelling of the sheete an eye opening when the eare receiues your voice and presently shut againe as if both the organs were stiffe with excretions Hee hath a blowne cheeke a drawling tongue a leaden foote a brazen nose he gapes and gaspes so often that sometimes hee keepes his mouth open still as if he had forgotten to shut it Cure TO cure the Lethargicke there are required many intentions not without frictions scarifications sharpe odours and bloud-letting c. To cure the Idle it should more properly belong to Surgery then Physicke for there is no medicine like a good whip to let out his lazy bloud and a good dyet of daily labour which some skilfull Bedle must see him take put him into the bath at Bridewell to take away the numnesse of his ioynts and scowre off his rust and so he may be recouered Fac bene fac tua fac aliquid fac vtile semper Corrumpunt mores otia praua bonos The Dropsie and Couetousnes Causes Disease 6. PHysicians say that the Dropsie is an errour in the digestiue vertue in the liuer bred of the abundance of salt and waterish flegme with the ouer-feeding of raw and moist meates It is distinguished into three sorts Ascites Tympanites and Anasarca or Hyposarca Ascites is when betweene the filme called Peritonaeum which is the Caule that couers the Entrailes much watery humour is gathered Tympanites ariseth from windinesse and flatuous causes gathered into the foresaid places Hyposarca is when the humours are so dispersed through the whole body that all the flesh appeares moyst and spungy Our spirituall Dropsie couetousnesse is a disease bred in the soule through defect of faith and vnderstanding It properly resides in the inferiour powers of the soule the affections but ariseth from the errours of the superiour intellectuall facultie neither conceiuing aright of Gods all-sufficient helpe nor of the worlds all-deficient weakenesse Signes THe corporall Dropsie is easily knowne by heauinesse swelling puffing vp immoderate desire of drinke c. The spirituall likewise though it leanes the carkasse lards the conscience at least swels and puffes it vp and as if some hellish inflammation had scorched the affection it thirsts for Aurum potabile without measure The Couetous man is of Renodaeus his opinion that argentum plurimum valet ad cordis palpitationem siluer is good against the heart-panting The Wise man cals it a disease an euill disease and almost incurable The Couetous hath drunke the blood of oppression wrong from the veines of the poore and behold like an vndigestible receit it wambles in hisstomack he shal not feele quietnesse in his belly This is an epidemiall sickenesse Aurum omnes victa iam pietate colunt Religion giues riches and riches forgets religion Religio dat opes paupertas Religionem Diuitiae veniunt Religioque fugit Thus doe our affections wheele about with an vnconstant motion Pouertie makes vs Religious Religion rich and riches irreligious For as Pauperis est rogare so it should be Diuitis erogare Seneca wittily and truly Habes pecuniam vel teipsum vel pecuniam habeas vilem necesse est Hast thou money either thou must esteeme thy money vile or be vile thy selfe The Couetous man is like a two-legd Hog whiles he liues he is euer rooting in the earth and neuer doth good till he is dead like a vermine of no vse till vncased Himselfe is a Monster his life a riddle his face and his heart is prone to the ground his delight is to vex himself It is a question whether he takes more care to get damnation or to keepe it and so
Without law for it is rebellious without measure for it delights in extreames without reason for it doth all things with precipitation The proud man is bitten of the mad dogge the flatterer and hence runs on a garget Causes THe Pleurisie is caused of an abundance of hote blood flowing vnnaturally to the foresayd place or by the engendring of cold grosse and viscous humours gathered into the voyd place of the brest or into the lungs This spirituall disease ariseth from a blown opinion of ones selfe which opinion is either from ignorance of his owne emptinesse and so like a Tumbrell full of nothing but aire makes a greater sound then a vessell of precious liquour or from arrogance of some good which the owner knows too well He neuer lookes short of himselfe but always beyond the mark and offers to shoote further then he looks but euer fals two bowes short humilitie and discretion Signes and Symptomes THe Symptomes of the Pleurisie are difficult breathing a continuall Feuer a vehement pricking on the affected side The proud man is knowne by his gate which is peripateticall strutting like a new Church warden He thinkes himselfe singularly wise but his opinion is singular and goes alone In the company of good wits he fenceth in his ignorance with the hedge of silence that obseruation may not climbe ouer to see his follies He would haue his iudgment for wearing his apparell passe vnmended not vncommended Hee shifts his attire on some solemne day twice at least in twelue houres but cannot shift himselfe out of the Mercers bookes once in twelue moneths His greatest enuy is the next Gentlemans better clothes which if he cannot better or equallize he weares his owne neglected His apparell carries him to Church without deuotion and he riseth vp at the Creed to ioyne with the rest in confession not of his faith but his pride for sitting downe hides much of his brauery He feeds with no cheerfull stomake if he sit not at the vpper end of the table and be cald young master where he is cōtent to rise hungry so the obseruant company weary him with drinking to on this condition he giues his obligation for the shot Hee loues his lying glasse beyond any true friend and tels his credulous auditors how many Gentlewomen haue runne mad for him when if a base femall seruant should court him I dare wager he proues no Adonis If he were to die on the block as Byron he would giue charge for the composition of his lockes Pride PRide is of the feminine gender therefore the more intolerable in a masculine nature much Ciuet is vnsauory Nō bene olet quae bene semper olet She that breaths perfumes artificially giues her selfe to haue naturally corrupted lungs This woman hath neither her owne complexion nor proportion for she is both painted and poynted together She sits moderator euery morning to a disputatiō betwixt the combe and the glasse and whether concludes best on her beauty caries her loue and prayse Howsoeuer of men saith the Poet Forma viros neglecta decet Indeed there is no gracefull bahauiour like humilitie This fault is well mended when a man is well minded that is when he esteemes of others better then himselfe Otherwise a proud man is like the rising earth in montenous places this swels vp monte as he mente and the more either earth aduanceth it selfe perpetually they are the more barren Hee liues at a high saile that the puffy praises of his neighbors may blow him into the inchanted Iland vaineglory He shines like a Gloeworme in a darke village but is a crude thing when he comes to the Court. If the plethorie swels him in the veine of valour nothing but well-beating can hold him to a man If euer hee goes drunke into the field and comes off with a victorious parlee hee would swell to a sonne of Anak Cure THe Pleurisie is cured by drawing out some bloud frō the veine that hath relation to the affected part A Clister is very good together with some fomentations It is helped much by cupping I doe not meane drinking God prescribes the cure of Pride by precept and patterne Precept Humble your selues vnder the mighty hand of God the reason is giuen for God resisteth the proud and giueth grace to the humble Patterne Take my yoke vpon you and learne of me for I am meeke and lowly in heart and you shall find rest vnto your soules The Master is worth your hearing the lesson your learning the recompence your receiuing The cure hereof is hard for all vices are against humilitie nay all vertues are against humilitie as many are proud of their good deeds nay humilitie hath an opposition against humilitie as if she were false to her owne person Saepe homo de vanae gloriae contemptu vanus gloriatur so that often humility by a prodigious and preposterous birth brings forth pride Pride doth make a wise-man a foole cōtinues him a foole that is so the opinion of his owne wisedome excluding all opportune possibility of receiuing knowledge Powre precious iuice into a vessell full of base liquor and it runs besides That instruction is split which you offer to infuse into a soule so full of selfe affectation Many a man had proued wise if he had not so thought himselfe If the ayre of his pride bee inclosed in a baser bubble attire it is the more vile for the generation of his sinne is produced from the corruption of himselfe God made him a man he hath made himselfe a beast and now the Taylor scarce a man himselfe must make him a man againe a braue man a better man than euer Nature left him Thus he is like the Cynamon tree the bark is better then the body or some Vermine whose case is better then the carkase For his cure open his pleuriticke veine with the sacrificing knife of the Law and tell him that the cause of his pride is the effect of his sinne That wickednesse brought shame to nakednesse and apparell hides it whereof being proud he glories in his own halter Strip him of his gawdy clothes and put him in a Charnel house where he may reade visible lectures of mortality and rottennesse Palsey and timorous suspicion Disease 9. THe former sicke were Tumidi these are Timidi they were bold to all euill these are fearefull to all good The palsey is a disease wherein one halfe of the body is endamaged in both sense and mouing Of that disease which is called Paralysis Resolution or the dead palsey wherin somtimes sense alone is lost somtimes motion alone and somtimes both together perish I intend not to speake It is proportion considered more dangerous to the body then I would imagine this disease to be to the soule I would cōpare it to that corporal infirmity which Physicians call Tremorem and some vulgarly the palsey wherein there is a continuall shaking of the extremer parts somewhat aduerse to the dead
to the soule as the other is to the body yet is almost as deadly There may be some difference in the strength of opposition or length of obsession all similitudes run not like Coaches on foure wheeles they agree in this they both lie fast a sleepe the eyes of the ones body of the others reason shut and they are both wtihin two grones of death Cause THe cause of the Apoplexie is a flegmaticke humour cold grosse and tough which abundantly fils the ventricles of the braine The cause of Securitie is a dusking and clouding of the vnderstanding with the blacke humours and darke mists of selfe-ignorance a want of calling himselfe to a reckoning till he be non-suted Signes and Symptomes THe Signes of the corporall are more palpable then of the spirituall sickenesse The parish of his affections is extremely out of order because Reason his Ordinary doth not visite nor Memorie his Churchwarden present or if it at all Omnia bene Neither doth Understanding the Iudge censure and determine Hee keepes the chamber of his heart lock'd that meditation enter not and though it be sluttish with dust and cobwebs will not suffer repentance to sweepe it He looseth the fruit of all crosses and is so farre from breaking his heart at a little affliction that a sharpe twitch stirres him not Whereas a melting heart bleeds at the least blow he feeles not the sword drinking vp his bloud Most men sleepe nigh halfe their time he is neuer awake though the Sunne shines he liues in sempiternall night His soule lies at ease like the rich mans and is loth to rise Custome hath rocked him asleepe in the cradle of his sinnes and he sleepes without starting His Securitie is like Popery a thicke curtaine euer drawne to keepe out the light The Element hee liues in is mare mortuum He is a foolish Gouernour and with much clemency and indulgence nurseth rebellion neither dare he chide his affections though they conspire his death Hee is the Antitype to the fabulous Legend of the seuen Sleepers Policy may vse him as a blocke cannot as an engine Hee is not dangerous in a commonwealth for if you let him alone he troubles nobody Cure THe Cure of the Apoplexie is almost desperate If there be any helpe it is by opening both the Cephalica veines and this course speeds the patient one way Securitie if it sleepes not to death must be rung awake There are fiue bels that must ring this peale First Conscience is the Trebble and this troubles him a little when this bell strikes hee drownes the noyse of it with good fellowship But it sounds so shrill that at last it will be heard especially if God puls it Secondly Preaching is the Stint or the Certen to all the rest This is Aarons Bell and it must be rung loude to wake him for lightly he begins his nappe with the Sermon and when the parish is gone home hee is left in his seate fast asleepe yet this may at last stirre him Thirdly another Bell in this ring is the death of others round about him whom he accompanyes to the Church with a deader heart then the corps knowes he is gone to iudgement yet prouides not for his owne accounts at that Audite It may bee this spectacle and a mourning cloake may bring him to weepe Fourthly the oppressed Poore is a Counter-tenor and rings loude knels of mones grones and supplications either to him for his pitie or against him for his iniury If this bell so heauily tolling do not waken him it will waken God against him Their crie is come vp into the eares of the Lord of Hostes. Fifthly the Tenour or Bow-bell is the abused creatures the rust of the gold the stone out of the wall crying against the Oppressor the corne wine oyle against the Epicure Happily this peale may wake him If not there is yet another goade affliction on himselfe God cutting short his hornes that he may not gore his neighbours and letting him bloud in his riches lest being too ranke hee should grow into a surfet or casting him downe on his bed of sickenesse and there taking sleepe from his body because his soule hath had too much If neither the Peale nor the Goade can waken him God will shoote an Ordinance against him Death And if yet he dies sleeping the Archangels Trumpe shall not faile to rowse him Awake then thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall giue thee light Windinesse in the stomacke and vaine-glory Disease 16. INstation in the stomake hath some correspondence with vaine-glory in the soule a disease in either part of man ful of ventositie where all the humour riseth vp into froth Cause VVIndinesse is ingendred through flegmaticke humours in the stomake or through meates dissolued into vapours by deficiencie of kindely heate The cause of vaineglory is a vaporous windy opinion of some rare quality in himselfe which though it bee but an atomus he would blow like an Alchymist to a great masse But at last it either settles in a narrow roome or vanisheth into fome Signes and Symptomes SYmptomes of the corporall disease are a swelling of the stomake empty belchings much rumbling of wind in the bowels which offring to descend is turned backe againe You shall easily know a vaine-glorious man his own commendation rumbles within him till he hath bulked it out the aire of it is vnsauory In the field he is touching heauen with a launce in the street his eye is still cast ouer his shoulder He stands vp so pertly that you may know he is not laden with fruite If you would drinke of his wisedome knocke by a sober question at the barrell and you shall finde by the sound his wits are emptie In al companies like chaffe he will be vppermost hee is some surfet in natures stomake cannot be kept down A goodly Cipresse tree fertile only of leaues He drinks to none beneath the salt and it is his Grammar rule without exception not to conferre with an infetiour in publike His impudence will ouer-rule his ignorance to talke of learned principles which come from him like a treble part in a base voyce too bigge for it Liuing in some vnder-staire office when he would visite the countrey he borrowes some Gallants cast sute of his seruant and therein Player-like acts that part among his besotted neighbours When he rides his masters great horse out of ken hee vaunts of him as his owne and brags how much he cost him He feeds vpon others curtesie others meat and whether more either fats him At his Inne he cals for chiekens at spring and such things as cannot be had whereat angry he sups according to his purse with a red Herring Farre enough from knowledge he talkes of his castle which is either in the aire or inchanted of his lands which are some pastures in the Fairy-ground inuisible no where He offers to purchase Lordships but wants
money for earnest He makes others praises as introductions to his own which must transcend and cals for wine that hee may make knowne his rare vessell of deale at home not forgetting to you that a Dutch Marchant sent it him for some extraordinary desert He is a wōder euery where among fooles for his brauery among wisemen for his folly He loues an Herald for a new Coate and hires him to lye vpon his Pedigree All Nobility that is ancient is of his allyance and the Great man is but of the first head that doth not call him Cousin When his beames are weakest like the rising and setting Sunne hee makes the longest shadowes whereas bright knowledge like the Sunne at highest makes none at all though then most resultance of heat and reflection of light He takes great paines to make himselfe derisory yet without suspecting it both his speech and silence cries Behold mee He discommends earned worth with a shrugge and lispes his enforced approbation Hee loues humility in all men but himselfe as if hee did wish well to all soules but his owne There is no matter of consequence that Policy begets but he will be Gossip to and giue it a name and knowes the intention of all proiects before they be full hatched Hee hath somewhat in him which would bee better for himselfe and all men if he could keepe it in In his hall you shal see an old rusty sword hung vp which he swears killed Glendower in the hands of his Grandsire He fathers vpon himselfe some villanies because they are in fashion and so vilifies his credit to aduance it If a newe famous Courteghian be mentioned he deeply knowes her whom indeede he neuer saw He will be ignorant of nothing though it be a shame to know it His barrell hath a continual spigot but no tunnell and like an vnthrift he spends more then he gets His speech of himselfe is euer historicall histrionicall He is indeed admirations creature and a circumstantiall Mountebanke Cure FOr the cure of the corporall disease you must giue the Patient such medicines as diuide and purge phlegme with an extenuating dyet To cure this windy humour of vaine-glory S. Paul hath a sharpe medicine That his glory is in his shame Prescribe him that the free giuing all glory to God is the resultance of the best glory to man The counsell of both Law and Gospell meetes in this Let not the wise man glory in his wisedome nor the strong in his strength nor the rich in his wealth but let him that glorieth glorie in the Lord. That he hath nothing which is good that he hath not receiued and it is a shame for the Cisterne not to acknowledge the Fountaine That the praise of good deserts is lost by want of humilitie That there is none arrogant but the ignorant and that if hee vnderstood himselfe his conceited sea is but a puddle which euery iudicious obseruers plummet findes shallow and muddy That trafficking for the fraught of mens praises for his good worth Hee suffers shipwracke in the hauen and loseth his reward there where hee should receiue it The Itch or the Busy-body Disease 17. THe Itch is a scuruy disease a man would not think the soule had any infirmity to sample it You shall finde the humor of a Busie-body a contentious intermeddler very like it The Itch is a corrupt humour betweene the skin and the flesh running with a serpedinous course till it hath defiled the whole body Thus caused Cause NAture being too strong for the euill humours in the body packs them away to the vtter parts to preserue the inner If the humours be more rare and subtil they are auoided by fumosities and sweat if thicker they turne to a scabious matter in the skin some make this the effect of an inflamed liuer c. Signes and Symptomes IF this Itching curiositie take him in the Cephalica veine and possesse the vnderstanding part l e mootes more questions in an houre then the seuen Wise men could resolue in seuen yeeres There is a kinde of downe or curdle on his wit which is like a Gentle womans train more then needes Hee would sing well but that he is so full of Crochets His questions are like a plume of feathers which fooles wil giue any thing for wise-men nothing He hath a greater desire to know where Hell is then to scape it to know what God did before he made the world then what he will do with him when it is ended For want of correcting the garden of his inuentions the weedes choke the herbes and he suffers the skinne of his braine to boile into the broth He is a dangerous Prognosticator and propounds desperate riddles which he gathers from the coniunction of Planets Saturne and Iupiter from doubtfull Oracles out of the hollow vaults and predictions of Merlin He dreames of a cruell Dragon whose head must bee in England and taile in Ireland of a headlesse crosse of a popish curse And Our Lord lights in our Ladies lappe and therefoee England must haue a clappe But they haue broken day with their Creditors and the Planets haue proued honester then their reports gaue them Thus as Bion said of Astronomers he sees not the fishes swimming by him in the water yet sees perfectly those shining in the Zodiacke Thus if the Itch hold him in the theoricall part If in the practicall His actions are polypragmaticall his feete peripateticall Erasmus pictures him to the life He knowes what euery Marchant got in his voyage what plots are at Rome what stratagems with the Turke c. Hee knowes strangers troubles not the tumultuous fightings in his owne bosome c. His neighbours estate he knowes to a penny and wherein he failes he supplyes by intelligence from their flattered seruants he would serue well for an Informer to the Subsidie-book He delayes euery passenger with inquiry of newes and because the countrey cannot satiate him hee trauels euery terme to London for it whence returning without his full lode himself makes it vp by the way He buyes letters from the great citie with Capons which he weares out in three dayes with perpetuall opening them to his companions If he heares but a word of some State-act he professeth to know it the intention as if he had bene of the Counsell He heares a lie in priuate and hastes to publish it so one knaue guls him hee innumerable fooles with the strange Fish at Yarmouth or the Serpent in Sussex Hee can keepe no secret in without the hazzard of his button He loues no man a moment longer then either he will tell him or hears of him newes If the spirit of his tong be once raised all the company cannot coniure it downe He teaches his neighbor to work vnsent for and tels him of some dangers without thankes He comments vpon euery action and answers a question ere it be halfe propounded Alcibiades hauing purchasd a dog at an
knowes the other will fall to corruption of it selfe for the soule workes by motion the body but by action for the soules seruant Now sathan was euer ambitious and will not care for the waiting Maide if he may get the mistresse or vseth the other but for his better conueyance and insinuation to this And because it beares the narrow portraiture and image of that Creator hee emulates this he seekes the more violently to deface Let the body enioy the light and warmth of the Sunne so hee can enwrap this in the cold clouds of darke night A darke night indeed wherein many soules do liue hauing the little windowes or loope-holes of reason shadowed by the curtaines of fleshly lusts Night is a sad heauy and vncomfortable time to the vnresting body a nurse of anguished thoughts at whose dugges sorrows and dreames lie continually sucking thinking euery houre an Olympiade till the Sunne ariseth so is the soules darkenesse if securitie hath not rocked asleepe and custome which is the apoplexy of bed-rid nature and wicked life obstupefied her an vnquiet turbulent and peacelesse time with such hurrying tempests within that the body tumbles vpon a soft bed and after many experienced shiftings findes no ease There be three things say Physicians that grieue the body First the cause of sicknesse a contranatural distemper which lightly men bring on themselues though the sediments rest in our sinne-corrupted nature Secondly sickenes it selfe Thirdly and the coincidents that either fellow it or follow it In the soule there be three grieuances First originall prauitie a naturall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 procliuitie to euil contradiction to good Secondly actuall sinne the maine sicknesse Thirdly and the concomitant effects which are punishments corporall and spirituall temporall and eternall For all sinne makes worke either for Christ or Sathan for Christ to expiate by his bloud and the efficacie of that once performed euer auailable passion or for the diuell as Gods executioner to plague Many remedies are giuen for many diseases the sum is this the best Physician is Christ Iesus the best Physicke the Scriptures Ply the one fly to the other let this teach thee he must cure thee that expresse image of his Fathers person and brightnesse of his glory in whom the graces of God shine without measure oft haue you seene in one heauen many starres behold in this Sonne as in one starre many heauens for in him dwelleth all fulnesse let vs flye by our faithful prayers to this Physician and intreate him for that medicine that issued out of his side water and bloud to cure all our spirituall maladies Fusus est sanguis medici vt fiat medicamentum aegroti And when in mercy he hath cured vs let our dyet be a conuersation led after the canon of his sacred Truth that whatsoeuer become of this fraile vessell our flesh floting on the waues of this world the passenger our Soule may bee saued in the day of the Lord Iesus Amen FINIS Bellar. in praes Tom. 1. Controu 2. Thes. 2. 7. Decad. lib. 1. Esay 64. 6. Iames 3. 2. Esay 1. 5. 6. Non ego cuncta meis amplecti versibus opto Iohn 10. 1. 2. King 4. 19. Esay 19. 14. Galen Ierem. Esay 36 10. Insanit cum aliena nequit sua pectora rodit Basil. In potestate nihil nisi potestatem respicere Psal. 103. 8. De ira lib. 1. cap. 22. Ira forti producit lacertes imbelli linguam Esay 57. 20. Sen. de ira Lib. 1. Cap. 1. Sen. de ira Lib. 1. Cap. 28. Ouid. Feriunt summos fulgura montes Met. 2. Du Bart. Eccles. 6. 2. Curans quasi corvrens Auarus quasi auidus aeris Acts 8. 1. Tim. 6. 10 De Senect So did a wretched corne-hoorder Prodigus non habebit sed auarus non habet Si quem diuitem efficere voles non est quod opes augeas sed tollas cupiditatem Eph. 5. Lomb. Polychron lib. 5. cap. 10. Aug de ciuit lib. 22. cap. 30. 1. Tim. 6. 9. 10. 11. 17. Moral par 2. Populus me si bulat at mih plaudo ipse domi Hor. Psal. 15. Ierom. Amor. 1. Pet. 5. 6. Mat. 11. 29. Eccles. 11. 4. Luke 11. 13. 2. Tim. 2. 3. Iam. 3. 17. 1. Cor. 13. 5. Esa. 8. 12. 13 Psa. 125. 1. Iuuen. Sat. 2. Esa. 14. 14. Mat. 5. 3. Luk. 1. 48. Mat. 5. 6. Hor. Deut. 23. 17 Owen Epigr. Amor. 1. Psal. 7. 9. Owen Epig. Ieron 1. Cor. 6. 8. 1. Thes. 4. 3. Confes. lib. 8. cap. 12. Rom. 13. 13. 1. Cor. 7. Heb. 13. 4. Psal. 83. 12. Uerse 13. Hieron ad Celant Tom. 1 fol. 109. Ier. 4. 14. Mant. Eccl. 11 9. Luk. 15. 13. Psal. 12. 4. Luke 16. 2. Phil. 3. 19. Luk. 12. Iam. 5. 4. Ecl. 5. 14. Phil. 3. 19. Ier. 9. 23. 1. Cor. 10 17. Chryshom 24 ad pop Ant. Enchirid. mil. Chan. Laert. mille drachm Act. 26. 24 Deut. 29. 29 Prou. 6. 19. Gen. 49. 7. Senee de ira lib. 2. cap. 3 4. Pro. 24. 24. Verse 25. Rom. 16 18. Mat. 15. 32. Heb. 10. 36. Phil. 2. 12. 2. Pet. 1. 10. Reu. 2. 3. Mat. 24. 13. 2. Thes 3. 13 Gala. 6. 9. Esa. 28. 12. Iâ—b 1. 3. Colos. 1. 19.