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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00777	Diseases of the soule a discourse diuine, morall, and physicall. By Tho. Adams.	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1616 (1616)	STC 109; ESTC S100388	50,627	84

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

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 ●●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 whē 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