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A11070	The diseases of the time, attended by their remedies. By Francis Rous	Rous, Francis, 1579-1659.	1622 (1622)	STC 21340; ESTC S107870	133,685	552

Vice flyes maynly at the face of this Image and seekes to scratch it out of the soule and so to leaue man as base and dishonorable as the Beasts whome man despiseth most So is this excesse a notable kinde of murder for it kils that which is indeed the man euen Reason and Vnderstanding And as it is thus contrary to the Creation by defacing that Image of God which the Creation planted in vs so it is also contrary to Regeneration and the recouery of that decayed Image So is it a murder of the second Adam in vs as well as of the first euen a murde● of life eternall The new man saith Paul is created in knowledge and true holinesse but drunkennes it is a foule word and an honest eare is troubled with the sound of it quencheth the shining Lampe of knowledge and the spirituall fire of holinesse and leaues the soule of man as den of darkenesse and vncleannesse It thrusts a finger into the very eye of the soule euen the vnderstanding and puts it out and it leaues such a drosse and muddinesse on the will that it growes base and downward the fiery mountings of the spirit being quenched by the fogs and cloudes of moysture Namque affigit hums diuinae particulam Aurae Such lamentable effects of excesse you shal ordinarily see in these thirsty men or men-fishes for their life is only in liquido they haue commonly rebated and dull vnderstandings and base grosse and muddy affections They loue base company base places and base courses But if it be not yet odious enough behold the Monster it selfe as you go in the streets for you can hardly misse him and that will best affright you A certaine thing it is that perchance was lately a man but now hath nor soul nor body That little mouth of his hath swallowed downe his whole selfe he is intombed in his owne bowels and that which is buried in him is his Sepulchre Hee is now only Belly Foolishnesse and Sicknesse his panch hath buried the Wine and in the Wine is his wit buried his soule his hands his feet and perchance his last wealth Thete can be nothing sayd of him now but that hee is a meere Caske the shell of wine yet worse then that a Caske that marres the Wine and it selfe is marred by it You may strike him if yee will he feeles it not for he is dead as well as buried and whosoeuer would speake with him he must stay till hee come home for the drinke hath turned him out of doores But to what end doe I cast away my words If I speake to such a one I speake to the dead and how can hee heare And if I speake to the liuing He is not such and hee hath no need of my speaking Surely I will here take vp the saying of Salomon of the other generall death That it is good to see the house of death because the liuing shall lay it to his heart So though I haue small hope of the dead in excesse A Lazarus of that kinde being very seldome raysed vnto life yet let the liuing behold this house of death and hee may lay it to his heart Let those that stand by the falne take heed least they fall Let the vglinesse which they see abhorre in others make them striue not to bee that which they doe abhorre Beware of Wine because it tempts to excesse and therefore handle it with feare I speake now chiefly to them that excuse themselues by being ouertaken because it hath a sting in it But especially beware of excesse for without this sting the wine will hurt thee Be an equall Iudge betweene thy taste and thy whole selfe euen thy body thy soule yea Grace the soule of thy soule Bee not partiall to thy base sensuality but rather ●● thy selfe and fauour those excellent things Gods Grace thy owne soule and bodie Abate that which would abat● thee and lose any thing rather then thy selfe A third dehortatiue is th● consideration of persons for the persons whom hee dehorteth are men and Christians and such of all other it worst becommeth A Swine o● a Heathen or a Heathens fellow a Swa●geret it becomes somewhat kindly But men of vnderstanding seruants members of Christ Iesus it fits by no meanes yea it is a miserable incongruity A man that hath some remnant of Gods Ima●e yea which is more that hath Gods Image renued in him yea is bought and brought to the wearing of this Image by the preciou● bloud of the Sonne of God that such a one should defile and deface Gods Image in himselfe this is a great absurditie Therefore hee coniureth them by their Manhood and by their Christanity that they would not put on this wilfull madnes by which both Manhood and Christianitie may be lost Christ hath dyed for thee doe not spoyle him with thy drinke for whom Christ dyed Doe not thou defile with thy Wine that which Christ hath washed with his bloud and where Christ indured so great a paine as accompanyed the shedding of his bloud and nayling on the Crosse for thy saluation doe not thou shed thy Wine vpon thy selfe to procure thy owne damnation Surely thou preferrest Wine before the bloud of Christ and before the Spirit of Christ. Thou art not a Christian but a Gadaren or rather the Hogge of the Gadarens now in carrying by the Deuill into the Deepe if thou preferre a Swinish pleasure before the most precious bloud of the Sauiour of the World Therefore behold thy dignity and that may suffice thee Thou art elect according to the fore-knowledge of God by the sprinkling of the bloud of Christ and the sanctification of the Spirit and is there a greater excellencie then this to bee a sonne of God so freely elected so preciously redeemed so diuinely sanctified And now put this filthinesse by the side of it a lothsome and odious comparison I confesse but profitable by the lothsomenesse and can any man indure to loose the Trinity that hee may gaine Sensuality to leaue to be a Saint that hee may be a Beast to lose Heauen that he may gaine Hell Me thinkes a man had neede bee drunke before-hand in this case to make a choice of Drunkennesse And now Paul passeth from the Vice to the Remedie An admirable fit and soueraigne Remedie as which helpeth it three wayes First by a contrariety for cures are most commonly by contraries and as excessiue wine hath bin shewed to be contrary to the spirit so is the spirit to it Secondly by a conformitie with it but excelling it and so the eminence of it calleth vs away from that which is meaner to that which is more precious as the offer of gold calls vs from siluer or brasse Thirdly by a priuiledge wherein it differs from it as not hauing the danger of wine which is excesse for there is no excesse in the spirit but excesse is a vertue in it and the greater measure the more comm●ndation Now

earnest with his Soule much lesse in sober sadnesse but hee liues in ●est and in summe is of a festiuall Religion But with him though against him appeares a Melancholist the ruggednesse of whose browes shewes the roughnesse of his Religion His Complexion is fed by a sad sowre and harsh humour and accordingly his Religion consists all of terrour censuring seuerity cutting and paring much binding with little or no loosing He thinks a sowre countenance is the very Visage of Religion and not to be like any that are many is the true difference of a Christian Hee hates forme and beleeues Religion must haue nothing but substance hee is himselfe a soule almost without a body and hee would haue all the Church to be like him Hee is full of scruples and therefore both seekes and findes many faults where are none and is so iealous of abuses that hee is ready to forbid all vses for feare of abuses Hee is exceeding querulous and therefore more apt to complayne for supposed Corruptions then to thanke God for reall Reformation is more troubled with a little spot on a finger then hee is cheered with the comlinesse of a whole Face With Superstition hee hates Superstition yea sometimes he nourisheth it by hating it For his hatred of Superstition continues the memory of diuers Superstitions which if his opposition did not make knowne they had beene most quietly confuted by Forgetfulnesse Besides he is filled with Superstition by a swarme of strange and extrauagant Imaginations By them hee sometimes sees Visions receiues Reuelations and approcheth to an Anabaptist or a Seraphim like Bonauenture This he doth if his Melancholy be lightsome but if it bee wholly darke then hee is nothing but feare euery Atome is a Mountaine and hee falls into Iudaicall scruples of touching tasting and handling And now these two being brought together though the Melancoly man will hardly bee drawne into Company you shall be sure to see a combate in these also The Sanguine man tells the Melancolicke of faction separation and pride and sayes he is like the Pharisie that iustified himselfe and despised others Hee tells him his name is Stand farther off which if hee sayes because hee thinkes that he is holyer then others He accuseth him of malice and spitefulnesse and sayes that Loue is much decayed since these pure Gospellers came vp He hates him as the Enemy of Mirth yea the enemy of Life for hee holds him a walking dead-man and doubts hee seekes to make others as dead as himselfe Therefore hee shuns him as he shuns Death and is resolued to forsake any Religion or Saluation that is of his Complexion On the other side the Melancolicke counts the Sanguine for a Reprobate and his titles for him are Good-fellow and Carnall Gospellers He tells him the Loue which hee talkes of is not Charitie but a brotherhood in Iniquitie and that such Vnity is but a conspiracy of the Wicked not a Communion of Saints He taxeth him for being merry with Sin and for pretending the furtherance of spirituall vertues by fleshly liberties wherein God is offended that hee may bee pleased Briefly he accounts the Sanguine but a man of this World and he accounts himselfe to be none of the World Because the Sanguine is of the World therefore the Melancolicke thinkes it fit to hate him because he hath vndertaken not to loue the World and because himselfe is not of the World therfore he thinks it fit to be hated of the world and in this word World hee includeth the Sanguine Thus doe these diuers Complexions afflict one another and each one thinkes that Religion is on his side and Irreligion on the other and that with Religion he batters and assaults Irreligion whereas in deed it is Humour that fights with Humour Complexion with Complexion the Flesh with the Flesh. And because the one Humour finds faults and perchance true ones in the other therefore hee condemnes him bodily and approoues himselfe securely because hee is contrary to him For hee thinkes that his contrariety to Vice must needs be a Vertue But the whiles hee sees not that Vices haue a great contrariety betweene themselues and therefore a Vice may fall out with a Vice Prodigality with Couetousnesse Dulnesse with Impatience Dissolutenes with hidebound Seuerity Therefore we ought to looke wherewith it is that wee resist Vice as to bee sure that it is Vice which wee doe resist For a Vice is an euill medicine for a Vice and a beame in thine owne eye is a bad help to take out the mote of anothers eye Yet this is mans Infirmity the same blindnesse which can see nothing in our selues will perceiue much in others and the same Humour which preiudiceth vs to iudge our selues makes vs strong and confident Iudges of others And this doth euery Humour in his Turne for euery one will take on it some worke in Religion but especially Choler and Melancoly are busiest the one in practicall busi-headednesse which often tends in their opinion to a holy sedition and a religious schisme and the other in speculatiue conceits scruples and apprehensions in the abundance whereof they seeke faults and are willing to finde them and by the preiudice of that willingnesse find some where are none they cal a whole Church to the Barre and their priuate speculations must be the lawes of her tryall and if some word or action bee capable of two senses a good and a bad they arrest the Church vpon suspicion that the bad sense is hers and not the good And both these Humors get themselues often much glory among the Vulgar the Melancoly man for deadnesse being thought guilty of Mortification and the Cholericke for his vehemence being accused of Zeale Yea these and the rest of their fellowes are often in a mixture according to the variety whereof hapneth an infinite change of conceits and affections in Religion Neyther is this to be found in one Church alone but no doubt it workes in all Churches all Churches being made of men and all men hauing different Complexions There are no doubt elswhere molles rigidi easie and rough Professors Phlegmatick and Sanguine Cholericke and Melancolicke If you will goe aside with Saint Iohn into the Wildernesse of Contemplation and behold the great Harlot of the World the Church of Rome you shall see the diuers operations of these different Complexions The Woman her selfe that sits on the Beast euen the Heads and Managers of that Tyranny are of a sanguine and scarlet Complexion They haue turnd Diuinity into an Art and Mysterie of purchasing pleasures honors and dignities And thence she beares this Motto I sit as a Queene and shall see no sorrow For Choler repayre to the Iesuite a man of an actiue and busie heat full of dissignes and trauailes and if the craft of his Choler doe not effect his proiects the mischieuousnesse of it shall and then hee sheds the bloud of Warre in the time of Peace His