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A17310	The anatomy of melancholy vvhat it is. VVith all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, and seuerall cures of it. In three maine partitions with their seuerall sections, members, and subsections. Philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened and cut vp. By Democritus Iunior. With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse.	Burton, Robert, 1577-1640.	1621 (1621)	STC 4159; ESTC S122275	978,571	899

therefore no rebellious conversation can so exalt it selfe but it may be subdued The oyle of God is upon them and what can the greatest Rebels doe against the power of the King But secondly withall here is terror to wicked men For this is the priviledge onely of the godly and it is certaine that wicked men are in Gods account as base as the godly are honourable they are thrust besides these thrones And so are both sorts of wicked men for not only openly profane men are to be smitten with this terrour but also hypocrites It is true indeed that hypocrites act the parts of Kings but they are onely such Kings as Players are upon a stage they speake of the words or the words of Kings but are not so indeed For they are by the wiser and better sort accounted as Rogues and the scum of the people even so are wicked men in Gods account neither will their outward shewes helpe them For the Kingdome of God is tried not by words but by the power of it 1 Cor. 4.20 And withall unruly Christians may be hence checked such as will not be ruled by their teachers such were the Corinthians they reigned without Paul and their godly teachers But the Apostle wisheth they were indeed Kings or did indeed reigne Why bearest thou the name of a King and canst not rule thy passions Thirdly divers uses for instructions may be hence gathered for First we should hence learne to honour poore Christians they are spirituall Kings as well as the kings of the earth And we know what a stirre we would make to entertaine the Kings of this world Iam. 2.5 Secondly we should hence bee stirred up in desire after this Kingdome to pray for it that it may come and that God would count us worthy of such a Kingdome Matth. 6. 2 Thess. 1.5 And to this end we should looke to two things First that we seeke this Kingdome first above all other things Mat. 6. Secondly that we should refuse no paines nor hardship for the entertainment of true godlinesse This Kingdome of Heaven should suffer violence and the violent onely will take it by force Mat. 11.12 It is an easie thing for Iohn to be a partner in the patience of the brethren when hee is a partner with them in the Kingdome of Jesus Christ Revel 1.9 It is no great thing men can suffer if we consider it is for a Kingdome and the want of outward things should the lesse trouble us if God make us so rich in spirituall things Thirdly we should hence especially learne to live in this world like Kings and this Christians should shew First by declaring their conquest over the passions and desires of their own hearts It is a royall quality in a Christian to be able to shew all meeknesse of minde and temper and sobriety in being able to deny unto himselfe what may not be had without sinne or offence Hee that winnes the conquest over his owne heart is greater than he that winnes a City Secondly putting on the Lord Jesus The righteousnesse of Christ is the robe of a Christian and since all the life of a Christian is a high feast hee should alwaies put on his robe to distinguish him from all other men and this righteousnesse is both the impured righteousnesse of Christ as also the inherent vertues of Christ. Thirdly by serving the publike Kings are the common treasure of the subjects they are appointed for the good of many Christians and should shew that they remember that they are Kings by devoting themselves to all possible profitablenesse of conversation Fourthly by their contentation What should they feare or what should discontent them Hath no● God given them a Kingdome and great glory Fifthly by subduing carnall and servile feares of men Why should Christians feare the faces of great men on earth are they not spirituall Kings themselves and is not the breath in the nostrils of the greatest men on earth why art thou then afraid to come before them c. Priest-hood The fourth thing for which Christians are commended is their Priest-hood which notes the honour of their imployment in things that concerne God and his service Es● 61.6 Rev. 1.6 c. Now the Priest-hood of Christians is a singular priviledge if we first either consider the kindes of Priest-hood or secondly the specialties of their calling and imployment First for the kinde The Priest-hood of Christians is better than the Priest-hood of the Levites the sonnes of Aaron because it is a royall Priest-hood they are Priests after the order of Melchizedeck as Christ himselfe was in which order every Priest was a King so were none of the sonnes or house of Aaron Secondly and for the specialties of favour imported in the Priest-hood of Christians divers prerogatives are included in it For first the Priest-hood of a Christian imports separation and consecration to God The godly of all the people in the world are the only people that are devoted to God chosen out of all the world as his portion as the Levites were out of all Israel Secondly it imports neernesse constancie of communion with God The Priests lived in Gods house and stood alwaies before the Lord dwelt in his presence and did approach neerer to him than all the people else so do the godly spiritually They onely dwell in his sight and enjoy his speciall presence and see the glory of his presence and have their soules satiated with fatnesse arising from the comfort of Gods favourable presence Ier. 31.14 Uses Now the consideration of this excellent Priest-hood of Christians should serve first for consolation secondly for instruction and thirdly for great reproofe First it should much comfort godly and carefull Christians to consider how neere God hath placed them to himselfe even in his chamber of presence as it were and how meanly soever the world doth account of their service yet they hence know that their Priest-hood is a royall Priest-hood and the godly imployments of religious men are more honourable than the greatest imployments of the greatest Monarchs of the earth and withall it may specially comfort fearfull Christians against one scrup●e They sometimes are afraid to goe into Gods presence or they doubt their accesse they are so unworthy to come before the Lord. Why this word Priest-hood should satisfie them For it imports that they are priviledged by their calling to come before God The Priests might enter into the house of the Lord yea they must doe it it was required of them it was a sinne if they did it not and they did not sinne by doing it Secondly the Priest-hood of Christians should put them in mind of divers duties as First it should worke in them a care of knowledge the Priests should preserve knowledge and they should seeke the Law at his mouth A godly Christian should bee able to direct others and hold forth the light of the Word for the profit of others and as dumbe Ministers

all worke together for the best Rom. 8.28 Sixthly the entertainment which God gives unto his servants in the meanes of communion with God For when we meet with God familiarly and continue in his ordinances that is an infallible signe and note of Election as when a man findes constantly the pleasures of Gods house Psal. 65.4 power and much assurance in hearing the Word 1 Thess. 1.4 5. an inward sealing up of the comforts of the covenant in receiving of the Sacraments testified by the secret and sweet refreshing of the heart in the time of receiving the conscience being comforted in the forgivenesse of sinnes past Matth. 26.28 an answer and assurance that God hath heard our prayers and beene with us in his service Ioh. 15.15 16. and the like Use 2. The second use should be to worke in us a care to live so as may become the knowledge remembrance and assurance of our Election and so wee shall doe First if we stirre up our hearts to a continuall praising of God for his rich and free grace herein Ephes. 1.3 6. Secondly if we strive to joy and glory in it continually Psal. 106.5 6. Thirdly if we love one another Ioh. 15.17 and chuse as God chuseth Eph. 1.4 not despising the poorest Christian Iam. 2.5 Fourthly if we set up the Lord to be our God to love him with all our heart and to serve him and in all things to shew our selves desirous to please him and to be resolved to please him and his truth and to his glory c. Deut. 26. Esay 44.1 5. Fifthly if we confirme our selves in a resolution to have no fellowship with the unfruitfull workes of darkenesse nor to suffer our selves to be unequally yoaked but since God hath chosen us out of the world to keepe our selves from needlesse society with wicked men Sixthly if we continue in the Word and be patient in afflictions and shew contentations in all estates as knowing that it is our Fathers pleasure to give us a Kingdome Luk. 12.32 and that all shall worke together for the best Rom. 8.28 and that the very haires of our heads are numbred Matt. 10. and that nothing can be laid to our charge to condemne us Rom. 8.33 and that God will never cast away his people whom before he knew Rom. 11.2 because his foundation remaineth sure and hee knoweth who are his 2 Tim. 2.19 Seventhly if we strive to live without blame and offence that God may no way suffer dishonour for our sakes Eph. 1.4 Thus of the election The next thing by which they are commended is their kinred and generation This word generation signifies sometimes an age or succession of men or so many men as live in the world in the age of one man so one generation passeth and another commeth c. Eccles. 1. Sometimes it signifies a progeny or off-spring that is so many as doe descend out of the loines of such a one as the generation from Abraham to David Mat. 1. Sometimes it signifies a kinred or stocke and so not onely carnall but spirituall and thus wicked men are said to be an adulterous and untoward generation Mat. 12.39 faithlesse and perverse Mat. 17.17 so it is no priviledge to be one of that generation but we are called upon to save our selves from this untoward generation Mat. 12.40 so that it is a priviledge to be one of this sort or kinred They are the generation of vipers Mat. 3. Now there is another kind of spirituall alliance and that is it whereby all Christians are a-kin one to another through the blood of Christ as they all descend of the second Adam and of this it is that the Prophet speaketh Esay 53.8 when admiredly he faith of Christ Who can tell his generation And thus the godly are begotten of the best blood in the world because they are begotten of the blood of Christ Ioh. 1.13 The doctrine then is That godly men are the happiest men in the world in respect of their kinred and alliance None come of so good a kinred as godly Christians which may appeare by divers reasons First because they descend of the best blood being the generation of Christ the second Adam and so are better borne than they that can tell of their great Nobility and Blood both by the fathers and mothers side Ioh. 1.13 Secondly because they are a chosen picked chilren or kinred all the kinred culled out of all mankind and so is no kinred in the world For in all other kinreds are all sorts of persons to be found good and bad vertuous and vicious but of this kinred are none but good Thirdly because the whole kinred is royall they enjoy all great preferments whereas there be few kinreds in the world but there are some poore in it but this generation hath not one poore man in it all the kinred are Kings Fourthly because all are fit for imployment all the kinred are Priests and can sacrifice which was not true of the very Tribe of Levi. There is not one Christian but he can perform the worke of the Priesthood doth in his order Fifthly because there are so many of the kinred The meanest Christian is a-kinne to all the Saints in heaven and to all the godly in earth or on earth and there is no kinred in the flesh that can attaine to the like number of kinsfolkes in any degree of comparison worth the speaking of Sixthly because they are all accepted into high favour with the King of Kings Though a King on earth out of his love to one person would do much for many of his kinred yet it is never seen that all the kinred universally are preferred and entertained into speciall favour with the King yet so it is with all the godly it is true of all of every one that they are his peculiar treasure Seventhly because all our kinred will doe for us there is none of them but are able to pleasure us whereas in carnall kinred one may bee a-kinne to so great persons that they will do nothing for them Eightly because other kinred may and will die and leave us but all this generation lives for ever Uses The consideration whereof may serve for divers reasons First hence godly Christians may gather comfort against the best of their kinred in the flesh whether they be lost by displeasure or by death for God here makes a supply of better kinred It should not therefore be grievous to the godly to forsake their fathers house Psal. 45. Secondly hence we should learne how to esteeme of godly Ministers for hereby is implyed that they are the Fathers and Princes of the Tribes in this holy Nation Thirdly it should teach us many duties concerning the godly to whom we are allied First to study our genealogie and get the knowledge of as many of our kinred as we can Secondly to glory in our kinred to joy in our happinesse herein Thirdly to do all good we