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A02265 Mystical bedlam, or the vvorld of mad-men. By Tho: Adams Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653. 1615 (1615) STC 124; ESTC S100419 52,572 90

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MYSTICAL BEDLAM OR THE WORLD OF Mad-Men BY THO ADAMS 2. TIMOTH 3. 9. Their Madnesse shall be manifest to all men AVGVSTIN de Trinit Lib. 4. cap. 6. Contrarationem nemo sobrius LONDON Printed by George Purslowe for Clement Knight and are to be sold at his shoppe in Paules Church-yard at the Signe of the Holy Lambe 1615. TO THE RIGHT Honourable Sir THOMAS EGERTON Knight Baron of Ellesmere Lord high Chancellor of England one of his Maiesties right Hon. Priuy Counsell the true Patterne of vertue and Patron of good Learning RIght Honourable it is a labor that hath neyther recompence nor thanks to tell them their madnesse that faine would thinke themselues sober Hauing therefore presumed not to trouble the peace but to disquiet the security of our Israel I durst not but aspire to some noble Patronage that might shield both my selfe and labours from the blowes of all maleuolent Censurers In which thoughts I was bolde to center my selfe in your Honour as the indiuiduall point of my refuge wherein I haue beene taught the way by more worthy precedents your Honourable Name hauing long stoode as a communis terminus or Sanctuary of protection to the labours and persons of many Students The vn-erring hand of God hath placed your Lordship in the Seate of Iustice and Chaire of Honour especially if it be true what S. Hieron sayes that Sūma apud Deū nobilitas clarū essevirtutibus wherby you haue power oportunity to whet the edge of vertue with encouragements to giue vice the iust retribution of deserued punishments Happy influences haue beene deriued from you sitting as a Star in the Star-Chamber conscionable mitigations of the Lawes rigour in the Court of Chancery To punish whē you see cause is not more Iustice then Mercy Iustice against the offender Mercy to the Common-wealth Those punishments are no other then actual Physick ministred to the Inheritance Liberty Body to the bettring of the Conscience and sauing of the soule in the day of the Lord Iesus Behold my pen hath but writtē after the originall Copy of your Honors actions desiring rather to learne by your doings how to say then to teach you by my sayings how to do I haue spoken God knowes with what successe to these mad times and he that would bind the franticke though hee loues him angers him The detector of mens much-loued sins needs a Protector that is both good great I am sure my eleciō is happy if it shal please your Honor to cast the eye of acceptance on my weake labors A yong plant may thriue if the Sunne shall warme it with his beames That Sunne of righteousnes that hath sauing health vnder his wings shine for euer on your Lordship who hath been so liberal a fauorer to his Church among the rest to his vnworthiest seruant and Your Honours in all duety and thankefull obseruance bounden THO ADAMS Mysticall Bedlam OR THE WORLD OF MAD-MEN The first Sermon ECCLESIASTES CAP. 9. VER 3. The heart of the Sonnes of men is full of euill and madnesse is in their heart while they liue and after that they goe to the dead THe Subiect of the discourse is Man and the speech of him hath three Poynts defined and confined in the Text. 1. His Comma 2. his Colon 3. his Period 1. Mens harts are full of euill there 's the Comma 2. Madnesse is in their hearts whiles they liue there 's the Colon. 3. whereat not staying after that they goe downe to the dead And there 's their Period The first beginnes the second continues the third concludes their Sentence Here is Mans setting forth his peregrination and his iourneyes end 1. At first putting out His heart is full of euill 2. Madnesse is in his heart all his peregrination whiles they liue 3. His iourneyes end is the Graue He goes to the dead First Man is borne from the wombe as an arrow shotte from the Bow 2. His flight through this ayre is wilde and full of madnesse of indirect courses 3. The Center where he lights is the Graue First his Comma beginnes so harshly that it promiseth no good consequence in the Colon. 2. The Colon is so madde and inordinate that there is smal hope of the Period 3. When both the premises are so faulty the Conclusion can neuer be handsome Wickednes in the first proposition Madnes in the second the Ergo is feareful the conclusion of all is Death So then 1. the beginning of Mans race is full of euill as if hee stumbled at the thresshold 2. The further hee goes the worse Madnes is ioyn'd Tenant in his heart with life 3. At last in his franticke flight not looking to his feet hee drops into the pitte goes downe to the dead To beginne at the vppermost stayre of this graduall descent the Comma of this tripartite sentence giues mans heart for a vessell Wherein obserue 1. The Owners of this vessell men and deriuatiuely the sonnes of men 2. The vessell it selfe is earthen a Potte of Gods making and mans marring the Heart 3. The Liquor it holds is Euill a defectiue priuatiue abortiue thing not instituted but destituted by the absence of originall Goodnes 4 The measure of this vessels pollution with euill liquour It is not said sprinckled not seasoned with a moderate and sparing quantity It hath not an aspersion nor imbution but impletion it is filled to the brimme full of euill Thus at first putting forth we haue Man in his best member corrupted 1. The Owners or Possessors Sonnes of men Adam was called the sonne of God Luk. 3. Enos was the sonne of Seth Seth the sonne of Adam Adam the son of God But all his posterity the sonnes of men wee receyuing from him both flesh and the corruption of flesh yea and of soule too though the substance thereof be inspired of God not traduced from man for the purest soule becomes stain'd and corrupt when it once toucheth the body The sonnes of men This is a deriuatiue and diminutiue speech whereby mans conceit of himselfe is lessened and himselfe lessoned to humility Man as Gods creation left him was a goodly creature an abridgement of heauen and earth an Epitome of God and the world resembling God who is a Spirit in his Soule and the World which is a Body in the composition of his Deus maximus inuisibilium mundus maximus visibilium God the greatest of inuisible natures the World the greatest of visible creatures both brought into the little compasse of Man Now Man is growne lesse and as his body in size his soule in vigour so himselfe in all vertue is abated so that the sonne of man is a phrase of diminution a barre in the Armes of his ancient glory an exception of his derogate and degenerate worth Two instructions may the sonnes of men learne in being called so 1. Their spirituall corruption 2. Their naturall corruptiblenes 1. That corruption and originall prauity which wee haue deriued