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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20765	Spiritual physicke to cure the diseases of the soule, arising from superfluitie of choller, prescribed out of Gods word Wherein the chollericke man may see the dangerousnesse of this disease of the soule vniust anger, the preseruatiues to keepe him from the infection thereof, and also fit medicines to restore him to health beeing alreadie subiect to this raging passion. Profitable for all to vse, seeing all are patients in this desease of impatiencie.	Downame, John, d. 1652.	1616 (1616)	STC 7147; ESTC S109810	66,826	176

Spiritual physicke to cure the diseases of the soule arising from superfluitie of choller prescribed out of Gods word Wherein the chollericke man may see the dangerousnesse of this disease of the soule vniust anger the preseruatiues to keepe him from the infection thereof and also fit medicines to restore him to health beeing alreadie subiect to this raging passion Profitable for all to vse seeing all are patients in this disease of impatiencie Habet et musca splenē et sua formicae bilis inest PRO. 16. 32. He that is flow to anger is better then the mightie man and he that ruleth his owne minde is better then he that winneth a Cytie Imprinted at London by Gabriel Simson for William Iones dwelling neare Holborne Conduict at the signe of the Gun 1600. TO THE RIGHT honourable sir Thomas Egerton knight Lord Keeper of the great seale of England and one of her Maiesties honour able priuie counsell my very good Lord health and prosperitie with increase of all spirituall graces in this life and eternall happinesse in the life to come HAVING HAD through your honourable bounty a part of the Lords Vineyarde allotted vnto mee his most vnwoorthy woorkeman by your Honour his most woorthy steward to the end I should plant and water purge and prune it I thought it my parte not onely to performe my dutie in this behalfe in such measure as God enableth me but also to present vnto your honour the first fruits of my labor which haue yet offered themselues to publike view to the end that I might thereby both shew my selfe not altogeather negligent in our great Lord and maisters businesse and also giue some token of most obliged duty and humble thankefulnesse to you his honourable steward by whose appointment I haue obtained a place wherin I may imploy my paynes wheras otherwise I should eyther haue stood idle in the market place or els beene compelled to haue digged in another mans ground with great labour little fruit If these my first fruits seeme vnpleasant in your most learned and iudiciall taste eyther impute it to the immaturitie caused by their short time of grouth and small-experienced skill of the vintager or els consider that they are destinated to a physicall vse for the purging away of choller and therefore though they be not pleasant in tast yet may they be profitable in operatiō Such as they are in all humilitie crauing pardon for my bouldnes I cōmend them to your honourable patronage and protection and your selfe to the Almighties most hartily beseching the glorious and great Lord of the vinyard long to continue you his faithfull steward amongst vs to the aduancement of his glory the propagation of his vine and the exceeding comfort of his poore contemned labourers Amen Your honours in all humble duty most bounden IOHN DOVVNAME To the Christian reader COnsidering the vniuersall infection of this contagious disease of the soule vniust anger and the manifould pernitious euils which it worketh both priuate and publique I thought good to prescribe out of Gods word some remedies for those patients which are committed to my cure whereby they might eyther be preserued from these feuer-like fits which cause men outwardly to shake and tremble when as inwardly they are most inflamed or els haue their heate somewhat allayed and abated when they are alreadie fallen into them The which my prescript I thought at the first should haue beene communicated to no more then mine owne patients till I was perswaded by more skilfull Physitions then my selfe that the publishing thereof might redownd to others profit And therefore desiring nothing more then to exercise my poore talent to the glory of my maister who bestowed it and the benefit of my fellow seruants for whose good also I haue receiued it I willingly condescended to their motion And for as much as I had onely shadowed a rude draught without colour or countenance I was fayne to take a reueiw of my woorke altering some things and adding others as it were new lineaments which I thought more fit for the Presse then for the Pulpit If any thinke me too quick in practise they will I hope excuse me if they consider that I make experience of my slender skil not in the vital parts but in the feete of the soule namely the affections and yet the curing of them or but this one of them may greatly redound to the benefit of the whole for as the diseases of the feete doe grieue the hart and offend the head and the curing and healing of them doth ease and comfort both so when the affections are distempered beeing infected with the contagion of our originall corruption euen the chiefe parts of the soule the vnderstanding wil are not a little disturbed and disordered by receiuing from them their contagious pollutiō And therfore he who can skilfully purge these neather parts shall ease the higher by drawing downe those corrupt humors which do offend and annoy thē Seeing then there may come by my practise great good with little danger I haue the rather aduentured the cure beeing contented to vndergoe the censure of some for too much hast who I feare me are in these cases as much too slow to the end that I may to the vttermost of my skill benefit many The Lord who is the onely true Physition of soules diseased with sinne blesse this and all other my indeauours that they may be profitable for the setting forth of his glory the benefit of my brethren and furthering the assurance of mine owne saluation Amen Spirituall physick to cure the diseases of the soule arising from superfluitie of choller prescribed out of Gods word Ephesians 4. 26. Be angry and sinne not let not the sunne go downe on your wrath Chap. 1. Sect. 1. THe miserable ruines of our excellent state by creation which were the lamentable effects following the sinne of our first parents and the fowle spots of originall corruption which like a contagious leprosie deriued from thē haue infected all their posteritie do not so euidently appeare in any part of the body or foule as in the affectiōs which are so corrupted and disordered that there scarce remaine any small reliques of their created puritie And hence it is that the Heathen Philosophers though they did not perceiue how much the bright shining beames of our reason and the vnderstāding part of the soule were dimmed and darkned with the foggie mists of originall sinne but highly extolled with ouer parciall prayses the excellencie and perfection of them yet they playnely discerned the great corruption of our disordered affections in so much that some of them being ouerswayed with too great vehemencie of affection in speaking agaynst the affections haue condemned them as simply and in their owne nature euill and therfore wholy to be abandoned seeing there was no hope they should be amended others with a more iudiciall insight discerning betweene the things themselues their corruption haue written whole tractates