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Mystical bedlam, or the vvorld of mad-men. By Tho: Adams
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Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.
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1615
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STC 124; ESTC S100419
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the true water of Iordan or Poole of Siloam Wash and be cleane Bring your hearts to this Bath yee corrupted Sonnes of men hath God giuen you so precious a Lauer and will you be vncleane still Pray intreat beseech send vp to heauen the cryes of your tongues and hearts for this bloud call vpon the preseruer of men not onely to distill some drops but to wash bathe soake your harts in this bloud Behold the Sonne of God himselfe that shedde this bloud doth intreat God for you the whole Quire of all the Angels Saints in heauen are not wanting Let the meditation of Christs mediation for you giue you encouragement and comfort Happy Sonne of man for whom the Sonne of God supplicates and intercedes What can He request without speed He doth not onely pray for you but euen to you yee sonnes of men Beholde him with the eyes of a Christian faith and hope standing on the battlements of heauen hauing that for his pauement which is our seeling offring his bloud to wash your hearts which he willingly lost for your hearts denying it to none but Wolues Beares and Goates and such reprobate excommunicate apostate spirites that treade it vnder their prophane and luxurious feet esteeming that an vnholy thing wherewith they might haue beene sanctified Come we then come we though sinners if beleeuers and haue our hearts washed 3. All is not done with this vessell when washed Shall wee empty it clense it and so leaue it Did not Satan reenter to the house swept and garnished with seuen worse spirites whiles it was empty Behold then when it is emptied and washed and sweetned it must bee filled againe a vacuity is not allowable It must bee replenished with somewhat eyther euill or good If God bee not present Satan will not be absent When it is euacuated of the works of the flesh it must bee supplyed with the fruits of the Spirit Humility must take vp the roome which pride had in the heart Charitablenesse must steppe into the seate of auarice Loue extrude malice mildnesse anger patience murmuring Sobriety must drie vp the floudes of drunkenesse Continence coole the inflammations of Lust. Peace must quite the head from dissentions Honesty pull off Hypocrisies vizour and Religion put prophanenesse to an irreuocable exile Faith is the hand that must take these Iewels out of Gods treasury to furnish the heart the pipe to conuey the waters of life into these vessels This infusion of goodnesse must follow the effusion of euill God must be let in when Satan is locked out If our former courses and customes like turn'd-away abiects proffer vs their old seruice let vs not know them not own them not giue them intertainement not allow their acquaintance But in a holy pride as now made Courtiers to the King of heauen let vs disdayne the company of our olde play-fellowes opera tenebrarum the works of darknesse Let vs now onely frequent the dore of mercy and the fountaine of grace and let faith a good conscience be neuer out of our society Here 's the supply 4. We haue now done if when our hearts bee thus emptied cleansed supplyed we so keepe them Non minor est virtus c. Nay let me say non minor est gratia For it was Gods preuenting grace that clensed our hearts and it is his subsequent grace that so preserues them That we may truely sing By grace and grace alone All these good works are done Yet haue we not herein a Patent of security and negligence sealed vs as if God would saue vs whiles wee onely stood and look'd on But he that hath this hope purgeth himselfe And wee are charged to keepe and possesse our vessell in sanctification and honour and to liue vnspotted of the world Return not to your former abominations lest your latter end bee worse then your beginning Hath God done so much to make your hearts good and will you frustrate his labours annihilate his fauours vilipend his mercies and reele backe to your former turpitudes God forbid it and the serious deprecation of your owne soules forbid it Yea oh Lord since thou hast dealt so graciously with these frayle vessels of flesh emptied them washed them season'd them supplyed them seale them vp with thy Spirit to the day of redemption and preserue them that the euill one touch them not Grant this Oh Father almighty for thy Christ and our Iesus his sake Amen Mysticall Bedlam OR THE WORLD OF MAD-MEN The second 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 MANS sentence is yet but begunne and you will say a Comma doth not make a perfect Sense Wee are now got to his Colon hauing left his heart full of euill wee come to his madnesse No maruell if when the stomacke is full of strōg wines the head grow drunken The heart being so filled with that pernicious liquor euill becomes drunke with it Sobriety a morall daughter nay Reason the mother is lost he runs mad starke mad This Frenzy possessing not some out-roome but the principall seate the Heart Neyther is it a short madnesse that wee may say of it as the Poet of anger furor breuis est but of long continuance euen during life whiles they liue Other drunkennesse is yet after sleepe sober but this is a perpetuall lunacie Considerable then is 1. the matter 2. the men 3. the time Quid in quo Quamdiu What in whom and how long Madnesse is the matter 2. the place the heart 3. The time whiles they liue The Colon or medium of mans Sentence spends it selfe in the description of A Tenant Madnesse Tenement The Heart Tenure Whiles they liue 1. Madnesse 2. holds the heart 3. during life It is pitty 1. so bad a Tenant 2. hath so long time 3. in so good a house 1. The Tenant Madnesse There is a double madnesse corporall and spirituall The obiect of the former is Reason of the latter Religion That obsesseth the braine this the Heart That expects the helpe of the naturall Physitian this of the Mysticall The difference is this spirituall madnesse may insanire cum ratione cum Religione numquam The morally franticke may be mad with reason neuer with Religion Physitians haue put a difference betwixt Phrenzy and Madnesse imagining madnesse to be onely an infection and perturbation of the formost Cell of the head whereby Imagination is hurt but the Phrenzy to extend further euen to offend the reason and memory and is neuer without a feuer Galen cals it an inflammation of the braines or filmes thereof mixed with a sharpe feuer My purpose needes me not to be curious of this distinction To vnderstand the force of madnesse we must conceiue in the brayne three ventricles as houses assign'd by Physitians for three dwellers Imagination Reason and Memorie