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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

what thou complainest against Caro non est mala si malo careat But Christ was more fauourable to the Adulteresse and sent her away with impunity yet not in allowance to the vice of the accused but to conuince the wickednes of the accusers Putauit lapidandam non à lapidandis Noluit talem noluit à talibus He might thinke her worthy to die but not by them that were worthy to die Hee would not haue her polluted nor yet to perish by so polluted hands I conclude the madness of these men with the Poet. Ludit amor sensus oculos perstringit aufert Libertatem animi mira nos fascinat arte Credo aliquis Daemon subiens praecordia flammam Con●itat raptam tollit de cardine mentem Amor est amaror error Lust blinds the senses and with witching arte Brings into fatall seruitude the heart A subtill Fiend the cause and plague of badnes Poysons the bloud and filles the braine with madnesse If they will not see this yet as what frantick man perceiues his owne madnes they shall feele it vnder the hands of an ill Surgion on earth or a worse in hell 4. The Hypocrite Playes the mad-man vnder couert and concealement He is proud vnder the shadow of humility But hee cannot say with Dauid Psal. 131. Mine heart is not haughty nor mine eyes lofty Cor oculi fons rivuli The tongue that brags of humility deserues little credite Frons vultus oculi saepè mentiuntur lingua verò saepissimè The forehead eyes and countenance do often deceiue the tongue most commonly The worst Inne hath sometimes the biggest Signe and the baser mettall the lowdest sound Turpiora sunt vitia cum virtutum specie celantur Vices are then more vgly when they haue put on the robes of vertues Hypocrita solus vult omnibus videri melior solus est omnibus peior The Hypocrite would seeme better then any man and is indeed the worst of all men His respect is not to the reward of vertue but regard of men as if vertue were not sibimet pulcherrima merces a sufficient compensation to it selfe Being the Sonne of a hand-maide and a bramble indeed as Iotham spake of Abimelech hee bragges as much of his shadow as eyther Vine Oliue Figge-tree or the tallest Cedar in Lebanon Hee mournes for his sinnes as a hasty Heyre at the death of his Father Haeredis luctus sub Larua risus est Hee is at once a close mourner and a close reioycer When the wicked man counterfeits himselfe good he is then worst of all Dissembled sanctitie is double iniquity quia iniquit as est simulatio because it is both sinne and simulation Hypocrites are like Iugglers that shew trickes of Legerdumaine seeming to doe the feates they doe not by casting a mist before mens eyes Howsoeuer it was once sayde Stultitiam simulare loco prudentia summa est I thinke it not so intolerable as the speech of Protagoras in Plat. somewhat agreeing to Machiauel Hee is a madde-man that cannot counterseit Iustice and dissemble integrity I am here rather occasioned to say Hee is a mad-man that doth counterfeit good things because hee doth but counterfeit And in that great Epiphany and manifestation of the secrets of all hearts he shal be found a mad-man Meane time he is a franticke too for hee incurres the worlds displeasure in making a shew of good lines Gods double displeasure in making but a shew Hee that would purchase the hatred both of God and man is he lesse then mad 5. The Auarous Is a principall in this Bedlam Soft if it were granted that the Couetous were madde the world it selfe would runne of a garget for who is not bitten with this madde dogge It is the great Canon of the Deuil charged with chaine-shot that hath killed charity in almost all hearts A poyson of three sad ingredients whereof who hath not to speake sparingly tasted Insatiability rapacity tenacity In concupiscendo acquirendo retinendo Couetousnesse hath three properties saith Ambrose Concupiscere aliena cupita inuadere celare quod ruadit To couet not her own to get what she couets and to keepe what shee gets And yet Oh Auarous why art thou so mad after money Non habentes inficit habentes non refecit It hurts them that it possesseth and helpes not them that possesse it The brood that couetousnesse hatcheth is an ofspring intricated with cares terrestriall infected with desires carnall blinded with passions subiected to affections infirmed by tentations informed by lusts infolded in errors in ambiguities difficult obnoxious to suspicions Is hee not madde that will foster in his bosome a damme with such a damned littour Tria retia habet Diabolus in mundum extensa vt quicquid euaserit de retibus gulae incidat in retia inanis gloriae quicquid euaserit his callidius capiatur retibus auaritiae De his nullus perfectè euasit The Deuils three nettes are Ryot Vaine-glory Couetousnesse The second catcheth them that scape the first and the last misseth not to apprehend the deliuer'd from both the former He that flies from the Lion the Beare meets him and the escaping both these the Serpent Couetousnesse bites not vnlike the prediction of God to Elias concerning Hazael Iehu and Elisha whom hee was commanded to annoint It shall come to passe that he that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Iehu slay and him that escapeth from the sword of Iehu shall Elisha slay If this bee madnesse who are well in their wittes And yet madnesse it is and infatuate frenzy What is it els to forsake Paradise for Sodome heauen for earth God for Mammon when as by most irreconcileable enmity they cannot bee embraced at once Howsoeuer you will say those things you couet are good creatures and call them goods yet nemo bonus bona bonum aestimat male vtenti no good man will account those goods good for him that can not commaund his affections to their sober vsage Hee that shall preferre profite to vertue his body to his soule his purse to his body his eye to his purse time to eternity let him goe for a mad-man The Epicure feedes on fowle a hundred times that it may feede him but once the Couetous feedes his purse a thousand times and starues himselfe He cares not to destroy his soule to please his lust yet for the saluation of his soule will not holde his purse short of the smallest gaine To conclude the God whom hee serues cannot helpe him the God whom hee should serue will not helpe him because hee hath forsaken him There is no other helpe or hope to reclayme the auarous but Lord haue mercy on them for they are lunatike and sore vexed as that Father spake of his possessed sonne Math. 17. Lunatike they are perpetually and not at some fittes by the Moone as that word seemes to intimate Sore vexed with the

implacable insatiable turbulent distraction of their owne spirites not without accession of all those solicitations which the infernall spirits can suggest all for gaine Oft-times they faell into the fire and oft into the water Their Epilepticke courses now driue them into the fire of malice dissention now plunge and drown them in the floudes of oppression till the inundation of their cruelty haue spoyled the whole Country and themselues at last suffocated in their owne deluge They may bee brought to the Disciples the Ministers of Christ but they cannot cure them Alas this frenzy is harde to heale Though they bee neyther faithlesse nor peruerse negatiuely though they striue by fasting and prayer affirmatiuely auoide they euill impediments or vse they good meanes this kind of deuill will not out Couetousnesse will not be expelled Onely Lord haue mercy on them conuince them conuert them for they are mad-men 6. The Vsurer Would laugh to heare himselfe brought into the number of mad-men Hee sits close and is quiet at home whiles madnesse rambles abroad Hee holds others in bonds is in no bonds himselfe hee stands so much vpon law you cannot iudge him lawlesse He would not come neere a Tauerne dore where madnes rores hee keepes a succinct course and walkes in an euen pace to Hell Slaunder him not for one of Bedlam yet hee is madde rauing roaring madde and that by the verdict of God in the penne of Solomon Eccl. 7. Surely oppression maketh a man mad It is indeed a thriuing occupation Vsurie is like that Persian Tree that at the same time buddes blossomes and beares fruit The moneyes of interest are euermore som ripe for the Trunke others drawing to maturity the rest in the flowre approaching all in the bud of hope But he is mad for his sinne at once buds blossomes and brings forth the fruit of vengeance Euery bond hee takes of others enters him into a new obligation to Satan as he hopes his debtors wil keepe day with him the Deuil expects no lesse of himselfe Euery forfet hee takes scores vp a new debt to Lucifer and euery morgag'd land he seazeth on enlargeth his dominions in hell But why doe you call this benefit made of our money vsurie and madnesse It is but vsance and husbandring of our stocke So by a new name giuen to your old sins you will thinke to escape the censure of mad-men Thus I haue read of the people of Bengala who are so much afraide of Tygers that they dare not call them Tygers but giue them other gentle names As some Physitians that will not call their impatient Patients disease madnesse but melancholy But let the Bengalans call them what they will they are Tygers still and giue vsury what name you please for what Vsurer is not asham'd to bee called so it is meere madnesse He is madde that cals euill good and sowre sweet but hee is no slaunderer that calles Vsurie madnesse It is no lesse when the eternall God in his word shall condemne Vsurie to hell stil to prosecute it with hope of heauen But many learned men are patrons and patterns for it They are as madde as you and learne you by their madnesse to become sober Aliquid auxilij est aliena insania frui There is some benefite vsually to bee made by another mans exemplary madnesse Were it more questionable yet he is no lesse madde that will ventrously doe what hee is not sure is safe to bee done then he that hauing a whole field to walke in will yet goe on a deepe riuers dangerous banke He is in more danger to topple in and therefore a mad man It were good for the common-wealth if all these mad-men the Vsurers were as safe and fast bound in a locall as they are in spirituall Bedlam 7. The Ambitious man Must also bee thrust into this Bedlam though his port be high and he thinks himselfe inciuisible from the Court. Whiles hee beholds the starres with Thales he forgets the ditch and yawning so wide for preferment contempt is easily throwne into his mouth I haue read of Menecrates a Physitian that would needs bee counted a god and tooke no other fee of his Patients but their vow to worshippe him Diony sius Syracusa hearing of this inuited him to a banket and to honour him according to his desire set before him nothing but a Censor of Frankincense with the smoake whereof hee was feasted till he starued whiles others fed on good meate This shewed the great Naturalist a naturall foole a mad-man Sapor a Persian King wrote himselfe Rex Regum Frater Solis Lunae particeps Syderum c. King of Kings brother to the Sunne and Moone and partner with the Starres Yet alas hee was a man therefore a mad-man in the arrogation of this Stile Let the Romane Canonists turne their Pope into a new nature which is neyther God nor man they are madde that giue it him and hee is madde to accept it Let Edom exalt her selfe as the Eagle and set her nest among the starres yet sayth God the pride of thine heart bath deceyued thee Let the Prince of Tyrus imagine himselfe to sitte in the seate of God Wilt thou yet say before him that killeth thee I am God but thou shalt bee a man and no God before him that slayeth thee Let Senacherib thinke to drie vp riuers with the soale of his foote and Antiochus to sayle on the mountaines Quid sibi fert tanto dignum promissor hiatu What euents haue answered their grand intendments but madnes Eusebius reports of Simon Magus that hee would be honour'd as a God and had an Altar with this inscription to Simon the holy God which it seem'd his harlot Helena did instigate But when by the power of the Deuill he presumed to flie vp to heauen at the commaund of Saint Peter the vncleane spirite brake his necke Hee climbed high but hee came downe with a vengeance His miserable end shewed him an ambitious man a mad-man Soare not too high yee sonnes of Anak striue not to attaine heauen by multiplying of earth like Babel-builders Feriunt summos fulgura montes Though you aspire in glory you shall expire in ignominie If you were not franticke you would sistere gradum keepe your stations know when you are well and giue a fiat to His will that hath placed you in a site happiest for you You are madde to out-runne him 8. The Drunkard Wil sure wrangle with me that his name comes so late in this Catalogue that deserued to bee in the front or vantguard of mad-men Demens Ebriet as is an attribute giuen by an heathen It is a voluntary madnesse and makes a man so like a beast that whereas a beast hath no reason hee hath the vse of no reason and the power or faculty of reason suspended giues way to madnes Nay he is in some respect worse then a beast for few beasts will drinke more then they