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Distractions, or The holy madnesse Feruently (not furiously) inraged against euill men; or against their euills. Wherein the naughty are discouered to themselues, and others: and may here see at once, who they are; what they doe; and how they ought. Somewhat delightfull, but fruitfull altogether: as ordered to please a little; but aymed to profit much. By Iohn Gaule, vtrusque olim Academiæ.
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Gaule, John, 1604?-1687.
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So J leaue you whom J humbly craue and come to those whom J rightly challenge to be my Readers A PREFACE APOLOGETICALL to his Readers touching Himselfe yea and somewhat Satyricall to the Readers it toucheth Where the Man so Distraught tells them all together the Manner Motiue Maine end and Method of his Madnesse My Readers ME thinkes I heare each of you aske with ACHISH Haue J need of mad men Not one inferres with FESTVS Much Learning doth make thee mad Whether you haue need of the Former Sure I am I haue need of the Other and to no other end I tell you true I want Wit to be out of my Wits It is other than Folly and Rage is required to an Holy Madnesse Nay but I may take those Two vnto me for I am Mad outright I had as good say it as heare it They haue likewise said of Other and better than I. Haue I need of mad men that yee haue brought this Fellow to play the Mad man in my presence said the gabbling King of GATH of One that wisely assumed such Behauiour for his better Safety Wherefore came this Mad Fellow to thee said the Seruants to IEHV touching the Prophet that came about a businesse of Weight and Worth This Mad Fellow say they and wherefore came hee Though as it was told them they knew both the Man and his Communication PAVL Thou art beside thy selfe said a new Succeeding and perhaps a new Gaping Gouernour to One that well answered for himselfe I am not mad but speake forth the words of Truth Sobernesse And which I abhorre to repeat the worst in this wise was said of Him that was the best of All Hee hath a Deuill and is mad Wicked men and witlesse iudge of Others and Betters by themselues Themselues are Gracelesse and the rest they thinke are Reasonlesse The Wisdome they apprehend not they say is Folly Hee does Foolishly that does beside their Drift Hee talkes Nonsense that speakes beyond their Conceit The Feruent with them are Furious They count of Zeale but as Rage And the Saints Earnestnesse they call his Madnesse HANNAH is Deuout and is so thought DRVNKEN And They were said to bee Full of new Wine that were filled with the Holy Ghost Be a man Deuout or Zealous the world will deeme him either Drunke or Mad. Are ye so Mad to think and say so madly of vs yours if any is the Madnesse Why nure yee others with your owne Brand Marke but who hath marked you I will smite thee with Madnesse The Wise Man said it of wicked men Madnesse is in their heart while they liue Take now your Tongues from vs turne them against your selues You had as good yeeld to confesse at first as you shall bee constrained at last We Fooles counted his life Madnesse Themselues are Mad and they call vs so that are not Mad saue mad at them Shall I moane mee with him in the COMEDIAN Ay me they say I am Mad when none so mad as they No. As the PSALMIST rather J said vnto the Fooles deale not so madly Then doubtlesse they would not make me Mad. I enioy their Madnesse while I seeke to shunne it Let them care to heed it and they may doe so by mine But as I tell you I haue taken vpon mee to play the Mad man Though not with Him that did so for his owne safeguard but so to saue others haue I done it As was said of their Ignorance and Delusion so let mee say according to my Knowledge and Zeale The Prophet is a Foole the Spirituall Man is Mad for the multitude of thine Iniquity and the great Hatred In my sense a Foole and Mad am I for the great Hatred I haue to thine Iniquitie My Aime is and therefore my hope is I may here say with Him Whether wee bee besides our selues it is to God or whether we be Sober it is for your Cause I am indifferent what I seeme to be so it be for Gods glory and his Childrens Good The truth then is I am as I ought thus distraught For I am both Warranted and Vrged to it Warranted The Prophets and Holy men as they were commanded haue gone vp and downe some Naked some Chained some Loaded some Wounded One in a passion le ts fall the Tables Another on purpose breakes his Bottles One will needs haue another to smite him Another cannot but must needs smite another They haue bedusted their Heads besmeared their Faces beslauered their Beards They scrabbled with their Fingers tore their Haires rent their Cloathes and like Mad Men threw dust into the aire The Saints of God haue beene sometimes possessed with a Diuine Fury Our strangest Motions Gestures such as men commonly mocke and irke God oft times both bids and likes Euen the Vncouthnesse and Abruptnesse of our both Passions and Actions serue to discouer our Zeale our Indignation our Deuotion The Prophet tooke him a TILE pourtrayed the CITY laid a SIEGE built a FORT cast a MOVNT and set a CAMPE against it He likewise CVT OFF his Haire WEIGHED his Haire DIVIDED his Haire BVRNT a part in the Fire SMOTE a part with a Knife SCATTERED a part in the Wind and BOVND a Remuant in his Skirts This was may I say a mysticall kind of Madnesse To haue seene him thus writing vpon a Tile thus busied about his Haire who would not haue thought him mad that knew not what hee meant Hee that hath made the Foolish things of this world to confute the Wise hath his good Purposes in the idle Acts and as wee would thinke but vncouth and abrupt Behauiours of men In the Foolishnesse of our Doings as of our Preachings hath God his wise Art and Ends. God hath stirred vp weake Actions in his Saints and Seruants so to stirre vp the weake Those Practices of theirs that haue borne shew of Weaknesse in their Working were not without Worth in their Meaning and haue had Weight in their Effect Vrged None but Stocks but may be moued Especially how ought wee to be vrged against Iniquities I haue cause enough to make mee mad Nay should I be so so oft as I haue cause I should neuer be but mad How vnquiet shall he be yea euen vncessantly so the motion of whose owne Affections must depend vpon others Euils What moment shall it be in which there will not be to moue him Besides himselfe euen all are alwayes ready to prouoke him Vnhappy he when so many mad him I could with Others haue been Sad and Merry but I haue chosen by my Selfe to bee Mad at Euills While Iehu comes vp against Iezabel what should he but Driue Furiously but as there march on in Madnesse There is a mad Knot of Euills in the World and they aske a mad Wedge to sunder them I will and spare not both Launce and Seare Nor shal the Diseased howle and bawle at mee but rather thanke himselfe An intemperate Patient and obstinate makes and needs a Physitian
a Participle because hee takes part of the Clergy and part of the Laity without Mood and Tense meaning beyond Time and Measure Another askt the Pope if euer he said the Lords Prayer and those words therein Our Father and Forgiue vs our Trespasses Which if hee did then was hee neither Holy Father nor Father How many might hee said of this fort Wise men and Good haue wontedly said all against Euils in this Gracefull kinde of Reproaching Mens Euils haue beene more easily and profitably Derided than Confuted Euen these pleasant Disdaines haue oft prou'd weighty Arguments against Iniquities Now say me not Light If I would haue beene Delightfull I would not in words bee Churlish nor Clownish Nor haue I beene Scurrile nor Illiberall Haue I iested at Lawes or Religion at the Persons or Miseries of Men Except against their Vanities so ridiculous indeed what haue I said but soberly To haue beene aptly Facetious hath added to the Grauity and Seuerity of Speech Whether in some Appellations Descriptions Transitions what hath beene said not so seriously said I it only to make thee laugh I were more than Mad so to make thee laugh as to make my selfe thy laughing-Stock Where my Words may shew some Lightnesse my Aime there hath this Weight My sober Derision my iust Disdaine thy smoother Reprehension thy liberall Delight Mad-mad I haue here said enough not only to excuse mee for it but me thinkes to incourage mee to it Three speake Truth one of which is the Mad-man Thou maist say me Mad but I speake the words of Sobernesse and Truth The Truth is I loue to strip and whip Mens bosome-Harlots before them and let them plainly know themselues to bee no better than they are What should I parable it with the Woman J am a Widow mine Husband is dead My Sonnes stroue together c. These were but farre Fetches I had rather point it with the Prophet Thou art the Man this is plaine to the purpose If I must speake against Vice the vicious shall not teach mee what to say I should not say as they were should I say no other than as they would I will not aske counsell of them to bewray their Counsels but will make bold after mine owne minde to tell Men their Minds Away with the fawning Curres and toothlesse with the buzzing Beetles and stinglesse Giue mee the Dogge that will bite home and the Waspe that will sting indeed Take away the Tartnesse said a Bold-Speaker for the Freedome of his Speech and Bitternesse from Wormewood and it loseth both the Nature and Name Take away my Name too if you barre me of my Bitternesse Let your speech said He bee seasoned with Salt tempered he meant with Discretion Yea and after him say I my Speech shall be seasoned with Salt powdred I meane with Seueritie Abstract the Acrimonie and in my Construction The Salt hath lost the Sauour Loe thou saist a very Lamia The mad Hagge hath Eyes to put in and plucke out at will Hee puts his Eyes as one of those in his Head while he walkes Abroad but keepes them in a Box when he stayes at Home So are we wont indeed to haue Lyncean Eyes to Others but are as blinde as Moles toward our Selues True and t is the property of an Eye to see all but it selfe I confesse Wee can sooner finde out others Faults than mend our owne But if I blame thee with what my selfe am also Guilty of Thou shalt not need vpbraid mee with it I shall now bee enough to reproach my selfe If I be no other than I say thou art what my Tongue tels to thee my Heart will not hide from me What I but call thee once will it tell mee twice Double is his both Guilt and Blame when the Fault rebuked by him doth also redound vnto him I suppose with Him thou maist say and slander me Physitian heale thy Selfe I abhorre to heare from Him Thou which teachest Another teachest thou not thy selfe But after mine owne Cure I here am thy Physitian and haue so dealt with Iniquities as doe such with Maladies See here thou maist the Parues Affections and their Affected Parts together with their seuerall Signes Grounds Fruits Causes Cures I haue taken but Three Patients here in hand at once and they more than I looke for Profit by more I feare me than I shall get Credit by But Three to the Three Furies or Madnesses whom I meane to match against them Three shall bee all at once since Three once were all All that is in the World is but Three the lust of the Flesh the lust of the Eyes and the Pride of Life One thing is I would thee note it I haue applyed it as a soueraign Remedy against whatsoeuer Malady Concluding still with a Meditation of Mortalitie and Death Nothing makes a Man more irke his Euill than to thinke on his End He that thinkes what he shall then be will bee wary what hee now doth Sinne was the only meanes that brought a Man to Death but Death is thus the only meanes to keepe a Man from Sin He aimd aright Remember the End said he and thou shalt neuer doe amisse To meditate on Death is as a Curbe against all sinfull Courses and a Spurre pricking on to pious Duties Pricke the wandring Snaile but with the MEMENTO of Deaths Dart and hee straight retires into his Shell Let the Pilot sit close in the End of the Ship and hee now gouernes it aright To haue Death before his Eyes is the ready way to haue God before his Eyes He easily contemnes what is Present and Passing away that considers what is Euerlasting and to Come I haue no more nor needed I so much to say for my Selfe Only against Thee if thou be of them haue I yet more All the Cursed Crue Men of the World Sons of Belial Children of Darknesse Impes of Confusion Limbes of Satan Firebrands of Hell I le tell them All my minde as I meet them I le take them where I finde them And say no more to thee till I see thee there I 'M Mad say Most That most are mad and worse I say mee so ' Cause I see them no other They make mee Moane Sigh Smile Scorne Rage and Curse Nor I my Feruour Nor their Faults can smother How can I helpe it That am made so Mad T is Thou must mend it That hast beene so Bad. BOth Wise and Good Will warrant mee my Madnesse Themselues haue likewise More than moued bin Will either such Wise Good be for thy Badnesse Eâ—en they that worke ill Will speake ill of Smne How can I helpe it That am made so Mad T is Thou must mend it That hast beene so Bad. THy sore Mishaps I Moane I Sigh so see Such Errours Fraile Smile to behold thy Fashions Both sond and vaine Scorne thy Iniquitie Rage at thy Rudenesse Curse thy Abhominations How can I helpe it That am made so Mad T is Thou must mend