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A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written
A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas AdamsA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas Adams
London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Jacob Bloome, 1633London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Iacob Bloome, 1633
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2 As Aristotle delivers the formal cause of sleep, to be an Antiperista••, […] being made by a reciprocal motion: the stomach sending up fumes to the head and the head sending them back to the heart: so by reason of this conflict […] obstruct all the organs of sense, locking up the exterior parts as they pass in […] journey. As a river that ebbs and flows, is driven by her own floods. The heat drives these vapours from the heart, the coldness from the brain, and […] must needs rest some where: hinc faciunt gravedinem oppilando, & inde Somnus […] spiritual sleep, the coldness of the brain is ignorance, the heat of the heart is […] cupiscence, the exhalations are lusts. while these with a sensitive pleasure are ba•• up and down, the whole man becomes fast a sleep: and sin reigns like an […] bed Lord in all faculties of body and mind, neither feeling nor suspecting the […]
2 As Aristotle delivers the formall cause of sleepe, to be an Antiperista••, 〈…〉 being made by a reciprocall motion: the stomach sending up fumes to the head and the head sending them backe to the heart: so by reason of this conflict 〈…〉 obstruct all the organs of sense, locking up the exterior parts as they passe in 〈…〉 journey. As a river that ebbes and flowes, is driven by her owne floods. The heate drives these vapours from the heart, the coldnesse from the braine, and 〈…〉 must needes rest some where: hinc faciunt gravedinem oppilando, & inde Somnus 〈…〉 spirituall sleep, the coldnesse of the brain is ignorance, the heate of the heart is 〈…〉 cupiscence, the exhalations are lusts. while these with a sensitive pleasure are ba•• up and downe, the whole man becomes fast a sleepe: and sin raignes like an 〈…〉 bed Lord in al faculties of body and mind, neither feeling nor suspecting the 〈…〉