Diseases of the soul a discourse divine, moral, and physical. By Tho. AdamsDiseases of the soule a discourse diuine, morall, and physicall. By Tho. Adams

The Pleurisy is cured by drawing out some blood from the vein, that hath relation to the affected part. A ⟨p. 34⟩Clyster is very good, together with some fomentations. It is helped much by cupping, I do not mean, drinking. God prescribes the cure of Pride, by precept and pattern. Precept. Humble your selves under the mighty hand of God: the reason is given; for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace ¹to the humble. Pattern. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you shall find rest unto ²your souls. The Master is worth your hearing, the lesson your learning, the recompense your receiving. The cure hereof is hard, for all vices are against humility: nay, all virtues are against humility; as many are proud of their good deeds: nay, humility hath an opposition against humility, as if she were false to her own person. Saepe homo de vanae gloriae contemptu vanus gloriatur: so that often, humility by a prodigious and preposterous birth, brings forth pride. Pride doth make a wise-man a fool; continues him a fool, that is so; the opinion of his own wisdom excluding all opportune possibility of receiving knowledge. Pour precious juice into a vessel full of base liquor, and it runs besides. That instruction is split, which you offer to infuse into a soul so full of self affectation. Many a man had proved wise, if he had not so thought himself. If the air of his pride be enclosed in a baser bubble, attire, it is the more vile: for the generation of his sin is produced from the corruption of himself. God made him a man, he hath made himself a beast; and now the Taylor (scarce a man himself) must make him a man again: a brave man, a better man than ever Nature left him. Thus he is like the Cinnamon tree, the bark is better then the body; or some Vermin, whose case is better then the carcass.