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

Cause.

This corporal disease is caused, when the humours do putrefy and rot equally within the vessels. It is not engendered in those that be lean and slender, or of a thin and rare state of body, or of a cold temper; but in those that be hot and abound with blood, fleshy, gross and thick-bodied. Me thinks this malady smells very like Hypocrisy; which is a rotten heart, festered and putrefied with habituated sins, there with great delight and indulgence reserved: not incident to those that have a weak, thin, and slender opinion of themselves; that through humility have a lean and spare construction of their own deserts: no; nor to them that be of a cold temper and disposition to religion, not caring either to be good, or to seem so: ⟨p. 49⟩but to those that have a gross and a blown conceit of themselves, swelling into an incomprehensible ostentation, and implacably hot in the persecution of that, they inwardly affect not.

THis corporall disease is caused, when the humours doe putrifie and rot equally within the vessels. It is not ingendred in those that bee leane and slender, or of a thinne and rare state of body, or of a colde temper; but in those that bee hot and abound with bloud, fleshy, grosse and thicke-bodied. Me thinks this malady smels very like Hypocrisie; which is a rotten heart, festred and putrified with habituated sins, there with great delight and indulgence reserued: not incident to those that haue a weake, thinne, and slender opinion of themselues; that through humility haue a leane and spare construction of their owne deserts: no; nor to them that bee of a cold temper and disposition to religion, not caring either to bee good, or to seeme so: ⟨p. 49⟩but to those that haue a grosse and a blowne conceit of themselues, swelling into an incomprehensible ostentation, and implacably hot in the persecution of that, they inwardly affect not.