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

Cure.

For the cure of the corporal disease, you must give the Patient such medicines, as divide and purge phlegm; with an extenuating diet. To cure this windy humour of vain-glory, S. Paul hath a sharp medicine: That his glory ⟨p. 63⟩¹is in his shame. Prescribe him, that the free giving all glory to God, is the resultance of the best glory to man. The counsel of both Law and Gospel meets in this. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor the strong in his strength, nor ²the rich in his wealth; but let him that glorieth, glory in the Lord. That he hath nothing, (which is good) that he hath not received; and it is a shame for the Cistern not to acknowledge the Fountain. That the praise of good deserts is lost by want of humility. That there is none arrogant, but the ignorant: and that if he understood himself, his conceited sea is but a puddle, which every judicious observers plummet finds shallow, and muddy. That trafficking for the fraught of mens praises for his good worth, He suffers ³shipwreck in the haven; and loseth his reward there, where he should receive it.

FOr the cure of the corporall disease, you must giue the Patient such medicines, as diuide and purge phlegme; with an extenuating dyet. To cure this windy humour of vaine-glory, S. Paul hath a sharpe medicine: That his glory ⟨p. 63⟩¹is in his shame. Prescribe him, that the free giuing all glory to God, is the resultance of the best glory to man. The counsell of both Law and Gospell meetes in this. Let not the wise man glory in his wisedome, nor the strong in his strength, nor