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.

TO cure this stinking breath of Adulation, give him a vomit. ¹He that saith to the wicked, Thou art righteous, him shall the people curse; nations shall abhor him. But to them ²that rebuke him, shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them. As (not serving our Lord Jesus Christ, but his own ⟨p. 70⟩³belly) by good words and fair speeches he hath deceived the harts of the simple; so he hath most deceived himself, and been no less his own fool, then others knave. Tell him, that his beginning is hateful to God, his end to men also. His great friend did no more love him in his dream, then he will hate him waking: as a sick man, after the receipt of a loathsome potion, hates the very cruse, whereout he drank it. And lightly, what he hath got by flattering fools, he spends upon knaves; or worse, and dyes full of nothing but sins and diseases. Let him soundly repent, reform himself, inform others, whom he hath deformed; become a friend to goodness, and so to himself and others. Repentance and Obedience can only make his breath sweet.

TO cure this stinking breath of Adulation, giue him a vomit. ¹He that sayth to the wicked, Thou art righteous, him shall the people curse; nations shall abhorre him. But to them ²that rebuke him, shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come vpon them. As (not seruing our Lord Iesus Christ, but his owne