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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
Diseases of the soul a discourse divine, moral, and physical. By Tho. Adams.Diseases of the soule a discourse diuine, morall, and physicall. By Tho. Adams.
London: printed by George Purslowe for John Budge, 1616London: printed by George Purslowe for Iohn Budge, 1616
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Signs and Symptoms.
Signes and Symptomes.
The signs of this disease in the body, are a mist and darkness, coming upon every light occasion. If he see a wheel turning round, or a whirl-pool, or any such circular motion, he is affected with giddiness. The Symptoms of the Spiritual Staggers are semblable. He turns with those that turn, and is his neighbours Chameleon. He hates staidness as an earthen dullness. He prosecutes a business without fear or wit; and rejecting the patience to consult, falls upon it with a peremptory heat: but like water once hot, is soonest frozen, and instantly he must shift his time and his place; neither is he so weary of every place, as cuery place is weary of him. He affects an object with dotage, and as superstitiously courts, as an Idolator his gilded block: but it is a wonder, if his passionate love out-live the age of a wonder, 9. days. He ⟨p. 11⟩respects in all things novelty above goodness; and the child of his own brains, within a week he is ready to judge a Bastard. He salutes his wits after some invented toy, as a Serving-man kisseth his hand, when instantly on another plots arising, he kicks the former out of doors. He pulls down this day what he builded the other, now disliking the site, now the fashion, and sets men on work to his own undoing. He is in his own house, as his thoughts in his own brain, transient guests: like a Haggard, you know not where to take him. He hunts well for a gird, but is soon at a loss. If he gives any profession a winters entertainment, yet he is whether for a penny the next Spring. He is full of business at Church, a stranger at home, a Sceptic abroad, an observer in the street, every where a fool. To conclude, their own unfaithfulness making the Inconstant thus sick, there is an accession of the Lords plague; he adds dotage as a punishment of wilful dotage. The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the