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³Others have been drowned with a deluge of waters in their own bodies, a ••oud running betwixt their skin and bowels, glutting and overcharging nature so violently, that the life hath not been able to hold up her head: and the soul (like Noah's Dove) returns unto God the Ark of her strength, as not able to set her foot dry in ⟨p. 81⟩her former habitation.

³Others haue beene drowned with a deluge of waters in their owne bodies, a ••oud running betwixt their skin and bowels, glutting and ouercharging nature so violently, that the life hath not been able to hold vp her head: and the soule (like Noahs Doue) returnes vnto God the Arke of her strength, as not able to set her foote drie in ⟨p. 81⟩her former habitation.

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⁴And yet others have buried themselves alive in the grave of their own earthly melancholy; which casteth such a thick fog and dark obscurity over the brain, that it not only chokes up the spirits of life, like the damp in a vault that extinguisheth the lights, but even offers offensive violence to the Soul. Melancholy men are (as it were) buried before they be dead; and as not staying for a grave in the ground, make their own heavy, dull, cloudy, cloddy, earthen cogitations their own Sepulchres. From what sink arise all these corrupt steams, but from the sins in our own selves, as proper and fit to engender these sicknesses, as these sicknesses are to bring desolation? It is our own work to make ^h