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Mystical bedlam, or the world of mad-men. By ThoMystical bedlam, or the vvorld of mad-men. By Tho
Mystical bedlam, or the world of mad-men. By Tho: AdamsMystical bedlam, or the vvorld of mad-men. By Tho: Adams
London: printed by George Purslowe for Clement Knight, 1615
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
For spiritual relation, we may conceive in the soul; understanding, reason, will. 1. The understanding apprehendeth things according to their right natures. 2. The Reason discusseth them, arguing their fitness or inconvenience, validity or vanity: and examines their desert of probation or disallowance, their worthiness either to be received or rejected. 3. The Will hath her particular working, and embraceth, or refuseth the objects, which the understanding hath propounded, & the reason discoursed.
For spirituall relation, we may conceiue in the soule; vnderstanding, reason, will. 1. The vnderstanding apprehendeth things according to their right natures. 2. The Reason discusseth them, arguing their fitnesse or inconuenience, validity or vanity: and examines their desert of probation or disallowance, their worthinesse eyther to be receyued or reiected. 3. The Will hath her particular working, and embraceth, or refuseth the obiects, which the vnderstanding hath propounded, & the reason discoursed.
Spiritual madness is a depravation, or almost deprivation of all these faculties, quoad coelestia; so far as they extend to heavenly things. 1. For understanding, the Apostle saith.a The natural man perceives not spiritual things, because they are spiritually discerned. And the veryb minds of unbelievers are blinded by the god of this world. 2. For Reason: it judgeth vanities more worthy, of prosecution when they are absent, of embracing when they salute us.c It is in vain to serve the Lord: and what profit is it, that we have kept his ordinance, or walked mournfully before him? This is the voice of distracted cogitation, and of reason out of the wits.4 We call the proud happy; and the workers of wickedness are set up: yea they that tempt God are delivered. 3. For Will; it hath lost the propenseness to good, and freedom of disposing it self to well doing: neither hath it any power of it own, to stop and retard the precipitation to evil.