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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.
Make the possessed frantic. This is a speeding ⟨p. 45⟩cause, and fails not to distemper the soul, whereof it hath gotten mastery. There may be first, a sober knowledge, that the Patient may say, Video meliora, I see better things: and secondly, a faith, (but such as is incident to devils) proboque, I allow of them: but thirdly, where the whole man is tyrannized over by the Regent-house of irrefragable affects, deterior a sequor, he concludes his course with, I follow the worse. Observe the Philistines crying,1 1. Sam. 47. God is come into the Camp; woe unto us, &c. Yet they settle, hearten, harden themselves to fight against him. Ver. 8. Woe unto us: who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? yet verse 9. Be strong and quit your selves like men, O ye Philistines: quit your selves like men, and fight. Twice they behold their Dagon fallen down before the Ark: 2yet Dagon must be their God still, and the Ark is only reverenced for a ne noceat.
Make the possessed franticke. This is a speeding ⟨p. 45⟩cause, and failes not to distemper the soule, whereof it hath gotten mastery. There may bee first, a sober knowledge, that the Patient may say, Video meliora, I see better things: and secondly, a faith, (but such as is incident to deuils) proboque, I allow of them: but thirdly, where the whole man is tyrannized ouer by the Regent-house of irrefragable affects, deterior a sequor, hee concludes his course with, I follow the worse. Obserue the Philistines crying,1 1. Sam. 47. God is come into the Campe; woe vnto vs, &c. Yet they settle, hearten, harden themselues to fight against him. Ver. 8. Woe vnto vs: who shall deliuer vs out of the hand of these mightie Gods? yet verse 9. Bee strong and quit your selues like men, O yee Philistines: quit your selues like men, and fight. Twice they behold their Dagon falne down before the Arke: 2yet Dagon must bee their God still, and the Arke is only reuerenc'd for a ne noceat.