Mystical bedlam, or the world of mad-men. By ThoMystical bedlam, or the vvorld of mad-men. By Tho

You conceive the nature of the Tenant: you may a little better understand his vileness, if you consider, 1. That he is an usurper, intruding himself into Gods freehold; which both by creation, and re-creation he may challenge for his own inheritance. If God should ask madness, as he did that unbidden Guest in the Gospel, ¹that came to the marriage without his wedding Garment: Friend, how camest thou hither? Either like that wretch, he would be mute, or else answer: Man let me into his heart. What a Traitor is man, to let into his Landlords house, his Landlords enemy?

You conceiue the nature of the Tenant: you may a little better vnderstand his vilenesse, if you consider, 1. That hee is an vsurper, intruding himselfe into Gods freehold; which both by creation, and re-creation hee may challenge for his owne inheritance. If God should aske madnesse, as hee did that vnbidden Guest in the Gospell, ¹that came to the marriage without his wedding Garment: Friend, how camest thou hither? Eyther like that wretch, hee would be mute, or els answere: Man let me into his heart. What a Traytour is man, to let into his Landlords house, his Landlords enemy?

1. 1Math. 22. 12.

2 That he doth not pay the rent of Gods house. God rich in mercies, lends and (as it were) lets to farm divers possessions; as the graces of the Spirit, the virtues of the mind, gifts of the Body, goods of the world; & for all these requires no rent, but thanksgiving: that we praise him in heart, tongue, and conversation. But so long as Madness is in any of these Tenements, God cannot have this little rent of his Farm. They are mad, that think they may enjoy Gods blessings without rent, ⟨p. 75⟩