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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.
1. The Owners or Possessors, Sons of men.
1. The Owners or Possessors, Sonnes of men.
Adam was called the son of God, Luk. 3.1 Enos was the son of Seth, Seth the son of Adam, Adam the son of God: But all his posterity the sons of men: we receiving from him both flesh, and the corruption of flesh, yea, and of soul too; though the substance thereof be inspired of God, not traduced from man: for the purest soul becomes stained and corrupt, when it once toucheth the body.
Adam was called the sonne of God, Luk. 3.1 Enos was the sonne of Seth, Seth the sonne of Adam, Adam the son of God: But all his posterity the sonnes of men: wee receyuing from him both flesh, and the corruption of flesh, yea, and of soule too; though the substance thereof be inspired of God, not traduced from man: for the purest soule becomes stain'd and corrupt, when it once toucheth the body.
The sons of men. This is a derivative and diminutive speech; whereby mans conceit of himself is lessened, and himself lessoned to humility. Man, as Gods creation left him, was a goodly creature, an abridgement of heaven and earth, an Epitome of God and the world: resembling God, who is a Spirit, in his Soul, and the World, which is a Body, in the composition of his. Deus maximus inuisibilium, mundus maximus visibilium: God the greatest of invisible natures, the World the greatest of visible creatures: both brought into the little compass of Man.