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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.
2. Our Corruptibleness is here also demonstrated. A mortal Father cannot beget an immortal son. If they that brought us into the world, have gone out of the world themselves, we may infallibly conclude our own following. He that may say, I have a man to my Father, a woman to my mother in his life; may in death, with Job say to Corruption, Thou art my Father: to the worm, 1Thou art my mother, and my sister.
2. Our Corruptiblenesse is heere also demonstrated. A mortall Father cannot beget an immortall sonne. If they that brought vs into the world, haue gone out of the world themselues, we may infallibly conclude our owne following. He that may say, I haue a man to my Father, a woman to my mother in his life; may in death, with Iob say to Corruption, Thou art my Father: to the worm, 1Thou art my mother, and my sister.
It hath been excepted against the justice of God, that the sin of one man is devolved to his posterity; and that for the fathers eating sour grapes, the children's teeth are set on edge, according to the Jewish Proverb, Jer. 31. 29.1 As if we might say to every son of man, as Horace sung to his friend: Delicta maiorum immeritus lues: Thou being innocent, doest suffer for thy nocent superiors. This a Philosopher objected against the gods; strangely conferring it, as if for the fathers disease, physic should be ministered to the son.