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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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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.
The Disease called Melancholy is formally in the Spirits, whose distemper unfits them for their office, in serving the Imagination, understanding, memory and affections; so by their distemper the thinking faculty is diseased, and becomes like an inflamed eye, or a foot that is sprained or out of joint, disabled for its proper work.
The Disease called Melancholly is formally in the Spirits, whose distemper unfits them for their office, in serving the Imagination, understanding, memory and affections; so by their distemper the thinking faculty is diseased, and becomes like an inflamed eye, or a foot that is sprained or out of joynt, disabled for its proper work.
The matter which is the root and foundation, is usually a depravation of the Mass of Blood, which is the Vehicle of the spirits, and that is usually accompanied with some diseases of the Stomach, Spleen, Liver or other parts which are for the due concoction, motion, and purification of the blood: which Diseases are so various that they are seldom the same in many persons, and hardly known to the wisest physicians: The Spleen is most commonly accused, and often guilty, and the Stomach, Pancreas, Mesentery, Omentum, Liver, yea and Reigns not rarely are the root, sometimes by obstructing humours, and that of several qualities, and sometimes by Stones, and sometimes by various sorts of humours, and sometime by Vesicles; But obstructed if not tumified Spleens are most suspected.
The matter which is the root and foundation, is usually a depravation of the Mass of Blood, which is the Vehicle of the spirits, and that is usually accompanied with some diseases of the Stomach, Spleen, Liver or other parts which are for the due concoxion, motion, and purification of the blood: which Diseases are so various that they are seldom the same in many persons, and hardly known to the wisest physitians: The Spleen is most commonly accused, and often guilty, and the Stomack, Pancreas, Mesentery, Omentum, Liver, yea and Reigns not rarely are the root, sometimes by obstructing humors, and that of several qualities, and sometimes by Stones, and sometimes by various sorts of humours, and sometime by Vesicles; But obstructed if not tumified Spleens are most suspected.