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The world possessed with devils containing three dialogues. 1. Of the Devil let loose.…The vvorlde possessed with deuils conteinyng three dialogues. 1. Of the Deuill let loose.…
The world possessed with devils containing three dialogues. 1. Of the Devil let loose. 2. Of black devils. 3. Of white devils. And of the coming of Jesus Christ to judgement, a very necessary and comfortable discourse for these miserable and dangerous days.The vvorlde possessed with deuils conteinyng three dialogues. 1. Of the Deuill let loose. 2. Of blacke deuils. 3. Of white deuils. And of the commyng of Iesus Christe to iudgement, a verie necessarie and comfortable discourse for these miserable and daungerous daies.
London: printed by John Kingston for John Perin, 1583London: printed by John Kingston for Ihon Perin, 1583
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.
Tob. Is this the cause, why the Evangelists called him Lunatic.
Tob. Is this the cause, why the Euā gelists called him Lunatike.
Theo. I do not think,1 that he was called Lunatic, because he had the falling sickness, which cometh by fits, as the Moon increaseth and decreaseth. For, because that this disease cometh of the infirmity of the brain, it therefore followeth the course of the moon. And again, because the brain is very cold and moist, it agreeeth mightily with the nature of the Moon, which God hath created to be of such a nature, as that it might preserve cold and moist things, as he hath created the Sun to be of a hot and dry nature, that it might preserve the rest of the same condition, to the end, that all the creatures▪ of God, might be kept in order, which God in his Almighty providence hath disposed.
Theo. I doe not thinke,1 that hee was called Lunatike, because he had the falling sicknesse, which commeth by fittes, as the Moone increaseth and decreaseth. For, because that this disease commeth of the infirmitie of the brayne, it therfore followeth the course of the moone. And again, because the brayne is very colde and moyst, it agreeeth mightily with the nature of ye Moone, which God hath created to be of such a nature, as that it might preserue colde and moyst things, as hee hath created the Sun to bee of a hoate and drye nature, that it might preserue the rest of the same condition, to the ende, that all the creatures▪ of God, might be kept in order, which God in his Almightie prouidence hath disposed.
- 1The falling sick•••s.