Diseases of the soule a discourse diuine, morall, and physicall. By Tho. Adams.

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Diseases of the soule a discourse diuine, morall, and physicall. By Tho. Adams.
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Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.
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London :: Printed by George Purslowe for Iohn Budge, and are to be sold at the great south-dore of Paules, and at Brittaines Bursse,
1616.
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Sin -- Early works to 1800.
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"Diseases of the soule a discourse diuine, morall, and physicall. By Tho. Adams." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00777.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.

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Cure.

FOr the cure of the corporall disease, you must giue the Patient such medicines, as diuide and purge phlegme; with an extenuating dyet. To cure this windy humour of vaine-glory, S. Paul hath a sharpe medicine: That his glory

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is in his shame. Prescribe him, that the free giuing all glo∣ry to God, is the resultance of the best glory to man. The counsell of both Law and Gospell meetes in this. Let not the wise man glory in his wisedome, nor the strong in his strength, nor the rich in his wealth; but let him that glorieth, glorie in the Lord. That he hath nothing, (which is good) that he hath not receiued; and it is a shame for the Cisterne not to acknow∣ledge the Fountaine. That the praise of good deserts is lost by want of humilitie. That there is none arrogant, but the ignorant: and that if hee vnderstood himselfe, his concei∣ted sea is but a puddle, which euery iudicious obseruers plummet findes shallow, and muddy. That trafficking for the fraught of mens praises for his good worth, Hee suffers shipwracke in the hauen; and loseth his reward there, where hee should receiue it.

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