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 22, 2024.
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The Induction.
THE Sicknesse of this World is Epi∣demicall, and hath with the inuisi∣ble poyson of a generall pestilence infected it to the heart. For Uice in manners, as Heresie in doctrine, distilleth insensible contagion in∣to the fountaine of Life; and dumvnum interficit, centum alios inficit, in killing one, banes many. Whether ex daemonis iniu∣ria, vel ex hominis incuria, from the Diuels malice, or mans securenesse, Iniquity is growne from a mist to a Mysterie, Ignorance to Arrogance, nescience to negli∣gence, simple imprudence to politicke impudence, and I know not how, too much light hath made men blind. At first they knew not when they sinned, now they would know to iustifie their sins: they defend that, wherein they offend, and buy Sicknesse with as great expence of time, wit, money, as the anguished Atheist would health.
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Sickenesses in mens Soules are bred like diseases in na∣turall, or corruptions in ciuill bodies; with so insensible a progresse, that they are not discerned, till they be al∣most desperate: as the franticke endures not bonds, nor the Lethargicall noise: or as it was once sayd of the Ro∣manes, that they could neither endure an ill Emperour, nor obey a good one: so wee may say of our selues (no lesse then Liuy of that State) Nec vitia nostra, nec reme∣diaferre possumus: wee can better brooke our maladies, then our remedies. There is, say Physicians, no perfect Health in this world; and man, when hee is at best, en∣ioyes but a neutrality. But the Physicians of the Soule complaine further: That wee are all as an vncleane thing,and all our righteousnesse are as filthie ragges, &c. and in ma∣nythings wee sinne all. We may say with the Prophet, not so much for our punishments, as our sinnes, The whole head is sicke, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foote, euen vnto the head, there is no soundnes in it; but woundsand bruises and putrifying sores.