Enthusiasmus triumphatus, or, A discourse of the nature, causes, kinds, and cure, of enthusiasme; written by Philophilus Parresiastes, and prefixed to Alazonomastix his observations and reply: whereunto is added a letter of his to a private friend, wherein certain passages in his reply are vindicated, and severall matters relating to enthusiasme more fully cleared.

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Title: Enthusiasmus triumphatus, or, A discourse of the nature, causes, kinds, and cure, of enthusiasme; written by Philophilus Parresiastes, and prefixed to Alazonomastix his observations and reply: whereunto is added a letter of his to a private friend, wherein certain passages in his reply are vindicated, and severall matters relating to enthusiasme more fully cleared.
Author: More, Henry, 1614-1687.
Publication: London, :: Printed by J. Flesher, and are to be sold by W. Morden bookseller in Cambridge,; MDCLVI. [1656]
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Subject terms: Vaughan, Thomas, 1622-1666. -- Anima magica abscondita -- Early works to 1800.; Vaughan, Thomas, 1622-1666. -- Anthroposophia theomagica -- Early works to 1800.; Vaughan, Thomas, 1622-1666. -- Man-mouse taken in a trap -- Early works to 1800.; Ecstasy -- Early works to 1800.
Cite this Item: "Enthusiasmus triumphatus, or, A discourse of the nature, causes, kinds, and cure, of enthusiasme; written by Philophilus Parresiastes, and prefixed to Alazonomastix his observations and reply: whereunto is added a letter of his to a private friend, wherein certain passages in his reply are vindicated, and severall matters relating to enthusiasme more fully cleared." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A51300.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.

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Observation 5. Pag. 8.

Here Anthroposophus begins to be something earn∣est and rude with Nature, not content any longer to use his adulterous phansie, but to break open with his immodest hands her private closet, search her Cabi∣net, and pierce into her very Center. What rare ex∣tractions he will make thence, I leave to himselfe to enjoy. Sure I am, that if any skilful Cook, or Chy∣mist, should take out Philalethes brains, and shred them as small as mincemeat, and tumble them never so much up and down with a trencher-fork, he would not discover by this diligent discussion any substantial Form of his brains, whereby they may be discovered from what lies in a Calfs head. Nay, if they were stew∣ed betwixt two dishes, or distilled in an Alembek, nei∣ther would that extraction be any crystalline mirror to see the substantial form stark naked in, and disco∣ver the very substance of that spirit, that has hit upon so many unhappy hallucinations. But you are a youth of rare hopes, Anthroposophus!