[ 340] Windy Knowledge and windy doctrine to together.
AS extream windy stomacks do not only hinder digestion,* 1.1 by interposition with the wholsome meat, & relaxation of the mouth of the stomack, which ought to shut it self so close about the meat, that not so much as the least vacuity may be left; but also either by ill digestion, fills the body with crudities, obstructions, and conse∣quently putrefactions; or else, because wind is so stirring, make ejaculation, and a suddain regurgitation of all that is received.* 1.2 So in like manner, windy knowledge above wholsome sabriety,* 1.3 makes such an interposition and relaxation of the mind, that it cannot disgest wholsome doctrine,* 1.4 but fills it self with all manner of raw humours, and unstable opinions, which breed such obstructions in the mind, that pre∣sently It falls into divers sicknesses, and can keep nothing that is good and savoury; but presently being received, by the pride and self-conceit that it hath in it self, casts it up again, and so by a continuall casting, breeds that weaknesse, that so much I••aven of evill doctrine is soaked into the very filmes of the Soul, that it breeds that