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Show part i; Of 1111 N; Chri/).8. thatexcefiive defire of Revenge, when it becomes llflbltllfi'll!) [FRYI‘Cth the organs, and becomes Rage : That excefliVC _10V'C, W" l. l"; ff!" fie, becomes alfo Rage : Eitcei'sive opinion of a mans 5min 101,0. for divine in i‘piration‘ for wiidome,‘ learning, forme, an t .16! it, becomes Diiti‘a6tion, and Giddinefie : The fame, ioyned Wit land vy, Rage : Vehement opinion of the truth ofany thing, contrat i e thers Race. ' . byBejeé‘tion, Tubjeé'ts a man to caufeleiie fears ; winch IS. a Madneii'e flifcr'ancbolr. commonly called M 1-: t A N c H OL r, apparent alio in, diveis manners ; I as in haunting of folitudes, and graVes; in fiiperititious behaViour; antlinleiii‘ing fome one, fome another particular thing. In fumme, all Pafsions that produce Ptrange and unufuall behaViour, are called by the generall name of Madneiie. _But of. the feverall kinds, of Madneife, he that would take the parties) might enrowle a lefgion. And if the Excelies be madneiie, there is no doubt but the Pa Sions themfelves, when they tend to Evill, are degrees ofthe fame. (For example,) Though the effect of folly, in them that are poiL (died of an opinion of being infpired, be not Vifible alwayes in one man, by any very extravagant aétionxthat proceedeth from fuch Pafsion 5 et when many of them conipire together, the Rage of the whole mu titude is vifible enough. For what argument of Madnefle can there be greater, than to clamour, (trike, and throw {tones at our belt friends 6 Yet this is fomewhat leiie than fuch a multitude Will do. For they will clamOur, fight againit,and deitroy thofe,by whom all their life-time before, they have been protected, and fecured from injury. And if this be Madneiie in the multitude, it is the every particular man. For as in the mlddfifi of the (ca, thoughfame in a man perceive no found of that part of the water next him 3 yet he is well afiured, that part contributes as much , to the Roaring as any other part, ofthe fame quantity : fo alfo, though of the Sea, wee perceive no great unquietneiie, in one, or two men 3 yet we may be ted, that their fingular Pafsions, are parts of the Seditious well aiiiiroaring of atroubled Nation. And if there were nothing elfe that theirmadnefle, yet that very arrogati‘ng fuch infpiration bewrayed to them- felves, is argument enou h. If fome man in Bedlam fliould enter- taine you with fober di comic; and you defire in takin leave, to know what he were, that you might another time require ; is civility; and he lhould tell you, he were God the expect no extravagant action for argumentFather; I think you need of his Madneiie. This opinion of Inipiration, called commonly, gins veiy often, from fome lucky finding ofan Private Spirit3 be- Errour generally held by others -, and n0t knowing, or not remembring, by what conduct of reaion, they came to lb finoularatruth, (as they think it, though it be many times an untruth they light on,) they prefently admire themfelves; as being in the fpeciall grace of revealed the fame to them fiipernaturally,God Almighty, who hath by his Spirit. Again, that Madneiie is nothing die, but too much appearino l'afston, may be gathered out of the effeéts of Wine, which are a}? lame With thole of the evill difpofition of the organs. For the varie- "Y Part1. Of 111/! N. F‘ Chap.8. ty of behaviour in menthat have drunk too much, is the fame with that of Mad-men: fome of them Raging, others Loving, others Laughing, allextravagantly, but according to their fevera ll domi- neering Paiiions: Forthe effect of the wine, does but remov e Dillimulation -,and take from them the fight of the defor mity of their PaifiOns. For, (Ibelieve) the moi't iober men, when they walk alone without care and employment of the mind, would be unwil- ling the vanity and Extravagance of their thoughts at that time ihould be publiquely feen: which isa confefsron, that PafSio ns unguided, are For the inoit part meere .Madneii‘e. The opinions of the world, bOth in antient and later ages, concer- ning the caufe of madneife, have been two. Some, deriving them from the Pafsions , fome,fi‘om Daemons, or Spirits, either good, or bad, which they thought might enter into a man, poflefl e him, and move his organs in fuch fli‘ange, and uncouth manner, as mad-m en the Later, called them fometimes Diemom'acb‘, ( that with fpirits ; ) fometimes Energumem', (that is, agitated,is, poiiEfl'ed with fpirits ~,) and now in Italy they are called not onely or moved Pazzz', Madmen 5 but alfo Spiritati, men poiieit. There was once a great conflux ofpeople in Adder/z, a City of the Greeks, at the atfting of the Tragedy of Andromeda, tream hot day :whereupon, a great many of the fpeéta upon an extors falling in- to Fevers, had this accident from the heat, and from the Tragedy to- gether, thfi they did nothing but pronounce Iambiques, with the life to do. The former fort therefore, called fuch men, Mad-men: but names ofPerfem and Andromeda, which togeth er with the Fever, was cured, by the comming on of Winter : And this madnc fle was thought to proceed from the Pafsion imprinted by the Trage dy. Likewile there raigned afit of madneife in anothe r Graeci an City, which feized onely the young Maidens ; and caufed hang themfelves. This was by molt then thought many ofthem to But onethat fiifpefted,that contempt of life inthean act ofthe Divel. from {ome Pafsion of the mind, and fuppofing m, might proceed temne alfo their honour, gave counfell to the Magiithey did not conas to hang'd themfelves, and let them hang out tratesno {trip fuch naked. This the {to- ry {ayes cured that madneiie. But on the other fide, the fame Grascians, did often afcribe madneiTe, to the operat ion of the Eumenides, or Furyes; and fometimes of Ceres, Pbueém, and other Gods : f0 much did men attribute to Phantafines, as to think than ae'real livincr bodies, and generally to call them Spirits.And as the Romans in this, held the fame opinion with the Greeks: fo alfo they called mad-men Prophets, or (according did the jewes; For as they thought the fpirits good or bad) Diemoniacks; and form of them called both l'rophetS, and Datmoniacks, mad-men; and fome called the fame man borh Da'moniack, and mad-man. But for the Gentil es, 'tis no wonder -, becaufe Difealts,and Health ; Vices,and Venues, and many naturallaccidents,were with them terme mons. So that a man was to iinderitand d, and worihipped as Dm- times ) an Agtie, as a Divell. But for by Da‘nion, as well ( {ome- the jewcs to have fiich opini« F 2 on, 37 |