cast me not off; wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest mine affliction and oppression? My soule is bowed downe to the dust. Arise, redeem us, &c. Psal. 44. 22, 23, 24. He prayed long before he was heard, expectans expectavit; endured much before he was relieved. Psal. 69. 3. he complaines, I am weary of crying, and my throat is dry, mine eys fail, whilst I wait on the Lord; and yet he perseveres. Be not dismayed, thou shalt be respected at last. God often workes by contrarieties; he first kils and then makes alive; he woundeth first and then healeth; he makes man sow in teares that he may reap in joye; 'tis Gods method. He that is so visited, must with patience endure, and rest satisfied for the present. The paschal lamb was eaten with sowre hearbs; we shall feel no sweetness of his bloud, till we first feel the smart of our sins. Thy paines are great, intolerable for the time; thou art destitute of grace and comfort; stay the Lords leasure, he will not (I say) suffer thee to be tempted above that thou art able to bear, I Cor. 10. 13. but will give an issue to temptation. He works all for the best to them that love God, Rom. 8. 28. Doubt not of thine election, it is an immutable decree; a mark never to be defaced; you have been otherwise, you may and shall be again. And for your present affliction, hope the best, it will shortly end. He is present with his servants in their affliction, Ps. 91. 15. Great are the troubles of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth them out of all, Psal. 34. 19. Our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh in us an eternall weight of glory, 2 Cor. 4. 17. Not answerable to that glory which is to come; though now in heaviness, saith 1 Pet. 1. 6. you shall rejoyce. Now, last of all, to those externall impediments, terrible objects, which they hear and see many times, divels, bugbears, and mormeluches, noysome smels, &c. These may come, as I have formerly declared in my precedent discourse of the Symptomes of Melancholy, from inward causes; as a concave glass reflects solid bodies, a troubled braine for want of sleepe, nutriment, and by reason of that agitation of spirits to which Hercules de Saxoniâ attributes all symptomes almost, may reflect and shew prodigious shapes, as our vaine feare and crased phantasie shall suggest and fain, as many silly weake women and children in the dark, sicke folks, and frantick for want of repast and sleepe, suppose they see that they see not. Many times such terriculaments may proceed from natural causes, and all other senses may be deluded. Besides, as I have said, this humour is balneum diaboli, the divels bath, by reason of the distemper of humours, and infirm organs in us: he may so possess us inwardly to molest us, as he did Saul and others, by Gods permission; he is prince of the ayr, and can transform himself into severall shapes, delude all our senses for a time, but his power is determined; he may teriify us, but not hurt. God hath given his angels charge over us, he is a wall round about his people, Psal. 91. 11, 12. There be those that prescribe physic in such cases; 'tis Gods instrument and not unfit. The divel workes by mediation of humours, and mixt diseases must have mixt remedies. Levinus Lemnius cap. 57. § 58. exhort. ad vit. ep. instit. is very copious in this subject, besides that chiefe remedy of confidence in God, prayer, hearty repentance, &c. of which for your comfort and instruction reade Lavater de spectris, part. 3. cap. 5. & 6. Wierus de præstigiis dæmonum lib. 5. to Philip Melancthon, and others; and that christian armour which Paul prescribes; he sets downe certain amulets, hearbs, and pretious stones, which have marvelous virtues, all profligandis dæmonibus, to drive away divels and their illusions. Saphyres, chrysolites, carbuncles, &c. quæ mirá virtute pollent ad lemures, stryges, incubos, genios aerios arcendos, si veterum monumen is habenda fides. Of hearbs, he reckons us penniroyal, rue, mint, angelica, piony. Rich. Argentine de præstigiis dæmonum cap. 20. addes hypericon or St. Johns wort, perforata herba, which by a divine vertue drives away divels, and is therefore called fuga dæmonum: all which rightly used by their suffitus, dæmonum vexationibus obsistunt, afflictas mentes a dæmonibus relevant, et venenatis fumis, expell divels themselves, and all divelish illusions. Anthony Musa, the emperour Augustus his physician, cap. 6. de Betoniú, approves of betony to this purpose; the ancients used therefore to plant it in churchyards, because it was held to be an holy hearb and good against fearfull visions; did secure such places it grew in, and sanctified those persons that carried it about them. Idem fere Mathiolus in Dioscoridem. Others commend accurate musicke, so Saul was helped by Davids harpe. Fires to be made in such roomes where spirits haunt, good store of lights to be set up, odors, perfumes, and suffumigations, as the angel taught Tobias; brimstone and bitumen, thus, myrrha, briony root, with many such simples which Wecker hath collected lib. 15. de secretis cap. 15. 4 sulphuris drachmam unam, recoquatur in vitis albæ aquá, ut dilutius sit sulphur; detur ægro; nam dæmones sunt morbi (saith Rich. Argentine lib. de præstigiis dæmonum cap. ult.) Vigetus hath a far larger receipt to this purpose, which the said Wecker cites out of Wierus. sulphuris, vini, bituminis, opoponacis, galbani, castorei, &c. Why sweet perfumes, fires and so many lights should be used in such places, Ernestus Burgravius, lucerna vitæ et mortis, and Fortunius Lycetus assignes this cause, quod his boni Genii provocentur, mali arceantur; because good spirits are well pleased with, but evil abhor them. And therefore those old Gentiles, present Mahometans, and Papists have continual lamps burning in their churches, all day and all night, lights at funerals and in their graves; lucerna ardentes ex auro liquefacto, for many ages to endure (saith Lazius) ne dæmones corpus lædant; lights ever burning, as those Vestall virgins, Pythonissæ maintained heretofore, with many such, of which reade Tostatus in 2 Reg. cap. 6. quæst. 43. Thyreus cap. 57. 58. 62. &c. de locis infestis; Pictorius Isagog. de dæmonibus, &c. see more in them. Cardan would have the party affected winke altogether in such a case, if he see ought that offends him, or cut the ayr with a sword in such places where they walke and abide ; gladiis enim et lanceis terrentur, shoot a pistole at them, for being aerial bodies, (as Cælius Rhodiginus, lib. 1. cap. 29, Tertullian, Origen, Psellas, and many holde) if stroken, they feel paine. Papists commonly injoyne and apply crosses, holy water, sanctified beads, amulets, musicke, ringing of bells, for to that end are they consecrated, and by them baptized, characters, counterfeit reliques, so many masses, peregrinations, oblations, adjurations, and what not? Alexander Albertinus a Rocha, Petrus Thyreus, and Hieronymus Mengus, with many other pontificiall writers, prescribe and set downe severall formes of exorcismes, as well to houses possessed with divels, as to dæmoniacal persons; but I am of Lemnius minde, 'tis but dumnosa adjuratio, aut poti ludificatio, a meer mockage, a counterfeit charme, to no purpose. They are fopperies and fictions, as that absurde story is amongst the rest, of a penitent woman seduced by a magitian in France, at St. Bawne, exorcised by Domphius, Michaelis, and a company of circumventing friers. If any man (saith Lemnius) will attempt such a thing, without all those jugling circumstances, astrologicall elections of time, place, prodigious habits, fustian, big, sesquipedal words, spels, crosses, characters, which exorcists ordinarily use, let him follow the example of Peter and John, that without any ambitious swelling termes, cured a lame man, Acts 3. In the name of Christ Jesus rise and walke. His name alone is the best and only charme against all such diabolicall illusions, so doth Origen advise and so Chrysostome. Hæc erit tibi * Antiqui soliti sunt hanc herbam ponere in cœmeteriis, ideo quod, &c. Non desunt nostrâ ætate sacrificuli, qui tale quid attentant, sed a cacodæmone irrisi pudore suffecti sunt et re infectâ abierunt. Done into English by W. B. 1613. baculus, hæc turris inexpugnabilis, hæc armatura. Nos quid ad hæc dicemus, plures fortasse expectabunt, saith St Austin; many men will desire my counsell and opinion what's to be done in this behalfe; I can say no more, quam ut vera fide, quæ per dilectionem operatur, ad Deum unum fugiamus, let them fly to God alone for helpe. Athanasius in his book De variis quæst. prescribes as a present charme against divels, the beginning of the 61 Ps. Exsurgat Deus, dissipentur inimici, &c. But the best remedy is to flye to God, to call on him, hope, pray, trust, relye on him, to commit ourselves wholly to him. What the practice of the primitive church was in this behalfe, et quis dæmonia ejiciendi modus, read Wierus at large, lib. 5. de Cura. Lam. meles. cap. 38 et deinceps. Last of all: If the party affected shall certainly know this malady to have proceeded from too much fasting, meditation, precise life, contemplation of Gods judgements, (for the divel deceives many by such meanes) in that other extream he circumvents melancholy it self, reading some books, treatises, hearing rigid preachers, &c. If he shall perceive that it hath begun first from some great loss, grievous accident, disaster, seeing others in like case, or any such terrible object, let him speedily remove the cause, which to the cure of this disease Navarrus so much commends, avertat cogitationem a re scrupulosú, by all opposite meanes, art, and industry, let him laxare animum, by all honest recreations, refresh and recreate his distressed soule; let him divert his thoughts, by himselfe and other of his friends. Let him reade no more such tracts or subjects, hear no more such fearful tones, avoid such companies, and by all meanes open himselfe, submit himselfe to the advice of good physicians and divines, which is contraventio scrupulorum, as he cals it; hear them speake to whom the Lord hath given the tongue of the learned, to be able to minister a word to him that is weary, whose words are as flagons of wine. Let him not be obstinate, head-strong, peevish, wilful, self-conceited (as in this malady they are) but give eare to good advice, be ruled and perswaded; and no doubt but such good counsell may prove as prosperous to his soule, as the angel was to Peter, that opened the iron gates, loosed his bands, brought him out of prison, and delivered him from bodily thraldome; they may ease his afflicted minde, relieve his wounded soule, and take him out of the jawes of hell it selfe. I can say no more, or give better advice to such as are any way distressed in this kinde, then what I have given and said. Only take this for a corollary and conclusion, as thou tenderest thine owne welfare in this, and all other melancholy, thy good health of body and minde, observe this short precept, give not way to solitariness and idleness. Be not solitary, be not idle. j SPERATE MISERI, Vis a dubio liberari? vis quod incertum est evadere? Age pænitentiam dum sanus es; sic agens, dico tibi quod securus es, quod pœnitentiam egisti eo tempore quo peccare potuisti. Austin. THE TABLE. ABSENCE a cure of love mel. 591. Absence over | good against mel. 457. Black eys best, 521. Black Cho- CARDANS father conjured up seven divels at Conscience what it is, 106. Contention, brawl-730. Element of fire exploded, 325. Envie ing, law-suits, effects, 243. Continent, or in- and malice cause of mel. 175; their antidote, ward causes of mel. 246. Cookery taxed, 147. 416. Epicurus vindicated, 361. Epicurus meContent above all, 396; whence to be had, ibid. dicine for mel. 374. Epicures, atheists, hypoContentions cure, 427. Costiveness to some a crites, how mad and mel. 704. Epithalamium, cause of mel. 152. Costiveness helped, 465. 625. Eunuchs, why kept, and where, 642. Correctors of accidents in mel. 459. Correctors Evacuations how they cause mel. 154. Excento expel windiness and costiveness helped, 465. tricks and epicicles exploded, 326. Exercise, Cordials against mel. 454. Covetousness de- if immoderate, cause of mel. 158; before meales fined, described, how it causeth mel. 188. wholsom, 159; exercise rectified, 339; several Counsell against mel. 361, 594; cure of jea- kindes, when fit, 349; exercises of the minde, lousie, 650; of despair, 578. Cuckolds com- 351, 352. Exotick and strange simples cenmon in all ages, 457. Countrey recreations, sured, 439. Extasis, 441. Eys main instru346. Crocodiles jealous, 629. Cupping glasses, ments of love, 509; loves darts, 520; seats, oracauteries how and when used to mel. 453. tors, arrows, torches, ibid.; how they pierce, 524. Custome of diet, delight of appetite, how to be kept and yeelded to, 150. Cure of mel. unlawful rejected, 295; from God, 297; of head-mel. 449; over all the body, 462; of hypochondriacal mel. 463; of love mel. 584; of jealousie, 645; of despair, 723. Cure of mel. in himself, 361; or friends, 365. Curiosity described, his effects, 240. DANCING, masking, mumming, censured, approved, 544; their effects, how they cause love mel. 542; how symptomes of lovers, 577. Deformity of body no misery, 383. Death foretold by spirits, 125. Death of friends cause of mel. 235, 236; other effects, ibid.; how cured, 410; death advantageous, 415. Despair, equivocations, 712; causes, 714; symptomes, 720; prognosticks, 722; cure, 723. Diet what, and how causeth mel. 140; quantity, 147; diet of divers nations, 148. Diet how rectified to cure, 306; in quantity, 310. Diet a cause of love mel. 508.; a cure, 585. Digression against all manner of discontents, 378; digression of ayr, 316; of anatomie, 92; of divels and spirits, 115. Discommodities of unequall matches, 654. Discontents, cares, miseries, causes of mel. 179; how repelled and cured by good counsell, 366, 578. Diseases why inflicted upon us, 82; their number, definition, division, 86; diseases of the head, 87; diseases of the minde more grievous then those of the body, 287. Disgrace, a cause of mel. 173, 242; qualified by counsell, 424. Dissimilar parts of the body, 95. Distemper of particular parts, causes of mel. and how, 247. Divels how they cause mel. 117; their beginning, nature, conditions, ibid.; feel pain, swift in motion, mortal, 119; their orders, 120; power, 127; how they cause religious mel. 669; how despair, 564; divels are often in love, 496; shall be saved, as some hold, 733. Divine sentences, 427. Divine miseries, 206; with the causes of their miseries, 207. Divers accidents causing mel. 235. Dotage what, 87. Dotage of lovers, 564. Dowry and money main causes of love mel. 531. Dreams and their kindes, 102. Dreams troublesome, how to be amended, 359. Drunkards, children often mel. 138. Drunkenness taxed, 148, 337. EARTHS motion examined, 328; compass, center, &c. 331; an sit animata, 327. Education a cause of mel 219. Effects of love, 579, 582. Election misconceived, cause of despair, FACES prerogative, a most attractive part, 518. Fasting cause of mel. 150; a cure of love mel. 586; abused, the divels instrument, 681, 682; effects of it, ibid. Fayries, 123. Fear cause of mel. his effects, 172; fear of death, destinies fore-told, 239; a symptome of mel. 253; sign of love mel. 557 ; antidote to fear, 416. Flaxen hair a great motive of love, 519. Flegmatick mel. signs. 263. Fires rage, 84. Fiery divels, 122. Fish, what mel. 142. Fish good, 309. Fishes in love, 496. Fishing and fowling how and when good exercise, 342. Fools often beget wise men, 139; by love become wise, 576. Force of imagination, 167. Friends a cure of mel. 366. Fruits causing mel. allowed, 309. Fumitory purgeth mel. 436. GAMING a cause of mel. his effects, 192. Gardens of simples where, to what end, 434. Gardens for pleasure, 346. General toleration of religion, by whom permitted, and why, 702. Gentry, whence it came first, 385; base without means, ibid.; vices accompanying it, ibid., true gentry whence, 387; gentry commended, 389. Gesture cause of love mel. 526. Gifts and promises of great force amongst lovers, 546. Gods just judgement cause of mel. 82; sole cause sometimes, 114. Geography commended, 352. Geometry, arithmetick, algebra, commended, 356. Gold good against mel. 438. a most beautiful object, 479. Good counsell, a charm to mel. 361; good counsell for love-sick persons, 594; against mel. it self, 427; for such as are jealous, 545. Great men most part unhonest, 636. Gristle what, 94. Guts described, 96. HAND and paps how forcible in love mel. 520. Hard usage a cause of jealousie, 632. Hatred cause of mel. 176. Hauking and hunting why good, 341. Head mel. causes, 249; symptomes, 270; his cure, 449. Hearbs causing mel. 143; curing mel. 309; proper to most diseases, ibid. Heavens penetrable, 327; infinitely swift, 328. Hearing, what, 100. Heat immoderate cause of mel. 156. Health a pretious thing, 244. Hell where, 320. Help from friends against mel. 366. Hellebor white and black, purgers of mel. 445; black his vertues and history, 416. Hemorrogia cause of mel. 153. Hemrods stopped cause of mel. ibid. Hereditary diseases, 136. Hereticks their conditions, 695; their symptomes, ibid. Heroical loves pedegree, power, extent, 493; definition, |