false and Pagan positions, prophane Stoical Paradoxes, wicked examples, it boots not what Heathen Philosophers determine in this kind, they are impious, abominable, and upon a wrong ground. "No evil is to be done that good may come of it;" reclamat Christus, reclamat Scriptura, God, and all good men are against it: He that stabs another can kill his body; but he that stabs himself, kils his own Soul. a Matè meretur, qui dat mendico, quod edat; nam & illud quod dat, perit; & illi producit vitam ad miseriam: he that gives a begger an almes (as that Comical Poet said) doth ill, because he doth but prolong his miseries. But Lactantius l. 6. c. 7. de vero cultu, cals it a detestable opinion, and fully confutes it, lib. 3. de sap. cap. 18. and S. Austin. ep. 52. ad Macedonium, cap. 61. ad Dulcitium Tribunum: so doth Hierom to Marcella of Blesilla's death, Non recipio tales animas &c. he cals such men martyres stultæ Philosophie: so doth Cyprian de duplici martyrio; Si qui sic moriantur, aut infirmitas, aut ambitio, aut dementia cogit eos: 'tis meer madness so to do, +furor est ne moriare mori. To this effect writes Arist. 3. Ethic. Lipsius Manuduc. ad Stoicam Philosophiæm lib. 3. dissertat. 23. but it needs no confutation. This only let me add, that in some cases, those hard censures of such as offer violence to their own persons, or in some desperate fit to others, which sometimes they do, by stabbing, slashing, &c. are to be mitigated, as in such as are mad, beside themselves for the time, or found to have been long melancholy, and that in extremity, they know not what they do, deprived of reason, judgement, all, as a ship that is void of a Pilot, must needs impinge upon the next rock or sands, and suffer shipwrack. P. Forestus hath a story of two melancholy brethren, that made away themselves, and for so foul a fact, were accordingly censured, to be infamously buried, as in such cases they use: to terrifie others, as it did the Milesian Virgins of old; but upon farther examination of their misery and madness, the censure was revoked, and they were solemnly interred, as Saul was by David, 2 Sam. 2. 4. and Seneca well adviseth, Irascere interfectori, sed miserere interfecti; be justly offended with

*See Lipsius Manuduc. ad Stoicam philosophiam lib. 3. dissert. 22. D. Kings 14. Lect. on Jonas. D. Abbot's 6. Lect. on the same Prophet. * Plautus.

+ Martial. As to be buried out of Christian burial with a stake. Idem. Plato 9. de legibus, vult separatim sepeliri, qui sibi ipsis mortem consciscunt, &c. lose their goods, &c. Navis destituta nauclero, in terribilem aliquem scopulum impingit. d Observat. • Seneca tract. 1. 1. 8. c. 4. Lex, Homicida in se insepultus abjiciatur, contradicitur; Eo quod afferre sibi manus coactus sit assiduis malis; summam infælicitatem suam in hoc removit, quod existimabat licere misero mori,

him as he was a murderer, but pity him now as a dead man. Thus of their goods and bodies, we can dispose; but what shall become of their Souls, God alone can tell; his mercy may coine inter pontem & fontem, inter gladium & jugulum, betwixt the bridge and the brook, the knife and the throat. Quod cuiquam contigit, cuivis potest: Who knows how he may be tempted? It is his case, it may be thine: * Quæ sua sors hodie est, cras fore vestra potest. We ought not to be so rash and rigorous in our censures, as some are; charity will judge and hope the best; God be merciful unto us

all.

Buchanan. Eleg. lib.

THE

THE

SYNOPSIS

OF THE

SECOND PARTITION.

Unlawful

means

forbid-
den.

Lawfull
means,
which are

Mem.

1. From the Divel, Magicians, Witches, &c. by charmes, spels, incantations, Images, &c. Quest. 1. Whether they can cure this, or other such like diseases?

Quest. 2. Whether if they can so cure, it be lawfull to seek to them for help? (2. Immediately from God, a Jove principiu, by prayer, &c.

3. Quest. 1. Whether Saints and their Reliques can help this infirmity ?———

Quest. 2. Whether it be lawfull in this case to sue to them for aide ?

Particular to the three distinct species

m

Sect. 2.

Diætctical,

which con

sists in re

forming those six non natural things, as in

Memb. 6.

Passions

and perturbations

of the minde rectified

roots.

Mountain birds, partridg, phe

sant, quails, &c.

Hen, capon, mutton, veale,

kid, rabbit, &c.

That live in gravelly waters, as pike, pearch, trowt, Seafish, solid, white, &c. Borage,bugloss,bawm, succory, endive, violets in broath, not raw, &c.

Fruits and Raysins of the Sun, apples corrected for wind, oranges, &c. parsnips, potatoes, &c. At seasonable and usuall times of repast, in good order, not before the first be concocted, sparing, not overmuch of one dish. 2. Rectification of Retention and Evacuation, as costiveness, Venery, bleeding at nose, months stopped, baths, &c.

3. Aire rec-
tified, with a
Digression
of the Aire.

4. Exercise.

2. Quan-
tity.

Naturally in the choice, and site of our contrey, dwelling-place, to be hot and moist, light, wholsome, pleasant, &c.

Artificially, by often change of aire, avoiding winds, fogs, tempests, opening windows, perfumes, &c. Of body and minde, but moderate, as hawking, hunting, riding, shooting, bowling, fishing, fowling, walking in fair fields, galleries, tennis, bar.

Of minde, as Chess, cards, tables, &c. to see playes,
masks, &c. serious studies, business, all honest re-
creations.

5. Rectification of waking and terrible dreams, &c.
6. Rectification of passions and perturbations of the minde.
Subsect.

From
himself

or

from his
friends.

1. By using all good means of help, confessing to friend, &c.

Avoiding all occasions of his infirmity,

Not giving way to passions, but resisting to his utmost. 2. By fair and foul means, counsell, comfort, good per swasion, witty devices, fictions, and if it be possible to satisfie his mind.

3. Musick of all sorts aptly applyed.

4. Mirth, and merry company.

Sect. 3.
A consola-

tory digres
sion, con-
taining re-
medies to all
discontents
and passions
of the
minde.

Memb.

1. Generall discontents and grievances satisfied. '

2. Particular discontents, as deformity of body, sickness, baseness of birth, &c. 3. Poverty and want, such calamities and adversities.

4. Against servitude, loss of liberty, imprisonment, banishment, &c.

5. Against vain fears, sorrows for death of friends, or otherwise.

6. Against envy, livor, hatred, malice, emulation, ambition, and self-love, &c. 7. Against repulses, abuses, injuries, contempts, disgraces, contumelics, slanders, and scoffes, &c.

8. Against all other grievous and ordinary symptoms of this disease of melancholy.