Part 51 (2/2)

Improper To many beasts; as swans, c.o.c.ks, bulls.

To kings and princes, of their subjects, successors.

To friends, parents, tutors over their children, or otherwise.

or Proper Before marriage, corrivals, &c.

After, as in this place our present subject.

Causes, _Subs. 2._ In the parties themselves, Idleness, impotency in one party, melancholy, long absence.

They have been naught themselves. Hard usage, unkindness, wantonness, inequality of years, persons, fortunes, &c.

or from others.

Outward enticements and provocations of others.

Symptoms, _Memb. 2._ Fear, sorrow, suspicion, anguish of mind, strange actions, gestures, looks, speeches, locking up, outrages, severe laws, prodigious trials, &c.

Prognostics, _Memb. 3._ Despair, madness, to make away themselves, and others.

Cures, _Memb. 4._ By avoiding occasions, always busy, never to be idle.

By good counsel, advice of friends, to contemn or dissemble it.

_Subs. 1._ By prevention before marriage. Plato's communion.

To marry such as are equal in years, birth, fortunes, beauty, of like conditions, &c.

Of a good family, good education. To use them well. [_Subs. 2._]

[Symbol: Gemini] Religious Melancholy, _Sect. 4._

In excess of such as do that which is not required. _Memb. 1._

A proof that there is such a species of melancholy, name, object G.o.d, what his beauty is, how it allureth, part and parties affected, superst.i.tious, idolaters, prophets, heretics, &c. _Subs. 1._

Causes, _Subs. 2._ From others The devil's allurements, false miracles, priests for their gain. Politicians to keep men in obedience, bad instructors, blind guides.

or from themselves.

Simplicity, fear, ignorance, solitariness, melancholy, curiosity, pride, vainglory, decayed image of G.o.d.

Symptoms, _Subs. 3._ General Zeal without knowledge, obstinacy, superst.i.tion, strange devotion, stupidity, confidence, stiff defence of their tenets, mutual love and hate of other sects, belief of incredibilities, impossibilities.

or Particular.

Of heretics, pride, contumacy, contempt of others, wilfulness, vainglory, singularity, prodigious paradoxes.

In superst.i.tious blind zeal, obedience, strange works, fasting, sacrifices, oblations, prayers, vows, pseudomartyrdom, mad and ridiculous customs, ceremonies, observations.

In pseudoprophets, visions, revelations, dreams, prophecies, new doctrines, &c., of Jews, Gentiles, Mahometans, &c.

Prognostics, _Subs. 4._ New doctrines, paradoxes, blasphemies, madness, stupidity, despair, d.a.m.nation.

Cures, _Subs. 5._ By physic, if need be, conference, good counsel, persuasion, compulsion, correction, punishment. _Quaeritur an cogi debent?

Affir._

In defect, as _Memb. 2._

Secure, void of grace and fears.

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