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A44763
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The vision, or, A dialog between the soul and the bodie fancied in a morning-dream.
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Howell, James, 1594?-1666.
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heat than light in it doth too often transport me som fires glow in me as if they were flown from hell and such a fire no meaner man than Saint Paul though a Convert and one that had been a Traveller in the other world felt within him impatience and rashness intemperance self-conceit and hatred have reigned in me I have other odd things and indeed all things which attend human weakness that I am subject unto as too much credulitie and lightness sadness contracts and mirth too suddenly dilates my spirits and makes them break out into violent fits of laughter which though it be a harmless Passion yet there is none that distorts a man so much for it extends the fore-head declines the brow half shuts the eye raising a kind of splendor about them it crumples up the nose drives back the cheeks and makes pits in them it shews the teeth makes the toung pendant in the mouth it hindereth the swallowing by contracting and shutting the muscles which serve that action it gives such girds to the Diaphragma that it obstructs the respiration for the time it contracts all the members and beats upon the flancks it puts forth arms leggs and hands in strange posturs It causeth Syncopes sometimes and raiseth an irregular motion in the pulse thus this Passion disguiseth me too often betrays my folly though one apologizing for this Passion saith that laughter doth not as much discover a man to be a fool but that there is a fool in his companie which causeth him to laugh There is so much prodigalitie in me that I think I shall never be covetous I shall never be condemned for a rich man nor be so simple as to roast meat for others while I starve my self I have other Passions that dwell in me whereof there can be no excess as Hope and Love by the first I think I shall be long liv'd for of all the Passions there is none so advantagious for health in regard the spirits therein which coroborat and quicken all the parts are moderate she stops and keeps them back that they cannot dissipat nor make any vehement agitation or eagerness for if the spirits be too active and violent in their operations they may produce strong actions but it shortens our daies because those spirits easily scatter and so consume the natural moisture which Hope useth not to do Touching the other Passion viz. Love Nature herein hath been benign and bountifull unto me for she hath given me good store so that I think I am not in the arrear to any for that I take much more pleasure in the retaliation of a good turn than in the revenge of a wrong c. This Love extends to all my fellow Cretures for it makes an impression of a kind of tenderness in me when I see any of them go to the slaughter Insomuch that I could live a Pythagorean all the daies of my life upon roots fruits pulse and whit-meats which Nature reacheth unto us so gently without any violence what a coil there is with so many hounds horses and men to take away the life of a Hare or Partridge what blowing and puffing what sweating and swearing is us'd in killing a poor Dear which makes me think upon the mad-man whom the Italian Doctor had put naked in a Pond up to the navil and it hapning that a Falconer passed by luring after his Hawk he asked the mad-man whether he had seen her the mad-man staring upon him and asking him divers questions touching his Hawks Hounds horse finding that all that expence and pains was but to kill some poor Bird he told the Falconer Get you gon hence as soon as you can for if the Doctor comes out and finds you whereas he hath put me here but to the navil he will clap you up to the very neck for a greater mad-man But touching Rational Cretures which are of my own species and bear the Character of Christians I can hate no man onely for his opinion difference of Fancy and face to me is all one it mov's Pity rather in me than hatred The Greek all the while he hath the same Creed with me though among other tenents he denies that the souls of holy men do enjoy the blissfull vision of God or the souls of wicked men are tormented in Hell before the day of judgement The Melchites or Assyrians the greatest sect of Christians in the Orient though among other wrong opinions they hold That the Holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father c. The Russian though he receive Children after seven years of age to the Communion and mingleth warm water with the Wine in the Eucharist c. The Nestorian though he hold That there are two Persons in our Saviour as well as two Natures c. The Iacobit though he signs Children before Baptism with the sign of the Cross some in the face some â—n the arm some in the breast which badg of Christianitie they carry with them to their grave c. The Cophti or Christians of Egypt though they baptize not their children till 40 daies after their birth and then presently Administer the Sacrament of the Eucharist unto them c. The Habassins which are the Ethiopians a vast continent of Christians as bigg as half Europe though they circumcise their children as well as Baptise them so are Jews from the girdle downward though the cake of unleavened Bread which they administer in the Sacrament have five dents in it alluding to the five wounds of Christ and that day they communicat they do not spit till the Sun be set and the Emperour when in his Progress he comes to the sight of a Church he presently lights down off his Dromedary and crawls a while on his knees but never remounts till he be out of the sight of the Church with other Ceremonies of theirs c. The Armenians who have more priviledges in the Turks dominion than any other Christians though they deny the Holy ghost to proceed from the Son and receive infants presently after baptism to the communion of the Eucharists c. The Maronits that inhabit about mount Libanus though they hold that human souls were all created together from the beginning that the father may dissolve the matrimony of his son or daughter if he mislike it Though they use to create children 5. or 6. years old sub-Deacons and believe that no human creture entereth the Kingdom of Heaven before the generall â—udgement c. The Anabaptists â—hough they baptise not their children till they come to years of disâ—retion c. The Presbyterian though â—e be against hierarchy and the ceâ—emonies of the church and onely â—n love with the wealth thereof c. The Hollanders though they allow a man to cohabit with a woman all the daies of his life and if upon his death bed he marry her t' is time enough to restore her honour and make the children formerly begot between them legitimate
Pharoh and his army to a high spring tide The passing over of the Israelites to a low ebb and eddy water They admire not the raining of Manna in the wildernes because there is good store found in Calabria and other places They cannot believe that Lazarus was rais'd from the dead but they must be satisfied where his soul was all the while They censure the miracle of making the blind to see because he saw men walk like trees whereas he had never seen trees before having bin blind from his nativity They think it strange theâ— shold be a Tree in Paradise so soon in regard the text saies positively that the plants of the fields were not yet grown because it had not rain'd They question whether the handle of Goliath's spear was as big as a weavers beam and whether David had so many hundred thousand talents of treasure Moreover they cast blemishes upon Christian truth because general and great oecumenicall Councels did so clash one with another And that the Fathers of the Primitive Church in divers opinions were not only differing one from the other but dissonant to themselfs as among other positions in the computations which they make of the Yeers from the Creation of the world to the Incarnation wherin they are so discrepant Nay they wold derogat from the Dictats of the Holy Ghost himself touching som texts of Scripture because in the second of Kings we read Michal for Merah as may be perceived by comparing it with the first Book of the same History As also because St Matthew hath written Zachary for Ieremy chap. 27. Likewise that St Mark in the first chapter cites a passage out of Isaiah which is recorded in Malachy Moreover when he saith that our Saviour was crucified on the third hour whereas St Iohn saith Chap. 19. that he was but only condemned by Pilat the sixth hour So likewise where St Luke saith that Cainan was the son of Arphaxad and Salec the son of Cainan the place is contradicted in Genesis 23. where it is said that Salec was not Arphaxed's grandchild but his son no other generation intervening betwixt the two And when â—â— is said Genesis the 11. that the Cave which Abraham bought was in Sichem being indeed in Hebron and that he bought it of the sonnes of Emor the son of Sechem yet Moses saith it was of Ephron the Hittite Moreover wheras he saith that Emor was Sichem's son it is said in Genesis 3â— quite contrary that Emor was Sichem's Father and not his son Other supercritical spirits wold cast aspersions upon Christianity because Constantin the first Emperor of that Religion was a very lewd man Gildas accusing him to have bin a murtherer a perjurer the tyrannicall whelp of the unclean lionness of Dannonier's That likewise Clovis the first Christian king of France was as bad And that Henry the eight the first reformed king worse then either of Them Ther are others that have another kind of spiritual pride it being not only sufficient to Arrogat from the Holy Scriptures to pick hoâ—es in Christianity criticize so upon her but while they go about to magnify man they detract from the chiefest instruments of Gods glory and his principall attendants the blessed Angels by paraleling mans Creation to theirs and that they were made as all things els for man whom they cry up to be the Epitome of the world and that the principal ministerial function of the Angels is to gard him Such as these may be said to be possessed with a giddy kind of spiritual drunkeness or madness rather and touching those of this last conceit they are like the Cobler who drunk himself into a kingdom and thought himself a king while he continued in that humor Nor is Religion only troubled with such Critiques and Detractors but these times afford such in all sciences to magnifie their own fancies they slight all Antiquity they will not stick to call Plato a dotard and Hippocrates a quack-salver thinking that they have more sublime notions then any It is true that in some sense restraining it to saving knowledg a child that understands his primer may be said to be more learned then all the Philosophers that ever were as the least fly in regard she hath a sensitive soul within her may be said in som respects to be more noble then the sun because he is inanimat Soul It is too tru that the present times do swarm with such arrogant and over-curious spirits though they be full of doubts and still at a loss going after nothing els but more teaching still yet they seem to have such a peremptory certitude of their salvation as if they had seen their names registred in the book of life expunging thence all other but their own They cannot modestly beleeve the Creed but they must know the very track that our Saviour went to Hell they wold string the rainbow and be satisfied what kind of wood it is that the man of the moon carrieth on his back c. With a spirit much like this was Scaliger possessed who while he went about to amend the times and correct errors committed as gross ones himself as any one Author he condemns he makes Dagon a woman the Emperour of Habassia Prester Iohn what shallow conceits hath he of the depth of the sea and how poorly was he vers'd in Cyclometria how scurrilously he railes against whole nations and would understand nothing but what he liked Body Truly I have bin ever averse to raise frivolous quaeres in any thing specially in the essentialls of faith or enter into disputes and altercations or heat touching matters indifferent I was never of their mind that against a Cap and a Surplis would put on a Helmet and Armor I have bin contented to follow the first road I was put in towards heaven moving after the motion of the superior orbs that were plac'd in the firmament of the Church though not altogether in an implicit way I have always made Reson and other sciences to truckle under Divinity their mistress I have taken as much spirituall delight let all this be spoken without vanity or any scandall to other souls in other offices and holy duties of the Church as in Sermons which makes me reflect upon a saying of S. Lewis the French king to Henry the third of England who asking him in those times of implicit Faith whether he would go sooner unto the Eucharist or to a Sermon he answered I had rather see my friend then hear him only spoken of I have always inclined to love Order and degrees of respect to abhor confusion to love decencies rather then slutâ—isness nor I hope shall I be ever of their gang who to avoid superstition do fall into palpable prophaness Soul I like you humor well touching all these particulars nor will they offend I beleeve any one that is of a sâ—ne sober judgment concerning the last thing you spoke of it makes the