Dust requires a Grave Ashes an Urne Let such as a Marcion declame against their materiall part and spit the venome of their malice against the handy-work of their Creatour Let such as a Epicuâ—us who terminate their hopes at the approach of Death and châ—rish no after-considerations expose the breathlesse Body to hardship and incivilities Indeed the rude and Ethâ—ick inhabitants of the Scythian Province Bactra b have their Sepulchrall Dogs and in their bellies do savagely enâ—omb the bodies of the Aged at which customary Folly amongst these people I cannot cease to wonder since they had a King a man of sublimated reason and the c Primitive searcher into the Arcana of Nature which â—ath pregnant d semblances of the Reâ—urrection Mecaenas also is wholly regardlesse of his enâ—errment and must needs declare so much in a Poeticall line Non tumulum curo sepelit Natura relictos And I wonder not at his careless mind since he was practically ignorant of a future state and by his debauched and dissolute carriage had a made his Body it self a Sepulchre containing nothing but corruption since it was an object offensive to all the Senses and a morsell ready prepared for the Palates of Worms Diogenes throughout his whole life treated the companion of his Soul with harsh usage and severity and at his death was not willing to gratifie it with so much as a Tub for it's protection He desired no other b Canopy besides the curtains of Heaven and would not condescend so far as to lye below the superficies of the Earth c When his friends out of a courteous intent intimated to him how by this means he would expose his Body to the cruelty of Birds and Beasts he replyed in no fairer language then this scoff Provide me a stick which I may have in readinesse to prevent their approach Neither is this worthy to be entertained with an admiring thought for Dogs will bark at the Moon her self and a Cynick will snarl at the brightest actions But true Christians have learned otherwise and allow that which Christ hath redeemed a civill deposition a decent Repose Adam had a worthy Sepulchre which a some affirm to have been Calvarie b others in Hebron but few deny to have been Likewise Abraham and Isaâ—c had rich and stately Sepulchres in c Arbe in the tribe of Iudah d Iosiah was buried in the Mausoleum of his Fathers according to the Vulgar Translation And Saint e Hierome makes mention of the Mausoleum of David Even the heathenish Babylonians were ceremonious about the dead body {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} according f to Herodotus with much solemnity they buried it in honey So likewise were the Egyptians who buried it in g glasse a perspicuous embleme of its frail constitution What the crafty Vibulenus a spake pathetically to Blaesus is true and antient Even Enemies deny not Buriall to each other The Jews that denyed their Messias life objected not a word that we read of against his having a Sepulchre He was entomb'd by b noble hands and not without usuall ceremonies and laud abiliter commemor antur in Evangelio qui corpus ejus de cruce acceptum diligenter atque honorifice tegendum atque sepeliendum curarunt their praise is in the Gospell who were offious in this kind according to c S. Augustines observation If we will credit d Pliny we may descend a step lower and contemplate funerall Exequies in the Commonwealth of Bees Apes defunctas progerunt funerantium more comitantur exequias Christ pronounced e a Woe against the Scribes and Pharisees building the Sepulchres of the Prophets and adorning the monuments of the just thereby f not reprehending the act simply considered and in it self which was good and warrantable but that which attended it to wit their vanity and ostentation they endeavoring to palliate their more secret crimes and gild them over with exteriour performances and to seem to the world to be zealous followers of those whose very places of buriall they so studiously preserved which Christ the searcher of their hearts perceived and intimated so much whilst he call'd them Hypocrites Civill rites performed upon the Body after the dislodging of the Soul speak aloud our hopes of their re-union The acute Doctor of the Gentiles draws an Argument as powerfull as a cloud of witnesses to testifie the Reâ—urrection out of the a water in which the Corinthians immers'd the body in their funerall solemnities {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} But the affectation of Epitaphs is justly censurable and the practice triviall and uselesse Most of those who have been so passionately transported as to write their own Epitaphs have thereby eternized their Pride and Haughtyness which above all things abhorrs a Register and whereby to be immortall is to condescend to the design of the obscure Herostratus For instance consider that in a A. Gellius of the Poet C. Naevius Immortales Mortales flere si foret fas Flerent Divae Camoenae Naevium Poetam Or that of b Iulian into which he thrust a verse out of the third of the Iliads dedicated by the pen of Homer to the immortality of Agamemnon who was c priz'd by Alexander the Great above all other Worthies Or that upon the fam'd d laterall Monument of England Fui Caius I was Caius Or that of him who in good opinion of himself went beyond those of China supposing himself to have two Eyes and adjudging all the learned world besides to blindness Scaligeri quod reliquum est Here 's all that remains of the great Scaliger In all which the Authours afford themselves most emphaticall commendations As for Epitaphs they were of a Pagan institution and can pleâ—d nothing but prescription and that more Heathenish then Christian Throughout the whole Book of God honourable mention is made of Sepulâ—ure none of Epitaphs And Christians whose monuments have been thus scribled for the most part have had their Epitaphs forced upon their Executoâ—rs by some Poeticall Sycophant some purse-milking Rimer or else too willingly contributed by some stinging Satyrist an avowed enemy of the deceased person Indeed Epitaphs abstracted from the interest of persons and considered without the byasse of prejudice or officiousnesse may passe â—olerably in a notion but the practice will alwayes be accompanied with the fore-mentioned associates The learned a Clarenceaux enumerates four uses of Epitaphs which I suppose he reckons according to the common opinion of those that affect them and not according to his particular judgement for then I should scarce presume so highly as to contradict that knowing Worthie although I am not ignorant that a man may erre by great Example and that Nullum magnum ingenium est sine mixtura dementiae is a Truth in reference to Principles as well as
world I shall confine my Discourse to the Profession of Physiok the most common centre of reproachfull lines This is evident from Chaucer's verses Physicians know what is digestible But their study is but little in the Bible All Man-curers may speak the same language with the a Man-haâ—er Populus me sibilat But they have an Antidote against this Poyson Almost each of them can comfortably go on with the verse at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca The people flout abroad but I my self Applaud at home and smile upon my Pelf Physick is accounted the mother of no lesse monstrous a birth then â—hat of Atheisme and yet its b first founder was Aesculapius a God 'T is as usuall as an Adage Ubi tres Medici duo Athei Where there are three Physitians there are two Atheists which notwithstanding is but to sport at Artiasme c Ludere par impar d {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to play like Boyes at even and odde Vox praeterea nihil a Saying and no reality And I can no more rationally deduce from hence the Physitian 's Atheisme then I can collect the subordination of the Medick to the Mendicant from that in a Plautus Grip. Num Medicus quaeso es Lab. imò aedepol unâ literâ plus sum quà m Medicus Gr. Tùm tu Mendicus es Lab. tetigisti acu Religio Medici is not the product of the Penne alone but also of the practice of Physitians The rude Rabble of the world proclaims the contrary but the words of dying men cry louder for attention then the others noise and who ever heard a man in such a condition commit outrages against the credit of those from whom he expects the restauration of his Health unlesse the man be in a frenzy b quum sit Pugil Medicum urget and then how regardlesse are his words It is true Physitians often fail in their enterprises and many of their Patients miscarry One c Hebrew word signifies both Physitians and dead men The poore d Haemorrhoissa was twelve years in the Physitians hands without profit to her body and with detriment to her purse a Multitudo medicorum perdidit Caesarem is in every ones mouth and hereupon many curse them because they cannot cure them But if Nature hath resolved that the tenement of clay shall crumble into its primitive constitution and return to its dust who can imagine a Physitian can put a stop to its proceedings Physitians cannot sail beyond the â—ine of Humanity b quod medicorum est Promittunt Medici they cannot out-run their abilities they can promise no more then what is in that c Verse which Seneca would have entertained in two rooms in heart and mouth Homo sum alienum nil hominis à me puto It was but d one of them who boasted of the performance of a contradiction in his sense To put a man into a state of Immortality As for the Profession it self it is of as lawfull yea a necessary as universall use for man is bound by the Law of self-preservation to keep up his crazy cottage with all possible honest reparations and the Soul is not to break prison but it must waite till in despite of means death's violent approach gives it a Gaol-delivery b In the temple of Aesculapius there was a fountain of oyle with a golden arch the perfect Symbole of Physick denoting by c Oyle it's use by d Gold it's Honour Osiris King of Aegypt thought it not below his crown to have commerce with Physicall rules it was e he from whence Physick received its first institution among the Germanes The f Prophet was Physitian to Ezechias and prescribed a lump of Figgs to be applyed to his boyle Now that such a Cure should be effected by such a Cause that such a Malady should be removed by such a Medicine is agreeable to Physicall principles and not wholly supernaturall g Galen adviseth the same for the ripening of Tumours and Impostumations in the flesh The great Physitian of Souls was a great Physitian of Bodies he that redeemed them repaired them he went about all Galilee a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} healing all manner of sicknesse and all manner of disease among the people The Blessed Disciples derived strength from this Almighty Physitian b {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to heal Diseases Why then do the generality of men accost that Profession with Rudenesse and not with Reverence which hath had no meaner Practitioners then the Head and Pillars of the Universall Church This Profession is so farre from prompting Atheism that it is signally advantagious to an holy life The c study of Physitians is Life and Death They of all men least need artificiall memento's or Coffins by their Bed-sides to mind them of their Graves Their frequent conversing with sceletons and the farewell breath of their departing Patients is as effectuall to the true Philosophy a the meditation of Death as Philip's boy's Memento Mori And what greater spurre to our Christian race then to be mindfull or Mortality b Facilè contemnit omnia qui se semper cogitat moriturum saith Saint Hierome Hear the suffrage of an Heathen c {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which is in brief thus Daily fix thy meditation on difficult matters and especially upon Death and thou wilt contemn so low a thing as earth and thy desires after its enjoyments will be curbed in the vehemency of their pursuit d Ex mortis oblivione omnia mala saith Speranza The forgetting of Death is the fountain of all the evills of Life He that makes his bed in a Coffin will scarce entertain an Harlot he that drinks in a Death's-head will scarce adventure to be drunk he that hath Death in his contemplations hath Goodnesse in his actions In the fourteenth of Proverbs v. 32. where we read The righteous hath hope in his death the Chaldee hath it He that hopeth that he is about to die is righteous He that taketh it into consideration that the Knife of Atropos is never in it's Sheath that Death is allwayes in readinesse to put a period to his transitory breath and that if the associate of his Body hath been faithfull in returns of service to Him from whom it received it's Being it shall presently after disunion make it's abode in an eternity of Blisse if otherwise in an eternity of Woe either in Paradise with Blessed Souls or in Hell with cursed Serpents this man will be any thing in an Ecstasie of being ever he will abandon the pleasure of Dalilah's lap in contemplation of the happinesse of Abrahams bosome he will forsake this present evill world in a rapture of a joyous futurity Knowledge in Physick and ignorance of the existence of a God
ΠΕΡΙΑΜΜΑ ' ΕΠΙΔΗ'ΜΙΟΠOr VULGAR ERROURS in Practice Censured Also The Art of ORATORY Composed for the benefit of young Students LONDON Printed for Richard Royston at the Angell in Ivy-lane 1659. ΠΕΡΙΑΜΜΑ ' ΕΠΙΔΗ'ΜΙΟΠOr VULGAR ERROURS in Practice Censured Tandem nequitiae pone modum tuae Horat. LONDON Printed for Richard Royston at the Angell in Ivy-lane 1659. The EPISTLE to the READER Reader THou art here presented with a few talents lai'd up formerly in a Napkin and now lay'd out in Sheets Thou hast an account of some unmolested hours and vacant intervals spent not in needlesse Controversies but in necessary Censures This Treâ—tise meddles not with the times but with the manners of men though both may admit the Oratour's * O! It speaks noâ— evill of the Rulers of the people and with a Michael it dares not bring a railing accusation against present Authority For even all chief Governours have as long Ears as Midas which entertain intelligence of each particular negotiation And as they have with him Golden Hands to gratifie pens steeped in oile which flatter them so also they have Iron Hands to terrifie pens dipped in gall which flout them The Booke abounds more with savoury then Satyricall Truths and more with Instructions then Invectives Although this Iron Age doth even extort a file Cùm pars Niliacae plebis cùm verna Canopi Crispinus Tyrias humero revocante lacernas Ventilet aestivum digitis sudantibus aurum Nec sufferre queat majoris pondera gemmae Difficile est Satyram non scribere nam quis iniqui Tam patiens orbis tam ferreus ut teneat se If thou believest not that the ensuing Myndus is answerable to these gates that there is not in the succeeding Building what is promised in this Portalâ— enter in and trust thine eyes and what thou seest proposâ—d in Words follow with Works The Father of Lights bestow his rayes upon thee To hiâ— Tuition I commend thy person to which if thou once attainest it wiâ—l be superfluous for me to bid thee Farewell The Introduction IN the Microcosme few Comets are above the Moon There Fire goes not beyond Light but Knowledge surpasseth Zeal Men abound in new Notions but abstain not from their old Vices Many of them can almost with Berengarius dispute de omni Scibili but few comply with a Mary in the choice of the unum neceslarium They want not the eyes of Argus but the hands of Briareus The Disease with which they labour is the Spirituall Rickâ—ts whereby their Head swells beyond due proportion but their Feet abate of their usuall dimensions their Conscience is not adequate to their Science a I see men as trees rooted in the earth having their affections here below and the longer they continue the deeper root they take And it is a sad symptome of the decaying health of the Body Politick when after so many meals made upon the meat which will make it perish upon the forbidden fruit of the fruitlesse works of darknesse it becomes not cold but is still ardent in its desires after the supposed delicacies of Iniquity That mens Souls abound thus with peccant humours needs not proof more then a Proleptick notion and That all the Extravagancies of which men are guilty deserve reproof that all these unprofitable branches call for the pruning-hook is as evident as if it were deciphered with a Sun-beam But to inveigh against the whole catalogue were a work too difficult even for a single Hercules I have contributed my weak endeavours towards the stopping of some of these muddy Rivolets which have not often been molested with Censures but have passed on in an undisturbed current I confesse what I have written came in collaterally and by accident not in the prosecution of the ordinary method of my studies but I account that in no degree prejudiciall It is observed of Saint Augustine's Comments that those Scriptures which come in occasionally obtain a better Glosse then those which are treated on professedly The fam'd work of Erasmus was his By-work his Adagies were his {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and the Painter by an immethodicall dash of his pencill made a lively representation of the Horses Fome which before he attempted in vain according to the rudiments of his Art If the lines which I have drawn arrive at a center where they may totally rest if these my Censures passe uncensured if this my Ink meets not with the Gall of Momus I shall be fortunate beyond expectation For he that spits against an Epidemicall wind spits for the most part upon his own Face Ad Librum GO blot out Errours with thine Ink and kill Porcupine-like those Monsters with thy Quill Like Lightning melt the Sword but spare the Sheath Spit on the Vice don't on the Person breath Kill not the harmless Bees with hurtfull Drones Tread not like Dying men on Pigeons Into a Lanthorn do thou frame thy Paper Which may preserve the light of Vertues Taper Thou Moonet tell faire Phebus of his Spots And Masters at the Tables of their Blotts Thou Cubit unto men of stature reach Leontia may Theophrastus teach If worms from th' teeth of Momus would thee eat Tell â—hem Forbidden Leaves are no such meat Or rather bid them wellcome Envie 's file Will give thine Innocence â— brighter smile The Contents of the severall Chapters CHAP. I. A Censure of the Epidemicall practise of reproaching Red-Hair'd men Pag. 1. CHAP. II. A Censure of the generall Scandall of some Professions especially that of the Profession of Physick 18 CHAP. III. A Censure of that common evill practice of reproaching the Feminine Sex 38 CHAP. IV. A Censure of the practice of the many Writers amongst us who even wholly neglect the defence of the Deity of Christ notwithstanding the hell-born nature of the contrary Doctrine and the potency of its maintainers and spend their time in writingâ— upon needlesse Subjects 53 CHAP. V A Censure of the vanity of affecting Epitaphs with a declaration of their uselessenesse where by way of Praeamble of the fitnesse of decent Sepulture occasioned by the neglect of many Sectaries who bury a Dog with as much solemnity as a Christian 75 CHAP. VI A Censure of the common evill practice of Pretenders to Religion viz. their runing to one Extream to avoid another in Doctrine or Worship 98 CHAP. VII A Censure of the common evil practice of Railing against an Adversary in Opinion 104 CHAP. I. A Censure of the Epidemicall practise of reproaching Red-hair'd Men MEn take no rest in the point of reflexion upon the credit oâ— each other The tongue of a Michal is an epidemicall member As Vitiis so Convitiis nemo sine nascitur All through the degeneracy of their nature have putrid Lungs whereby they mutually pollute their names with virulent spittle Each man disparageth his fellow-creature and gratifies his haughty humour in the derision of his Brother And this
is often done upon such triviall grounds that a due perpension would cause an abashment in the face of the Practiser My present Instance shall be in a common yet causelesse Calumniation viz. the vilifying of b Red-hair'd Men the putting a disesteem upon Persons merely because of the native colour of the Excrement of the Head It is scarce conjecturall from whence this opprobrium should take its rise there being no rationall foundation for such a superstruction Certainly it began {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as a Epictetus counselled in other cases it had its originall from some petite and slender consideration Perhaps this usuall practice oweth its producement to the mutuall semblance betwixt the colour of the Hair and some entities in nature of b no considerable value which without study offer themselves to a mean capacity Now although it might come into comparison with the most sparkling and precious created bodies yet the soul of depraved man goes according to the byasseâ— of innate corruâ—tion and like Medea in the c Poet or the Conclusion in a Syllogisme evermore followeth the worse part Although Lucian worthily scoffed at the artificiall d Baldnesse of the severe Stoicks and made them a by-word with his a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and likewise b Iuvenal with his Supercilio brevior coma and c Caesar deserved an hisse for doing violence to his hair by eradication yet the deriding of a Red-hair'd man comes within the compasse of the d Apostles {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} foolish talking and jesting which are not convenient Red-hair'd men are not as such branded with any signall and notable extravagancy above others Black-hair'd men are as well nigro carbone notandi and e Gray-ey'd Minerva may with as much reason be the mark of calumny White hair although it seems to have more of Innocency yet it hath lesse of Modesty The f Complexion of Red-hair'd men is clear and masculine and very serviceable to the superiour faculty in laudable atchievements Those which the mouth of slander calls sandy heads are seldome barren but of pregnant intellectuals and they that endeavour an extraction of poyson out of Red heads imitate the Spider which sucks her venome out of the sweetest flowers The water of separation a purification for sin was a made of the ashes of a Red Heiâ—er This colour was once Gallia's delight b Roma magis fuscis vestitâ—r Gallia ruâ—is In Virgils dayes the Women who adde all possible lustre to their exâ—erior accoutrements were decked with saffron coloured rayment c Vobis picta croco splendenti murice vestis The Carthaginian Zygantes esteem'd this Colour farre beyond that which they received from the hanc of Nature they coloured their bodies with Red Lead The four antient and primitive Painters Apelles Echion Melanthius Nicomachus used but d four colours and e two of them are of this colour Yellow the highest step of which is the lowest stair of Red was in Ovid's time an ingredient in the composition of a Beauty a Forma placet niveúsque color flavique capilli Clay-colour of old was b sacred at Nuptials and they were much enamoured hereon and not onely Red Sandals were in use and esteem but also Clay-coloured shooes The c Wallnut gives the Haire this colour and therefore we may presume that it is not contemptible for d Nature is a peculiar honourer of that fruit protecting it with a double guard whereupon it became venerable at Matrimoniall solemnities being an adumbration of the like protection of the toeâ—us The Lacedemonians made choice of this colour for their warlike attire out of a singular piece of Policy viz. that in the effusion of their bloud no tincture might be perceived to the cowardise of themselves or the courage of their enemies The stately Sabina Poppaea wise to Domitius Nero had Amber coloured haire a and all the Roman Ladies followed her with an artificiall imitation This colour was of such repute in b Tertullian's and c Saint Hieromes dayes that artificiall Red was deem'd an ornament to the Hair The d Virgin's blush is of this colour and women are so delighted with it that if their cheeks want naturall they adde artificiall Vermilion The vail of Nature is dy'd in Red e Natura pudore tacta sanguinem ante se pâ—o velamento tendit and without all peradventure the Colour which that admits is not ridiculous How dare any Palate disrelish that Colour by which that matter was visible which went to the composing of the f Protoplast Publius Lentulus Vice-Consul in his Epistle to the Roman Senate written from Hierusalem deciphâ—reth at large the body of our Saviour and amongst many other particulars in his description he inserteth this one That the Haires of his Head and Beard were Red And accordingly the profound Spaniard †interpreteth Isaiah 63. 1. Who is he that cometh from the Red Land a Innocent the Fourth in the Councill of Lyons graced the dignity of the Cardinallship with a Red Hat and b Budaeus the French man had so high an opinion of it that he passionately declaimed against it's generall usage and judged its extension to a multitude a diminution of its worth The excellencies of the Creation resemble the Red Head as to its tincture The Fire the most agile and aspiring body the c false God of the Persians and d by Heraclitus ascribed to the true Soveraign Majesty is of a Ruddy Complexion So is the rich a Cyprian Adamant which is medicinall without compare Gold is of the like Colour and that b Physically câ—res Melancholy and is so pretious that it denotes c happy and peaceâ—â—ll enjoyments it makes Crowns and Scepters and is adored by those that wear and manage them Ptolemaeus King of Cyprus was d taken captive by this Ruddy champion The Genuine Spikenard that Paradise of the smell that by which the e venerable Haires of the antient Romans were grac'd with a fragrant redolencie f is of a Red and modest appearance The reâ—plendency of Amber admits this tinctâ—re and that is not to be ranked amongst the meanest entities In Martials judgement the costly g Cleopatra she that in her life-time made not Gold but Pearls potable and after her death Illius puro distillent tempora Nardo Iamdudum Tvrio madâ—factus â—empora Naâ—do Debueram seâ—tis implicuisse comas Quòd madidis Nardo spâ—sa corona comis obtained a proportionable monument was not entomb'd so richly as the †Viper enclosed alive in an Electrick sepulchre Nè tibi Regali placeas Cleopatra sepulchro Vipera si tumulo nobiliore jacet The Sun whose very a name sâ—â—aks it the singular artifice of the corporeall Creation and whose excellency made it deifi'd by
the Heathen b displayes the glory of its radiancy in this Colour especially at that time when the Persians do it homage when it makes it's appearance in the comfortable c blush of the approaching Morne This Centre of the Planetick Vortex will cease to be such as soon as it disrobes it self of its Ruddinesse for that privation speaks the inactivity of its particles and the over-prevaling of the Maculae and consequently the absorption of its Whirlpoole whereupon the whole Earth would be clad in Sables and surrounded with Disconsolation This mocking at Red Hair is a Declamation against Nature which is to be worshipped nor worried this is a grand affront put upon the supreme Creatour it reflecteth unworthily upon his Power and calleth into question his Contrivance For such men are a his workmanship b It is he tha◠made them and not they themselves their slender performances cannot attain to the c making of one Hair white or black So that what d Tertullian replyed to the Hereticall Marcion blaming the structure of the whole Body may be propounded against the defaming of this single e Appendix Turpe hoc Deo this derogates from the Divine Majesty and is a base imputation This is to speak the same language with him who for his presumption beyond Lucifer's shall be namelesse whose voice was the voice of a Devill not of a Man Si ego creationi adfuissem ego res meliùs ordinassem Had I been at the Creation things should have been put in a better posture Now what is vile Dust and Ashes that it dare thus flie in the face of its Maker through the windinesse of pride What is Man that he should controll the Artifice of God when his understanding is so shallow and incomprehensive that he is forced into admiration whilst he contemplates the workmanship of inferiour Beings even the Spiders web or the Hexagony of the Hony-comb If we suppose which yet is in no wise to be granted that Red Hair is a bodily defect and imperfection yet were it rather to be covered then carped at It was allowable for Apelles when he drew the Effigies of Alexander to lay his finger upon his Scarre and Alphonsus was not painted wryneck'd but his Picture was contrived so as if he was viewing the curtains of Heaven Furthermore as the Casuisticall a Lessius determines ob defectus naturales non censetur quis informis a disgracefull Conclusion follows not from such Premisses this is not ground sufficient to make it the mark of the arrows of Contumely The ornament of the a Mind not of the Body is to be look'd upon according to the practice of S. Hierome b and Agesilaus And the man whose Mind is not deck'd with the Pearle of great price is c notwithstanding all outward Ornament deformed and ugly according to the doctrine of S. Cyprian The Body is d {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and e {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a bond and a sepulchre and who blames such things if they have harshnesse and rottennesse A crooked Body may be the serviceable associate of an upright Soul the conjunction of corporall blemishes and mentall ornaments is an usuall Systasie Cicero if you will believe his f Name had a protuberancy on his Nose The g fluent Demosthenes had once a stammering tongue h Nicias the renowned Grammarian the familiar of Great Pompey and Good Tully had such ill-shap'd feet that when one had stole his Shooes he wished the Thief no worse then that they might fit him Galba was eloquent and judicious but deformed and crooked whereupon it was said by a M. Lollius Ingenium Galbae malè habitat Galba's wit hath an ill habitation Horace whom S. Augustine thinks worthy the perusing above all others of his order because of his ample commendations of Vertues and bitter invectives against Vices who made a b Monarch his Heir was almost of a c Pygmies stature which was the cause of that Satyricall speech of Augustus to him after the presenting of a small Book of his Vereri mihi videris nè majores tui libelli sint quà m Ipse es Thou seemest to me to fear that thy Books should become bigger then thy Body He knows not Letters that is ignorant of the worth of Homer his Works are of much repute and comprehend d both parts of Man his Name is of such credit that the place of his Birth is deemed a nationall honour and e severall have with earnestnesse pretended a title to his Nativity yet was he not master of a comely Personage yea he was deficient in the most delightfull and usefull of his exteriour organs he was blind according to the importance of this his a second Name and the common suffrage of Writers Onely b Suidas is somewhat singular and must needs allegorize he explains his blindnesse by an indisposition to Avarice which thief makes its first c entrance at the window of the Eye The d beauty of Roscius is preferr'd before that of the Gods themselves and yet his organs of Sight were dull and deformed erat pulchrior Deo tamen oculis perversissimis If all these testimonies were concealed there might be had sufficient proof from the Sacred Volume Let this be established by the mouth of two witnesses e Zachaeus is somewhat dwarfish and the f shortnesse of his spirituall reparation doth recompense the shortnesse of his bodily stature The Man that was born blind Ioh. 9. was not a the untimely birth of a woman although throughout his whole minority he never saw the Sun He was happier then those who in their own towring imaginations presumed they b were men of acute eyes he at length obtained the view of a glorious Constellation the sight of the heavenly fireballs and c that to which these Lights are a dark shadow the light of Gods countenance Were Red Hair a disease of the Body which is to give a further advantage to the cause and to suppose a non supponendum yet were it not to be derided The Devil may d fling some into the fire of a Fever and others into the water of a Dropsie and yet e both in fire and water God may be with them It is very observable that of the innumerable company of diseased persons who had Christ for their Physician a scarce any had onely an exteriour Cure but almost as many as were healed in Body were cured in Soul No man can loo◠up to Heaven and forget Iob who was so great a servant of the King of Starres yet even all men have heard of the diseases of Gods servant Iob he had as many Diseases as Parts He was visited with the Gout b his feet were put in the stocks He was tortured with a cruell Dysentery c God powred out