The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds auses, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it, in three partitions, with their severall sections, members, & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically opened & cut up / By Democritus Junior [i.e. Robert Burton]. With a satyricall preface conducing to the following discourse.

  • Robert Burton
Date:
1676
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Credit: The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds auses, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it, in three partitions, with their severall sections, members, & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically opened & cut up / By Democritus Junior [i.e. Robert Burton]. With a satyricall preface conducing to the following discourse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    'N from them in their fuperflitious rites , blind zeal, (which is as much a fymptome as a caufe, J vain fears, blind obedience, needlefs works, incredibilities, impoflibilities, mon- ftrous rites and ceremonies, wilfulnefs, blind- nefs, obftinacy, For the firft, which is yinMicah love and hate, as >' Aiontanm (mh^ nulla fir-' comment, pjigy. amicitia quam qua contrahitur him ^ nulU difcordia major, qu m qua a religion nefit; no greater concord, no greater difcord ' than that which proceeds from Religion* It is incredible to relate, did not our daily expe¬ rience evince ir, what fadlioiis, quam teterri- t Gdl.hifl. ma failiones, f as -j- Rich. Dinoth writes ) have lib, i. been of late for matters of Religion in France, and what hurly burlies all over for thefe many yeift* Nihil efl quod tarn impotenter rapiat homines, quam fufeepta de falute cpi- nto ; fqmdem pro ea omnesgentes corpora & antmaa devovere folent, arttijfimo necef- Jitudinis vinculo fe invicem colligare. We are all brethren in Chrift, fervants of one Lord, members of one body, and therefore are or fhould be at leaft dearly beloved, infeparably al lied in the greaieft bond of love and familiari¬ ty, united partakers not only of the fame crofs, but co-adjucors, comforters, helpers, at all times, upon al) occafions : as they did in the primitive Church, the fifth, they fold their patrimonies, and laid them at the Apoftles feet, and many fuch memorable examples of mutual love we have had under the ten general perfections, many fince. Examples on the other fide of difcord none like, as our Saviour faith, he came therefore into the world to fet Fathe;: againft Son, q^c. In imitation of whom ZUChm- the Devil belike fnam fuperfiitio irrepfa ve- tius, re religionis imitatrix , fuperflition is ftill Religions ape , as in all other things, fo in this) doth fo combine and glew together his fuperftitious followers in love and affedion, that they will live and die together: and what an innate hatred hath he ftill infpired to any ether fuperftirion oppofite ? How thofe old Were aft^ded, thofe ten perfecuti- ons may be a witnefs, and that, cruel executio¬ ner in aut lita ant morere, facrifice or die. No greater hate, more continuate, bitter fadion, wars, perfecution in all ages, than for matters of Religion, no fuch feral op- pofition, Father againft Son, Mother againft Daughter, Husband againft Wife, City againft City, Kingdom againft Kingdom : as of old at Tentira and (fombos, t Juv. ^ Immortale odium , nunquam fanahile Sat, 14, vulnus, Jndc furor vulgo, quodnumina vicinorum Odit uterque locm,qitum folos credit habendos Ejfe dcos qiios ipfe colat. - Immortal hate it breeds, a wound paftcure. And fury to the commons ftill to endure ; Becaufe one City t’others god’s as vain Deride, and his alone as good maintain. The Turhj at this day count no better of us than of Dogs, fo they commonly call mGaures, infidels, mifereanrs, make that their main quar¬ rel and caufe of Chriftian perfecution^ if he 399 will turn Turk, he fhall be entcr\ained as a bro¬ ther, and had in good efteem, a Mufelman or a believer, which is a greater tye to them than any affinity or confanguinity, T he yews ftick together like fo many burrs, but as for the reft whom they call Gentiles, theydohate and ab¬ hor, they cannot endure their (Jddeffias fhould be a common Saviour to us all, and rather as ^ Luther writes, than they that now feejf I't Comm-', at them, curfe them , perfecute and revile -^'’dcha. them , fhall be co-heirs and brethren with them, or have any part of fellowfhip with their illm Adejfios, they would crucifie their Meffias ten times over, and God himfelf, his Angels, and all his creatures, if it were poffible, though they endure a thoufand he Us for it : S\iQ\\\st\xU faudium. malice towards us. Now for Papifts, what in a common caufe for the advancement of their dutm Religion ihey will endurvj our Traytors and Pfeudocatholicks will declare unto us • and how fmjf/jq] bitter on the other fide to their adverlaries, how deum fi /i violently bent, let thofe Adarian times record, as thofe miferable flaughters at Merindol and Cabriers, the inquifition, the Duke of Alvdi tyranny in the Low'-Countrics, the omihm, French MafTacres and Civil Wars* abfler- ^ Tantun, religiopotuitfuadere malorim, Not there only, but all over we read Itfi mlle of bloody battels, racks and wheels, fedicions, inferna fab- factions, oppoficions. ’ eunda -obvia fignis forent. Signa, pares aquilas, efr pila mirtantia pilis^ %^iucaL invedives and contentions. They had rather ' fhakehands wiih a JfW’, Turk^, orasthe5p.^»?- ards do, fuffer Moors to live amongfl them, and Jews than Protejiants • My name, •( faith ^ Luther ) is more odiom to them than any thief or murderer. So it is with all hereticks and fehif- Ut. com- raaticks whaifoever : and none fu pailionate, ido- • * ■ - ■ ■ men odiofs violent in their tenents, opinions, obftinate, wilfull, refradory, peevifh, fadious,fingu!ar quam^uHws and ftiff in defence of them ^ they do not only homidda perfecute and hate, but pity all other Religions, account them damned, blind , as if they alone were the true Church, they are the true heirs, have the Feefimple of heaven by a peculiar do- cah.'4ded nation,'tis entailed on them and their pofterities, incompre- their dodrine found, per funem aureiimde ccelo henfibilis delapfa doclrina^ihcy alone are to be faved. The ■ Jews at this day are fo incomprehenftbly proud ^ churlif]fF\t\\ ® Luther, that foli falvari,foli do- f Synago^. miniterrarurnfalutarivolunt. And 2.%^Buxtor- JA^orum fius2dds,fo ignorant andfelf-willedwithafthat amongfi their mofi underJlanding Rabbins you fhall find nought but grefs dotage, horrible hard- ms Rabbi- nefs of heart, andfiupend objHnacy, in all their nilpr.e- acitons,opinions, converfations: and yet fo z,e a- ^ lous Withal, that no man living can be more, and vindicate them fe Ives for the elcEi people of am gran- G O D. 'Tis fo with all other fuperftitious feds, deninve- zAdahometans, Gentiles in fhinas and Tarta- ^fs,hi)my-^ ry ; our ignorant Papifs, Anabaptifis, Sepa- ratifls, and peculiar Churches of Amferdam, & ob^ina- they alone, and none but they can be faved. iiomm,&ri S Zealous ( zsPauNmh, Rom. lo. 2.) without knowledge, they will endure any mifery, any trouble, fuffer and do that which the Sun beams ^ M m m ^ will