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

Robert Burton

Date:: 1628

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

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$Parti 3.^e6i:.4« CureofDeJfajre Memb.i.Subf,^^' & proues it out oiOrigenandoihcrs. They({z^jt\\^Origen)tha,tneuerheard ^41 Gods word are to hee excufcdfor their ignararKe,wee may not thinke God will hefo hard angry, cruell or vmufl as to coudemne any man indifU caufi. They alone (he holds^ are in the ftate of damnation that refnfe Chrifts mercy and obigv»~ * grace, when it is offered. Many worthy and good honeft men , that kept the law of nature, did to others as they would bee dexveui^t’* donetothemreIiies,arecertaine!y faued, he concludes, as they were that li- ued vprightly before the law ofMo/es, They were acceptable in gods fight, tiZ as loh was, the Adagi^ the Queene ofsheba, Darius king ofPerfta] Socrates, lumdammntitf, <^fimdes,CAto, Curim, Tally,Seneca^ and many other PhilolopHers vp-1“'*'“ right liuers3 no matter ol what Religion, as out of any Nation,(o ^ that he line honefily, call on God, truft in him, fearehim he fhall bee faued. This opimoh was formerly maintained by the ralentmhn ^ndBajiledean IiCr€ticks,reviiied of lace in ^7urkie,ofwh^t {c(^ Ktijlan BalJa was patron, ^GaleatiusMartius, andfauoiiredbyHisconclufi- on is, that not only wicked liucrs^ Blarphemers , Reprobate’s, andfuchas reie^l Gods grace, bat that the diaells themfe/aes jhaU befaued at lafi, as O- P long fincedeliuercd in his werkes. For how can heebie raercifull that /ball corKlemne any creature to eternal! ~ vnfpeakable punifhmcnt, for one r Niifi hommes fmall temporary fault,all pofterity, fo many myriades, for one and an other ^ mans offence, quid meruiflis ouesl But thefe abfufd paradoxes are exploded 17rJ2T^' by our Church,we teach otherwife. That this vocation, predefiinatibn, ’felc- aion, reprobation,eA; corruptd majfd^prauifafide^ as our ^rminians^ 6r expraaifis operibus, as our Papi(ls,»j?/? ex prateritione, but Gods abfo- lute decree, ante mundam creatam, (as moft of our church holde; was from the beginning, before the foundation Of the world was laid,(or from fall, as others will, homo lapfus obie{lum elt reprobationis) we hold perfeue-- rantiamfaneiorum,\vc muft be certainc of our faluation,we may fall blit not finally, which our rminians will not admit- According to his immutable^ Cternall, iuft decree and counfeli of failing men and Angels, God calls alJ,6c would hauc all to be faued according to the efficacy ofhis vocation all are in- iiited, but only the ele6f apprehended, the reft that arc vnbeleeving, impe¬ nitent, whom Godin hfs iuft iudgement leaues to bee piinifbed for their finnes, are in a reprobate fenfe 5 yet wee muft not determine who are fucb, condemne our fellies or others,becaufe'we hauc an vniiierfall inuitation,aIl are commanded to beleeue, and we know not how fbone or late before our cn d we may be receaued.' But to my former taske. Thelaft maine torture and trouble ofa difirefled minde, is not fo much this doubt of Eledion, & that the promifes of grace arc finothered and cxiindf in them, nay quire blotted out as they fuppofe, but withall Gods heaiiy wrath, a moft intollerable paine and griefe of heart ^ leafeth on them, to their thinking they are already damned, they fuffer the paines ofhcll, & more then poffibly can be expreffed, they fmell brimftone,. talke familiarly with diuclls, heare and fee Chimeraes, prodigious,vneouth iP^apata esn* rnipes,Beares, Owles, Antickcs,blacke dogges, feinds , hideous outcries, fearefull noyfes, fhreekes, lamentable complaints, they are pofiefled, \ and nJ(Hmingm} through impatience they retire and hovvlejcurfc, blafphenie, deny God,call ffemtia cordis hispowerinqueRion,abiurereIigion, and arc Rill readyto offer violence ‘Nnnn 2 ^ ynto$

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