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.

  • Burton Robert, 1576-1640.
Date:
1891
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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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    •of damnation that refuse Christ’s mercy and grace, when it is offered. Many worthy Greeks and Romans, good moral honest men, that kept the law of mature, did to others as they would be done to themselves, as certainly saved, he concludes, as they were that lived uprightly before the law of Moses. They were acceptable in God’s sight, as Job was, the Magi, the queen of Sheba, Darius of Persia, Socrates, Aristides, Cato, Curius, Tully, Seneca, and many •other philosophers, upright livers, no matter of what religion, as Cornelius, out ■of any nation, so that he live honestly, call on God, trust in him, fear him, he shall be saved. This opinion was formerly maintained by the Yalentinian and Basiledian heretics, revived of late in z Turkey, of what sect Ruslan Bassa was •patron, defended by a Galeatius b Erasmus, by Zuinglius in exposit. fidei ad Regem Gallice, whose tenet Bullinger vindicates, and Gualter approves in a .just apology with many arguments. There be many Jesuits that follow these Calvinists in this behalf, Eranciscus Buchsius Moguntinus, Andradius, Consil. Trident, many schoolmen that out of the Romans i. 18, 19. are verily per- suaded that those good works of the Gentiles did so far please God, that they might vitam ceternam promereri, and be saved in the end. Seseilius, and Benedictus Justinianus in his comment on the first of the Romans, Mathias Ditmarsh the polititian, with many others, hold a mediocrity, they may be salute non indigm but they will not absolutely decree it. Hofmannus, a Lutheran professor of Helmstad, and many of his followers, with most of our church, and papists are stiff against it. Eranciscus Collius hath fully censured all opinions in his Five Books, de Paganorum animabus post mortem, and •amply dilated this question, which whoso will may peruse. But to return to my author, his conclusion is, that not only wicked livers, blasphemers, repro- hates, and such as reject God’s grace, “ but that the devils themselves shall be saved at last,” as cOrigen himself long since delivered in his -works, and our late Socinians defend, Ostorodias, cap. 41. institut. Smaltius, &c. Those terms of all and for ever in Scripture, are not eternal, but only denote a longer time which by many examples they prove. The world shall end like a comedy, and xve shall meet at last in heaven, and live in bliss altogether, or else in ’con- clusion, in nihil evanescere. For how can he be merciful that shall condemn •any creature to eternal unspeakable punishment, for one small temporary fault all posterity, so many myriads for one and another man’s offence, quid mcru- tstis oves ? But these absurd paradoxes are exploded by our church, we teach •otherwise. That this vocation, predestination, election, reprobation, non ex ■corrupta massd, prcevisafide, as our Arminians, or exprcevisis operibus, as our Rapists, non ex prmteritione, but God’s absolute decree ante mundum crealum (as many of our church hold), was from the beginning, before the foundation of the world was laid, or homo conditus, (or from Adam’s fall, as others will, homo lapsusobjectumest reprobationis) withperseverantia sanctorum, wemustbecer- 4am of our salvation, we may fall but not finally, which our Arminians will not men ;ndff °; PSf° ^ eternal just decree and counsel of saving men and angels God calls all, and would have all to be saved according to the thaTare^r : are. invited> b*t only the elect apprehended: the rest runisd ed^ impenitent, whom God in his just judgment leaves to be who are such ^ a reProbate senseJ yet we must not determine tltinn n h’ COndemu pelves or others, because we have a universal invi- arf COmmam;cd to believe, and we know not how soon or how late much ^be/em m6f ‘ 1 might haVG Said more of this sul,Ject 1 Pot foras- -articles of \f°rHldden and iu tbe Pref;lce or declaration to the the church, printed 1G33, to avoid factions and altercations, we that *o„n,!o^ * C^i(1A,«igil Hamon^,JamU22Ep?!: ^ Illu£l