them well. [_Subs. 2._]

[Symbol: Gemini] Religious Melancholy, _Sect. 4._

In excess of such as do that which is not required. _Memb. 1._

A proof that there is such a species of melancholy, name, object God,
what his beauty is, how it allureth, part and parties affected,
superstitious, idolaters, prophets, heretics, &c. _Subs. 1._

Causes, _Subs. 2._
From others
The devil's allurements, false miracles, priests for their
gain. Politicians to keep men in obedience, bad
instructors, blind guides.
or from themselves.
Simplicity, fear, ignorance, solitariness, melancholy,
curiosity, pride, vainglory, decayed image of God.

Symptoms, _Subs. 3._
General
Zeal without knowledge, obstinacy, superstition, strange
devotion, stupidity, confidence, stiff defence of their
tenets, mutual love and hate of other sects, belief of
incredibilities, impossibilities.
or Particular.
Of heretics, pride, contumacy, contempt of others,
wilfulness, vainglory, singularity, prodigious paradoxes.
In superstitious blind zeal, obedience, strange works,
fasting, sacrifices, oblations, prayers, vows,
pseudomartyrdom, mad and ridiculous customs, ceremonies,
observations.
In pseudoprophets, visions, revelations, dreams, prophecies,
new doctrines, &c., of Jews, Gentiles, Mahometans, &c.

Prognostics, _Subs. 4._
New doctrines, paradoxes, blasphemies, madness, stupidity,
despair, damnation.

Cures, _Subs. 5._
By physic, if need be, conference, good counsel, persuasion,
compulsion, correction, punishment. _Quaeritur an cogi debent?
Affir._

In defect, as _Memb. 2._

Secure, void of grace and fears.
Epicures, atheists, magicians, hypocrites, such as have
cauterised consciences, or else are in a reprobate sense,
worldly-secure, some philosophers, impenitent sinners, _Subs.
1._

or Distrustful, or too timorous, as desperate. In despair consider,
Causes, _Subs. 2._
The devil and his allurements, rigid preachers, that wound
their consciences, melancho