ny living creature
to be killed, the Bannians about Guzzerat; we tyrannise over our brother's
soul, lose the right use of many good gifts; honest [6600]sports, games and
pleasant recreations, [6601]punish ourselves without a cause, lose our
liberties, and sometimes our lives. Anno 1270, at [6602]Magdeburg in
Germany, a Jew fell into a privy upon a Saturday, and without help could
not possibly get out; he called to his fellows for succour, but they denied
it, because it was their Sabbath, _non licebat opus manuum exercere_; the
bishop hearing of it, the next day forbade him to be pulled out, because it
was our Sunday. In the mean time the wretch died before Monday. We have
myriads of examples in this kind amongst those rigid Sabbatarians, and
therefore not without good cause, [6603]_Intolerabilem pertubationem_
Seneca calls it, as well he might, an intolerable perturbation, that
causeth such dire events, folly, madness, sickness, despair, death of body
and soul, and hell itself.

SUBSECT. V.--_Cure of Religious Melancholy_.

To purge the world of idolatry and superstition, will require some
monster-taming Hercules, a divine Aesculapius, or Christ himself to come in
his own person, to reign a thousand years on earth before the end, as the
Millenaries will have him. They are generally so refractory,
self-conceited, obstinate, so firmly addicted to that religion in which
they have been bred and brought up, that no persuasion, no terror, no
persecution, can divert them. The consideration of which, hath induced many
commonwealths to suffer them to enjoy their consciences as they will
themselves: a toleration of Jews is in most provinces of Europe. In Asia
they have their synagogues: Spaniards permit Moors to live amongst them:
the Mogullians, Gentiles: the Turks all religions. In Europe, Poland and
Amsterdam are the common sanctuaries. Some are of opinion, that no man
ought to be compelled for conscience' sake, but let him be of what religion
he will, he may be saved, as Cornelius was formerly accepted, Jew, Turks,
Anabaptists, &c. If he be an honest man, live soberly, and civilly in his
profession, (Volkelius, Crellius, and the rest of the Socinians, that now
nestle themselves about Krakow and Rakow in Poland, have renewed this
opinion) serve his own God, with that fear and reverence as he ought. _Sua
cuique civitati_ (Laeli) _religio sit, nostra nobis_, Tully thought fit
every city should be free in this behalf, adore the