1. How to cure a man that is possessed with a factious Spirit.

TAke one heartfull of Ecclesiastical obedience, as much of Regall submission (for this being a malady of the minde, requires the Phisick to be mentall) forbear the societie of those infected people, that would make a breach in that sacred Text; Fear God, Honour the King. Let not the ground of your Religion (which is the prop of the soul) consist only in Contradiction, unlesse you hope to gain Salvation, by disputing niceties. Or if you are so strangely possessed, that you must make your lives a tedious Argument, let not your reasons be like the womens reasons, (It is not, because it is not) there is as much difference betwixt Religion and Faction, as is between a Temple of Saints, and a Den of Theeves. Jf you do not love your enemies, according to divine injunction (though that part of the Letanie be disputed) you may question your own Salvation. If you can thus purge your self with these Receipts, you may quietly enjoy your health, without the unnecessary charge of bleeding.

IJ. 2. How to cure a woman so possess'd.

A Woman being the weaker Vessell, shall have the application of a weaker Remedy; let her obey her husband when he hath taken hi • Cure, and not disdain to conceive that (over his own Family) he is both a King and a Bishop, one that is capable both of morall Gov • rnment, and Divine: this observation in her, will keepe her from pulling off the sacred Chain that is about the neck of Authoritie, and free her from a strange madnesse she hath got in expounding Scripture: and to conclude (according to her own Beliefe) I would not have her sit or lye Crosse-leg'd, it is abominable, and the continuance of such crossing may prevent the first great Blessing, Encrease and multiply.

IIJ. 3. A new and direct Experiment to know the Kings Evill.

THe small Practice I have had in Physick, hath instructed me that one Simple hath been mix'd with many Varieties for severall Diseases; such use must I make of this one excellent drug Obedience; which being mix'd with right consideration, will so purge the brain, that the eyes of good opinion will bee open, and your discerning shall be perfect; whereas before, you look'd as people do through deceitfull glasses: every white seem'd a blemish, and every such blemish a thousand; I must now prescribe a Diet: fast one month from Faction, observe the Kings Lawes, behold him in his true Prerogative; write not about the new stampt Coyn of your Conscience, Ego & Rex meus, I and my King. Do not onely ceremonially take the Oath of Supremacie, but obey it with a true consideration, that the breach of it will shake the very frame of your Religion; if you can sincerely obey all this, you have a sound body, and cannot be troubled with the Kings Evill.

IV. How to cure one that is troubled with Crosses.

CArry no Coyn about you; for you know that there is an Image on one side, and a Crosse on the tother: and I would have you so much the more avoid it, because you are already prone to worship it, and some think it is the only way to make a Papist on you: avoid that Idolatroies play of push-pin (t • ough with a sister) let not your Children be instructed in the horn-book; because of the first Character: forbear to walk in these forbidden paths, till their n • mes be chang'd (viz.) Whitecrosse-street, Redcrosse-street, Charin-Crosse, Cow-Crosse, Ratcliffe-Crosse, Bishopsgate-street, Ave-mari lane.

If any mans Name be Crosse, let him change it, and call himself Overthwart, as Willliam Overthwart, Iohn Overthwart, or Martin Overthwart; unlesse his name be Andrew, then you may call him Andrew Crosse: J will not wish you to put away all Crosse wives, because I would not debar ye of the generall society of women.

I should applaud their pulling downe of Cheap-side Crosse, but I fear that there are certain men amongst them, who (under pretence of Zeal) weigh not altogether so much the Idolatry of the form, as the ponderous substance of the Lead: and I pray let any honest man judge, what Relation Fellony hath to Acts of Piety, if it have, wee must censure this to be a holy Robbery: which according to common sence, is a strange contradiction, and cannot hold in Religion; unlesse they largely stretch this Text to it: They tooke Heaven by violence: which they conceive (according to litterall explanation) is with Clubs and Haves, and short Swords, worn up to their Arme pits: Some shut up their shops, to make the times hard, purposing to starve his Majesties Subjects into a zeal like theirs; (in conclusion) I would not have all Crosses, put down; because I would have no alteration in the Regall Diadem, which hath stood many wise Ages unquestion'd. I am an honest Physician (though I say't) and am so farre from being a Papist, that I dare curse the Pope; so farre from being a Seperatist I dare love the King: And that I am no Neuter, shall appear in my willing Service (provided there be an equality in my Spirit and my Office) in the hazard of my life for my King and Country.

5. A Cure for him that is troubled with an Ovall-pate, (in English) a Round-head.

NO man is demonstrated to be a Round-head, but he that takes the name to himself; and conceives he is so, because he is in opposition to the Cavalier: (who may be an honest man, though he we • r skarlet and silver lace, and holds it no sin to be in fashion.) A Round-head is a man (though cut within a quarter of an inch to the skull) hath more hair then wit, and according to his daily distractions, may be titled Hair-brain'd: And this proves him to be an Hypocrite: for though his hair be clipt short, he loves to wear it long, and very long; which is, from Generation to Generation. (Long may he wear it.) Hath not that man more hair then wit, whose wit is so much troubled with his hair? (your censure Gentlemen:) For my own part, cause I would know the way to heaven to an hairs breadth, I have left off my Periwig; and I have not had one pious thought, for that cause, more then I had before. It is in hair, as it is in habit; one man wonders why I wear it long, I as much wonder why he wears it short: I love a b • oad brim'd hat, he loves a narrow one: my opinion of this formall reformation, is but a change from one indifferent ceremonie to another. In brief, if a man be troubled with a Round-head, let him do as if his right hand offended him. Desperate Diseases must have desperate cures.

6. The Brief definition of a Disease cal'd Obstinacie.

IF a man worship zealously his own opinion, contrary to divine Inspiration; which he cannot assure himself, whilst he hath one thought of Oppression; orwants the zealous Obedience he ought to pay to Gods Lord Deputie; his own Anointed: for in this point my opinion runs hand in hand with that Gentleman that writ these Lines: They whom their King affront, the like would do, To th' King of Kings, could they come at him to. I am so farre from the spirit of Contradiction, that if I had a full assurance, the alteration of my form would save me, I should willingly resigne my fashionable habit, and confine my self to the steeple crown hat, short hair, Geneva Ruffe, with all accoutrements correspondent to this posture; but indeed I will not beleeve any man can adde to his salvation or damnation by Form meerly: if preaching is as sacred in a stable as in a Church, why not in a Church as well as a stable (a place fit forOxen and Asses) if ye do it in remembrance that it was the necessitated place of our Saviour, ye stand in your own light, and confute your selves; you may with as little idolatrie keep in view the form of that whereon he died, as of that where he was born; he that co • ceives Cheapside Crosse may cause idolatrie, hath but a weak faith, and, for ought I know, he doubts if it stand long, himself may be won to be a worshipper and by this means would prevent it: For my part, if he lik't as I do, which is for the workmanship in the nice and naturall postures, and as the grace of so glorious a city, he would go home, mend shoes, and never trouble his head about it. I plead not for it, for were it down, I would not give the poor Contribution of a penny to have another erected, because it should not trouble the heads of the unimploy'd people.

7. A Cure for his Impatience that is angry with me, for the expression of my Art.

IN the first place, he hath no cause to doubt my Medicines, for ile give him no worse then ile take my self. Let him not brand me with a prejudicate opinion, that I am a Papist; for, by yea and nay, I am none, but can with a safe conscience, take the oath of Supremacie; I love the King, and all those that love him, I daily pray for the prosperitie of all those high designes in Parliament; I am no Railer and Pamphletizer against Bishops; 'tis a charitie I hold not, to laugh at any mans fall, though my enemie and perfecutor: Nor would I weaken so great a Synod as this present Parliament, as to conceive they know not how to dispose of Offenders; if things may not proceed in Order, a Common-wealth will quickly prove a heap of Ruines; and resolve, as the world must (at the generall doom) to its first Chaos. And thus being come to the worlds end, I leave you.