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<HEAD>THE Character of a Phanatique.</HEAD>
<P>_TO the performing of this task it will be nece&s;&s;ary fir&s;t to give <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="bleedthrough" EXTENT="1 letter">ou the E<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="bleedthrough" EXTENT="1 letter">ymology and genuine &s;ignification of the word <HI>[Phanatique]</HI> Secondly the occa&s;ion, and mo&s;t common acceptation. Thirdly, who m<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="bleedthrough" EXTENT="3 letters"> be ju&s;tly termed <HI>Phanatiques,</HI> before we come to the Character.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>1.</HI> The Etymologie of the Word.</HEAD>
<P><HI>PHanatique]</HI> is derived from the Greek Verb <GAP DESC="foreign"> and &s;ignifi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="bleedthrough" EXTENT="2 letters"> vain Dreamer, Enthu&s;ia&s;t, or Brain-&s;ick Vi&s;ioni&s;t, one who by natural di&s;temper, or &s;piritual infatuation, or both, i<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="bleedthrough" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="bleedthrough" EXTENT="1 letter">elud<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="bleedthrough" EXTENT="2 letters"> and would delude others by the preten&s;e of Revelations, and New Lights, never content with common Experience, univer&s;al Con&s;ent, or plain Demon&s;tration.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>2.</HI> The Occa&s;ion and comm<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="bleedthrough" EXTENT="1 letter">n Acceptation of the Word.</HEAD>
<P>NOw the occa&s;ion of this word &s;eems to be this. At a general Counci<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="bleedthrough" EXTENT="1 letter"> for the regulating of affairs in Church and State, all Complaints tend|ing to the matters in hand were to be received and debated: but <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="bleedthrough" EXTENT="2 letters">ere, being alwayes in the World of Men more or le&s;s of that &s;pirit of Pride, Self-conceit and Di&s;content, the unrea&s;onable clamours of giddy per&s;ons would have &s;o filled the A&s;&s;embly, that nothing of concernment could have been taken into con&s;ideration, had they not &s;till kept &s;uch a <HI>Decorum,</HI> as that nothing might be admitted but what upon Examination of a &s;elect company was found to be of weighty con&s;equence: whereupon tho&s;e impertinent troublers, and bu&s;ie male-contents who were re|jected, received the mo&s;t pertinent denomination of <HI>Phanatiques;</HI> and &s;o it hath been in all ages a di&s;tinctive term, whereby tho&s;e who kick again&s;t the pre&s;ent con&s;titution of a regulated Church and State have been di&s;tingui&s;ht from the &s;ober part of a Nation, who &s;ubmit to all an|tient and fundamental Laws and Con&s;titutions: but e&s;pecially tho&s;e religious irreligious mad-men-Hereticks, being parallel to the <HI>Seditions</HI> of the Citie of <HI>Hieru&s;alem</HI> in its <HI>Destruction.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>3.</HI> Who may rightly be called Phanatiques.</HEAD>
<P>TO particularize the &s;everal &s;orts of Phanatiques would be the work rather of a Volume than a Sheet; but in &s;hort, <HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> Tho&s;e may be truly called <HI>Phanatiques,</HI> who depend more upon the dictates of their own corrupt imaginations, and phanta&s;ies of their di&s;tempered brain than rea&s;on, cu&s;tom, experience, or the general con&s;ent of all ages and nations; but e&s;pecially tho&s;e who prefer their pretended in&s;pirations and new lights before the revealed Will of God in the Scriptures. <HI>Secondly,</HI> Tho&s;e who like the Jews will not be content unle&s;s Chri&s;t will &s;ubmit to their dirty humours, and come live upon earth with them, and &s;o order the matter for them, that they, and they only, may po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the earth, and will by no means be per&s;waded to &s;ubmit to any authority but His, who&s;e Kingdom is not of this world. <HI>Thirdly,</HI> All tho&s;e, who out of an ambitious itch to appear &s;omebody, under what preten&s;es &s;oever, endeavour to &s;ubvert all order and di&s;cipline both in Church and State, by oppo&s;ing every power, not re&s;pecting Right, Law, Rea&s;on, true Religion, or the publick good, wherein their own is included, were they but &s;o &s;ober as to be &s;en&s;ible of it.</P>
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<HEAD>THE CHARACTER.</HEAD>
<P>A <HI>Phanatique</HI> is the Mu&s;hrom of di&s;temper, a fal&s;e Conception gotten by the Air upon the &s;ick womb of a confu&s;ed phancy, a meer change|ling, who devours greedily all doctrines, but receives nouri&s;hment from none; the di&s;honour of his reputed father, the plague and ruine of his mi&s;erable mother; he is a rea&s;onable creature uncapable of right u&s;e of rea&s;on. He is a certain thing that would puzzle <HI>Plato</HI> or <HI>Ari<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">totle</HI> to define, and indeed no man knowes well what he is, but him&s;elf lea&s;t of all. You may better expre&s;&s;e him in the Negative than the Affirmative; for he is neither Pagan, Turk, Jew, nor true Chri&s;tian. But to come as clo&s;e to him as we can, he is a confu&s;ed lump of earth not refined, &s;till retaining the habit of that <HI>Chaos</HI> from whence he fir&s;t proceeded, and is like a beggars bag fill'd with &s;craps of all &s;orts of food, or like a Botchers cu&s;hion made up of the various kinds of Shreds and patches, which he hath filched from &s;everal garments. He is of a &s;ceptical humour, and you may &s;ooner pick all Religions out of him than one: and is &s;omewhat a kin to all profe&s;&s;ions different from his own, but va|ries mo&s;t from the Orthodox Prote&s;tant. So that a right phanatique is a phanta&s;tick fellow, plea&s;ing him&s;elf with new fangles, and continually gaping after Novelties, and the di&s;covery of New lights. He for&s;akes the true fire, and runs over bogs and moori&s;h places to light his torch at an <HI>ignis fatuus,</HI> and (ten to one but) he &s;inks in the pur&s;uit of it, and is never able to return again. He is fit for neither Heaven, Earth, nor yet Hell, becau&s;e he is again&s;t all order and government, which is not only exerci&s;ed in Heaven and Earth, but practi&s;ed by the Devils them&s;elves. He pretends much to a good con&s;cience, yet thinks it lawful to murder all that di&s;&s;ent from him in opinion, although he changes from him&s;elf more often than the Moon. If you talk with him to day you are never the nearer to know him to morrow, for you &s;hall finde him perfectly me|tamorpho&s;ed. He rayls much again&s;t the Pope of <HI>Rome,</HI> and the Whore of <HI>Babylon,</HI> when none &s;o much re&s;emble the bea&s;t as him&s;elf, who&s;e mark he bears in his fore-head, but wants the Looking-gla&s;s of rea&s;on to de&s;cern it. He writes all men in the black book of Reprobation, but his own fraternity, and concludes all his Fore-fathers damned. He thinks him&s;elf wi&s;er than all others, although he be a verier fool than a meer Naturali&s;t. He will prate two hours together, and after all you may &s;ooner re&s;olve a <HI>Delphian</HI> Oracle, than unfold his meaning, only he is dex|terous in bla&s;pheming tho&s;e two great Ordinances of God, Magi&s;tracy and Mini&s;try. He is naturally an arrand Coward, yet his Chymerical opinions infu&s;e into him a kinde of frenetique valour. He is a perfect Saint in his own conceit, and would not change places in Heaven with any of the Apo&s;tles, whom he calls nothing but bare <HI>Paul, Peter, John, &amp;c.</HI> and dare not add the title of Saint for fear of &s;inning. He hath but a mean re&s;pect to the Scripture, and could wi&s;h &s;ome things expunged out of the Bible, having blotted them out of his minde and opinion, which is all one as to curtel the Scripture. And for Tradition he cannot abide it, e&s;teeming of the writings of antient Fathers as Winter tales, or old Womens fables. If he be not an enemy to Government in the ab&s;tract, he is rarely reconcileable to pre&s;ent powers, (in ca&s;e they do not &s;howre preferments upon him) for that he thir&s;ts after innovation as well in things Civil as Eccle&s;ia&s;tical. And loathes Antiquity as a French-man does his fa&s;hions of the la&s;t year. He is by nature covetous, yet will not grudge to &s;quander away his whole e&s;tate to maintain Conventicles, and is charitable to none but his own tribe. The Proverbs of <HI>Solomon</HI> are a great eye-&s;ore to him, but e&s;pecially that Text, <HI>My &s;on, fear God and the King, and meddle not with them that are given to change.</HI> To couclude, He is a bubble or bladder to&s;&s;ed to and fro with every winde, which at length breaks, and vani&s;heth to nothing.</P>
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