There was once a great conflux of people in Abdera, a City of the Greeks, at the acting of the Tragedy of Andromeda, upon an extream hot day:  whereupon, a great many of the spectators falling into Fevers, had this accident from the heat, and from The Tragedy together, that they did nothing but pronounce Iambiques, with the names of Perseus and Andromeda; which together with the Fever, was cured, by the comming on of Winter:  And this madnesse was thought to proceed from the Passion imprinted by the Tragedy.  Likewise there raigned a fit of madnesse in another Graecian city, which seized onely the young Maidens; and caused many of them to hang themselves.  This was by most then thought an act of the Divel.  But one that suspected, that contempt of life in them, might proceed from some Passion of the mind, and supposing they did not contemne also their honour, gave counsell to the Magistrates, to strip such as so hang’d themselves, and let them hang out naked.  This the story sayes cured that madnesse.  But on the other side, the same Graecians, did often ascribe madnesse, to the operation of the Eumenides, or Furyes; and sometimes of Ceres, Phoebus, and other Gods:  so much did men attribute to Phantasmes, as to think them aereal living bodies; and generally to call them Spirits.  And as the Romans in this, held the same opinion with the Greeks:  so also did the Jewes; For they calle mad-men Prophets, or (according as they thought the spirits good or bad) Daemoniacks; and some of them called both Prophets, and Daemoniacks, mad-men; and some called the same man both Daemoniack, and mad-man.  But for the Gentiles, ’tis no wonder; because Diseases, and Health; Vices, and Vertues; and many naturall accidents, were with them termed, and worshipped as Daemons.  So that a man was to understand by Daemon, as well (sometimes) an Ague, as a Divell.  But for the Jewes to have such opinion, is somewhat strange.  For neither Moses, nor Abraham pretended to Prophecy by possession of a Spirit; but from the voyce of God; or by a Vision or Dream:  Nor is there any thing in his Law, Morall, or Ceremoniall, by which they were taught, there was any such Enthusiasme; or any Possession.  When God is sayd, (Numb. 11. 25.) to take from the Spirit that was in Moses, and give it to the 70.  Elders, the Spirit of God (taking it for the substance of God) is not divided.  The Scriptures by the Spirit of God in man, mean a mans spirit, enclined to Godlinesse.  And where it is said (Exod. 28. 3.) “Whom I have filled with the Spirit of wisdome to make garments for Aaron,” is not meant a spirit put into them, that can make garments; but the wisdome of their own spirits in that kind of work.  In the like sense, the spirit of man, when it produceth unclean actions, is ordinarily called an unclean spirit; and so other spirits, though not alwayes, yet as often as the vertue or vice so stiled, is extraordinary, and Eminent.  Neither did the other Prophets of the old Testament pretend Enthusiasme; or, that