XVI. MAD, NOT MAD.

I FIND St. Paul in the same chapter confess and deny madness in himself. Acts xxvi. 11: And being exceeding mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities. Ver. 25: When Festus challenged him to be beside himself, I am not mad, most noble Festus. Whilst he was mad indeed, then none did suspect or accuse him to be distracted; 176but when converted, and in his right mind, then Festus taxeth him of madness.

There is a country in Africa,³³³³Munst. Cosmog. wherein all the natives have pendulous lips, hanging down like dog’s ears, always raw and sore. Here only such as are handsome are pointed at for monsters in this age, wherein polluted and unclean lips are grown epidemical; if any refrain their tongues from common sins, they alone are gazed at as strange spectacles.