A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…

Res est, solliciti, plena Timori•, Amor:

The things to which our heart Love bears, Are objects of our careful Fears.

The things to which our heart Love beares, Are objects of our carefull Feares.

and Desire by Fear; as in him of whom Tacitus ¹speaks, •ingebat & m•m, quò mag is concupisceret▪ ⟨p. 53⟩That to justify his Desires, he pretended his Fears: So likewise are some Passions stopped, or at least bridled & moderated by others; Amor soràs mittit timorem, ²Perfect Love casteth out Fear. It •aring in this, as Plutarch hath noted in the hunting of Beasts, that³ they are then easiest taken, when they who hunt them, put on the skins of Beasts. As we see, the light and heat of the Sun shining upon fire, is apt to discourage it, & to put it out. And this was that which made Saul, when he was possessed with those strong sits of Melancholy, working in him Fury, Grief, and Horror, to have recourse unto such a Remedy, as is most forcible for the producing of other Passions of a lighter nature; and so by consequence, for expelling those. Thus, as we see in the Body Military, (as Tacitus hath observed) Unus tumultus est alterius remedium,