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…

And as it is a means to teach, so it is a means to cure too; for therefore pain is usually made the matter of punishment, that as Men offend by sinful¹ pleasure, so they may be amended by wholesome sorrow. [Greek or Hebrew] Cures are usually wrought by contraries.

And as it is a means to teach, so it is a means to cure too; for therefore paine is usually made the matter of punishment, that as Men offend by sinfull¹ pleasure, so they may bee amended by wholsome sorrow. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Cures are usually wrought by contraries.

1. 1Ethic. l. 2. c. 3.

Again, it doth by Experience strengthen and¹ harden, making both wise and able, for enduring further calamities, quos Deus a•at, indurat & exercet. ²God exerciseth and traineth those whom he loves, bringing them up non in delicijs sed in castris, not in Paradise, but in a Wilderness. Now as the Philosopher speaketh, [Greek or Hebrew].³ Experience is a kind of fortitude and armour, whereby a man contemneth, [Greek or Hebrew] many things which are indeed, but terriculamenta, scar-crows to ignorant and weak minds. Whereas when pains have wrought patience, and patience experience of an issue and escape, that experience arms the Soul unto more patience in new assaults. For if Gold were a rational creature,⁴