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…

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 having past through the fire and kept its own Nature unviolate, it would never after be the less afraid of the fire. And as Plutarch excellently speaketh, A wise Man should be like gold, to keep his Nature in the fire. Strangers dislike many things in a place, which those, that are home-born, and used unto, do easily digest: thus the Apostle ⟨p. 227⟩argueth, God hath delivered, and doth deliver;⁵ therefore he will deliver. So Ulysses in Homer.

Againe, 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 Wildernesse. Now as the Philosopher speaketh, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.