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…

Whereof the first may be the Suddenness of a• Evil, when it seizeth upon (as it were) in the Dark:¹ for all Darkness is comfortless; and therefore the last terrible Judgement is described unto us by the Blackness and Unexpectedness of it, by the Darkness of Night, and the Suddenness of Lightning. All Unacquaintance then and Igno▪ rance of an approaching Evil, must needs work² Amazement and Terror: as contrarily a foresight the• of worketh Patience to undergo, and Boldness to encounter it: as Tacitus speaks of Caecina, Ambiguarum rerum sciens eoque intrepidus, that he was acquainted with difficulties, and therefore ⟨p. 279⟩not fearful of them. And there is good reason for this, because in a sudden daunt and onset of an unexpected evil, the spirits which were before orderly carried by their several due motions unto their natural works, are upon this strange appearance and instant Oppression of danger so disordered, mixed, and sti•lled, that there is no power left either in the Soul for Counsel, or in the Body for Execution: For as it is in the wars of men, so of Passions, those are more terrible, which are by way of Invasion, then of Battle, which set upon men unarmed and uncomposed; then those which find them prepared for resistance: and so the Poet describes a lamentable overthrow by the Suddenness of the one side, and the Ignorance of the other:

Whereof the first may be the Suddennesse of a• Evill, when it ceiseth upon (as it were) in the Dark:¹ for all Darknesse is comfortlesse; and therefore the last terrible Iudgement is described unto us by the Blacknesse and Vnexpectednesse of it, by the Darknesse of Night, and the Suddennesse of Lightning. All Vnacquaintaince then and Igno▪ rance of an approaching Evill, must needs worke