Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and…

3ly. Mens lusts weaken their spirits, so as they are not able §3to hear any thing that comes cross to them; women; children,¹ sick people, who are weakest, fall out most with one another; things that are rotten cannot hold together, every little touch breaks them asunder; that which is sound hath strength to hold one part to another.

3ly. Mens lusts weaken their spirits, so as they are not able §3to heare any thing that comes crosse to them; women; children,¹ sick people, who are weakest, fall out most with one another; things that are rotten cannot hold together, every little touch breaks them asunder; that which is sound hath strength to hold one part to another.

1. 1Omne invalidum natura querulum.

Fourthly, in mens lusts there is confusion, they cannot §4be kept in order, therefore they must needs cause disturbance, not only in mens own spirits, but to all that have to deal with men acted by them; where there is confusion, there cannot be union; when there is right order in an army, though ⟨p. 106⟩the men be never so numerous, never so differing in other respects, yet if they keep their ranks, they are all but one; but if put to a rout and confusion, then the bond of unity is broken, and every man divides from another to shift for himself.

Fourthly, in mens lusts there is confusion, they cannot