m...r.... I 06 Genera dint-Jim fora ofFeare, like fo many fleeping Lyons, and cowardly pro yoke themwith timorous expe &ation to rent their hearts, and Bing terribly before the time. Thus our vaine minds torment us morewith the feare ofevils, thenwith the evils which we feare ; fpurreus on with much unmanly folly, to meete in themid-way; nay toovertake, out-runne forrowes to conic, and make usa thoufand times miferabie withone individuali mifery. For inftance : Thou haft a child , and , perhaps but one which thou loveti molt dearely; for that affe&ion which wouldbe feverely strong towards ten, or how many foever, is united in it alone. Thou enjoy eft a wife, whole death wouldbee unto thee, as the Joffe of halfe thy heart; and fo proportionably ofanyworldly comfort. Now certaine it is, thou mull at length past from all thefe, or what elfe foever molt deare and defireable things in this life, theymutt bee takenfrom thee, or thou from them. In this cafe then, ifthou give wayand forth unto this faint- hearted tyrant, and ma- liciouspafion, it will wound thine heart many andmany a time with fenfe of their Tolle, before thou loofe them : and mingle amid thydeareft and molt doting apprehent ons of their fweetnelre and worth, many bitter thoughtsof the day ofdivorce,and flings ofmuch worldlygriefe (for filchonely Imeans}from a torturing preconceir ofpainful! heart-breake at parting. But the molt tormenting racke in this kinde, upon which this tyrannicall paffion Both much terrifie and teare thehearts ofcarnall men fpecially, is death : Itis called the Princeofterror, by reafon ofits owne extreme inevita- blepangs; and to them alto it is a certaine prefage to tor- ments without end, and pall imagination : and therefore if their coufciences bee not defperately feared, and fealed up fecurelywith the fpirit of (lumber againft the dayofvenge- ance ; they are wont to die almoft every day , by a fiavifh feareof death : feeHeb. a, z 5. O death,faith the mi/èman,how sitter is the remembrance ofthee, to a man that liveth at reefin hispoßelms:, unto the man that bath nothing tovexe him , and that bathproJJeritie inall things 1 Ohhow the heart o_ f fuch man
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