7,Want ofme. ditation con. terningha- tnaine infirmi, ttfr, r i 0 u o fi t PlatarElv de aobib.irac. Plutarch de cohtb.irac. `4 Of tlxMOMS topretteiet vnittganger. concerning .humaii)e- infirmities either chore which are cor mora_t° all mankinde, or chofe, which aye moreproper andpeculiar toour (clues, if therefore, we would be ref}rai. ned from anger, we muf}often thinke ofthis contagious le- profie oforiginall finne,which hath fogeneralty.infèccd all the fonnesof Adana that there rcmaiucthnothing in vsbut pollution and filthineffe. And then.as..one infer` ed with the plague, is not offended with hinm thatis fubie6 to the fame infc,iion : As the Lazardothneither with fcorne nor choler , but rather with pittie and compa(iicn behold the fores ofhis fellow : fo the plague and fore of inne which we fee in another , will not make vs angry with.theparty which is infeefed and vi(itcd r but rather incommiferation and pitty to vie all good meanes whereby hemaybe cured, if we confider that this plague and fore of finne is fovniuer- fall that it hath infected all mankinde. When word was brought to Anaxagoras that hisConne was dead,hewas not nìuch-rnoued with thenewes, becaufe (as hefad) he knew and had contdered long before that his fonne was mortal : fo if we wouldconfider and medi- tateon humane frailty and infirmities, we fhould not be fo much vexed when they (hew themfclues , becaufe they wouldnot happen beyond our expec`ation . Ifhe that hy- etha feriiant, would thinke with himfelfe, that he hireth onewho is not free from faults, ifhe that chofeth a friend would then confider that he bath his wants and imperfec}i. ons : tfhe that marrieth a wife would remember that he marrieth a woman, and therefore oneCubiec4 to infirmities: ¡either the final( faults of hisferuants, nor imperfecrionsof f his friends , nor infirmities of his wife would ea(lypro- oke him to choler and fury,(eeinghe didnot come Ilion Ibisreckoning. Moreouerwe are to meditate vponour owne.pecwliar ins_ rmitics andwants and before wc,are angry with another oenter into our feints and to faywithMato :Nunctsli& ego talus ?haue not I allo offended in this, or in that which is
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