Vow toNorti5ie inordinateapiton4 231 let a fouldier be toldof dangerous effeâs in the warres, peffwadehimwhatyouwill, and tell him how terrible it is,he will not beleeve, tillbyexpe- riencehehathfelt the fmart ofit: fo when a man is entred upon the doing ofany difficult thing, which hebathbeene accuftomed to doe, the expe- riencehee.bathofoften being in fuchdangers, and having felt noharm; that doth rectiffehis affe6ti- ons. Experience is afpeciall meanes to tame them; Iet abeaft bebrought to a mans hand that is feare- fullatthe firít, but by experience anddaily tiling of it, foyou tame the beaft: fo our affections are unruly things, like untamed beafts, but whenex- perience bath di (covered them,it is a goodmeanes to reCifie them : therefore it is profitable for us to call to minde things that are paft: Ifwe wouldbut call to minde how filch a thing wee joyéd in, and yet it (laid notwithus; our joywould not be fo in- ordinate inother things : Ifwee wouldremember how fuch a croffewe furvived, our griefe wouldnot be fo inordinate in future events. The fourth way to re&ifie mif._apprehenfion, is Remedy.4ò by theexampleof others, that is, to fee howothers havebeeneaffetedwith the inordinate affeaions that wehavebeene inout felves ; and examples do rnnnemore into thefenfes than rules doe; therefore thinkeofexamples to ftirre up affe&ions, eyther to croffe them, orfubdue them. Wee fee by the rea- ding of hiftories, as of the valiant ads offore of the worthies, as ofJulius Cejar, and others, force, by reading of the great exploytsthat they themfelves haddone have beene ftirred upasmuch F f 3 as
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