Book 1.

The parti are the Soul’s la- flruments.
A Simile from fre ral(t up.
Tf)e Soul in- Children ii im¬ perfect by rex - fon of the Or¬ gans .
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icen in every part of the body, and exercifeth every member. So the eyes, ears, noftrils, tongue, the joynts of hands and feet are the Souls Inftruments that (he ufeth. But if the Inftrumtnts and Or¬ gans that ferve the Soul be unfit or cue of tune, or hindred, they perform the operations of the Soul the more imperfedily. As we fee in tools, old men, children, and mad-men, in fome of them the faculties of the Soul fhew themfelvcs after a long time, and in others they are loft. For as fire under allies doth not (bine forth, and the Sun under a thick cloud affords but little light; fo the Soul drown’d in moyft or faulty matter is darkned, and reafon is over¬ clouded by it.
And though reafon (hines iefle in Children than in grown peo¬ ple, yet no man muft think that the Soul is an Infant, and that it grows by degrees, for then ic .(hould decreafe again and grow old. For the Soul hath its force and endowments from the firft being of it, for the fubftance of it can receive no Ioffe; but the un- fitneffeof the Inftrument and Organ makes the difference, that it cannot fo well perform all her fundlions and offices, of which I purpofe to fpeak more at large in the next Chapter, whereby the faculties of the Soul and Body may appear more fully, and that every one may know how tfiey agree and are affedted mutually with difeafes. ft
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The Soul though it be incorporeal) not made of matter » or Elements, yet is it fubje ft to faff ions and perturbations, and fuch ajjeftions as ter dound upon the Body,
Since the Soul performs her fundi ions by the body, and carrieth that, houfe about with her, as a Snail doth her (hell, ic falls aznauanu »er ouc rnofhcommonly, that when the body is affedted, the Soul is
'affedted alfo, not with a p rimary paffion, as fome believe, but onely fecondarily by reafon of company ; for fo great is the fympathy and affinity between them, that fome faults of the body fall upon the Mind, and fome of the Mind upon the body. For being that ' -V . the'Soul ufeth the Organs ofr the body, which are many wayes oft-times affedted with ill humours or perverted, it follsout, that the Inftruments being hurt or hindred, the Soul cannot perforin “her adtions as fhe (hould.
Wox.fewk Li. So the Body hurt doth ill ajjeft the Mind ,
And prejfeth down the Soul , as oft we find.
Sap. 9; -- The wife Hebrew who faw that before Horace, faith, That the corruptible body prejfeth down the Soul, and overcomes the Mind that meditates on many things. And though the fubftance of the Soul is thought to concradt no (lain or fault from the body ; yet as a thick •. •: > ' cloud
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cloud darkncth the Sun beams, and as the eye by looking through a simile from a glade of divers 'colours, fees things Qthervvife than they arenas theSu»ill&ht- red, yellow, green, blue ; fo intemperance of the body thadowes a similitude and darkens the light of reafon and the Mind, and caufeth the adlions of the Soul to be world performed. So mad and doting iours. and drunken people think they fee two objects, when there is but one. So melancholique people imagine ftrange things, and invent Hmomthat dreams j cholerick people are raid and drangely angry, when tbe the brain is opprefled with thefmoke of hurtfull vapours. And befides many fmall inconveniences formidable difeales do confirm what hurt comes to the Mind from the humours of the body, as the Apoplex, Lethargy, Palfie, Convulfions, MadnefTe, Phrenfie,
Epilepfie, all which do fo forcibly offend the forces of the Body and Soul, that a Man is quite befides himfelfj and his mind is altogether overwhelmed. Alfo if the Mind be held with any hurtful matter, and be given to hatred, anger, jealoufie, emula¬ tion, envy, or detraction, it brings the body to the fame temper, and poyfons it with the like mifehief. To fay nothing of the other Paflionsof the Mind, whofe weak cogitations trouble our reft, and difturb our fleep. For there is nothing, faith Fabm> fo employed, l. i. c. x. fo various and unquiet and torn with io many cogitations as an ill mind, fo that it hath no leifure to take care of health, or of any honeft employments. For neither fleep, that is mod pleafing to thofe that are weary, nor fpeech that is a Phyfitian to a lick mind, AniU mind nor meat, nor drink that nourifh the body, are fweet unto it 5 what quietnefle of mind can they have? what content or conftancy in their cogitations ?
They that a guilty Mind torments within,
A fecret whip of conference lafh for fin ,
Do fujjer more than all the Fiends of Hell (fan do y their wixneffe in their breaffs doth dwell,
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To this may be referred that of Ifaiahi The he art of the wicked is chap. 17. as the foaming Sea , whofe waves cajl up mire and dirt , for they have no ref , there is no peace to the wicked, faith the Lord . An ill Mind may be merry oft-times, but is never fecure.
Now thefe affections of the Mind are fo violent and cruel, Ce“nte“ that what the Mind feels , appears outwardly by the counte- ^eMtnd^ nance. And as the clearneffe of the mind is feen in the eyes, colour, face, and the whole habit of the body 5 fo a deadly mind full of vices breaks forth by the outward appearance: which Iffiah fheweth , The jhew of their countenance doth witneffe Ifaiah 5. 9. againft them , that is, their face and outward habit of their body, expUm'd. doth argue them to be wicked, and that they meditate nothing but deceits and mifehiefs. To which agrees that faying of S olomon, The fools eyes wander ever y way. In the face of the wife wifdome Eccle. 8, fhines : for the countenance of a man is a certain fign of his mind, Pm’* and brings forth what lyeth fecretly within. So Catiline's pale
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