A TREATISE 



our heart. co the deflre of the thing,tnat appeareth i'o unto Us : 

 the other is, when the iembiance of good to our owne parti- 

 cular perfons without carting any further, or quettioning 

 whether any other regard may not make it prejuditiaU,dotri 

 caulqtn us a longing for the thing wherein fuch /cmblance 

 fhineth. NOW for the moft part the knowledges which 

 fpring out of the latter obje&s, are more cultivated by us, 

 the'n chofe which arifeout of the other ; partly by reafon cf 

 their frequent occurring^either through neceflky^ or through 

 judgementjand partly,by the addition which patfion giveth 

 to the impre/fions they make upon us: forpafKon multiply- 

 eth the thoughts of fuch things, moreftheni of any others, if 

 reafon do not crofle and fupprefle her tumultuary motions, 

 which in moft men, (he doth not. Tne foules then of fuch 

 perfons, as giving way to their paffion , do in this life buiie 

 themfelves about fuch things as appeare good to their owne 

 perfons, and caft no further, mutt needes decede from their 

 bodys 3 unequally builded : (ifthat expreilion may be permitted 

 me;)and will bee like a lame unwieldy body , in which the 

 principall limbes, are not able to governe and move the o- 

 thersjbecaufe thofe principall ones are fainte,through want 

 of (pnits and exercife; and the oehers. are overgrowne with 

 hidropicall and nocive humours. The reafon whereof is that 

 in fuch foules their judgements will be difproportioned to 

 one another^one of them being unduely Wronger then the o- 

 ther. What erTecl: this worketh, in regard of know ledge, we 

 have already declared, and no leffe will it have in refpecl of 

 action: for fuppofe two judgements to be unequalI 5 ardfuch, 

 'as in the action one contradicleth the other/or example, lee 

 oneofmy/udgement$be,that it is good for mete care be- 

 becaufe I am hungry; and let the other be, that it is good for 

 metoftudy, becaufelam fhortlyto give an account of my 

 ielfvf the one judgment be ftronger then the other,as if that 

 ofeacing beftronger then thatofiiudying,ic importeth not 

 that there be more reafon Call circumstances con/idered^for 

 ftu dying: becau/e^reaibns^do move to aclion according to the 

 mcafure in which the refolution that is taken upon them , is 

 or weakc ; and therefore, my aftion will follow the 



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