ATREATISE 



fulJneffe of all that can bcdefircd in chat kindc? But if in this 

 world a man fettlethhis heart conltantly upon any traniitory 

 end;as upon wealth corporeal] delights, honour,power, and 

 the like,fwhich are too fliort breached attendants to follow 

 him ib long a journey as into the nexr; )then j all the powers 

 of his foule,cven after flie bath 1 ft her body,will be ttilj long- 

 ing after that deare Idoll of her affections ; and for the wan t 

 ofit,fhewill not value the great knowledge fhefhallchen'be 

 imdued wit hall t nor care for any other good flie poflefleth, 

 4ike a man who being forrounded,withafull fea and fwolne 

 tide of all fpeeious objects that may pleafe and delight him, 

 hath by linluckly chance flittered his violent affections , and 

 his impotent cjefires ro be inrangled in fome meane love,chat 

 either negle&eth him^or he is hindered from enjoying ; an d 

 thereby,that lit ledrope of gall,or rather that privation of a 

 meanecomemment (which truly in it felfe,is nothingjinlect- 

 eth and poyfoneth the whole draught of happinefie that buc 

 for this, would fwe*l him up to the height of his wiflie*. 

 Theftateofa vi- But no comparifonsof fbrrowes^ griefes, or anguillies in 

 t ioas foule in the this life (where our earrhly dwelling doth fo alog, and allay, 

 a ext life* and dull the ienfe of oar /bu'c, which only feeieth and reli- 



fheth. either delight orwoe^ can arrivetofliaiowoutthe 

 mifery of a feparated foule fb aflfecled ; whofe ftraines are fo 

 exce/Tivcly vehement,and whofe nature is a pure aivity,and 

 her fclfe, all fenfe, all knowledge. It is true, Icon/efTe that in 

 a man, fuch motions doe in part proceed from paflion : and 

 therefore, I wi/1 allow, ehat fo much of them, as have their 

 origine meerely and onely from thence, fhall dye with the 

 body, and fhall not have madeany impreffion io the fepara- 

 ted /bule : but befides the ftreame of paflfion wee may in fuch 

 motions ob/erve alfo, t he work of reafoa, for flie, both appro- 

 veth and employeth her powers, to compaTe and gaine what . 

 the other prefenteth, & by legitimate dilcou!e,draweth con- 

 fequences out of that principle or judgment,wfiichmaketh 

 thebyas, it then leaneth unto r andthefe,are undeniable ef- 

 fecls of a fpirituall judgment fetled in the foule. And there- 

 fore, as farre as thefe motions proceed from fpirituall judge- 

 ments, fo far, it is clearethey rnuft remaine in the leparated 

 foule. parad venture 



