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A50438	The method and means of enjoying health, vigour, and long life adapting peculiar courses for different constitutions, ages, abilities, valetudinary states, individual proprieties, habituated customs, and passions of mind : suting preservatives and correctives to every person for attainment thereof / by Everard Maynwaringe, M.D.	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1683 (1683)	Wing M1498; ESTC R31212	85,718	240

of duration allotted them by Nature some longer others a shorter term and this from the principles of their composition and seminality from whence they spring In the Mineral Family we find the longest durations being solid dense bodies of more simple natures and homogeneous do therefore preserve their Beings longest from ruine and dissolution Vegetables are of a shorter duration yet not all alike some preserve their Beings hundreds of years as the Cedar and Oak Others continue but a few years some a year Amongst the sensitive Creatures we find that several species have their peculiar durations which in the common course of nature are observed to continue some a longer Age others a shorter The Mineral is slowest in rising to maturity and perfection but continues longest in that state The Vegetable in the generality is quickest in the ascent to the top of perfection but keeps not its station long some whereof fade and wither every year but renew their verdure again at the Spring until a few years hath spent that seminal power and fertil blooming virtue The Sensitive Creatures and perfect Animals are slower in their rise to perfection which having attained stay but a while in that full strength do gradually descend again decline and perish So that all living Creatures by nature have their risings and settings and definite times fixed for their growth and duration From their beginning they have a gradual ascent until they have attained the vigour and exaltation of their Natures and having gained the top of their perfection they stay not long there but gradually descend again and are degraded of the honour and perfection of their Natures and tend to their ruine and dissolution Nor are Creatures limited alike to the same duration but do extend and are shortned variously according to their Principles and Foundation of Being as Nature hath furnished them with a provision permanent and sutable for such a duration and subsistence Now of all Creatures we find Man most uncertain in his being and continuance although the Age of Man be limited to sixty years and is most liable to alteration and a perishing state upon these four accounts First Because Man derives from his Parents by a seminal propagation and inherits the Diseases of their vitious depraved Natures radicated in him to which his own enormous acts being added do multiply and heighten the corruption of his Nature hence the succeeding Generations become more degenerated infirm diseased and consequently of shorter duration than the former Secondly For that the structure of his Body is the most wonderfully contrived of all the Creatures contains the greatest curiosity and variety of machination such admirable Conduits and Contrivances such Offices and places of elaboration subservient to each other and communicable that therefore this Machine is most difficult to keep in order and soonest put out of frame Thirdly In that he does require and use more variety of supports and necessary requisits to preserve and supply him and therefore more subject to errors failings and discomposure Fourthly Because Man wilfully carelesly or ignorantly does not regulate and govern himself according to the Law of Nature dictated to him but deviating from those Rules of preservation does discompose the regular Oeconomy of his Body and introtroduce various Diseases and disorders which precipitate Nature in the current and course of life that otherwise more equally and evenly would glide on and sometimes by violence offered to Nature in some strange unnatural actions and exorbitancies the life is forced out and death oft procured Now other Creatures are so tyed up to the Rule of Nature which they cannot but observe for their preservation both individual and specifick and have not a power of electing good and evil to themselves but naturally and spontaneously do prosecute that which is proper and conservative and avoid what is noxious But Man having a greater liberty by the prerogative of his rational Soul does make his choice and wanders amongst varieties both good and evil and often deceives himself chusing what is destructive to his Being So that breaking the Law of Nature which he ought to observe as Bounds and Rules to his actions making them sanative and preservative does on the contrary alter and change those necessary appointments and supports renders them destructive by his irregular incongruous use vitious customs and imprudent choice The most considerable things to be observed by Man as conducing and tending to the lengthening or shortning of his life according to their management and procurement well or ill do fall under these Heads Meat and drink place of abode sleep and watching exercise and rest excretions and retentions passions of mind all usages and customs In the moderation use and choice of these which particularly hereafter shall be handled consists the length and brevity of life per modum assistentiae and as causa sine qua non being auxiliary requisites and necessary supports of life appointed by Nature for the continuation assistance and preservation thereof But the length and brevity of life fontaliter radicaliter consists in the fundamental Principles and vital powers variously radicated and planted ab ortu in man's generation and fabrication But this being not in the choice and power of man to alter or change we shall prosecute upon the former Heads Man consisting of Soul and Body and this body compounded of heterogeneous and dissimilar parts destinated to various actions and offices dependent in Being and conservation will necessarily require variety of assistance and supply proportionable and suiting to their several purposes faculties properties and temperatures in matter manner times and order as well for their maintenance and sustentation in the integrity of their actions offices and duties as constitutional dispositions and Crases peculiarly conservative of themselves respectively and consequently of the whole And by the Law of Nature being subject to corruption and dissolution through the fragility of constitutive parts connexion and fabrication is bound to observe Rules Orders and Customs most consonant for preservation and continuance in Being Now if there be a disproportion or unfitness in the matter or quantum or irregularity in the manner times or order of the auxiliary requisites and conservatives contrary to what the Law or necessity of his Nature requires and commands there arise Distempers Ataxies and discord the praeludiums to ruine and dissolution And this body being in a continual flux and reflux conversant in vicissitudes and variations of opposites dissimilars contraries and privations as heat and cold siccity and humidity filling and emptying rest and motion sleeping and waking inspiration and exspiration and the like this body could not subsist amidst these various subalternations and changes if they were not bounded and regulated by due order of succession to fit and convenient times that they might not clash interfere and encroach upon each others priviledges due times and proprieties If heat exceeds the natural moisture dries up the spirits evaporate and the body withers

If cold the faculties are torpid and benum'd the spirits being frozen up to a cessation from their duties If moisture prevails the spirits are clogged suffocated and drowned in the chanels of the body If siccity and dryness the organical parts are stubborn unpliable and uncapable of their regular motions and due actions the vital streams being drunk up that should irrigate refresh and supple them Were the body always taking in and sending nothing forth it would either increase to a monstrous and vast magnitude or fill up suffocate and stifle the soul were it always in excretion and emission the body would waste away and be reduced to nothing Nor is the receiving in of any thing sufficient and satisfactory to the body for its preservation but that which is appointed by Nature proper and sutable nor emission or ejection of any thing but that which is superfluous and unnecessary to be retained If Sleep prevails contrary to the Law of Nature the body in a lethargick soporiferous inactivity stupefied and senseless lies at the gates of death If Watching exceeds the limits transgresseth and steals away the due time for sleep the faculties are debilitated and enervated the spirits tired worn out and impoverished If Inspiration were constant without intermission the body would puff up and be blown like a Bladder If Expiration were continual the soul and spirits would soon quit their habitation and come forth If always Exercised in motion the body would pine and wear away if always at Rest it would corrupt and stink There is a rule therefore proportion measure and season to be observed in all the requisite supports and auxiliary helps belonging to our preservation and by how much or often any of these necessary alternative successions are extravagant and irregular exceeding the bounds and limits prescribed by Nature and justling out the successive appointed action duty or custom from its seasonable exercise and due execution by so much is the harmony of Nature disturbed vigor abated and duration shortned by these jars discords and encroachments The thwarting and crossing of Nature in any thing she hath enjoyned either in the substance or circumstance is violence offered to Nature and is destructive more or less according to the dignity or quality of the thing appointed For Nature was not so indifferent in the institution of these duties and customs that they might be done or not done or so careless and irregular to leave them at your pleasure when and how or to be used promiscuously and preposterously without order at the liberty of your will fancy and occasions And as you may see in all other creatures exactness of rule method and constant order impressed upon and radicated in their natures by which they act always sutable regular and constant you may not imagine so choice and exquisite a piece as Man is to be left without a Law and Rule to guide and steer him in the necessary actions concerning Life and that he should rove in uncertain unconstant unlimited quantities times orders manners and the like but is bounded and restrained upon penalties and forfeitures of Being well-being and long-being to the nice and strict observance of these laws and customs necessary for the tuition of Life and defence of humane frailty As moral good actions are placed in a mediocrity between two vitious extreams so natural actions and auxiliary requisites conservative of life have their golden Mean digression from which on either side leads to ruine and destruction Too much Sleep or too little too much Meat and Drink or too little too much Rest or too much Motion too much Air or always close pent up too great Excretions or too long Retentions too much Heat or too much Cold either of the extreams lead to ruine And as Nature hath not appointed any thing or every thing to be food but this and that so likewise not at any time to be received not in any quantity after any manner prepared or in what order you please but proportionable suteable and convenient As there is variety of dispositions and inclinations of mind agreeing with and likeing one thing but disagreeing resisting and disliking another so is it in the variety of bodies and food one body is of this constitutional propriety temper and appetite will sute and agree well with this meat and disagree with another for if all meats were convenient for all bodies to be used promiscuously without choice how comes it to pass the antipathy resistance and abhorrency of some bodies against some particular meats And this not from a fancy and conceit but so radicated in the constitution that if it be eaten though unknown shall produce Fluxes Vomitings Swoonings and such like effects From hence is manifested the opposition disagreement and distance between this constitution and this kind of meat which being so great that the dislike and discordancy appears presently other disagreements which are in a lower degree of opposition do not manifest themselves immediately yet they produce ill effects in the body plùs minùs pro viribus some Disease or Distemper which discover themselves gradually at times seasons and occasions given If you acknowledge the former you must admit of the latter the reason is à majori ad minus As Sleep is appointed by Nature to refresh the spirits and repair loss strength so the time for sleep is appointed and limited not when you please the Sun that glorious Light was not made for you to sleep by nor the night for sports and revels or lawful business but for rest Nature does not only command what to be done but when how much how long after what manner in what order the modification circumstances and requisite qualifications as well as the thing it self are to be regarded And therefore by a diligent inquisition and curious speculation into the works of Nature you may as much admire the manner of preservation government order weight and measure regular vicissitudes alternations and successions as the excellency and contrivance of the things themselves in their creation and generation Whatever is appointed by Nature as necessary for conservation and support of Being though never so good yet if it be unseasonable out of course immoderate in quantity quality or duration it alters the property and intention of Nature converts good purposes to bad effects We say Every thing is best in its own kind and of continuance in its own Element and Nature is most chearful vigorous and durable in the course and method of her own injunctions but being put by thrust out of her own way is not of long duration the Birds cannot live in the Sea nor the Fish upon the Land nor your Nature continue long in an unnatural way against her self Are you composed of natural principles and will you not live conformable to what you are Do you not live by Natures assistance and natural means and do you think to continue long in a Counter-motion against the nature of your Composition

properties of several bodies one thing will not agree with all Therefore he that cannot drink warm let him take it cold and it is well to him but he that drinks it warm does better And this is to be understood in frosty Winter when the extremity of cold hath congelated and fixed the spirits of the Liquor in a torpid inactivity which by a gentle warmth are unfettered volatile and brisk whereby the drink is more agreeable and grateful to the stomachs fermenting heat being so prepated than to be made so by it Having set forth the several sorts of Drink used and therein shewed their nature and qualities and qualifications I come now to regulate the Quantity as most conducing to Health and Longevity There are three sorts of Drinkers one drinks to satisfie Nature and to support his body without which he cannot well subsist and requires it as necessary to his Being Another drinks a degree beyond this man and takes a larger dose with this intention to exhilarate and chear his mind to banish cares and trouble and help him to sleep the better and these two are lawful drinkers A third drinks neither for the good of the body or the mind but to stupifie and drown both by exceeding the former bounds and running into excess frustrating those ends for which drink was appointed by Nature converting this support of life and health making it a procurer of sickness and untimely death Some to excuse this intemperance hold it as good Physick to be drunk once a month and plead for that liberty as a wholesom custom and quote the authority of a famous Physician for it But whether this Opinion be allowable and to be admitted in the due Regiment for preservation of health is fit to be examined It is a Canon established upon good reason That every thing exceeding its just bounds and golden mediocrity is hurtful to Nature The best of things are not excepted in this general rule but are restrained and limited here to a due proportion The necessary supports of life may prove the procurers of death if not qualified and made wholesom by this corrective Drink exceeding its measure to excess is no longer a refreshment to irrigate and water the thirsty body nor a preservative but makes an inundation to drown and suffocate the vital powers and is the cause of sickness It puts a man out of the state of health and represents him in such a degenerate condition both in respect of body and mind that we may look upon the man as going out of the World because he is already gone out of himself and strangely metamorphosed from what he was I never knew sickness or a Disease to be good preventing Physick and to be drunk is no other than an unsound state and the whole body out of frame by this great change What difference is there between sickness and drunkenness Truly I cannot distinguish them otherwise than as genus and species Drunkenness being a raging Distemper denominated and distinguished from other sicknesses by its procatartick or procuring cause Drink That Drunkenness is a Disease or sickness will appear in that it hath all the requisites to constitute a Disease and is far distant from a state of health for if Health be the free and regular discharge of all the functions of the body and mind and sickness when the functions are not performed or weakly and depravedly then Ebriety may properly be said to be a Disease or Sickness because it hath the symptoms and diagnostick signs of an acute and great Disease for during the time of drunkenness and some time after few of the faculties perform their offices rightly but very depravedly and preternaturally If we examine the intellectual faculties we shall find the reason gone the memory lost or much abated and the will strangely perverted If we look into the sensitive faculties they are disordered and their functions impedited or performed very deficiently the eyes do not see well nor the ears hear well nor the palate rellish c. The speech faulters and is imperfect the stomach perhaps vomits or nauseates the legs fail Indeed if we look through the whole man we shall see all the faculties depraved and their functions either not executed or very disorderly and with much deficiency Now according to these symptoms in other sicknesses we judge a man not likely to live long and that it is very hard he should recover the danger is so great from the many threatning symptoms that attend this sickness and prognosticate a bad event here is nothing appears salutary but from head to foot the Disease is prevalent in every part which being collated the syndrom is lethal and judgment to be given so Surely then Drunkenness is a very great Disease for the time but because it is not usually mortal nor lasts long therefore it is slighted and lookt upon as a trivial matter that will cure it self But now the question may be asked Why is not Drunkenness usually mortal since the same signs in other Diseases are accounted mortal and the event proves it so To which I answer All the hopes we have that a man drunk should live is First From common experience that it is not deadly Secondly From the nature of the primitive or procuring Cause strong Drink or Wine which although it rage and strangely discompose the man for a time yet it lasts not long nor is commonly mortal The inebriating spirits of the liquor flowing in so fast and joining with the spirits of mans body make so high a tide that overflows all the banks and bounds of order For the spirits of mans body those agents in each faculty act smoothly regularly and constantly with a moderate supply but being over-charged and forced out of their natural course and exercise of their duty by the large addition of furious spirits spurs the functions into strange disorders as if Nature were conflicting with death and dissolution but yet it proves not mortal And this first because these adventitious spirits are amicable and friendly to our bodies in their own nature and therefore not so deadly injurious as that which is not so familiar or noxious Secondly Because they are very volatile light and active Nature therefore does much sooner recover her self transpires and sends forth the overplus received than if the morbifick matter were more solid ponderous and fixed the gravamen from thence would be much worse and longer in removing as an over-charge of Meat Bread Fruit or such like substances not spirituous but dull and heavy comparativè is therefore of more difficult digestion and layes a greater and more dangerous load upon the faculties having not such volatile brisk spirits to assist Nature nor of so liquid a fine substance of quick and easy digestion as strong drink So that the symptoms from such food are much more dangerous than those peracute distempers arising from Liquors And farther those bad symptoms in other Diseases are more to be feared and

are retired to their proper stations By this rational course the advantages that will accrue to you are these Exercise rouseth dull inactive spirits gives ventilation opens obstructions by the motion attenuation and penetration of the subtile spirits agitates and volatiseth feculent subsiding humours abates superfluous moisture increaseth natural heat promotes concoction distribution and conveyance of aliment through the narrow Channels and Passages unto the several parts of the body procures excremental evacuations strengthens all the Members and preserves Nature long in her vigour and verdure Having set out the times for Exercise and Motion the remainder is allotted for Rest and Ease with such refections and repast as Nature requires Quod caret alterna requie durabile non est Ovid. Rest is as necessary to preserve Health and continue mans body in strength and vigour as Exercise These two although much opposite in themselves yet both in their order and seasons are very suteable and agreeable to humane Nature and both contribute to the being and long being of Man Nothing constant is liking and congruous with our Nature but vicissitude is most acceptable and delightful When the body is wearied with Labour then rest is refreshing and renews its strength but when satiated with rest does then thirst after motion and pleasant exercise Rest is a burthen if forced upon Nature longer than Nature does require and that is but for a short space Interdum quies inquieta est quoties nos male habet inertia sui impatiens Sen. So that the due timeing of Rest and Motion and limiting them to their hours and seasons most agreeable and delightful to humane Nature is that which preserves him in Health and prolongs his Being Avoid idleness and a sluggish sedentary life for want of due action and wholesom motion the body like standing Waters degenerates and corrupts If Rest exceeds the vigour of Nature is abated digestion not so good distribution of aliment to the several parts retarded and impedited by reason of an obstructed foul body excrementitious superfluities not freely transmitted and emitted the spirits dulled and all the faculties of the body and mind heavy and slow to action Ignavia corpus hebetat labor firmat SECT XV. Sleep and Watching Limited and Cautioned THE Life of Man being conversant in vicissitudes spends its whole course in these two different states Sleep and Watching the one appointed for Rest and Ease the other for Action and Labour If he were constant in the first his life were but the shadow of Death not worth the naming Nemo dum dormit alicujus est pretii non magis quam si non viveret Quidam If in the latter he could not hold out long but be tired and worn out Therefore Nature hath wisely contrived that man should not continue long in either but should be transient from one to the other and weave out his life by these short intervals and changes Watching Action and Motion Sleep Rest and Cessation these are equally requisite for our well-being So that these two variations relieving one another both become a defence and support of humane life Sleep is a placid state of body and mind bringing refreshment and ease to both Sleep takes off the Body from action and the Mind from care thought and business and gives a cessation and quiet interval from their Labour That sleep may prove most advantagious answering the intentions and designment of Nature it must be regulated in these four particulars the Time when and the Limits how long the Place where and the Manner how The Time most proper and fit for Sleep and according to the appointment of Nature is the Night when most of the Creatures also do take their rest At the shutting up of the day and the Sun departed from the Horizon the spirits are not so active and lively but incline to a cessation and then it is fit to give them their repose and rest and not constrain them longer upon duty In the morning again at the rising of the Sun they are fresh brisk and agile fit for motion and action and then they are no longer to be chained up in somnolent darkness but to be set at liberty and enjoy the bright light which chears the spirits and is a great enlivener to them Turpis qui alto sole semisomnis jacet Cujus vigilia medio die incipit Sen. Avoid day-sleeps as a bad custom chiefly fat and corpulent bodies but if your spirits be tired with much business and care or by reason of old age debility of Nature extream hot weather labour or the like that dissipates the spirits and enervates then a moderate sleep restores the spirits to their vigour again and is a good refreshment but rather take it sitting than lying down Night watching and late sitting up tires and wasts the animal spirits by keeping them too long upon duty debilitates Nature changeth Youth and a fresh florid countenance heats and dries the body for the present in time it abateth natural heat breeds Rheumes and Crudities and most injurious to thin lean bodies But go early to sleep and early from sleep that you may rise refreshed lively and active not dulled and stupid For length and continuance Moderate sleep is best it refresheth the spirits fortifies and increaseth vital heat helps concoction gives strength to the body pacifies anger calms the spirits and gives a relaxation to a troubled mind But immoderate sleep dulls the spirits injurious to a good wit and memory fills the head with superfluous moisture and clouds the brain retains excrements beyond their due time to be voided and infects the body with their noxious fumes and vapours an enemy to beauty and changeth the fresh flower of Youth Concerning the place for sleeping take these cautions First That you do not expose your self to the open Air for in the time of sleep Nature is not so well able to defend the body from external injuries of the Air but lies more open to such assaults being off her guard and retired to Rest Know also that it is a bad custom to sleep upon the ground as many in the Summer season do use to their prejudice and those whose conditions of life necessitate them to it as Souldiers although for the present they escape the mischief yet afterwards most are made sensible of the injury by Aches stifness or weakness of Limbs and many other infirmities that it procures Sleep not in any damp place Vault or Cellar a ground Chamber especially unboarded a new washt Room or new plaistered but chuse a high Room dry sweet and well aired free from smoke and remote from any noise Let your Bed be soft but not to sink in which sucks from the body exhausts and impairs strength a Quilt upon a Feather-Bed is both easie and wholesom Be careful that your Bed be clean sweet and well aired for Bedding receives the vapours and sweaty moisture that comes forth from bodies lying in them which if they be

within made by a passionate troubled mind the prospect would be strange and much different from that placidness and tranquillity of an indisturbed quiet Soul 2. Strong and vehement passions or affections of the mind too intent upon this or that object whether desirable and to be enjoyed or formidable and to be avoided alienate suspend and draw off the wonted vigour influence and preservative power of the Soul due to the body whereby the functions and necessary operations are not duly and sufficiently performed but intempestively remisly and weakly Nor is the dammage only privative but also introduceth and impresseth upon the spirits a morbifick Idea which is ens reale seminale producing this or that effect according to the nature and property of the Idea received and aptitude of the recipient subject Phancies and Idea's are let in naked but they streight are invested and cloathed in the body have a real existence and are entia realia though at first conception but entia rationis as the longing of a pregnant Woman being but the Idea of a thing in her mind it begets various and real distempers in her body if not soon satisfied and sometimes characterized upon the Embryo in the Womb. Likewise a good stomach is taken off its meat suddenly by the coming of some unwelcom bad news the appetite is gone now the oul is disquieted and the Body really affected and altered Let these sad tydings be contradicted and the Soul satisfied of the truth to the contrary it sets a new impression upon the spirits they strait are cheared lively and active the stomach calls for meat and drink and the faculties restored to their wonted operations Whereby it appears the two passions of joy and grief as they are opposite in their objects so are their effects wrought in the Body as far distant and different 3. A cogitative or contemplative person too intent always or unseasonably employing the mind seriously and eagerly either in real or fictitious matters fabricating Idea's upon the spirits disturbs and hinders other necessary offices in the body and operations conservative of its being enervates and weakens their performance in duty impares Health and hastens old Age but those that live most incurious and void of studious thoughts too serious cogitations and disquieting passions preserve the strength of Nature and integrity of all the Faculties protract the verdure and beauty of youth much longer from declensions and decay for by how much the rational faculty is over-busie disturbed and intempestively exercised drawing the full vigour of the Soul into the discharge of that faculty and robbing other inferiour functions of their necessary influential supply and emanative power from the Soul by so much the other faculties are impoverished and abated their executions more languid and depraved and therefore it is a close Students life a careful or passionate mind disposeth to and introduceth many infirmities enervates and debilitates nature abbreviates and shortens her course SECT XXIII Distempers and Perturbations of the Soul particularly Of Anger THis Passion is a great Disease if we consider the preternatural effects and alterations it maketh for the functions of the body are disordered and discomposed by it and the whole man changed from what he was In giving judgment upon Diseases so much worse is that person to be accounted whose alteration is greater from what he was in a state of health and as the functions perverted are more in number and superiour in dignity This Disease does not take up one particular part for its quarters but it seiseth the whole Man All the Faculties are disordered and every part is discomposed and disturbed Take a view of an angry Man or rather a Man in the fury and perturbation of Anger his Reason is supprest or suspended he acts not rationally but as a mad man his face is changed his eyes stare and sparkle his Tongue stammers his Heart pants his Pulse beats high and quick his Breath is almost gone the Blood and all the Humours boyl and the Spirits are agitated to and fro by gusts like an impetuous Wind he trembles all over and this storm shaketh the whole Fabrick of his body Surely this is a great Disease that thus discomposeth and puts the whole man out of frame and order such storms as these do much weaken and enervate the ability of the Faculties disorder their regular performance and discharge of their Offices but more especially infirm Parts are made sensible of the prejudice and cholerick lean bodies An inflammation of any particular part is a great Disease but Anger is an inflammation of the whole and were this distemper to continue long a man were in as much danger of life as in the highest Feaver Therefore take the Poets counsel Principiis obsta Ne fraena animo permitte Calenti Stat. Fear Fear whether sudden and violently seizing or gradually approaching and threatning an evil to come both enervates and debilitates Nature Fear suddenly surprizing chaseth the spirits to and fro from their residency and faculties sometimes compressing and driving them to the heart causing violent palpitations and suffocation or scattering them from the Fountain of Life into the external parts making a dissolution almost to exanimation Such frightful surprizes as these are very dangerous and seldom happen but they leave some sad Characters and Impressions behind Etiam fortes viri subitis terrentur Tacit. Against this fear there is no remedy having surprized and seized the Person before deliberation can interpose to prevent it or preparation made couragiously to meet or valiantly to stand against this shock of terrour Fear that gives warning before the evil comes and threatens as yet afar off that Soul which then yields up her courage and strength of resistance is disarm'd by her own phancy and vanquished by her self is conquered with nothing in Being but with the fear of something that may be The evil although to come which possibly may be prevented and never come yet it is made a present calamity the suggestions being received and the Soul sinking under them make a pressure upon the Soul as really afflicting as the evil it self Multos in summo peric'la misit timor ipse mali Luc. Such fears as these ought to be chased away and manfully resisted that which may be is as far from us sometimes as that which never shall be The fear of things that never come are ten to those that come to pass Quid juvat dolori suo occurrere Satis citò dolebit cùm venerit Sen. As Anger swells the Soul and thrusts forward the spirits into the exteriour parts to oppose and to revenge the ill On the contrary Fear makes the Soul to shrink and the spirits to give back By this contraction of the Soul her wonted vigorous emanations in all the faculties are suspended whereby the functions of the Body are remisly and depravedly performed the spirits retire inwards the face grows pale wan and thin and the Soul pines and