the Air fhould be coldest; because the Sun and Stars are either hot by direct Beams, or by reflecti

on.

The direct Beams heat the upper Region; the reflected Beams from the Earth and Seas, heat the lower Region. That which is in the middeft, being further diftant in place from these two Regions of beat, are moft diftant in Nature, that is coldest, which is that they term cold, or bot, per* Antiperiftafin, that is, environing by Contraries: which was pleasantly taken hold of by him, who faid, that an honeft man in thefe days muft needs be more honeft than in Ages heretofore, propter antiperiftafin; becaufe the shutting of him in the midst of Contraries must needs make the honefter ftronger, and more compact in it felf.

* Antiperiftafis is a Philofophical Term fign:fyga repulfion on every part where y either Heat Cold is made more strong in it felf by the restraining of the contrary.

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The Reprehenfion of this Colour is:

Firft, Many things of Amplitude in their kind do (as it were) engrafs to themselves all, and leave that, which is next them, most destitute. As the Shoots, or Under-Wood, that grow near a great and Spread Tree, is the most pined and frubby Wood of the Field; because the great Tree doth deprive and deceive them of the Sap and nourishment; fo he faith well, Divitis fervi maximè fervi, That rich mens Servants are the greateft Slaves and the Comparison was pleasant of him, that compared Courtiers attendant in the Courts of Princes, without great place or office,

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to Fafting-days; which were next the Holy-days; but otherwise were the leanest days in all the Week.

Another Reprehenfion is, that things of Greatnefs and Predominancy, though they do not exte nuate the things adjoyning in fubftances, yet they drown them, and obfcure them in fhew and appeaAnd therefore the Aftronomers fay; that, whereas in all other Planets Conjunction is the perfecteft amity, the Sun contrariwife is good by Afpect, but evil by Conjunction.

rance.

A third Reprehenfion is, becaufe Evil approacheth to Good, fometimes for concealment, fometimes for protection: and Good to Evil for converfion and reformation. So Hypocrifie draweth near to Religion for covert and hiding it felf.

Sæpe latet vitium proximitate boni.

Oft, under neighb'ring Good, Vice fbrowded lies.

And Sanctuary-men, which were commonly inordinate men, and Malefactors, were wont to be neareft to Priests, and Prelates, and Holy-men: for the Majesty of good things is fuch, as the Confines of them are reverend. On the other fide, our Saviour, charged with nearnefs of Publicans and Rioters, faid, Matt. 9.11. The Physician approacbeth the fick rather than the whole.

8. Quod quis culpa fua contraxit, Majus Malum : quod ab externis imponitur, Minus Malum. That is,

That, which a Man hath procured by his own Default, is a greater mischief (or Evil;) that, which is laid on him by others, is a leffer Evil.

HE Reafon is, because the fting and remorfe

of the mind, accufing it felf, doubleth all Adveríity: Contrariwife, the confidering and recording inwardly, that a man is clear and free from fault, and just imputation, doth attemper outward Calamities. For if the Will be in the Senfe, and in the Confcience both, there is a gemination of it. But if Evil be in the one, and Comfort in the other, it is a kind of Compensation: So the Poets in Tragedies do make the most paffionate Lamentation, and those that fore-run final defpair, to be accufing, questioning, and torturing of a mans, felf.

Seque unam clamat caufamque caput que malorum.

She railing doth confefs her felf to be
The caufe and fource of her own mifery.

And contrariwife, the extremities of worthy Per fons have been annihilated in the confideration of their own good deferving. Befides, when the Evil cometh from without, there is left a kind of evaporation

poration of grief, if it come by human injury, either by indignation, and meditating of revenge from our felves, or by expecting, or fore-conceiving, that Nemefis and retribution will take hold of the Authors of our burt; or, if it be by fortune or accident; yet there is left a kind of expostulation against the Divine Powers:

Atque Deos atque Aftra vocat crudelia Mater:

The Gods and cruel Stars the Mother doth charge.

But, where the Evil is derived from a mans own fault, there all ftrikes deadly inwards and suffocateth.

The Reprehenfion of this Colour is:

First, in refpect of Hope: for Reformation of our fault is in noftra poteftate, our own power; but amendment of our fortune fimply is not, Therefore Demofthenes in many of his Orations faith thus to the People of Athens; That, which having regard to the time paft, is the worfe Point and Circum tance of all the reft; That, as to the time to come, is the best. What is that? even this, That by your Sloth, Irrefolution, and Mifgovernment, your affairs. are grown to this Declination and Decay. For, had you used and ordered your means and forces to the beft, and done your parts every way to the full; and notwithstanding, your matters fhould have gone backward in this manner as they do: there had been no hope left of Recovery or Reputation. But fince it th been only by your own errors,&c.So Epictetus in

his Degrees faith, The worst state of man is to accuse extern Things, better than that to accuse any mans felf, and best of all to accufe neither.

Another Reprehenfion of this Colour, is in refpect of the well-bearing of Evils, wherewith a man can charge no body but himself, which maketh them the less.

Leve fit, quod bene fertur onus:

That Burthen's light, that's on difcreetly laid.

And therefore many natures, that are either extreamly proud, and will take no fault to themselves; or elfe very true, and cleaving to themselves, (when they see the blame of any thing that falls out ill, muft light upon themselves) have no other shift, but to bear it out well, and to make the leaft of it: For, as we fee, when fometimes a fault is committed, and before it be known, who is to blame, much ado is made of it; but after, if it appear to be done by a Son, or by a Wife, or by a near Friend; then it is light made of: So much more, when a man must take it upon himself. And therefore it is commonly feen, that Women which marry Husbands of their own chufing, against their Friends confents, if they be never fo ill-ufed, yet you shall seldom fee them complain, but fet a good face on it.

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