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enemy_n	david_n	death_n	saul_n	1,009	5	9.4042	5	false

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A15775	The passions of the minde in generall. Corrected, enlarged, and with sundry new discourses augmented. By Thomas Wright. With a treatise thereto adioyning of the clymatericall yeare, occasioned by the death of Queene Elizabeth	Wright, Thomas, d. 1624.; Wright, Thomas, d. 1624. Succinct philosophicall declaration of the nature of clymactericall yeeres, occasioned by the death of Queene Elizabeth. aut	1604 (1604)	STC 26040; ESTC S121118	206,045	400

requested him to auert them Auerte Psal 11. 8. oculos meos ne videant vanitatē Salomon his sonne inspired by Gods eternall wisedome exhorteth vs to obserue 2. Reg. 11. 1. wherein he himselfe most grossely offended and attend well our eyes and therefore not to looke vpon a woman trimmed and decked vp Auerte faciem tuam a muliere Sap. 9. compta Ieremie putting on the person of many of his carelesse people lamented the losse which was befallen them for not keeping diligently the gates of their eyes Oculus meus depredatus est animā meam my eye hath sacked my soule how O holy Prophet can the eye an externall sence rob thy soule of her riches ah it is easie to answere The sence cannot bee free from theft and sinne which openeth the gates letteth the theefe in Wherfore Iob thought to preuent such harmes and dammages and therefore cut off the occasions couenanting with his Iob. 31. eyes that hee would not somuch as thinke of a virgin Pepigi faedus cum oculis meis vt ne cogitarem guidem de virgine And Salomon rendreth a reason hereof Because perhaps he might haue bene scandalized or induced to offend God allured by her beautie Virginem ne conspilias Sap. 9. ne forte scandalizaris in decore illius Questionlesse the holy Ghost in sacred writ would neuer haue so often and so seriously councelled vs vnto a carefull watchfulnesse ouer this sence specially but for some important and waightie reasons For hee well knew that of all sences sight was the surest and certainest of his obiect and sensation no sence rangeth abroad and pierceth the skies like vnto this no sence hath such varietie of obiects to feed and delight it as this no sence imprinteth so firmely his formes in the imagination as this no sence serueth the soule so much for knowledge as this no sence is put so oft in action as this no sence sooner mooueth than this and consequently no sence well guided more profitable to the soule than this nor no sence peruerteth more perilous than this for if the guide be corrupted the followers will hardly escape vninfected Wherefore I would persuade all them that feare God and would auoid occasions of sinnes either not to behold at all such things as may induce them easily to offend or so perfunctorily passe ouer them as they leaue no sting behind them and therfore we are willed not to behold wine when it glistereth and as it were glorieth in the glasse for such alluring sights dart presently into the hart inordinat delights his meaning is we should not demur in sensuall beholding least perhaps ensue too much affectiō or drinking Epiphanius giueth a very apt morall reason why in the old law when a dead course passed by any house they were commaunded to shut their doores and windowes For saith he by this thou art taught Si audieris vocem Epiphan lib. 1. heres tom 1. he●●s 9. p. q. peccati aut speciem delicti videris claude oculos thos à concupiscentia os à vanitate verborum aurem à prauo sono vt ne mortisicetur tota domus hoc est anima corpus If thou heare the voice of sinne or see the face of offence shut thine eyes from concupiscence and thy mouth from sinfull sounds least all thy house die that is thy body and thy soule For as he addeth after out of the Prophet Mors per fenestras ascendit death ascendeth into the house of our hearts by the windowes of our sences He therefore that intendeth to keepe death from his heart must shut the gates of his sences in the face of sinne For the better performance hereof it is to be considered that passions are not onely mooued by their principall obiects and directly but also by certaine appurtenances apappendices or let me call them for lacke of a better word scraps of the principall obiect indirectly the which appertaine and haue some reference thereunto When Iacob saw the garment of Ioseph sprinkled Gen. 37. with blood it stirred vp in him extreamely the passion Iudith 16. 11. of sorrow The sandals or pantofles of Iudith rauished the eyes of Holophernes Sandalia eius repuerunt oculos eius and hailed his heart to lust The Antiochians were so vexed with certaine extraordinarie exactions the emperour Theodosius imposed vpon them that they for extreame Chry. in variis homil ad populum Antioch●ū spite and anger which the sight of his armes and statues stirred vp in them would no longer endure them in their citie but broke the one and rased the other We see a dog when he cannot or dare not assault him that throweth the stone with whom he is angry runneth to bite the stone and so in part to reuenge his spite Dauid agreeued with the death of Saul and Ionathas cursed the sencelesse mountaines of Gelboe which vpheld their enemies till the Israelits were slaine Montes Gelboe nec 2. Reg. 1. 21. ros nec pluuiae veniant super vos And Iob execrated the day that gaue light when he was borne after hee was plunged into so many miseries Pereat dies in qua natus Iob. 3. 3. sum noxin qua dictū est conceptus est homo Raguel whē he heard Raphael the Angel tell him how yong Tobie was old Tobies sonne could not absteine from teares the sight of the sonne so mooued and stirred vp the affection he bore to his father the like did Sara his wife and Tob. 7. Anne the daughter And the reason of this enlarged and extensiue affection in passions I thinke proceedeth from the very heart and nature of euery passion For when we loue God our parents or friends we are well pleased and contented with all those treasures of goodnesse honestie wealth and all other perfections they haue and wish them such as beseeme them which they want and this we desire to see performed and reioyce when it is accomplished and therefore since that a man hath many good things of nature as children wife kinsfolke c. and many additions by fortune as seruants horses possessions c. and many prised ornaments as credit glorie fame images statues c. and diuers other things which haue reference and relation vnto him as their master lord and owner and therefore he that loueth intirely his friend loueth all that belongeth vnto his friend and valueth them at that rate it deserueth and his friend priseth them In hatred and enuie contratiwise euery one detesteth not onely the person but also all that appertaineth vnto him for the contrarie reason neither can he abide to see any thing prosper which concerneth him Wherefore Dauid offering his prayer to God requesteth him to defend his innocencie and punish his enemie and not onely his person but also wisheth his children should become orphanes Fiant filij eius orphani Psal 108. and his wife a widow vxor etus vidua That his