Five books of philosophicall comfort ... . ng known* >what power doth them deuide 2 And thus deuide d^doth agame vmte 2And with a various tourney ^oft afpiresTo btghiji things,and oft againe retiresTo bafeftjwthiig being out of fight 2And when (he back* vnto her Jelfe doth moUe%DothalLlhefalfhcodsbythe trutkreproue, 1 his vigour needesmufl be anaUiue caufe>Andwithmore powerful Iforcesmufl be deckleThen that ywhich from th ofeformes,that do reflet From outward matteryall her vertue lining todies fa/sions mightDothgoe before\whofeoffice isiencite^ And the fir ?l motion? in
Five books of philosophicall comfort ... . ng known* >what power doth them deuide 2 And thus deuide d^doth agame vmte 2And with a various tourney ^oft afpiresTo btghiji things,and oft againe retiresTo bafeftjwthiig being out of fight 2And when (he back* vnto her Jelfe doth moUe%DothalLlhefalfhcodsbythe trutkreproue, 1 his vigour needesmufl be anaUiue caufe>Andwithmore powerful Iforcesmufl be deckleThen that ywhich from th ofeformes,that do reflet From outward matteryall her vertue lining todies fa/sions mightDothgoe before\whofeoffice isiencite^ And the fir ?l motion? in th*mind to wake*As when the light vnto our ejesjppcarcs^Orfomehudvojce isfojindedinoureares. Then doth the fir engih of the dull mind *wakeThofe phantafeSj which [he within,Sheflirrcth vp fuch mot tons t o begin, WhofeobieR s with their natures bc$~l thsts applying them to out ward things, She Thilofopbicall Comfort. *tf She iojncs tl> external!fiapesjvhicb thence/he brmgtWtthfvrmeiyehulo in ht rjelje included The V. Prose. That reafcn mufl yeeldto the jimpli-city of Gods knowledge. Ndifin the dilcerning ofbodies by fenfe, althoughthe qualities which are ob*ie&ed do moue the organs oi fenfe,and the pafsion of the body goethbefore the vigor of the actiue mind,prouoking her action to it ielfe, andexciting the inward formes, whichbefore lay quiet; if(Ifay)inpercei-uitigthefecorporalobiecls^themindtaketh not her imprefsion from paf-ilon,but by her own force iudgeth ofthe pafsio it felf,which is obie&ed tothe body; how much more do tholepowers exerciie the action of their mind, TSoetius his minde, and not onely follow theoutward obiects in their Judge-ment, which are free from all affec-tions of the body ? Wherefore inthis fort hauc diucrs and differentfubftances, knowledges of manykinds. For onely fenfe deftitute ofall other, is in thole iiuing creatures,which are vnmoueable, as fomefhell-fifh, and other which fticke toftones and fo are nourifhed. Andi
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