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Show of WAr ilnrJ J!e4ce t Dt Marte quoties it1ri11 [ujfr1gia ~ • . .• Propofe to thy Ntmo imminerecogitatmortem(lbi,; meditation, and Std qui{q; ctadcm de{lin•mr-u atteri. confider thy own ~uod fi in Comltiu fimtrll 11nte o~ulos forent, 'J' FMriata bello non per.if!et Gr~ciA. , ' ftrengt h,and the t Of their own dan~e moll men are, , . power of fortune, llnmindfull, when they vore for war; and the various They think noc,death hangs o'r ~hci~ h~ad, chances of war. Bu.t w 1 ~ th~t ocher men were dead,- And in Thucv- Tne undone Grecians had not been J So mad, it this they had forc-feea. - didcs ~The un- .Ari(l. de ani. mal. mot, expeEted Accidents in war muft he tlought upon, befare thou doft engage. C X X I V.. , Rules of Prudence · : 1 ·about the e/eCl:ion of Good. THey that delibe~ate, delib~rate panly about the ends , not the lal\ but the intermediate , partly about thofe things which lead thither~ The end is' ever fome GGoQ, or at Ieafi the Avoidance".af [pme evil, which may bcin the (lead , of'good. The things that kad to the one or other, are no~ dd1red by themtelves. but as they lc;ad· t.l':l.i~ber. Whercfote in Debates,are to be compared, both the ends amopg them• felve~· , and the cffetHve facutty of thofe things that lead to the end, to produce the f~mc. (For, as Ar~fl·otle ha~h dghtly noced,prop1[itiom whic'h hringforth action are of two forts, from t.hat which u 1:ood, and fr~m that whifh ~ pojfible.) Whi~h comparifon hath three Rules. The firfi ts, If the thing under debate,Ceemeth tohav.e, 1n 'The fecond pa,t. 443 in a moral efl:imation , equal efficacy to Good and to Evil, it is fo to be chofen, if the Good hath fomewhat more of gdod , than the Evil hath of evil. Whence .An-:aronicu. r Rhodiu.r, where he defcribes the maonanimous man, faith, He will under-ao danoers , not for every caufe , but for fhe gr~ate!t· Another Rule is , If the Good and Evil fcem equal, which may proceed from the thing in quefl:ion , that thino is elioib~e , if the efficacy to Good b 0 . be greater than to evil. The thtrd, If both the Good and the Evil feem to be unequal , and the efficacy of the t'bings no ]efs unequal, that thing will be eligible ! fo that the effic:.tcy to good be greater, belng ccmpar•q which the efficacy to· evil , than the Evil it felf is, being_compar'd to,. • the Good *. This have we Icc down af- Narfes Itt ter a more exaa manner. B_ut. ( 't·c ero. d.1 1·- mPraokceosp a• ups ru-courfcth to the f.1me purpoie m a plamer denr ute of way , when he faith, We mu!l take heed th!s rule. Gotwe do not offer our fel'vei to perils without tb1c. z.. c.aufe, than which nothing can be more foo1ifh : wherefore in runn·ing hazards ~ the cuflome of Phyficians -is worthy of our imitation :They apply gentle reme-dies to light difeafes,but in· the more grie~ vous are compelld to ufe more perillous and doubtful Medicines : Wherefore , he faith , it is a wife mans part to take the De Offic. ,.,.. opportunity , :md the ·rathet, if he may Obtain more zood by fuccefs 'of the mat• 1• ter , than he can. fear. evil upon the mif-. · : carriage. |
