night, O fool, I
will take away thy soul," what a severe account they must make; and how
[4627]gracious on the other side a charitable man is in God's eyes, _haurit
sibi gratiam_. Matt. v. 7, "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain
mercy: he that lendeth to the poor, gives to God," and how it shall be
restored to them again; "how by their patience and long-suffering they
shall heap coals on their enemies' heads," Rom. xii. "and he that followeth
after righteousness and mercy, shall find righteousness and glory;" surely
they would check their desires, curb in their unnatural, inordinate
affections, agree amongst themselves, abstain from doing evil, amend their
lives, and learn to do well. "Behold how comely and good a thing it is for
brethren to live together in [4628]union: it is like the precious ointment,
&c. How odious to contend one with the other!" [4629] _Miseriquid
luctatiunculis hisce volumus? ecce mors supra caput est, et supremum illud
tribunal, ubi et dicta et facta nostra examinanda sunt: Sapiamus!_ "Why do
we contend and vex one another? behold death is over our heads, and we must
shortly give an account of all our uncharitable words and actions: think
upon it: and be wise."

SECT. II. MEMB. I.

SUBSECT. I.--_Heroical love causeth Melancholy. His Pedigree, Power, and
Extent_.

In the preceding section mention was made, amongst other pleasant objects,
of this comeliness and beauty which proceeds from women, that causeth
heroical, or love-melancholy, is more eminent above the rest, and properly
called love. The part affected in men is the liver, and therefore called
heroical, because commonly gallants. Noblemen, and the most generous
spirits are possessed with it. His power and extent is very large, [4630]
and in that twofold division of love, [Greek: philein] and [Greek: eran]
[4631]those two veneries which Plato and some other make mention of it is
most eminent, and [Greek: kat' exochaen] called Venus, as I have said, or
love itself. Which although it be denominated from men, and most evident in
them, yet it extends and shows itself in vegetal and sensible creatures,
those incorporeal substances (as shall be specified), and hath a large
dominion of sovereignty over them. His pedigree is very ancient, derived
from the beginning of the world, as [4632]Phaedrus contends, and his [4633]
parentage of such antiquity, that no poet could ever find it out. Hesiod
makes [4634]Terra and Chaos to be Love's