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184 perse their Odours when they are pounded; so Vertue doth then chiefly display her Glories, when she is oppressed.

He Second End is to Chastise us, than which there could not be a more gentle or effectual means found out for our preservation. For it benefits and preserves us two wayes, either as a scourge, when we have offended, or as a Bridle lest we should offend. As a scourge, since it is the hand of a Father which often corrects an offendor for his faults; but it is an Executioner, that slowly and only once punishes. As we use Rh