Sect. 8.
There is that tract of time when first a sicknesse gets such a head as it is deadly;* 1.1 there is secondly that interim in which man grows insensible; and there is, thirdly, that instant in which the soule of man is separated from the body: in regard of which last it was truly spoke of Seneca, when he said, Death should not be fearfull, which, when it comes, is not discerned; for Death taken in this last acceptation cannot be perceived, no not in the se∣cond, but taking Death in the first way, it is many times more, many times lesse painfull, of which I would dilate Physically, but avoyd tediousness; It is a thing as appa∣rent, as almost death its self, that sometimes in that tract of time there may be paine, and most oft is; but there are greater paines, I beleeve, to many people that out∣live their sicknesses, then those when diseases grow