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1. ANtaeus was King of Tingitania, who compelled his guests to wrestle with him, and then killed them. This is the trick of Tyrants, who make use of their strength and power to undoe and ruine the weake and meaner sort: and here wee may see what danger it is for means men to contend with Princes and great
ones, they can expect nothing but ruine: Polen••ioris i∣ram sapiens nunquam provocabit, Seneca. 2. The big∣nesse of his body shewed that earth and water were ex∣traordinarily predominant in him, therefore hee was cal∣led the son of Neptune and the Earth. 3. A covetous man is like Antaeus, the mo••e that his affections touch earthly things, the stronger is his covetousnesse; till hee be listed up from the earth with heavenly thoughts, and then covetous thoughts die. 4. Satan is like Antaeus, for the more hee is beat down by the Herculean strength of Gods Word, the more violent and fierce hee groweth; but being squeezed by the brest-plate of justice, hee loseth his force. 5. Satan deales with good men, as Hercules with Antaeus; hee flings them down by oppres∣sion and persecution; but when hee perceiveth, that by this means they grow stronger and more resolute, hee lifteth them up by ••pride and prosperity, by which ma∣ny are overthrown which grew strong by adversity. 6. The Sunne, like Antaeus, when hee is come to his perigaeum, or that point neerest the earth, hee begins to gather strength, which increaseth till hee come to his apogaeum, or that point in heaven farthest from the earth, and then his force begins to weaken. 7. Hee that will cure a Fea∣ver with hot things, or an Hydropsie with cold and moist things, hee doth as Hercules to Antaeus, increase the disease by applying things of the same nature; whereas diseases should be cured by contraries. 8. Every thing in its own element, with Antaeus, doth gather strength and prospereth; but being put into another element dieth, as fishes in the air, and beasts in the sea.