Politique Observation.
••T must be confessed that eminent Souls have extraordinary fore-sights, and some∣what, I know not how, more then humane, they see all effects by their causes; they do commonly speak of things with assurance, and prognosticate things to come, as if they saw them presently acted before their eyes; they behold all dangers long before they happen, which they fear not, because their Prudence applies fit reme∣dies; they know the weaknesse of their enemies, when and where they ought to be assaulted; they know all their stratagems, all their designs; and thus it is that their Prudence maketh them frequently judge of things with certainty.
Some have been of opinion that these extraordinary knowledges have been com∣municated to them by their Genius, and to speak more Christian-like by their good Angles, which me thinks cannot well be denied; seeing the like hath befallen the Grandees amongst the Pagans, as Socrates, Brutus, and Caesar, and of latter ages divers other experiences of the same kind: But I may well add, the Angles do but seldome afford those their favours; and as seldome, as that eminent Prudence where∣unto they add their fore-seeing quality, is rare.