# A Discourse of Constancy in Two Books. Chiefly containing Consolations against Publick Evils/Index

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TABLE
A.
* Abjectness of the Mind, a Vice and whence. 21
* Achilles, how advised. 135
* Affliction, the touch-stone of vertue. 182
** The ends of it. 180
* Affrica, a great Plague there. 267
* Anaxagoras, his reply. 65
* Antonius, taxes by him. 269
** The manner of his death. 223
* Antonius Caracalla, his cruelty. 275
* Arbiter, his saying. 43
* Aristophanes, his saying. 5
* Aristotle, his opinion of Fate. 105
* Atlantis, drowned. 91
* Augustine, his censure of Cicero. 126
* Augustus, Flamens and Priests to him. 281 ​
** Colonies placed by him 271
** His endeavour to dye 224
** Taxes imposed by him 269, 270
** Unfortunate in his family. 224
B.
* Belgia, its troubles 3·39
* Bias, his saying 127
* Boast, of Julius Cæsar 262
** Of Pompey the great Ibid.
** Of Cato the Censour 263
* Boethius, his saying 191
* Brutus, his wish. 223
C.
* Caius Cæsar, where slain 222
* Calamities, are good how 167
** Their Original whene. 80, 81, 82, 83
** Their end what 170
** The force of them broken, 172 ​
* Caligula, his saying 217
* Captivity, the miseries of it 265
* Cato, his saying 221
* Ceneus, his story 162
* Chance, ha's no rule in the world 74
* Change, all things tend to it 88, 89, 90
** Instances of it 91, 92, 93, 94
* Chastisement, it avails us 186
* Circumstances, more feared than the things themselves 144, to 149
* Cities, raised at once 263
* Colonies, placed by Augustus 270
** The strength of the Empire Ibid.
* Comets, not all in the air 89
* Complaint, of Tiberius 219
** Of Nero Ibid.
* Considia, how cured 243
* Constancy, a remedy in the sickness of the Mind 19
** Its definition Ibid.
** The praise of it 31, 32
** Opposed by what 36
* Country, what 47
** Which the true one 61
** Our obligation and love to it 55 ​
** Not from nature but custom 61
** How to be assisted by us 134
* Crantor, his saying 283
* Crates, his reply to Alexander 135
* Creon, his story Ibid.
* Cruelties, in times past 272, &c.
* Custom, of the Romans. 216
D.
* David, the Plague in his reign 266
* Death, punishment after it to the wicked 223
* Demetrius, his saying 182
* Demochares, his prescription to a Lady 243
* Desires, some the stronger for being opposed 14
* Dioclesian, his retirement 143
* Dyonysius, his story 221
* Domitianus, at what hour slain 118
** His blasphemous Title 281
** His cruelty. 282
E.
F.
* Famines, in former times. 268, &c.
* Fate asserted. 98
** Vniversally ascended to 101
** Some difference about its parts. 102
** How distinguished of by the ancients. Ibid.
** Mathematical Fate what 103 ​
** Natural Fate what 104
** Violent Fate how defined 106
** True Fate, its definition 112
** How it differs from providence 114
** How from the Stoicks Fate 119
** It offers no violence to the will 121
** It acts by second causes 131
** No ground for sloth. 133
G.
* Galba, his cruelty 275
* Gardens, those of Langius 139
** The praise of them 141, 142
** Kings and other excellent persons addicted to them 143
** How abused by some 148
** How to be used Ibid.
* God, orders and rules all things 74
** Not to be murmured at by us 81
** His unchangeableness 100
** Not the Authour of sin 122, 123, 124
** Not the cause of Evil 168 ​
** Punishes most justly 229
** He onely discernes the difference betwixt crimes 230
** Why he transferres punishment 235, 236
** He joines those things we sever Ib.
** He loves his, but severely 180
** He hath appointed all things their bounds 192
** Greece, its calamities by war. 260, &c.
H.
* Helice, and Bara swallowed up by water 91
* Hesiod, his saying 216, 237, 238
* Homer, his advice 5, 135
* Honorius, the famine in his reign 268
* Horace, his saying 64
* Hunnes, how many slain at once. 263
I.
* Jewes, their wonderful slaughter 257, &c.
* Instruments, why God useth the wicked as his 173
* Internal punishment, the most grievous 216
* Inundations, the mischiefs by them 91
* Italy, slain there in the punick war 261
* Julius Cæsar, the manner of his death. 222
* Justice, of God wakeful 190
* Justinian, the great plague in his reign. 267
** The famine in his time 268
K.
L.
* Langius, praised 2
** His gardens 139
** How used by him 153
* Lucullus, his cruelty 274
M.
* Man, at variance with himself 24, &c.
** An in bred malice in him 48
** Pindars account of him 97
** Vnable to judge of crimes 229
** He hath a will but not the power to resist God 125
** Prone to aggravate his own afflictions 254
* Masanissa, his famous plat. 142
* Mercy, what it is 68
** How it differs from pitty Ib.
* Michael Ducas, the great plague in his reign 267, 268
* Mithridates, his cruelty 276 ​
* Murthers, in times past 127, 128
* Mutations, several instances of them 88, &c.
* Mysteries, the acclamation usual therein. 288
N.
* Nature of God, slow to revenge 211
* Nature of Man, prone to aggravate afflictions 254
* Necessity, what it is 85
** Publick evils from it 86
** Its force and power 85, 86
** From what grounds derived Ibid.
* New found world, its desolations 263, 264
O.
* Obstinacy, how it differs from Constancy 20
* Opinion, what it is 22
** Its original whence 27, &c.
** Its power and effects Ibid.
** It leads to levity Ibid. ​
* Oppressions, internal and external heretofore. 279, 280
P.
* Passions, whence they rise 34
* Patience, the mother of constancy 21
** Its definition Ibid.
** How it differs from stupidity Ibid.
* Petrarch, a great plague in his time 268
* Polus, his story 43.
* Pompey, his boast 262
* Philosophy, how it workes 51
* Pindar, his saying 49
* Pitty, what it is 68
** How it differs from mercy Ibid.
** How it may be used 70
* Plagues, wonderful examples of them 266, 267, 268
* Plato, his councel 84
** His saying 216
* Proscriptions, 272, 273
* Providence, what 77 ​
** Nothing done below but by it 80
* Publick evils, why they afflict us 44
** Not so great as they seem 144
* Punishment, all have deserved it 229
** Good for us 189
** For the safety and ornament of the universe. 193
** Why unequal 202
** Why wicked men are not punished 208, 209
** Deferred why Ib,
** Transferred why 232
** Divers sorts of punishments 215
Q.
* Quintus Catulus, his saying 273
* Quintus Fabius, how many Gaules slain by him. 263
R.
* Rapines, 270
* Regulus, how he dyed 183
* Right Reason, what it is 22 ​
** Its original whence 25
** Its power and effects 28, 29
** It leads to constancy 26
* Romans, their calamities by war 261, &c.
S.
* Salvian, his saying 204
* Semiramis, her pendulous gardens 142
* Senatours, of Rome how taxed 269
** How many at once proscribed 272 &c.
* Seneca, his seeming errour 109
** His sayings 83, 200
* Simulation, in mens griefs 41, 42.
* Socrates, his reply to a Question propounded 11
* Sloth, no excuse for it from Fate 133, 134
* Solon, his story Ibid.
** His prospect to his Friend 285
* Sophocles, his saying 205
* Stoicks, commended 108
** The Authors of violent Fate 105
* Sylla, his cruelty, 274
T.
* Tacitus, his saying 218
* Tarquinius why expelled Rome 117
* Thales, his Apothegme 85
** His saying 230
* Theodosius, his cruelty 276
* Travail, helps not diseases within 8
** A Symptome rather than cure 7
** It removes only the lighter motions of grief 12
** Rather exasperates the greater 13
* Tributes, examples of them in former times 269, 270
* Trismegistus, his opinion of Fate, Providence and Necessity 103
* Tyranny, whence. 278
V.
* Variety, delights us 195, 196
* Varro, the consul praised 134
* Velleius Paterculus, his saying 132 ​
* Venice, its antiquity 94
* Venus, hath changed its colour magnitude and situation 90
* Violent Fate, how defined 106
* Vertue, how she is directed 21, 22
* Volesus Messalla, his cruelty. 276
W.
* Warres, of the ancients 161, 162, 163
* Warres, in Judea how many slain in them 157, &c.
* Wicked Men, why used by God as his instruments 173
** What punishments they never escape 217
** Punished after death 320
** Not exempt from external punishments Ibid.
* Wisdom, seems stern at a distance 70
** An exhortation to it 161
** The way to attain to Constancy 162
** Not acquired by wishes Ibid.
** The greatest instance of it, what. 174
Y.
Z.