The Dominion and Supreme Command of the Will is only over those Powers to the Production of whose Operations, it doth by its […] ▪ Authority concur as an Absolute Efficient, or a least, as a Moving Agent. It reacheth not therefore so far as to the Command of the Vegetative Power: For we cannot command our Stomachs to digest, or our Bodies to grow, because the ⟨p. 541⟩vegetative faculties, which were instituted not for the proper service of Reason, but of Nature; neither reacheth it to an Universal Command of the Senses; but only by the Mediation of another Faculty, over which it hath more Sovereign Power: As it can hinder Seeing, not immediately, but by the Locomotive Power, by closing the Eyes. And the same is true of the Inward Senses; for the Memory and Imagination often fasten upon Objects, which the Desire of the Will is, should not be any way represented unto those Powers: So likewise in the Sensitive Appetite, when once Objects belonging thereunto, creep upon the Fancy▪ Irregular motions oftentimes violently resist the Will and the Law of the Members, carrieth men captive from the Law of the Mind. Lastly, the Will hath no Dominion Absolute and Sovereign over those Apprehensions of the Understanding, which depend on necessary and demonstrative Principles: It can require it not to discourse about such Objects, and divert it; but it cannot make it assent unto them contrary to the Evidence of Truth demonstrated. Briefly then, the Dominion of the Will is partly Mandatory, and partly Persuasive. The one is Absolute, working on mere Passive and Obedient Faculties; the other more Conditional, and upon Supposition of Regularity or Subjection in the Inferior Powers. For the Will hath both an Economical Government in respect of the Body,1 and the Moving Organs thereof, as over Servants: and it hath a Politic or Civill Government ⟨p. 542⟩towards the Understanding, Affections, and Sensitive Appetite, as Subjects, with which by reason of their often Rebellions, it happeneth to have sundry conflicts and troubles: as Princes from their seditious and rebellious Subjects. So that the Corruption of this Power in the Will, is either Tyranny in it self, or Usurpation in another; an Abuse of it, and a Restraint of it.
The Dominion and Supreme Command of the Will is onely over those Powers to the Production of whose Operations, it doth by its 〈…〉 ▪ Authority concurre as an Absolut• Efficient, or a least, as a Moving Agent. It reacheth not therefore so farre as to the Command of the Vegetative Power: For we cannot command our Stomacks to digest, or our Bodies to grow, because the ⟨p. 541⟩vegetative faculties, which were instituted not for the proper service of Reason, but of Nature; neither reacheth it to an Vniversall Command of the Senses; but onely by the Mediation of another Faculty, over which it hath more Soveraigne Power: As it can hinder Seeing, not immediately, but by the Locomotive Power, by closing the Eyes. And the same is true of the Inward Senses; for the Memory and Imagination often fasten upon Objects, which the Desire of the Will is, should not be any way represented unto those Powers: So likewise in the Sensitive Appetite, when once Objects belonging thereunto, creep upon the Fancy▪ Irregular motions oftentimes violently resist the Will and the Law of the Members, carrieth men captive from the Law of the Mind. Lastly, the Will hath no Dominion Absolute and Soveraigne over those Apprehensions of the Vnderstanding, which depend on necessary and demonstrative Principles: It can require it not to discourse about such Objects, and divert it; but it cannot make it assent unto them contrary to the Evidence of Truth demonstrated. Briefly then, the Dominion of the Will is partly Mandatory, and partly Perswasive. The one is Absolute, working on meere Passive and Obedient Faculties; the other more Conditionall, and upon Supposition of Regularity or Subjection in the Inferior Powers. For the Will hath both an Oeconomicall Government in respect of the Body,1 and the Moving Organs thereof, as over Servants: and it hath a Politique or Civill Government ⟨p. 542⟩towards the Vnderstanding, Affections, and Sensitive Appetite, as Subjects, with which by reason of their often Rebellions, it hapneth to have sundry conflicts and troubles: as Princes from their seditiou• and rebellious Subjects. So that the Corruption of this Power in the Will, is either Tyranny in it selfe, or Vsurpation in another; an Abuse of it, and a Restraint of it.
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