Love then consists in a kind of expansion o• egress of the heat and spirits to the object loved, or to that whereby it is drawn and attracted whatsoever therefore hath such an attractive power, is in that respect the object and general• cause of Love. Now, as in Nature, so in the Affections likewise, we may observe from their objects a double attraction: The first, is tha• natural or impressed sympathy of things, wher• by one doth inwardly incline an union with the other, by reason of some secret virtues and occ• qualities disposing either subject to that […] all friendship, as between Iron and the Loa• stone: The other, is that common and mo• discernible attraction which every thing receiv• from those natures, or places, whereon they […] ordained and directed by the Wisdom an• ⟨p. 75⟩Providence of the first Cause, to depend both in respect of the perfection and conservation of their being. For, as God in his Temple, the Church, so is He in his Palace, (if I may so call it) the World, a God of Order, disposing every thing in Number, Weight, and Measure, so sweetly, as that all is harmonious, (from which harmony, the Philosophers have concluded a1 Divine Providence) and so powerfully, as that all things depend on his Government, without violence, breach, or variation.
Love then consists in a kind of expansion o• egresse of the heat and spirits to the object loved, or to that whereby it is drawne and attracted whatsoever therefore hath such an attractive power, is in that respect the object and general• cause of Love. Now, as in Nature, so in the Affections likewise, we may observe from their objects a double attraction: The first, is tha• naturall or impressed sympathie of things, wher• by one doth inwardly incline an union with the other, by reason of some secret vertues and occ• qualities disposing either subject to that 〈…〉 all friendship, as betweene Iron and the Loa• stone: The other, is that common and mo• discernable attraction which every thing receiv• from those natures, or places, whereon they 〈…〉 ordained and directed by the Wisedome an• ⟨p. 75⟩Providence of the first Cause, to depend both in respect of the perfection and conservation of their being. For, as God in his Temple, the Church, so is He in his Pallace, (if I may so call it) the World, a God of Order, disposing every thing in Number, Weight, and Measure, so sweetly, as that all is harmonious, (from which harmonie, the Philosophers have concluded a1 Divine Providence) and so powerfully, as that all things depend on his Government, without violence, breach, or variation.
- 1Arian. Epist. lib. 1. c. 6.Arrian. Epist. lib. 1. c. 6.
