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A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…
A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the several dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edward Reynolds, late preacher to the honourable society of Lincoln's Inn: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the severall dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edvvard Reynoldes, late preacher to the honorable society of Lincoln's Inne: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.
London: printed by R. Hearne and John Norton for Robert Bostock, 1640
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CHAP. IX. Of the affection of Love, of Love natural, of general communion, of Love rational, the object and general cause thereof.
CHAP. IX. Of the affection of Love, of Love naturall, of generall communion, of Love rationall, the object and generall cause thereof.
Now the two first and fundamental Passions of all the rest, are Love and Hatred. Concerning the Passion of Love, we will therein consider first its object, and its causes; both which being of a like nature, (for every moral object is a cause, though not every cause an object) will fall into one.
NOw the two first and fundamentall Passions of all the rest, are Love and Hatred. Concerning the Passion of Love, we will therein consider first its object, and its causes; both which being of a like nature, (for every morall object is a cause, thoug• not every cause an object) will fall into one.
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