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…

But we must here withal, take notice of the general care of the Creator; whereby he hath fastened on all creatures, not only his private desire to satisfy the demands of their own nature, but hath also stamped upon them a general charity and feeling of Communion, as they are sociable parts of the Universe or common Body; wherein cannot possible be admitted (by reason of that necessary mutual connection between the parts thereof) any confusion or divulsion, without immediate danger to all the members. And therefore God hath inclined the nature of these necessary agents, so to work of their discords the perfect harmony of the whole, that i• by any casualty it fall out, that the Body of Nature be like to suffer any rupture, deformity, o• any other contumely, though haply occasioned by the uniform and natural motions of th• particulars; they then must prevent such damage and reproach, by a relinquishing and forgetting of their own natures, and by acquainting themselves with motions, whereunto considered i• their own determinate qualities, they have a• essential reluctancy. Which property and sense of Nature in common, the Apostle hath excellently set down in 1 Cor. 12. where he renders this reason of all, that there might be […] ⟨p. 77⟩Schism in the Body: which likewise he divinely applieth in the mystical sense, that all the several gifts of the Spirit to the Church, should drive¹ to one common end, as they were all derived from one common Fountain; and should never be used, without that knitting quality of Love, to which he elsewhere properly ascribeth the building, continuation, and perfecting of the Saints.

But we must here withall, take notice of the generall care of the Creator; whereby he hath fastned on all creatures, not onely his private desire to satisfie the demands of their owne nature, but hath also stamp'd upon them a generall charitie and feeling of Communion, as they are sociable parts of the Vniverse or common Body; wherein cannot possible be admitted (by reason of that necessarie mutuall connexion between the parts thereof) any confusion or divulsion, without immediate danger to all the members. And therefore God hath inclin'd the nature of these necessarie agents, so to worke of their discords the perfect harmonie of the whole, that i by any casualtie it fall out, that the Body of Nature be like to suffer any rupture, deformitie, o any other contumely, though haply occasioned by the uniforme and naturall motions of th particulars; they then must prevent such damag and reproach, by a relinquishing and forgetting of their owne natures, and by acquainting themselves with motions, whereunto considered i their owne determinate qualities, they have a essentiall reluctancie. Which propertie and sense of Nature in common, the Apostle hath excellently set downe in