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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
Chapter 10: Of the Rule of true Love: the Love of God and our selves: similitude to these, the caus…
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The Root of every mans love unto himself, is that unity and identity which he hath with himself; it being natural to every thing, to take delight in the simplicity of it own being: because ⟨p. 85⟩the more simple and One it is, the more it is like the Fountain of its being; and therefore hath the more perfection in it. And this love of Man unto himself, if subordinate unto the love of God, and governed thereby, is Debitum Natura, a necessary1 Debt; and such, as the neglect whereof, is a trespass against Nature.
The Root of every mans love unto himselfe, is that unitie and identitie which he hath with himselfe; it being naturall to every thing, to take delight in the simplicitie of it owne being: because ⟨p. 85⟩the more simple and One it is, the more it is like the Fountaine of its being; and therefore hath the more perfection in it. And this love of Man unto himselfe, if subordinate unto the love of God, and governed thereby, is Debitum Natura, a necessarie1 Debt; and such, as the neglect whereof, is a trespasse against Nature.
- 1Aristot. Ethic. lib. 9. c. 4. 8.
Now then, as we love our selves, for the unity which we have in our selves; so, wheresoever we find any similitude to our selves, or character of our selves, either in Nature or Habits, upon that also do the beams of this Affection extend. Now, a thing may represent our selves, first, in Substance; as the Husband and Wife are said to be one flesh, 1and Children are branches and portions of their Parents Secondly, in Qualities or Accidents; as one man resembleth another in Natural, and one friend another in Habitual Qualities; as Face answereth to Face in Water, so the heart of Man to Man.