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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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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.
Now then, as we love our selves, for the unitie 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 doe the beames 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 Naturall, and one friend another in Habituall Qualities; as Face answereth to Face in Water, so the heart of Man to Man.
- 1Arist. Mag•r. Mo•al. lib. 1. c. 34.
With respect unto this double Similitude, there is a double Love; the one, Natural; the other, acquired, or Habitual: the former is common with Men unto other Creatures: Thus in Aelian, Plutarch, and others, we read of the Natural1 affection of Elephants; which seeing their young fallen into a deep Pit, will leap down after them, though it be present death; and of the marvellous cunning and valour which many other Birds and Beasts use to provide for the safety of their Bood, exposing and offering themselves to danger, that they may be delivered: