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…

Virtue and Patience learn my son of me, But may thy fortunes better Patterns see.

Vertue and Patience learne my sonne of me, But may thy fortunes better Patternes see.

And therefore unnaturalness of Affection is¹ reckoned up by the Apostle amongst the soulest of sins, when like Ismael the nature of men groweth wild and brutish, as the Philosopher calleth such men [Greek or Hebrew], men of savage and fierce dispositions. And therefore in the Scripture an unnatural man is called Onager homo, a ⟨p. 88⟩wild-ass man, Gen. 16. 1•. Job 11. 12. but a meek and tender▪spirited man is called Ovi• homo, a Sheep man, or a man of a sociable and calm disposition, Ezek 36. 37▪ 38. And amongst the Thebans there was a Law made, which appointed² a Capital penalty upon those unnatural men, who should cast out and expose their children unto ruin.

And therefore unnaturallnesse of Affection is¹ reckoned up by the Apostle amongst the soulest of sinnes, when like Ismael the nature of men groweth wilde and brutish, as the Philosopher calleth such men 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, men of savage and fierce dispositions. And therefore in the Scripture an unnaturall man is called Onager homo, a