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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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In this case therefore our care must be to discern between the abilities and infirmities of ⟨p. 92⟩men, that our Honour and Love of the Person render not his weaknesses beautiful us, nor work in us an unhappy diligence in the imitation of them. Vix enim dici potest, quantò libentiùs imitamur 1eos, quibus favemus; Love is very apt to trans port us so far as to make us imitate the errors of whom we love. Like unskilful Painters, who2 not being able to reach the beauty of the face, express only the wrinkles and blemishes of it.
In this case therefore our care must bee to discerne betweene the abilities and infirmities of ⟨p. 92⟩men, that our Honour and Love of the Person render not his weakenesses beautifull us, nor worke in us an unhappy diligence in the imitation of them. Vix enim dici potest, quantò libentiùs imitamur 1eos, quibus favemus; Love is very apt to trans port us so farre as to make us imitate the errours of whom we love. Like unskillfull Painters, who2 not being able to reach the beauty of the face, expresse onely the wrinkles and blemishes of it.
- 1Quintil. lib. 2. cap. 2. & li. 10. c. •.
- 2Plutarch. de Adulat.
Thirdly, that our love keep in all the kinds thereof its due proportion, both for the nature of them, being towards some a love of Reverence, towards others of friendship, towards others of Compassion, towards others of counsel and bounty; as also for their several degrees of intension, which are to be more or less according to the Natural, Moral, or Divine obligations which we find in the persons loved. For though we must love All men as Our selves, yet that infers not an Equality, but a Fidelity and Sincerity of love; Since even within Our selves, there is no man but loves his Head and his Heart and other vital parts with a closer Affection than those which are but fleshly and integral, and more easily repairable. And therefore the Apostle limiteth the [Greek or Hebrew], the greatest degree of our love upon two objects, those of our own house, and those of