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…

Their furies were not bounded by their fate, Ones funeral flame the others flame did hate.)

Even so likewise a mans love hath a power to bury his enemies, and to draw unto it self the most backward and differing affections; for being of a transient nature, and carrying forth it self into the person beloved, it usually (according to the condition of other natural Agents) worketh semblable and alike affections unto it self. For besides that, hereby an Adversary is convinced of nourishing an injurious and undeserved¹ enmity; he is moreover mollified and shamed by his own witness, his conscience telling him that it is odious and inhumane to repay love with hatred. Insomuch that upon this inducement, Saul the pattern of raging and unreasonable envy, was sometimes brought to relent and accuse himself. And this is the occasion ⟨p. 95⟩(as I take it) of that speech of Solomon; If ²thine enemy hunger, give him bread to eat; if he thirst, give him water to drink; for thou shal• heap coals of fire upon his head. Which, though perhaps,³ with earthy and base minds, it hath a property of hardening and confirming them in their hatred; yet, with minds ingenuous and noble, it hath a clean contrary effect, to melt and purge them. And so the Apostle telleth us, that we love God, because he loved us first; and Mary Magdalene ⁴having had much forgiven her, did therefore love Christ much. And therefore the Poets counsel is good:

Even so likewise a mans love hath a power to bury his enemies, and to draw unto it selfe the most backward and differing affections; for being of a transient nature, and carrying forth it selfe into the person beloved, it usually (according to the condition of other naturall Agents) worketh semblable and alike affections unto it selfe. For besides that, hereby an Adversary is convinced of nourishing an injurious and undeserved