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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 13: Of the other Causes of Hatred, Secret Antipathy, Difficulty of procuring a Good command…
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Another cause working Hatred of a thing in the minds of men, is the difficulty and conceited impossibility of obtaining it, if it be a good thing which we either do or ought to desire, which the Casuists call Acedia, being a grief of the appetite looking on a Difficult Good, as if it were evil because difficult; from whence ariseth ⟨p. 121⟩a Torpor and Supine neglect of all the means, which might help us to it. Thus wicked and resolved sinners, conceiving happiness as unacquirable by them, do grow to the Hating of it, to entertain rancorous affections against those, which persuade them to seek it, to envy and malign all such they find careful to obtain it; to proceed unto licentious resolutions of rejecting all hopes of thoughts of it, & to divert their minds towards such more obvious and easy delight, as1 will be gotten with less labour; thus Difficulty rendereth Good things Hateful; as Israel in the wilderness despised the pleasant Land, because there were sons of Anak in it.
Another cause working Hatred of a thing in the minds of men, is the difficulty and conceited impossibility of obtaining it, if it bee a good thing which wee either doe or ought to desire, which the Casuists call Acedia, being a griese of the appetite looking on a Difficult Good, as if it were evill because difficult; from whence ariseth ⟨p. 121⟩a Torpor and Supine neglect of all the meanes, which might helpe us to it. Thus wicked and resolved sinners, conceiving happinesse as unacquirable by them, do grow to the Hating of it, to entertaine rancorous affections against those, which perswade them to seeke it, to envie and maligne all such they find carefull to obtaine it; to proceed unto licentious resolutions of rejecting all hopes of thoughts of it, & to divert their minds towards such more obvious and easie delight, as1 will be gotten with lesse labour; thus Difficulty rendereth Good things Hateful; as Israel in the wildernesse despised the pleasant Land, because there were sonnes of Anak in it.
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