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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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There is no Malice grows ranker than that which ariseth out of the corruption of Love; as no darkness is more formidable, than that of an1 Eclipse, which assaults the very vessels of Light; nor any taste more unsavoury than of sweet things when they are corrupted. The more natural the Union, the more impossible the Re-union. Things joined with glue, being broken asunder may be glued again; but if a mans Arm be broken off, it can never be joined on again: So those Hatreds2 are most incurable, which arise out of the greatest and most natural Love.
There is no Malice growes ranker than that which ariseth out of the corruption of Love; as no darkenesse is more formidable, than that of an1 Eclipse, which assaults the very vessels of Light; nor any taste more unsavory than of sweet things when they are corrupted. The more naturall the Vnion, the more impossible the Re-union. Things joyned with glew, being broken asunder may be glewd againe; but if a mans Arme be broken off, it can never be joyned on againe: So those Hatreds2 are most incureable, which arise out of the greatest and most naturall Love.
- 1Arist. Politic. lib. 7. c. 7. Frat•rno pry mi maduerunt sanguine muris L•an. lib. 1.Arist. Politic. lib. 7. c. 7. Frat•rno pri mi maduerunt sanguine muris L•an. lib. 1.
- 2Plutarch. de amore frat.