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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 may be a double root of this Fear outward and inward. The outward is the cruelty and oppression which we suffer from the potent, and thereupon the less avoidable malice of the person hated (as it was the speech of Caligula, Oderint ⟨p. 125⟩dumb metuant) And here in our Aversation (if it observe that general rule of goodness in passions, Subordination to Reason and Piety) is, not only allowable, but natural, while it extends it self no further than the Evil which we wrongfully suffer. For I cannot but think that the spittle and scourges, the thorns and buffets, the reed and knees of those mocking and blasphemous Jews were so many drops of that full Cup, which He, who knew no sin, was so deeply desirous to have pass from him.
There may be a double root of this Feare outward and inward. The outward is the cruelty and oppression which we suffer from the potent, and thereupon the lesse avoidable malice of the person hated (as it was the speech of Caligula, Oderint ⟨p. 125⟩dum metuant) And here in our Aversation (if it observe that generall rule of goodnesse in passions, Subordination to Reason and Piety) is, not onely allowable, but naturall, while it extends it selfe no further than the Evil which we wrongfully suffer. For I cannot but think that the spittle and scourges, the thornes and buffets, the reed and knees of those mocking and blasphemous Iewes were so many drops of that full Cup, which He, who knew no sinne, was so deepely desirous to have passe from him.
But then next, the inward root of Fear is the guilt and burden of an unclean and uncovered Conscience, for Pollution and weakness is naked, must needs be fearful. And therefore that inference of Adam had truth in it, I was afraid, because I was naked: for having disrobed himself of Original righteousness, he was thereupon afraid of the curse and summons of an offended justice. Now from this fear may arise a double hatred; an hatred of a mans own Conscience: for an evil man [Greek or Hebrew] as the