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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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—Diri conscia facti1 Mens habet attonitos & surdo verbere cadit Occultum quatiente animo tortore slagellum. The mind being conscious of some dire offence, Fills them with fears; a Torturer from thence Shaketh, and with redoubled blows doth urge The unheard lashes of an hidden scourge.
—Diri conscia facti1 Mens habet attonitos & surdo verbere cadit Occultum quatiente animo tortore slagellum. The mind being conscious of some dire offence, Fils them with feares; a Torturer from thence Shaketh, and with redoubled blowes doth urge The unheard lashes of an hidden scourge.
- 1Juvenal.Iuvenal.
Nor can I esteem this a corrupt, though it be a miserable passion; for as a bad man is to himself the worst, so is he by consequence the hatefullest of all Creatures.
Nor can I esteeme this a corrupt, though it be a miserable passion; for as a bad man is to himselfe the worst, so is he by consequence the hatefullest of all Creatures.
The second Hatred, which may arise from that ⟨p. 127⟩Fear which is caused by a secret guilt of mind, is of all others most corrupt and rancorous, namely an hatred of the Authors or Executioners of Justice; of the equity and justness of whose proceedings, we are from within convinced; such as is the malice and blasphemy of malefactors against the Judge, and of Devils and damned men against God and his righteous judgments, which yet they cannot but acknowledge that they most worthily do endure: for it is the nature of proud and stubborn creatures (as was before observed) Odisse quos laserint, first to wrong God, and then to hate him.