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…

Another particular cause of this passion may be a Disparity of Affections and Desires: for notwithstanding there be many times Hatred where there is Similitude (as those beasts and birds commonly hate one another, which feed upon the same common meat, as the Philosopher observeth)¹ and sundry men hate their own vices in others, as if they had not the trade of sin enough to themselves, except they got a Monopoly, and might engross it; yet this ever proceeds from an apprehension of some ensuing inconveniences which are likely to follow there-from, as hath been formerly noted: So that in that very similitude of Natures, there is a disagreement of ends, each one respecting his own private benefit.

Another particular cause of this passion may be a Disparity of Affections and Desires: for notwithstanding there bee many times Hatred where there is Similitude (as those beasts and birds commonly hate one another, which feed upon the same common meat, as the Philosopher observeth)¹ and sundry men hate their owne vices in others, as if they had not the trade of sinne enough to themselves, except they got a Monopoly, and might ingrosse it; yet this ever proceeds from an apprehension of some ensuing inconveniences which are likely to follow there-from, as hath beene formerly noted: So that in that very similitude of Natures, there is a disagreement of ends, each one respecting his owne private benefit.

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Now the Corruptions herein are to be attended according to the Nature of that disparity whereon the passion is grounded; which sometimes is ⟨p. 128⟩Moral, wherein it is laudable to hate the vicious courses, in which any man differs from us, or we our selves from the right rule of Life; so that the passion redound not from the quality to the person, nor break out into an endeavour of his disgrace and ruin, except it be in such a case, when our own dignity or safety, which we are bound more to regard, being assaulted, is in danger to be betrayed, unless prevented by such a speedy Remedy. Sometimes this Disparity may be in actions Civill, and with respect to society: and then as the opposition, which hatred discovereth, may be principally seen in two things; Opposition of a mans Hopes, and of his Parts and abilities, by crossing the one, and undervaluing the other: So corruption may easily proceed from two violent and unreasonable grounds, Ambition and Self-love; the one pursuing its hopes, the other reflecting upon its worth. And to this particular may be reduced, that Hatred, which ariseth out of a Parity of Desire, as amongst Competitors for the same Dignity, or Corrivals for the same Love, or Professors of the same Art, either by reason of Covetousness, or Envy, or ambition, a greedy desire of their own, or a discontented sight of another's good.