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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
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CHAP. XIIII. Of the Quality and Quantity of Hatred, and how in either respects it is to be regulated.
CHAP. XIIII. Of the Quality and Quantity of Hatred, and how in either respects it is to bee regulated.
I Proceed now unto the consideration of this Passion in the Quantity and Quality of its Acts: which must be observed according to the Evil of the Object: for if that be unchangeable, there is required a continual Permanency of the Passion in regard of the disposition of the Mind: or if it be Importunate and Assaulting, there is required a more frequent repetition of the Act. The same likewise is to be said of the Quality of it; for if the Evil be of an Intense and more Invincible nature, our Hatred must arm us the more: if more Low and remiss, the Passion may be the more negligent.
I Proceed now unto the consideration of this Passion in the Quantity and Quality of its Acts: which must bee observed according to the Evill of the Object: for if that be unchangeable, there is required a continual Permanency of the Passion in regard of the disposition of the Mind: or if it be Importuna•e and Affaulting, there is required a more frequent repetition of the Act. The same likewise is to bee said of the Quality of it; for if the Evill be of an Intense and more Invincible nature, our Hatred must arme us the more: if more Low and remisse, the Passion may bee the more negligent.
Hero then is a fourfold direction of the Quantities and Qualities of our Hatred, and it will hold proportion in the other passions. First the unalterableness of the Evil, warrants the continuance of our hatred. Secondly, the importunity and insinuation of it warrants the Reiteration of our hatred. Thirdly, and fourthly, the greatness and the Remission of it requires a proportionable intention and moderation of hatred.