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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. XV. Of the Good and Evil Effects of Hatred. Cautelousnesse and Wisdom to profit by that we hate, with Confidence, Victory, Reformation. Hatred is General against the whole kind, Cunning, Dissimulation, Cruelty, running over to Persons Innocent, violating Religion. Envy, Rejoicing at Evil. Crooked Suspicion. Contempt. Contumely.
CHAP. XV. Of the Good and Evill Effects of Hatred. Cautelousnesse and Wisedome to profit by that we hate, with Confidence, Victory, Reformation. Hatred is Generall against the whole kind, Cunning, Dissimulation, Cruelty, running over to Persons Innocent, violating Religion. Envie, Rejoycing at Evill. Crooked Suspition. Contempt. Contumely.
I Now proceed to the Consequents or Effects of this Passion: And first for the useful and profitable Effects thereof, which may be these.
I Now proceed to the Consequents or Effects of this Passion: And first for the usefull and profitable Effects thereof, which may be these.
First, a Cautelousnesse and fruit full Wisdom for our own welfare to prevent danger, and to reap benefit from that, which is at enmity with us. For we shall observe in many evils that no man is brought within the danger, who •s not first drawn into the love of them. All inordinate corruptions then most desperately wound the Soul, when they beguile and entangle it. But the greatest use of this Caution is to1 learn how to benefit by the Hatred of others, and •s learned Physicians do, to make an Antidote of Poison. For as many venomous creatures are ⟨p. 138⟩