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…

Thirdly it worketh some manner of Victory over the evil hated: for Odium semper sequitur […] ⟨p. 141⟩animi elation, as Scaliger out of Aristotle hath observed, It ever ariseth out of pride and height of mind [Greek or Hebrew]. Injury ever comes from some strength, and is a kind of Victory. For so far forth as one is able to hurt another, he is above him. And this effect holds principally true in moral and practic courses; wherein I think it is a general Rule: He in some measure loves an evil, who is overcome by it: for conquest in this nature is on the Will, which never chooseth an object till it love it. There only we can have perfect conquest of sin, where will be a perfect hatred of it. Here, in the best, there is but an incomplete restoration of Gods Image: the body of nature and the body of sin are borne, and must die together.

Thirdly it worketh some manner of Victory over the evill hated: for Odium semper sequitur 〈…〉 ⟨p. 141⟩animi elatione, as Scaliger out of Aristotle hath observed, It ever ariseth out of pride and height of mind 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Injury ever comes from some strength, and is a kind of Victory. For so farre forth as one is able to hurt another, he is above him. And this effect holds principally true in morall and practick courses; wherein I think it is a generall Rule: Hee in some measure loves an evill, who is overcome by it: for conquest in this nature is on the Will, which never chooseth an object till it love it. There onely we can have perfect conquest of sinne, where will be a perfect hatred of it. Here, in the best, there is but an incompleat restauration of Gods Image: the body of nature and the body of finne are borne, and must die together.

Fourthly, it hath a good effect in regard of the evil hated in reasonable Creatures, namely the Reformation of the person, in whom that evil was. For as countenance and encouragement is the fosterer; so Hatred and contempt serveth sometimes as Physic to purge out an evil. And the reason is because a great part of that goodness, which is apprehended to be in sin, by those that pursue it, is other mens approbation. Opinion puts value upon many uncurrent Coins, which pass rather because they are received, than because they are warrantable. And therefore if a man naturally desirous of credit see his courses generally disliked, he can hardly so unnature himself, as still to to feed on those vanities, which he seeth do provoke others unto loathing, though I confess,