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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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Hatred contenteth not it self with the death of an Enemy, but is many times prodigious in the manner of it, and after out-lives that which it hateth, insulting with pride and indignities over the dead body which cannot complain, nor otherwise, but by its own loath somnesse revenge1 it self. Caligula, that monster of men, when he commanded any to be slain, gave this charge with it, It a feri ut se m•ri sentiat, that he should perish with such lingering blows, as that he might feel himself to dye. And he often commanded2 aged men to stand by and look upon the slaughter of their children, and after would force them3 unto mirth and feasting, for fear of their others which were left alive; for to have mourned for one, would have forfeited the others. And for indignities4 offered unto dead bodies, there is nothing, which more frequently occurreth. The Philistines cut off the head of Saul and sent it in Triumph up and down their Country. And the Historian notes of Otho that he never looked with5 more insatiable delight upon any spectacle, than the head of Piso his enemy. So when the Grecians saw the dead body of Hector, every man (as the Poet describes it) did bestow a stab, and a contempt upon it. But above all most hateful was the cruelty of Marc. Antonius and his wife Fulvia, showed on the dead body of Cicero the glory of the Roman eloquence, they cut off his head and his hands, setting them in contempt, where he was wont to deliver those excellent Orations; from whence they took it to their Table, and ⟨p. 150⟩Fulvia cursing it and spitting upon it, pulled out6 the tongue (which all ages have admired) out of the mouth, and pricked it full of holes with her needle or bodkin; to show that malice would ever do mischief to a man in his noblest and highest treasure▪ as we see in that desperate Italian, who having his enemy in his mercy, first made him (in hope to escape) to renounce his religion and salvation, and then presently slew him that as far, as was in his power, he might kill his soul, as well as his body.