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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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Another dangerous effect of Hatred is Envy and Malignity at the sight of another's happiness;1 and therefore Envy is called an Evil Eye, because all the diseases of the Eye make it offended with any thing that is light and shineth; as Vermin do ever devour the purest Corn, and Moths eat into the finest Cloth, and the Cantharides blast the sweetest Flowers. So doth Envy ever gnaw that which is most beautiful in another whom it hateth; and as the Vulture, draweth2 sickness from a perfume. For such is the condition of a rancorous Nature; as of a raw and angry wound, which feels as great pain in the good of a Chirurgeons, as in the ill offices of an Enemies hand, it can equally draw nourishment unto this Passion from the good and ill of whom it hates; yea and commonly greater too from the good than from the ill: For, Odiorum […] ⟨p. 155⟩causa quand• iniquae: When Hatred is built upon a bad foundation, it commonly raiseth it self the higher. And the reason is, because in Passions of this Nature, the less we have from the Object, the more we have from our selves, and what is defective to make up our malice in the demerit of him whom we hate, is supplied by the rising of our own stomach: as we see in the body that thin and empty nourishment will more often swell it than that which is substantial.
Another dangerous effect of Hatred is Envy and Malignitie at the sight of anothers happines;1 and therefore Envy is called an Evill Eye, because all the diseases of the Eye make it offended with any thing that is light and shineth; as Vermine doe ever devoure the purest Corne, and Moaths eat into the finest Cloath, and the Cantharides blast the sweetest Floures. So doth Envy ever gnaw that which is most beautifull in another whom it hateth; and as the Vulture, draweth2 sicknesse from a perfume. For such is the condition of a rankorous Nature; as of a raw and angry wound, which feeles as great paine in the good of a Chirurgions, as in the ill offices of an Enemies hand, it can equally draw nourishment unto this Passion from the good and ill of whom it hates; yea and commonly greater too from the good than from the ill: For, Odiorum