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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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And therefore I think there are not any Examples of more implacable Hatred, than those that are by Envy grounded on Merit. As Tacitus 1observes between the passages of Domitian and Agricola, that nothing did so much▪ strengthen the Emperors hatred against that worthy Man, as the general report of his honourable behaviour and actions in those military services, wherein he had been employed. And the same likewise he intimates in the affections of Tiberius and Piso towards Germanicus.2
And therefore I thinke there are not any Examples of more implacable Hatred, than those that are by Envy grounded on Merit. As Tacitus 1observes between the passages of Domitian and Agricola, that nothing did so much▪ strengthen the Emperours hatred against that worthy Man, as the generall report of his honourable behaviour and actions in those military services, wherein hee had been imployed. And the same likewise he intimates in the affections of Tiberius and Piso towards Germanicus.2
- 1Tacitus.
- 2Plutar. lib. de R•p. Gerendâ.
It is wisely therefore observed by the Historian, That men of vast and various employments, have usually the unhappiness of Envy attending them, which therefore they have sometimes declined by retiring and withdrawing themselves from continual addresses, as a wise mariner, who (as he spake) doth aliquantulum remittere Clavum […] magnam fluctus vim. And thus we find the honour which Davids merits procured him, which was the foundation of that implacable Hatred of Saul towards him. For as in natural motions,