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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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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, ⟨p. 156⟩that which comes from the faithest extreme, is most swift and violentiso in the motions of the Mind, the further off we fetch the reason of our Hatred, the more venomous and implacable it is.
It is wisely therefore observed by the Historian, That men of vast and various imployments, have usually the unhappinesse of Envy attending them, which therefore they have sometimes declined by retyring and withdrawing themselves from continuall addresses, as a wise mariner, who (as he spake) doth aliquantulum remittere Clavum 〈…〉 magnam fluctus vim. And thus we finde the honour which Davids merits procured him, which was the foundation of that implacable Hatred of Saul towards him. For as in naturall motions, ⟨p. 156⟩that which comes from the faithest extreme, is most swift and violentiso in the motions of the Minde, the further off wee fetch the reason of our Hatred, the more venomous and implacable it is.
And here we may observe the mutual and interchangeable services, which corrupt affections exercise amongst themselves: For as Philosophy observes in the generation of those cold Meteors which are drawn to the middle region of the Air, they are first by the coldness of the place congealed, and afterward do by the like impressions fortify and intend the same quality in the Region: so here Hatred first generates Envy; and this again doth reciprocally increase Hatred, and both join in mischief. So much the more hurtful to the Soul, wherein they are, than to the Enemy whom they respect, by how much they are more near and inward thereunto: for certainly a malignant humour doth most hurt where it harboureth.