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…

Now the Qualification of these to distinguish the formal reason of their being objects to our desires, from that wherein they are Objects of our love, is first that they be Possible: For Desire being the motion and endeavour of the Soul towards that good which it loveth, and wherein it seeketh to delight, take away the possibility of such delight, and this would be motus in Vac•, like that of Noah's Dove that found no place for her feet to rest on. Hope is the whetstone, and wheel of industry, if that sail, how ever a man may waste and pine away his thoughts in empty Velleities and imaginary wishes, he ca• ever put ⟨p. 167⟩forth nor address his endeavours towards an impossible¹ good. Though an old man may wish himself young again, yet no man was ever so besotted as to endeavour it. And this distinction between vanishing wishes and serious desires is of great consequence to be attended in all th• motions of the Soul moral or sacred, in as much as those Desires only which are Active and Industrious, purposely addressing themselves to the prosecution of that which they apprehend as acquirable, do commend the Soul from whence they issue for virtuous and pious.

Now the Qualification of these to distinguish the formall reason of their being objects to our desires, from that wherein they are Objects of our love, is first that they bee Possible: For Desire being the motion and indeavour of the Soule towards that good which it loveth, and wherein it seeketh to delight, take away the possibility of such delight, and this would bee motus in Vac•, like that of Noahs Dove that found no place for her feet to rest on. Hope is the whetstone, and wheele of industry, if that saile, how ever a man may waste and pine away his thoughts in empty Velleities and imaginary wishes, he ca• ever put ⟨p. 167⟩forth nor addresse his endeavours towards an impossible¹