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…

3 These Desires as they are forgetful, so they¹ are envious, and look with an evil eye upon others competition, accounting their success our own damage. If a man should draw the genealogy of all the injuries and emulations of the world, we should find the Root of that great Tree to be nothing but lust. It was Desire and inordinate appetite by which the devil persuaded our first parents to pick a quarrel with their Maker. Whence come Wars and fightings, saith Saint James, but from lusts which war in your members? When a man hath war within, no wonder▪ if he have no peace without. He that cannot agree with himself, will disagree with all the world besides. The sea tosseth every thing which comes into it, not because it is wronged, but because it is unquiet. And a lustful man will contend with every innocent man that prospers, not because this man doth him injury, but because he grudgeth this mans prosperity. As the sea representeth every strait thing that is put into it crooked, so lust every harmless thing perverse, and as Seneca speaks, hath² Odium sine inimico, hatred without an enemy. Greedy Desires are like a swollen and envious spleen, which sucks away substance from all the rest of the body.

3 These Desires as they are forgetfull, so they¹ are envious, and looke with an evill eye upon others competion, accounting their successe our owne dammage. If a man should draw the genealogie of all the injuries and emulations of the world, we should finde the Roote of that great Tree to be nothing but lust. It was Desire and inordinate appetite by which the devill perswaded our first parents to picke a quarrell with their Maker. Whence come Warres and fightings, saith Saint Iames, but from lusts which warre in your members? When a man hath warre within, no wonder▪ if he have no peace without. He that cannot agree with himselfe, will disagree with all the world besides. The sea tosseth every thing which comes into it, not because it is wronged, but because it is unquiet. And a lustfull man will contend with every innocent man that prospers, not because this man doth him injury, but because he grudgeth this mans prosperity. As the sea representeth every strait thing that is put into it crooked, so lust every harmelesse thing perverse, and as Seneca speakes, hath