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…

The next rule which I observed for the government ⟨p. 194⟩of these Passions, do respect those Higher and more glorious Objects of Mans Felicity: And herein,

1 Our Desires are not to be Wavering and In constant, but Resolute and full of Quickness and Perseverance: First, because though we be poor and shallow vessels; yet so narrow and almost shut▪ up are those passages, by which we should give admittance unto the matter of our true happiness▪ yea so full are we already of contrary qualities, as that our greatest vehemency will not be enough, either to empty our selves of the one, or to fill our selves with the other. And therefore the true Desires of this Nature are in the Scripture set forth by the most pathetical and strong similitudes of Hunger and Thirst; and those not common neither; but by the panting of a tired▪ Hart after the rivers of water, and the gaping of the dry ground after a seasonable shower. Secondly, every desirable Object the higher it goes, is ever the more united within it self, and drives the faster unto an unity: It is the property of Errors to be at variance; whereas Truth is One, and all the parts thereof do mutually strengthen and give light unto each other: So likewise in things Good▪ the more noble, the more knit they are▪ Scelera dissident: It is for sins to be at variance amongst themselves. And¹ those lower Goods of Riches, Pleasure, Nobility, Beauty, though they are not Incomparable; yet they have no natural Connection to each other; & have therefore the less power to draw a consla• and continued Desire. But for nobler and immaterial ⟨p. 195⟩