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…

Touching the Effects of this Passion, I shall ⟨p. 217⟩name but these few: First, the effects of Corporal Delights are only (as I observed o•t of Aristotle) medicinal; for repairing the breaches and ruins of our decayed Natures; for animating and refreshing our languishing spirits; for preserving our selves in a good ability to execute Offices of a higher Nature; for furnishing the World with a succession of men, which otherwise the greediness of mortality would in short time devour. These are true and intended ends of those Delights, and when they once transgress these bounds, they begin to ^*oppress Nature, weaken and distemper the Body, clog the mind, and fill the whole man with satiety and loathing, which is the reason (as was even now noted) why men too violently carried² away with them, are presently over•loyed with one kind, and must have variety to keep out loathing: which Tacitus observes in that monster of³ women Messalina, facilitate adulterorum in fastidiu• versa ad incognit as libidin•s pr•stuebat, that loathing more easy and common sins, she betook h• self to unnatural lusts, and I verily think is particularly intended by S. Paul, Rom. 1. 26.

Touching the Effects of this Passion, I shall ⟨p. 217⟩name but these few: First, the effects of Corporall Delights are only (as I observed o•t of Aristotle) medicinall; for repayring the breaches and ruines of our decayed Natures; for animating and refreshing our languishing spirits; for preserving our selves in a good ability to execute Offices of a higher Nature; for furnishing the World with a succession of men, which otherwise the greedines of mortality would in short time devoure. These are true and intended ends of those Delights, and when they once transgresse these bounds, they begin to