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…

For as it is a sign of distemper in the Body, when the unequal distribution of nourishment and humours causeth some parts to exceed their due proportion of greatness: so is it likewise in the faculties of the Mind, when the Inferior grow high and strong; if Reason raise not it self to such a proportion, as still to maintain and ⟨p. 282⟩manage its authority and government over them. But this is to be observed only of the Rising and Strength, not of the Humility and Descent of Reason: For though it be fit for the power of Reason to keep it self up above rebellion; yet is it not necessary that it should stoop and sink according to the lowness or sordidness of any Passion. As in the Body, though we would have all parts increase alike; yet if one part by distemper grow weak, we require in the rest a fellow-feeling, not a fellow-languishing▪ yea indeed in both cases, where the inferior part is weaker, it is the course of Nature and Art to fortify the higher; because in a Superior there is required as well a power to quicken and raise that which droopeth, as to suppress and keep under that which rebelleth.

For as it is a signe of distemper in the Body, when the unequall distribution of nourishment and humours causeth some parts to exceed their due proportion of greatnesse: so is it likewise in the saculties of the Minde, when the Inferiour grow high and strong; if Reason raise not it selfe to such a proportion, as still to maintaine and ⟨p. 282⟩manage its authority and government over them. But this is to be observed only of the Rising and Strength, not of the Humility and Descent of Reason: For though it be fit for the power of Reason to keep it selfe up above rebellion; yet is it not necessary that it should stoup and sinke according to the lownesse or sordidnesse of any Passion. As in the Body, though we would have all parts increase alike; yet if one part by distemper grow weake, wee require in the rest a fellow-feeling, not a fellow-languishing▪ yea indeed in both cases, where the inferiour part is weaker, it is the course of Nature and Art to fortifie the higher; because in a Superiour there is required as well a power to quicken and raise that which droopeth, as to suppresse and keep under that which rebelleth.