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 degree of causes is of those which qualify the Agent, or him that worketh the injury, and there may be amongst many other, which cannot be reckoned, these general ones.

The next degree of causes is of those which qualifie the Agent, or him that worketh the injury, and there may be amongst many other, which cannot be reckoned, these generall ones.

First Baseness, which works a double cause of Anger: One for an injury of Omission, in neglecting those respects which are required in men of mean and inferior rank towards their superiors: Another for a positive enquiry in the evil exercised against them. And many times the former alone is a cause of Anger, without the later: For this distance of persons doth quite alter the nature of our Actions, insomuch that those demeanours, which are commendable and plausible toward our equals, are rude and irreverend toward those that are above us: and this is that which makes the wrath of God in the Scripture to be set out so terrible unto us: because of the infinite distance between the Unmeasurable Glory of the Maker of the World, and the baseness of sinners; and therefore the comparison which useth to be made for the defence of Venial sins, that it is altogether unlikely that God, infinitely more merciful than men, should yet be offended at that which a mans neighbour would pardon him for, as a foolish angry word, or the stealing of a Farthing, or the like, is without reason: because between man and man there is a Community both in nature and weakness; and therefore,

First Basenesse, which works a double cause of Anger: One for an injury of Omission, in neglecting those respects which are required in men of meane and inferiour ranke towards their superiours: Another for a positive enquiry in the evill exercised against them. And many times the former alone is a cause of Anger, without the later: For this distance of persons doth quite alter the nature of our Actions, insomuch that those demeanors, which are commendable and plausible toward our equals, are rude and irreverend toward those that are above us: and this is that which makes the wrath of God in the Scripture to bee set out so terrible unto us: because of the infinite distance between the Vnmeasurable Glory of the Maker of the World, and the basenesse of sinners; and therefore the comparison which useth to bee made for the defence of Veniall sinnes, that it is altogether unlikely that God, infinitely more merciful than men, should yet be offended at that which a mans neighbour would pardon him for, as a foolish angry word, or the stealing of a Farthing, or the like, is without reason: because between man and man there is a Community both in nature and weaknesse; and therefore,