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…

Passions which proceed from Knowledge severed and extrinsical, are those motions of merely natural Agents; which are guided to their general or particular ends, by the Wisdom and Power of Him that made them. And this it is which causeth that peremptory and uniform order, observed by these kind of Agents in their natural course, never either swerving or desisting there-from, so far as the condition of the matter and subject whereon they work permitteth them; because they are all governed by an immutable, most wise, and most constant Law, proceeding from a Will with which there is no variableness nor shadow of changing. And therefore we find those aberrations and irregularities of Nature, wherein it swerveth from this Law only, or at least principally in these inferior things; wherein partly from the deficiency and languishing of secondary Agents, and partly from the excesses, defects, mutability, and the like exigences of matter, we find sundry times error and enormity in their several works and ends: Which, whether it be to set forth the beauty of regular operations (which by deformity and confusion will appear more beautiful; or whether the original thereof be divine malediction, which for the sin of man he pleaseth to lay upon his fellow creatures, which were all created for his comfort and service, ⟨p. 34⟩(which Saint Paul calleth the vanity of the Creature) it proceedeth certainly from the Will an• Power of that Law-giver, who is only able, s• Reasons best known to his own Wisdom, t• dispense sometimes with that otherwise unalterable Law, which he gave all his creatures to observe: So that all the Miracles which ever God hath been pleased to work, for the conversion of men unto the Faith, or confirmation in it, were but so many exceptions and dispensations from that general Law.

Passions which proceed from Knowledge severed and extrinsecall, are those motions of meerely naturall Agents; which are guided to their generall or particular ends, by the Wisdome and Power of Him that made them. And this it is which causeth that peremptorie and uniforme order, observed by these kind of Agents in their naturall course, never either swarving or desisting there-from, so farre as the condition of the matter and subject whereon they worke permitteth them; because they are all governed by an immutable, most wise, and most constant Law, proceeding from a Will with which there is no variablenesse nor shadow of changing. And therefore we finde those aberrations and irregularities of Nature, wherein it swerveth from this Law onely, or at least principally in these inferiour things; wherein partly from the deficiencie and languishing of secondarie Agents, and partly from the excesses, defects, mutabilitie, and the like exigences of matter, wee finde sundry times error and enormitie in their severall workes and ends: Which, whether it be to set forth the beautie of regular operations (which by deformitie and confusion will appeare more beautifull; or whether the originall thereof be divine maldiction, which for the sinne of man hee pleaseth to lay upon his fellow creatures, which were all created for his comfort and service,