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…

and therefore be his Errors never so palpable, his Affections never so distempered, his Mind never so depraved and averse from the Rules of Reason, he will notwithstanding easily persuade himself to think he is in the right course, and make his Judgement as absurd in defending, as his Will and Affections are in embracing vicious Suggestions, Viti a nostra, quia amamus, defendimus. When ⟨p. 496⟩once our Minds are by the violence and insinuation of Affection transported into any crooked course, Reason will freely resign it self to be perverted, and the discourse of the Understanding will quickly be drawn to the maintaining of either; So easy it is for men to dispute, when they have once made themselves obey.

and therefore be his Errours never so palpable, his Affections never so distempered, his Minde never so depraved and averse from the Rules of Reason, he will notwithstanding easily persuade himselfe to thinke he is in the right course, and make his Iudgement as absurd in defending, as his Will and Affections are in embracing vitious Suggestions, Viti a nostra, quia amamus, defendimus. When ⟨p. 496⟩once our Minds are by the violence and insinuation of Affection transported into any crooked course, Reason will freely resigne it selfe to bee perverted, and the discourse of the Vnderstanding will quickely bee drawne to the maintaining of either; So easie it is for men to dispute, when they have once made themselves obey.

And another reason hereof is, because as a Body distempered and affected in any part, especially those vital ones, which diffuse their virtue into the whole, the Weakness spreads, and overruns all the other, though remotest from it▪ So likewise the violent motion of partial and unruly Appetites ▪which do any ways miscarry by the delusion of Objects, which they fasten upon, immediately derive themselves upon the higher pas of mans Soul out of the natural Harmony & consent which they desire to have amongst themselves; but especially do they labour to win over the Judgement unto their side, and there hence to get unto themselves Warrant and Approbation. For as where the Understanding is regular, the chief Dominion thereof, is over-Affection. And therefore we see always, that men of the most stayed and even Judgements, have the most unresisted power in the government of Passions: So on the other side; when the Affections are strongly inclined to any, either enormous motion in Morality; or Object in Nature, the first Faculty whereon they strive to transfer their prejudice in the Reason since without the Assent and