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The sovereign and final happiness of man with the effectual means to obtain itThe soveraign and final happiness of man with the effectual means to obtain it
The sovereign and final happiness of man with the effectual means to obtain it by William Bates ...The soveraign and final happiness of man with the effectual means to obtain it by William Bates ...
London: printed by J.D. for Brabazon Aylmer, 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. All the passionate Powers will then be let loose at once upon the guilty Creature. And if there be no single Passion so weak, but heightened, will break the Spirit, and render Life so miserable, that a Man will take Sanctuary ⟨p. 247⟩in the Grave to escape, how miserable is the Condition when the most fierce and united Passions war against the Soul? This is signified by the never dying Worm that gnaws on the tenderest parts, and of quickest sense. Shame, Sorrow, Despair, Fury, Hatred and Revenge are some of that Blood of Vipers that torment the Damned.
3. All the passionate Powers will then be let loose at once upon the guilty Creature. And if there be no single Passion so weak, but heightned, will break the Spirit, and render Life so miserable, that a Man will take Sanctuary ⟨p. 247⟩in the Grave to escape, how miserable is the Condition when the most fierce and united Passions war against the Soul? This is signified by the never dying Worm that gnaws on the tenderest parts, and of quickest sence. Shame, Sorrow, Despair, Fury, Hatred and Revenge are some of that Blood of Vipers that torment the Damned.
1. Shame is a Passion of which human Nature is very sensible, and this in the highest degree of Confusion shall1 seize on the Wicked. For all the just causes of Shame shall then meet. The inward source of it is the consciousness of Guilt, or Turpitude and Folly in the Actions; and all these are the inseparable Adjuncts of Sin. The guilty Soul by a piercing reflection upon its Crimes,2 has a secret shame of its Degeneracy and Unworthiness. The Passion is increased, when a discovery is made of vile practices that defile and debase a Man, expose to Contempt and Infamy, before Persons of high Quality and eminent Virtue, whom we admire and reverence, and whose esteem we value. To be surprised in an unworthy Action by such a Person, disorders the Blood, and transfuses a Colour into the Face, to