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A15775	The passions of the minde in generall. Corrected, enlarged, and with sundry new discourses augmented. By Thomas Wright. With a treatise thereto adioyning of the clymatericall yeare, occasioned by the death of Queene Elizabeth	Wright, Thomas, d. 1624.; Wright, Thomas, d. 1624. Succinct philosophicall declaration of the nature of clymactericall yeeres, occasioned by the death of Queene Elizabeth. aut	1604 (1604)	STC 26040; ESTC S121118	206,045	400

reputeth yron as strawes and brasse like rotten wood who swalloweth slouds and exspecteth that the whole River of Iordan should runne into his mouth Yet armed Iob. 41. 18. 40. 18. Vide Mar● 1. 26. 5. 2. 9. 26. Luc. 8. 29. the forces of the Devill his craft 1. Reg. 13. 19. 2. Esd 4. 11. with thy protection I feare not to prostrate him as David that mighty tower of flesh the vncircumcised Philistian who boasted against the God of Israel For in Deo meo transgr●diar murum I will pierce even the stony walles by the power and force of my God Si exurgant adverfum me castra non timebit cor meum If whole Camps assault me my heart will not feare for I know O omnipotent God that love thee as I should thine almighty hand will vphold me in all dangers and strengthen me in all assaults Sweet God enable me therefore with thy love for the surest Castell Galat. 5. 6. 1. Pet. 5. 8. against the Devill is a faith working with charity and the Devils bullets of battery against this fort are suggestions 2. Cor. 12. 7. working with concupiscence or selfe-love and sensualitie The 15. and 16. Motives to Love which are delivery from evill and toleration of wrongs for vs. GOodnes or true love principally by foure meanes are discovered first in bountifully giving gifts and bestowing benefits as Alexander the great who herein so excelled that in all occasions he woon eternall fame and incomparable love of all that delt with him for his magnificent deportment in powring forth his treasures and no doubt but that common verse more true then olde was penned for this and many more such like experiences to wit Si quis in hoc mundo vult cunctis gratus haberi Det capiat quaerat● plurima pauca nihil He that to all will heere be gratefull thought Must give accept demaund much little nought Secondly in not punishing or revenging iniuries whē they be offered wherefore Saul vnderstanding that David whom he so mightily persecuted got him at such advantage as that if it had pleased him to have revenged so many wrongs offered him by Saul he might with as much facilitie have bereaved him in the cave of his life as Saul had desire to dispoyle him of his lyfe I say after 1 Reg. 24 cap. 26. that Saul vnderstood the revengelesse heart of David levavit vocem suam slevit hee wept for ioy and apertly confessed his vertue love kindnes and withall acknowledged his owne iniustice and iniquitie Thirdly in riddance and delivery from evill when Iudith entred into Bethulia with Holophernes head and Iudith 1● by that meanes had redeemed her Countrie from the extreme danger of the Assyrian Hoast which of that people had not occasion sufficiently offered to love admire Ester 7. 8. and adore her After that Ester had procured the death of Hamman and the reclaime of that bloody Edict Assuerus at Hammans suggestion had sent abroad to be executed thorow all the kingdoms of the Medes and Persians what Iew had not there a most forcible motive to love and reverence that godly Queene which so wisely so couragiously so effectually had saved their lives and restored them to former libertie The same wee may say of Moses who ridde the Israelites from the thraldom of Egypt and of Iosua and Sampson who divers times defended their people from the hostile furie and invasion of their enemies and for this cause such noble Generalls among the Romanes were intituled Patres Patriae Fathers of the Countrie because they as Fathers had defended it and therefore deserved to be reputed and loved as Fathers Fourthly in tollerating wrongs crosses disasters afflictions for vs. This Veritie we finde recorded in holy Writ Maiorem charitatem nemo habet quam vt animam ponat quis pro amicis suis No man can shew more love then by powring out his life for his friend if then any suffer wrongs for our cause the neerer they approch to death the neerer they border vpon the most perfite remonstrance of Love and consequently are more forcible to cause or encrease kindnesse and affection When Saint Paule persecuted the Christians in the primitive Church Christ for whose cause they endured such persecutions accounted their ignominies his iniuries and therefore said Saule Saule cur me persequeris Saul Saul why dost thou persecute me as though his servants harmes were his hurts Who dishonoureth an Ambassadour but his King reputeth the iniurie offered vnto his Person who revileth a servant sent from his Lord but his Master will thinke therein his honour stayned wherefore as Christs Apostles and Disciples Ambassadors or Servants wrongs redound to their disgrace that sent them and in very deed they ought so to esteeme them as done to themselves because they plead and negotiate the Senders causes and affaires and in some sorte represent their persons even so whosoever handleth or dealeth in our behalfe and thereby incurreth any disgrace in honour wealth or body for vs ought to be reputed our friend in furthering our causes and negotiations and have repayred all the dammages he suffered in our defence Whosoever then suffereth for our cause wee account as innocent and to suffer wrongfully therefore wee condole with him and no doubt but love him Secondly such an one is violently bereaved of some good for our good which cannot but argue an extraordinary good will towards vs and consequently an apt motive to move vs to love Thirdly if that Position of Aristotle be true that we love them Arist. 2. Rhe● cap. 4. which tell and confesse sincerely their faults and offences for as Thomas Aquinas noteth such men shut the doore to all fiction and dissimulation and therefore are thought vpright and so deserve to be loved Certainly they that suffer any dammage or danger of dammage for vs exclude all fiction or dissimulation and really proove they love vs affectually and not superficially and therefore deserve to be beloved reciprocally O my sweete Saviour and impassible God! who by Divine nature art incapable of dammage griefe sorrow or disgrace of whom well we may say Non accedet ad te malum nec slagellum appropinquabit Tabernaculo tuo Psal 90. Evill shall never come neere thee nor any scourge approch to thy Tabernacle Yet to ridde me and all mankinde from evill thou abased thy selfe almost to the abysse of nothing factus vermis non homo opprobrium hominum abiectio plebis A worme and not a man the scorne of men and the scomme of the people Whether shal I say was greater and deserved more love the evill thou hast endured for mee or the evill from which thou hast delivered me My payne from whence thou hast ridde mee should have beene infinite in durance and thy payne sustained for mee was infinite in dignitie my soule and body were most cruelly in hell to have beene tormented and thy body and soule vpon the

and prints of obiects for vnderstanding even so the heart endued with most fiery spirites fitteth best for affecting Lastly for what other reason in feare and anger become men so pale and wanne but that the blood runneth to the heart to succour it I saw once in Genoa a Bandite condemned to death and going to Execution to tremble so extraordinarily that he needed two to support him all the way and for all that he shivered extreamely Besides whence-from proceedeth laughter dauncing singing and many such externall singes of ioy but as wee say from a merrie heart therefore ioy and feare dwell in the heart Howbeit I thinke this most true and especially in those passions which are about obiectes absent as love hatred hope flight ire and such like yet I cannot but confesse that when the obiectes are present and possessed by sense then the passions inhabite not onely the heart but also are stirred vp in every part of the body whereas any sensitive operation is exercised for if wee taste delicate meates smell muske or heare musicke we perceyve notonely that the heart is affected but that also the passion of ioy delighteth those partes of our sences the like wee prove in payne and griefe for which cause commonly wee say our teeth ake our fingers toes or legges payne vs Payne therefore and Pleasure beeing Passions of the Minde and evermore felt in that part of the bodie where Sense exerciseth her operations therefore as touching is dispersed thorow the whole bodie even so the Passions of pleasure and payne for in everie parte if it bee cherished it reioyceth if be hurte it payneth Yet supposing the Passions principally reside in the hearte as wee perceyve by the concourse of humours thereunto wee may demaund two curious questions The former is for what ende hath Nature given this alteration or flocking of humours to the hearte It seemeth questionlesse for some good ende for God and Nature worke not by chaunce or without respecting some benefite of the subiect To the which question it may bee answered First Why humors flocke to the heart in passions that the humours concurre to helpe dispose and enable the heart to worke such operations for as we prove by experience if a man sleepe with open eyes although his sight be marvellous excellent yet he seeth nothing because in sleepe the purer spirites are recalled into the inner partes of the body leaving the eyes destitute of spirits and abandoned of force which presently in waking returne againe euen so I conceive the heart prepared by nature to digest the blood sent from the liver yet for divers respectes not to have the temperature which all Passions require for love will have heate and sadnesse colde feare constringeth and pleasure dilateth the heart therefore which was to bee subiect to such diversities of Passions by Nature was deprived of all such contrary dispositions as the Philosophers say that Materia prima caret omni forma quia omnes formas recipere debet And although the hearte hath more excesse of heate than colde yet a little melancholly blood may quickly change the temperature and render it more apt for a melancholly Passion The second reason may be for that these humours affecting the heart cause payne or pleasure thereby inviting Nature to prosecute the good that pleaseth and to flie the evill that annoyeth as in the Common-wealth Vertue ought to be rewarded with preferment and vice to be corrected with punishment even so in this little common-wealth of our bodies actions conformable to Nature are repayde with pleasure and passions disconsorting nature punished with payne The other question concerneth the efficient cause of these humours what causeth their motions to the heart they themselves as it were flie vnto the heart or the parte where they soiourned sendeth or expelleth them from her and so for common refuge they runne to the heart or finally the heart draweth them vnto it This difficultye requireth an answere whereby many such like questions may bee resolved as for example when the meate in our stomackes is sufficiently disgested the chile which there remayneth prepared to be sent to the liver for a further concoction doth it ascend thither by it selfe as vapours to the head or doth the stomacke expell it or the liver drawe and sucke it To this demaund I answere that in mine opinion the partes from whence these humours come vse their expulsive vertue sending the spirites choler or blood to serve the heart in such necessity as the hand lifteth vp it selfe to defend the head howbeit I doubt not but the heart also affected a little with the passion draweth more humors so encreaseth Many more curious obiections here I omit which perhaps would delight the more subtil wits but hardly of many to be conceived What sort of persons be most passionate CHAP. X. OVt of the precedent Chapter we may gather how that the heart is the seate of our passions that spirites and humours concurre with them here we may deduce a conclusion most certayne and profitable that according to the disposition of the heart humours and body divers sortes of persons be subiect to divers sortes of passions and the same passion affecteth divers persons in divers manners for as we see fire applyed to drie wood to yron to flaxe and gunpowder worketh divers wayes for in wood it kindleth with some difficulty and with some difficulty is quenched but in flaxe soone it kindleth and quencheth in yron with great difficulty is it kindled and with as great extinguished but in gunpowder it is kindled in a moment and never can bee quenched till the powder be consumed Some men you shall see not so soone angrie nor yet soone pleased and such be commonly fleugmatike persons others you have soone angrie soone friended as those of a sanguine complexion and therefore commonly they are called good fellowes others be hardly offended and afterward with extreame difficulty reconciled as melancholy men others are all fiery and in a moment at every trifle they are inflamed and till their heartes be consumed almost with choller they never cease except they be revenged By this we may confirme that olde saying to be true Animi mores corporis temperaturam sequ●ntur the manners of the soule followe the temperature of the body And as in maladies of the body every wise man feeleth best his owne griefe euen so in the diseases of the soule every one knoweth best his owne inclination neverthelesse as Physitions commonly affirme how there be certayne vniversall causes which incline our bodies to divers infirmities so there are certayne generall causes which move our soules to sundry passions First young men generally are arrogant prowde prodigall incontinent given to all sortes of pleasure Their pride proceedeth from lacke of experience for they will vaunt of their strength beautie and wittes because they have not yet tryed sufficiently how farre they reach how frayle they are therefore they make more account of them