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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

proportion that a man be sicke it is enough that one humour onely exceede that an harmony of Musicke be good all partes must keepe tune time and apt concordance that it be badde one iarring voyce will disconsort all in like manner that a man be honest and good is required that hee be endued with all Vertues to be nought or ba●●e it is sufficient he be a drunkard a theefe a whoremas●●● an vsurer or infected with any one vice c. Wherefore honest love supposing a man to be vertuous absolutely thereupon groundeth most effects of kindnesse and therefore the contrarieties thereof will not so aptly moove hatred as some other particular considerations for example wee determined that tolleration of wrongs mooveth a man to love the contrary of this will hardly stirre vp hatred for if wee grant that him we hate refused to suffer any wrongs for vs but avoyded them with mayne might we may well conclude he doth not greatly love vs but violently we should inferre therefore that hee deserved hatred and so I say of some others therefore for more perspicuity and that wee may find out more vrgent arguments to induce men to hatred the case is to be sifted a little more narrowly In hatred of enmitie we detest the person as stayned with evill sinne vice or wickednes for which we wish him iustly punished wherefore all these reasons which induce vs to conceive the greatnesse of his offence or the indignitie of the person or ill demeanour of his life towards God in himselfe or his neighbour all these aboundantly will excite hatred against him Sometimes occasion wil be offered to moove the passion of hatred against some particular person as to inveigh against a Traytour or publike enemie to the State or our selves otherwhiles against a whole State as Turkes Iewes Pagans Heretikes Rebelles against a Common-wealth or some Kingdome which warreth with vs and as these evilles are different so by divers meanes we must perswade our auditors or friends to hate them A private person may be brought into contempt and hatred by Motives gathered from these three Principles His Ingresse into this world His Progresse of life His Egresse or death His Ingresse § 1. 1 IF his Parents were base wicked or infected with any notorious vice if deformed in body or marked by any monstruositie of Nature 2 If the manner of his begetting was vnlawfull as Bastardy and herein be divers degrees of fornication adulterie incest sacrilege 3 If he were born at such a time as the influence of the heavens had some extraordinary action in the tempring of his body as dog daies or at what time his father was in prison for some demerit or in time of great plagues or diseases or commotion in the common-weale 4 If he were borne in a bad place as a wicked Country among vitious people if in a City treacherously inclined or hath bin branded with any notorious vice or persons infamous 5 If his mother in her childing died or was tormēted in bringing him into the world with more vehement pangues then women commonly suffer or if before his birth his good father dyed as though God would not vouchsafe to let the wicked child behold his fathers face or presently after hee was borne wherein God shewed him a most speciall grace to take him away betime lest his wicked sonne had caried his grey hayres with sorow to his grave 6 If in the childish yeeres he accustomed to steale lie sweare or were addicted to any vice which shewed the first buddes of a blasted body and corrupted soule But some will obiect as I have heard divers what fault have I if my Parents bee vicious and base And what commendation is thine if thy parents bee vertuous and noble and yet who is hee that had not rather have beene borne of vertuous then vicious noble then ignoble Progenitors That is no fault but a staine this no vertue but an ornament men know full well that waters which runne thorow stinking soyles carrie an vnsavory smell and that winds and vapours drawne from infected places are plaguie messengers to many Countries in like manner Parents naturall propensions to wickednesse imprint for most part in their children a certaine resemblance wherefore as these externall respects be not invincible arguments to convince a vitious nature or a corrupted soule so when in the progresse of life we infallibly discover an exorbitant badde carriage and brutish demeanour then we may well inferre that the first staines and infections were ominous presages of future malice as if Nature had foreseene what an infamous guest was to lodge in that body and therefore prepared a lodging correspondent Adam had a Caine Abraham an Ismael Isaac an Esau Iacob a Dan David an Absolon and many godly Parents vngodly children which argueth manifestly that neither good nature in Parents for what bodies could bee more perfit then those of Adam and Heua wholy framed by Gods owne handes and consequently could have no defect nor vertuous example nor provident instructions can suffice to withdraw a man from wickednesse if his wicked will intendeth to follow it What have not many Bastards prooved well Yes but more have prooved ill and consequently wee may presume they will become rather vitious then vertuous for as the Cannon law well noteth such children are Ca. sigens d. 56 not brought vp with like care and vigilance of their Parents as other legitimate and commonly such spurious ympes follow the steppes of their bad parents His Progresse § 2. THe persons whome wee intend to moove to hatred That vice should most be amplified which the auditors most detest ought to be considered well before wee represent vnto them the filthinesse of the mans vice for which we intend to make him odious vnto them for such is the corruption of some companies as great sinnes with them are little accounted for example he that would disgrace a souldier in the Campe by vehemently exaggerating the mans fornication should little prevayle or a Merchant among Merchants for vsury in taking ten in the hundred or drunkennesse among the Dutch men and such like offences before such persons who eyther will boast of them or defend them or at least extenuate the deformity of them wherefore in every company that vice specially must bee noted which among these men is most detested as treachery and cowardlinesse among souldiers bloud and cruelty among Citizens all sortes of heynous offences among grave sober iudicious and vertuous hearers As in every vertue there is a lowe degree a meane Intension of vice and an excellent for there be beginners goers forward and perfite incipientes proficientes perfecti Likewise in every vertue there is a supreame excellency rare singular and admirable in temperance virginity in fortitude apert perilles of death in prudence present resolutions deepe councell in affaires of greatest importance as manage of States and governement of Kingdomes In iustice neyther to spare friend father