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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26270	The government of the passions according to the rules of reason and religion viz, love, hatred, desire, eschewing, hope, despair, fear, anger, delight, sorrow, &c.	Ayloffe, W. (William)	1700 (1700)	Wing A4290; ESTC R23106	50,268	134

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PASSIONS According to the RULES OF Reason and Religion VIZ. Love Hatred Desire Eschewing Hope Despair Fear Anger Delight Sorrow c. Sapiens uno minor est Jove Horat. London Printed for J. Knapton at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1700. To the Right Honourable John Earl of Marleborough Baron Churchill of Aymouth and Sandridge Governour to His Highness the Duke of Gloucester and one of the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council My Lord A Soldier cannot lay the Endeavours of his Pen any where so properly as at your Lorships Feet We have seen you in Flanders as great as at Kensington You were the Delight of our own Troops and the Terrour of our Enemies the mighty Darling of Mars and Minerva In Your Lordship alone we found all those fatal Contrarieties reconcil'd The Captain was a Courtier the Courtier a Man of Honour the Man of Honour preferr'd But not to be tedious where the most that can be said will be too little Your Lordship was all that Man cou'd wish or Man cou'd be The brightest Planet of the Creation has been Eclips'd But Europe's Genius alas cou'd not long support your Retirement For tho' his present Majesty t is true cou'd manage an Army without a Marlborough yet there was another task more difficult and out of his Sphere too I mean that glorious Imployment Your Lordship possesses at St. James's The Education of so Great so Young so Hopeful a Prince adds not more to your Grandeur than it subtracts from your Tranquility For the Charge of so inestimable a Jewel cannot but make Your Lordship very solicitous The Early dawning of his Infant Years gave us all assurances he would be something extraordinary Every day shews us more and more the collected Endowments of all his Royal Predecessors And if the rest of those who are about His Highness's Person could come any thing near Your Lordship in Care or Capacity He cannot possibly be otherwise than as Wise as Tiberius as Victorious as Alexander as Valiant as Julius and as happy as Augustus But I rob my Prince and the Publick too by the length of this Dedication Wherefore my Lord I humbly crave Pardon for the Liberty I have taken so publickly to profess my Self My Lord Your Lordships most Obedient and most Entirely Devoted Servant W. AYLOFFE The Government of the Passions The Introduction REason is that Emanation from the Divinity which if it be not the sole end of our being yet is one difference between us and the rest of the Creation Those who first studied the improving it were justly called Wise Men for as they excelled in knowledge and understanding they seem'd the better Copies of their great Original We may indeed form to our selves som Principles of Moral Philosophy because its Object is the Work of Man But it was a bold attempt of Reason and somewhat more curious than cautious more daring than advised to pry into the Eternal Wisdom of the Almighty St. Austin's defining the World to be a great Theatre where the Art of him that made it shone forth on all hands was more pious than exact The greater effects of God's Wisdom and Power are concealed from our Eyes and utterly impossible for us to comprehend Those many wonderful Springs by which every part of this glorious Machine is moved are all behind the Scenes and past our finding out we see no more than the Dial Plate of the Clock as it were and nothing at all of the movement Matter is we know not what this Globe is suspended we know not how and the whole Universe is we know not where Might not the World be rather thought a wonderful Riddle of the Infinite Wisdom of God to employ our admiration but punish if not prevent our Curiosity The causes of all things are so abstruse and our Capacities so shallow that not only the Astronomers but other Natural Philosophers too may find all their Principles vain and that Man is equally ignorant of the Grass that grows in the Fields and of the Sun that moves in the Firmament of a Fly a Pismire and his own Person Every thing is so uncertain in the Systems of Natural Philosophy that our greatest prudence is not to meddle with it at all but humbly admire what whilst we are here below we can never understand Aristotle himself that had the profoundest Capacity of any Man if he knows any thing at all now sees a great many mistakes in his Books of the Heavens of Meteors and the Soul c. For experience and the benefit of new invented Instruments have taught us a great many absurdities in his Works and hereafter we may come to find that we are not far from being altogether in the dark For Man's Reason is not so universal but that she is limited in most Subjects Pythagoras though he learnt much Natural Philosophy from the Aegyptians yet he was more curious of Morality and found out a method of improving that even whilst he investigated Nature Socrates was a great and good Man and reduc'd it to Principles Zeno affected a Gravity in all the Air of his Philosophy and that supercilious Sect when they thought as others did could not be brought to omit the haughtiness of their stile In other Points they sought by a captious Dialectick to conceal the defects in their Doctrines to be Sophisters where they could not be solid the better to varnish the falshoods of their Philosophy they thought to out-vy the Modesty and Patience of the Primitive Christians but acting by a different Principle their Virtue was frequently overthrown and in short most of their Virtues were but a Policy whereby they conceal'd their Ignorance and Vice and impos'd upon the unthinking part of Mankind The whole Study of Philosophy is charming and every part of that body has its beauties as well as its benefits Ethicks I confess has the least lustre and if its utility did not enhance its worth Socrates had walk'd by himself and no body been in the Porch with Zeno. However Epicurus would have been crowded for where Sensuality is the great Principle of a Sect of Philosophers the School will never be empty if Paris be Judge and fair Helen the Bribe Venus may be sure of the Cause 'T is true our dispute is somewhat unequal and the Enemies we are to engage with in this Intestine Warfare are not only powerful but dishonourable St. Paul seem'd to mention his Victory at Ephesus with disdain since he fought with Beasts and what alas are all our Passions but such To triumph over Avarice is not a subject to boast of since daily experience informs us it is its own punishment and we are as anxious in concerning as we were in acquiring nay the horrours wherewith we apprehend a loss and the eager desires of gaining more are two such tormentors as make the covetous Man suffer more than one Hell What glory is it to be not prodigal since what