Essays Upon the Five Senses Revived By a New Supplement With a Pithy One Upon
Essays Upon the Five Senses Revived By a New Supplement With a Pithy One Upon
Richard Brathwaite
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O ! may my soul, if ever she be angry, feel this passion in the fervent love she bears to her Creator : may her anger be against herself in the woful remembrance of her sins ; that her anger may breed a detestation, detestation a recon- ciliation to her Saviour. But for such as with the bear cannot drink, but they must bite the water, far may my soul be divided from their dwelling. I will be angry, but commit no sin ; for the God of Sion hath prescribed me a form, to be angry for the zeal of Go...d's house, wherein is no sin. The concupiscible is as the rest, of itself indifferent ; and as a line in a circle, equally tending to either part of good or evil : yet so depraved is man become, that, Medea-like, he is ever more prompt to take the worse rather than the better. Here the covetous miser covets to engross an huge estate to himself, making his purse the devil's mouth, and with his hydroptic conscience, though ever purchasing, yet ever coveting. Here the ambitious man displays his own humour to the eye of the world, of whom I may say, as 23 was once said of one puffed up with the like spirit : Quod habere non vult, est valde bonum; quod esse non vult, hoc est bonum; that is good which he desires not to have, that is good which he would not have come to pass : so exorbitant is the desire of the ambitious, as what he desires is nothing less than virtuous.
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