The mysterie of the holy government of our affections Contayning their nature, originall, causes, and differences. Together with the right ordering, triall, and benefit thereof: as also resoluing diuers cases of conscience, incident hereunto. Very necessarie for the triall of sinceritie, and encreasing in the power of Godlinesse. The first booke.

CHAP. II. (Book 2)

Of the generall Distributio•• of the Affections into their seuerall Classes.

AFfections are distin∣guished, * 1.1 in regard o•• the Obiect, or Extent.

Touching the Obiect all Affections and Pertur∣bations may be reduced to two Heads: eyther Simple, such as haue no mixture of any other per∣turbations;

or Compound, such as are deriued of o∣ther.

The simple Affections are of two sorts.

First, Primitiue, which are the ground of all the rest.

Secondly, Deriuatiue, such as are deriued from those Primitiues.

The Primitiue Affecti∣ons are two: namely,

Loue, whereby wee ve∣hemently * 1.2 affect a thing; and

Hate, being a vehement * 1.3 affection of disliking.

The simple deriuatiue Affections arise from the Primitiue: as,

From Loue, and liking of Good,

If it be present, procee∣deth Ioy. * 1.4

If it be to come, Hope. * 1.5

From Dislike, and hate of Euill,

If it be present, ariseth Griefe, and heauinesse of * 1.6 heart.

If it be a future Euill, then Feare riseth from * 1.7 the mislike of Hate. And these I take to be all the simple Perturbations.

The Compound are such as haue part of the simple, by mixture, and that ei∣ther of the Primitiue sim∣ple, or the Deriuatiue, and of the Primitiues, with sim∣ples onely, or mixed with Deriuatiues.

Such as are mixed of Primitiues onely, are ey∣ther

vnequally mixed, of Loue, and Liking, or of Mislike, and Hate: or mixed equally of them.

Of the first sort, taking more part of liking, is the * 1.8 Affection of Laughter: Wherewith, wee with some discontentmēt, take pleasure at that, which is done or said ridiculously: of which sort, are Deeds and Words vnseemely, or vnmeet, and yet moue no compassion: as when one scaldeth his mouth with an hot Pie, &c. Wee are discontented with the hurt, yet ioy at the Euent vnexpected by the party, and that we haue escaped it: from whence com∣meth Laughter. Which,

because it exceedeth the mislike of the Thing that hurteth, bursteth out into vehemencie on that side, and procureth that merry Gesture.

If on the other side, the thing be such, as the mi∣slike exceedeth the Ioy we haue of our freedome from that euill, then ari∣seth Pitie, and Compassi∣on. And these Perturba∣tions take their beginnings * 1.9 of the Primitiues, vne∣qually mixed: whereby one of them doth after a sort obscure the other.

The other, are such as haue equall Mixture, and those are Enuie and Iea∣lousie.

If the thing we loue, be

such, as we haue not part of, then springeth an Hate or mislike of the party, who inioyeth that we want, and like of, and so breedeth Enuy, a griefe * 1.10 for the prosperitie of ano∣ther, or good successe what∣soeuer, wherein we haue no part.

If it be such a benefit as we enioy, and are grieued it should be communica∣ted to others, and where∣un we refuse a partner, this is called Iealousie, incident * 1.11 to Amorettoes, and aspi∣ring Natures: and these are compounded of the Primitiues alone, like, or mislike, loue, or hate.

Those which are mixed of Primitiues and Deriua∣tiues,

are of two sorts, ac∣cording as the Primitiues, that is to say, mixed of loue, or hate.

Now loue mixed with * 1.12 Hope, breedeth Trust: With Loue and Feare, Di∣strust.

Hate, or Mislike, com∣pounded with Hope, bree∣deth Anger: whereby we * 1.13 are displeased with that which misliketh vs, and in hope of being satisfied of that which offered the mislike: are driuen to Anger, the Affection of Reuenge.

If it bee any thing, wherein wee haue dis∣pleased our selues, it is called Shame. * 1.14

If it bee compounded

with Feare, it is called * 1.15 Bashfulnesse.

If the dislike bee taken from another, the com∣position is of Hate and Anger, and thereof spring∣eth Malice. * 1.16

These are Perturbati∣ons, compounded of Pri∣mitiue passions, with their deriuatiues.

Of Deriuatiues betwixt themselues, arise Despaire, * 1.17 and confident Assurance.

Despaire is compoun∣ded of Heauinesse, Griefe, and Feare.

Confidence, of Ioy and * 1.18 Hope.

Out of Hope, and Faith, Patience. * 1.19

Thus in generall of the distribution of Affections,

in regard of their seuerall grounds, nature, and com∣parison betweene them∣selues.

Secondly, Affections may be deuided, in regard of * 1.20 their Extent: as some con∣cerne only this life.

As first, all such as con∣cerne Euill, as Hate, Feare, Griefe, Iealousie, Pitie, Laughter, Enuie, Anger, Shame, Bashfulnesse, Ma∣lice, Despaire, &c.

Secondly, some such as concerne Good: which be∣cause it cannot be perfect∣ly attayned in this life, therefore some Affections there are, which tend to the obtaining thereof, and perfitting of the same: as Faith, Hope, Patience, and Compassion.

Others concerne both his life and the life to come, as Ioy and Loue.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The diuisi∣on of Affe∣ctions, 1. in respect of the Obiect.
• * 1.2

  1. Loue.
• * 1.3

  2. Hate.
• * 1.4

  3. Ioy.
• * 1.5

  4. Hope.
• * 1.6

  5. Griefe.
• * 1.7

  6. Feare.
• * 1.8

  7. Laugh∣ter.
• * 1.9

  8. Pitie.
• * 1.10

  8. Enuie whar.
• * 1.11

  9. Ielousie.
• * 1.12

  10. Trust. 11. Distrust
• * 1.13

  12. Anger.
• * 1.14

  13. Shame.
• * 1.15

  14. Bashful∣nesse.
• * 1.16

  15. Malice.
• * 1.17

  16. Despaire
• * 1.18

  17. Confi∣dence.
• * 1.19

  18. Pati∣ence.
• * 1.20

  2: In re∣spect of the Extent.