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Contemplation the Fifth.
Two Corollaries hence deduc'd: the first whereof is, that God is therefore to be loved with all possible application and ele∣vation of Spirit, with all the heart, soul and mind.
1. AMong the Perfections of human nature the faculty of desiring or reaching out after agreeable Objects is not the least consider∣able, and 'tis the peculiar glory of man to be an Amorous, as well as a Rational Being. For by this he supplies the defects of his nature, not only enjoys the good he unites with, but digests it as it were into himself and makes it his own, and relieves his domestic poverty by forreign ne∣gotiation.
2. But tho the Pathetic part of man be one of the noblest perfections he is furnish'd with, yet so generally faulty are we in the due appli∣cation and direction of this noble faculty, that to be pathetically and amorously dispos'd is lookt upon by some not as a Perfection but as a Disease of the Soul, and is condemn'd by a whole order of men as inconsistent with the Character of wisdom, according to that Stoical Apho∣rism, Amare simul & sapere ipsi Jovi non datur.
3. But certainly, Eve was intended as a Help for Adam, tho in the event she prov'd the in∣strument