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[ 1587] Some one sinful quality predominant more then other in the Heart of Man.
AS in a ground that lyeth untilled amongst the great variety of weeds,* 1.1 there is usually some master-weed, one amongst the rest, that is rifer and ranker then all the rest; And as it is in the body of Man, that although in some de∣gree or other, more or lesse, there be a mixture of all the four Elements, not any of them wholly wanting; yet there is some one of them predominant, that gives the denomination, in regard whereof some are said to be of a sanguine, some of a Phlegmatick, some of a Cholerick, and some of a Melancholick Constitution. So it is also in the Souls of Men, though there be a general mixture and medly of all evil and corrupt qualities,* 1.2 yet is there some one usually, that is Paramount, more powerful and prevalent, that swayeth, and sheweth forth it self more eminently and more evidently, then any other of them do; and from this there∣fore, more frequently and apparently discovering it self is the denomination wont to be given, Whereby some are styled, Ambitious; some, lascivious; some, en∣vious; some malitious, some haughty, some hasty, and the like.