"Oportet Ecclesiasticum, quando suadet aliquid quod agendum est, non so-
lùm docere ut instruat, et delectare ut teneat, verùm etiam flectere ut vincat."
AUG. de Doctrina Christiana, lib. 4. cap. 13.

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CONTENTS

OF

THE SIXTH VOLUME.

TREATISE ON THE PASSIONS AND FACUL-

TIES OF THE SOUL.

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CHAP. I. Of the dependance of the Soul in her operations, upon the

Body

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Chap. II. In what cases the dependance of the Soul an.the. Body

is lessened by faith, custom, education, occasion%

Chap. III. Of the memory, and some few causes of the weakness.

thereof

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Chap. IV. Of the Fancy: its office to the will and reason volubility

of thoughts, fictions, errors, levity, fixednes?

Chap. V. Of Passions, their nature and distribution: of the motions

of natural creatures guided by a knowledge without them, and

of rational creatures guided by a knowledge within them of

Passions mental, sensitive, and rational

Chap. VI. Of Human Passions in general; their use natural, mo-

ral, civil; their subordination unto, or rebellion against, right

reason

Chap. VII. Of the exercise of Passion: of stoical apathy: of per-

manency, defect, excess, with the cure thereof

Chap. VIII. Of the effects of Passion, how they sharpen virtue:

of vicious concupiscence; of their blinding, diverting, distract-

ing, and precipitating of reason, and of their distempering the

body

Chap. IX. Of the affection of Love: of love natural: of general

communion: of love rational; the object and general cause

thereof

Chap. X. Of the rule of true Love, the love of God and ourselves;

similitude to these, the cause of love in other things; of love

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of Concupiscence: how love begetteth love; and how presence

with, and absence from the object, doth, upon different respects,

exercise and increase love

Chap. XI. Of the effects of Love, union to the object, stay and im-

moration of the mind upon it; rest in it, zeal, strength and

tenderness towards it; condescension unto it, liquefaction and

languishing for it

Chap. XII. Of the passion of Hatred: the fundamental cause, or ob-

ject thereof evil. How far forth evils are willed by God, may

be declined by men: of God's secret and revealed will

Chap. XIII. Of the other causes of Hatred, secret antipathy, diffi-

culty of procuring a good-commanded, injury, base fears, dis-

parity of desires, a fixed jealous fancy

Chap. XIV. Of the quality and quantity of Hatred, and how in

either respect it is to be regulated

Chap. XV. Of the good and evil effects of Hatred: cautelousness

and wisdom to profit by that we hate, with confidence, victory,

reformation: Hatred in general against the whole kind; cun-

ning dissimulation; cruelty, running over to persons innocent;

violating religion; envy, rejoicing at evil, crooked suspicion,

contempt, contumely

Chap. XVI. Of the affection of Desire: what it is; the several kinds

of it, natural, rational, spiritual: unnatural morbid desires; the

object of them good, pleasant as possible, as absent either in

whole or in degrees of perfection or continuance. The most

general internal cause; vacuity, indigence; other causes, admi-

ration, greatness of mind, curiosity

Chap. XVII Of other causes of Desire, infirmity, temerity, muta-

bility of mind,.knowledge, repentance, hope: of the effects of

it in general, labour, languor; in special, of rational desires,

'bounty, grief, weariness, indignation against that which with-

stands it. Of vicious desires, ingratitude, envy, greediness,

baseness of resolution

Chap. XVIII. Rules touching our Desires: desires of lower objects

must not be either hasty or unbounded; such are unnatural,

turbid, unfruitful, unthankful: desires of heavenly objects,

fixed, permanent, industrious; connexion of virtues: sluggish

desires

Chap. XIX. Of the affection of Joy and Delight; the several ob-

jects thereof, corporal, moral, intellectual, divine

Chap. XX. Of the causes of Joy; the union of the object to the

faculty, by contemplation, hope, fruition; changes by accident

a cause of delight

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Chap. XXI. Of other causes of Delight: unexpectedness of good,

strength of desire, imagination, imitation, fitness and accom-

modation of the effects of this passion, reparation of nature,

dilatation; thirst in noble objects, satiety in baser; whetting of

industry, a timorous unbelief

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