4 lhe Living Temple. Part Ií. the preferving theHonour, and Digni- ty, of the Supream Government. Indeed jimpy to take pleafure in the pain, and rsjery of another, is fo odd, and un- natural a Difa.Te&tion, that it is ftrange how it can have place any where ; and where it feems to have place among Men, tho' too often it really hath fo, in more monftroully vicious Tempers ; yet, with many others, (who herein are fufficiently blameable alto) the Mat- ter may, perhaps, be fowewhat zni1Ia- ken ; as that pleafure may poffbly not be taken in the a f iCied Perfons sneer f ffering, for it felt ; but only as it is an Argument, or Evidence of the o- thers Superiority, wherein he prides himfelf, efpecially, if he before mif- doubtedhis ownPower, and that there bath been a Difpute about it, which is, NOW only, thus decided : For then afe- cret joy may arife unto the prevailing Party, upon his being deliver'd from an affliíling Fear, ofbeing fo ufed him- felf ; and whereas he took it for a Dif- paragement, that the other did fo far lef en and diminifh him in his own Thoughts, as to fuppofe, or hope, he i,ouid prove the ítronger ; a pleafure is
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