DOCTRINE OF TISE PASSIONS. If the object of the love of friendship be in misery, it gains the name of sympathy, whereby -the lover expresses an inward sense and fellow -feeling of the pains and sorrows which his friends sustain: Though perhaps, this might as well be brought in under the passion of sorrow, unless we extend the word sympathy to signify our communion in all the joys and sorrows, and all the concerns of our friends. Now let us consider how malevolence or ill-will manifests itself. It implies in it a desire Of some evil to fall upon the hated object : It discovers itself in frownsand lowering countenance, in uncharitableness, in evil sentiments, hard speeches to or of its object, in cursing and reviling, and doing mischief, either with open violence or secret spite, as far as there is power. Whether thehated object be superior, inferior, or equal, it may keep the same name, andbe called ill-will : If it extend to parents, mas- ters and good magistrates, it becomes a spiritof rebellion : If it arise against God, it grows up to horrid impiety. . If our ill-will or hatred express itself particularly toward an object, considered merely in mournful and miserable cir- cumstances, it is then called cruelty and inhumanity, or hard- heartedness. This evil temper inclines persons to insult their fellow-creatures under their miseries, instead of pityingand re- lieving them. If our hatred arise to a high degree, and more especially, if it be withouta cause, it is called malignity and malice, which is a most hateful temper in the sight of God and men, and is oneof the chief parts of the imageof the devil. SECT. VIILComplacence and Displicence. The third sort of love and hatred are complacence and dis- plicence. If the object be agreeable to me, and suited to give me pleasure, the love which Ì express to it, is called the love of complacence and delight ; and this extends, as I have hintedbe- fore, to trees and fields, to meats and drinks, to business and studies, and to every inanimate thing that is capable of giving ¡ne- pleasüre, as well as to animal or intelligent beings. The love of complacency and delight, has almost'an infinite variety of ways to express itself, according to the various objects of it. We gaze upon a pleasing figure, or gay landscape, or .beautiful picture, we listen to music or agreeable discourse, we walk long in a fine garden, we smell to flowers, we eat and drink the food that we love, we are intent on delightful studies, we dwell in the company of our friends, and prolong the enjoyment of the thing that pleases us. If this complacency rise exceeding high towardsobjects that areinferior, and especially, if it exceed the bounds of strict res.- son; it is called fondness: So children are fond of birds, and of
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