The Defcription of the Paffions, toge-

ther with a general Divifion of them

into three Ranks,

SECT. III.

A farther Account of the natural Paf-

fions, in fome Remarks concerning

them,

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SECT. IV.

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SECT.

TOf Admiration or Wonder,

SECT. XIII.

Several Things that dispose to diffe-

rent Paffions,

SECT. XIV.

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Of the Regulation and Government of

the Paffions, wherein it confifts, 88

SECT. XVI.

General Rules about the three primi-

tive Paffions,

SECT. XVII.

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90

Prefervatives against particular evil

Paffions, and the immoderate Exer-

cife of lawful ones, namely,

SECT. XVIII.

Rules to fubdue Pride and Scorn,

SECT. XIX.

Rules to prevent or fupprefs Malice

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and Envy,

SECT. XX.

Rules to moderate exceffive Love to

Creatures,

SECT. XXI.

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Rules to overcome unreafonable Fears, 114

SECT. XXII.

Rules to guard against immoderate

Sorrow, and to relieve the Soul

that is under the Power of it,

SECT. XXIII.

Rules to govern our Anger, and to

prevent the finful Effect of it,

namely, Revenge,

SECT. XXIV.

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Some univerfal Directions, both Mo-

ral and Divine, which relate to

all the Paffions, and the Regula-

tion of them,

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THE

THE

DOCTRINE

OF THE

PASSIONS

EXPLAINED and IMPROVED.

SECT. I.

The various Senfes of the Word.

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HE Word Paffion, in the abftracted and logical Senfe of it, denotes the receiving of the Action of fome Agent: As if an Archer bend his Bow, the Archer is the Agent; the Bow is the Patient; the bending, as it comes from the Archer, is the

Action;