Excerpt from Of the Love of God, Vol. 1 Of the Different maps in which the (hill rules the Deniers of the final. HE father of a family governs his wife, Children, and servants by rules and orders, which they are bound to obey, although they have the power to dispute them. Serfs or slaves he governs by force, and they have no power to resist. But he governs his horses, mules, and oxen by art; bridling, loosing, urging, or restraining them. Now, the will governs our external movements after the manner of slaves for unless ...
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Excerpt from Of the Love of God, Vol. 1 Of the Different maps in which the (hill rules the Deniers of the final. HE father of a family governs his wife, Children, and servants by rules and orders, which they are bound to obey, although they have the power to dispute them. Serfs or slaves he governs by force, and they have no power to resist. But he governs his horses, mules, and oxen by art; bridling, loosing, urging, or restraining them. Now, the will governs our external movements after the manner of slaves for unless there be some literal obstacles, these are always obedient to the will. We open or shut our mouth, we move tongue, hands, feet, eyes, and all other members endowed with the power of movement, according to our will, without resistance. But the senses, and the faculties of nourishing, growing, or propagating, are not so easily controlled therein we require the assist ance of art. If you call a slave, he comes if you bid him halt, he halts; but you cannot look for the like obedience from your falcon. Would you recall him, you must hold out his lure would you tame him, you must put on his hood. You bid a servant turn to the right or the left, and he does so but if you would turn 1 Gen. Xli. 41. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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