I may not but conjecture that Doctor Hamond is better learned in this kinde of ſcience then my ſelf, having vantage ground of me in years, ſtudy and experience, and yet he hath gone farther in diſcovering himſelf, and his paſſions then thus, in his Vindication againſt E. P. and (contrary to his profeſſed impaſſionateneſs) hath ſo far betrayed himſelf, as to tranſmit the Image and Character of the perturbation and paſſionate heat of his ſpirit, by his Pen, to the view of the world, as his ſaid Vindication will manifeſtly teſtify.
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For being engaged to make Reflexions on that part of his Book which is of leaſt importance, writen in an immodeſt, uncivill, petulant ſtile, it was not fitt in my Answer to mingle conſiderations on a Subiect ſo ſerious, and ſoberly expreſſed as his Principles are, which indeed deſerve to be examined ſeparately with all poſſible calmness and impaſſionateness, as being an Argument on which all other Controverſies do depend, and which one way or other makes an end of them all.
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It is chiefly in Paul’s letters to Timothy and Titus that we find the requisites for this work enumerated, and there we note about twenty specific attributes of character, as follows: […] 18. Impassionateness. “Not angry” is the reverse of irascibility or fretfulness. A wrathful shepherd is a moral anomaly.
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In reference to the regulation of the Temper—(1) Passionateness, (2) Meekness, (3) Impassionateness (if there be such a word to describe a state which rarely exists).
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