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A treatise of mans imaginations Showing his natural evil thoughtsA treatise of mans imaginations Shewing his naturall euill thoughts
A treatise of mans imaginations Showing his natural evil thoughts: His want of good thoughts: The way to reform them. Framed and preached by M. Will. Perkins.A treatise of mans imaginations Shewing his naturall euill thoughts: His want of good thoughts: The way to reforme them. Framed and preached by M. Wil. Perkins.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1607Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1607
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. II.
Sect. 1. The illness of mans natural cogitations.
Sect. 1. The illnesse of mans naturall cogitations.
That we may the better perceive in this reason the state of man in respect of his natural Imaginations, the words are more particularly to be unfolded. For the Imaginations of mans heart, &c. The ⟨p. 19⟩heart in Scripture is taken sundry ways: sometimes for that fleshy part of man in the middle of the body, which is the fountain of vital blood: sometime, for the soul of man: sometime, for the faculties of the soul: and sometime for the middle of any thing, asd the heart of the sea, ethe heart of the earth, that is, the middle thereof. Here it is taken for the understanding faculty of the soul, whereby man useth reason: which S. Paul callethf the spirit of the mind.
THat wee may the better perceiue in this reason the state of man in respect of his naturall Imaginations, the words are more particularly to be vnfolded. For the Imaginations of mans heart, &c. The ⟨p. 19⟩