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A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…
A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the several dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edward Reynolds, late preacher to the honourable society of Lincoln's Inn: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the severall dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edvvard Reynoldes, late preacher to the honorable society of Lincoln's Inne: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.
London: printed by R. Hearne and John Norton for Robert Bostock, 1640
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There remains yet one higher and diviner Act of the Practical Understanding, of most absolute power in man, and that is Conscience. Which is not any distinct Faculty of the Soul, but only a Compounded Act of Reason, consisting in Argumentation: or a practic Syllogism, inferring always some Applicative and Personal Conclusion, Accusing or Excusing.
THere remaines yet one higher and diviner Act of the Practicall Vnderstanding, of most absolute power in man, and that is Conscience. Which is not any distinct Faculty of the Soule, but onely a Compounded Act of Reason, consisting in Argumentation: or a practique Syllogisme, inferring alwaies some Applicative and Personall Conclusion, Accusing or Excusing.
The Dignities whereof are to be gathered from the Offices of it, and from the Properties of it.
The Dignities whereof are to bee gathered from the Offices of it, and from the Properties of it.
The main Offices are three; Direction, Conviction, Consolation, whereof the two last always presuppose the first with a contrary Qualification of Breach and Observance.
The maine Offices are three; Direction, Conviction, Consolation, whereof the two last alwayes presuppose the first with a contrary Qualification of Breach and Observance.