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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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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.
The Direction of Conscience consists in a Simple Discourse: or (as I may so speak) in a Direct Ray of Understanding, gathering Moral or Divine Conclusions from a presupposed habit ⟨p. 532⟩of Principles, either from the relics of our Original Knowledge naturally imprest, or by concurrence of Religion and Theological Precepts spiritually inspired into the Practic Judgement or hearts of men. The observance of which Conclusions it imposeth upon all those Executive Powers, which each particular Conclusion doth most immediately concern upon pain of hazarding our own Inward Peace, with that sweet repose and security of Mind which follows it; and also (as the Heathen• themselves have observed) upon fear of incurring the displeasure of that God, concerning whom the very light of Nature hath revealed thus much, that as his Penetrating and S•arching Eye is able to read our most retired Thoughts: so his impartial and unpreventable Justice hath thunder and fire in store for the Rebellions against this Faculty, which he hath made to be, as it were, his Officer and Herald in all mens hearts.
The Direction of Conscience consists in a Simple Discourse: or (as I may so speake) in a Direct Ray of Vnderstanding, gathering Morall or Divine Conclusions from a presupposed habit ⟨p. 532⟩of Principles, either from the reliques of our Originall Knowledge naturally imprest, or by concurrence of Religion and Theologicall Precepts spiritually iuspired into the Practique Iudgement or hearts of men. The observance of which Conclusions it imposeth upon all those Executive Powers, which each particular Conclusion doth most immediately concerne upon paine of hazarding our owne Inward Peace, with that sweet repose and security of Minde which followes it; and also (as the Heathen themselves have observed) upon feare of icurring the displeasure of that God, concerning whom the very light of Nature hath revealed thus much, that as his Penetrating and Sarching Eye is able to read our most retyred Thoughts: so his impartiall and unpreventable Iustice hath thunder and fire in store for the Rebellions against this Faculty, which he hath made to be, as it were, his Officer and Herauld in all mens hearts.