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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 two latter of those Offices consist in a Reflection of that former discourse upon mens Actions, and according as is discovered in them, either an observance or neglect of those imposed Duties: the heat of that Reflection is either Comfortable or Scorching. Now of these two; that of Conviction is nothing else but a performance of that Equivocal killing promise made by the Serpent to our seduced Parents; I mean an Opening of their Eyes, to know with desperate Sorrow the Good they had irrecoverably foregone; and with fear, shame and horror, the ⟨p. 533⟩Evil which they plunged themselves and their whole posterity into. This one Act it is which hath so often confuted that Opinion of Aristotle touching Death, that it is of all things most Terrible; in that it hath it pursued many so far, as that it hath forced them to leap out of them self, and to prefer the Terror of Death and Darkness of the Grave, before the grisly Face of a Convicting Conscience.
The two latter of those Offices consist in a Reflection of that former discourse upon mens Actions, and according as is discovered in them, either an observance or neglect of those imposed Duties: the heate of that Reflection is either Comfortable or Scorching. Now of these two; that of Conviction is nothing else but a performance of that Equivocall killing promise made by the Serpent to our seduced Parents; I meane an Opening of their Eyes, to know with desperate Sorrow the Good they had irrecoverably foregone; and with feare, shame and horrour, the ⟨p. 533⟩Evill which they plunged themselves and their whole posterity into. This one Act it is which hath so often confuted that Opinion of Aristotl• touching Death, that it is of all things most Terrible; in that it hath it pursued many so farre, as that it hath forced them to leap out of them selve, and to preferre the Terrour of Death and Darknesse of the Grave, before the grisly Face of a Convicting Conscience.