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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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I Proceed to the last Faculty of mens Soul, his Will. Which doth alone govern, moderate, and over-rule all his Actions. The Dignity whereof consisteth in three peculiar Perfections; Appetite, Liberty, Domination. The former respecteth an End; the two Latter, the Means thereunto conducing.1 The Desires are fixed on some Good throughly proportion to the wideness of the Heart: then the Liberty of the Will grounded on the Direction of the Judgement, makes choice of such Means, as are most proper for attaining of that Good: and lastly, the Dominion employs all inferior Faculties for the speedy Execution of those Means.
I Proceed to the last Faculty of mens Soul, his Will. Which doth alone governe, moderate, and over-rule all his Actions. The Dignity whereof consisteth in three peculiar Perfections; Appetite, Liberty, Domination. The former respecteth an End; the two Latter, the Means thereunto conducing.1 The Desires are fixed on some Good throughly proportion to the widenesse of the Heart: then the Liberty of the Will grounded on the Direction of the Iudgement, makes choise of such Means, as are most proper for attaining of that Good: and lastly, the Dominion imployes all inferiour Faculties for the speedy Execution of those Means.
- 1Arist. […]. l. 1. c. 1. Lib. 8. cap. 5.Arist. 〈…〉. l. 1. c. 1. Lib. 8. cap. 5.
Sundry Ends there are, which may be desired upon particular and conditional occasions: but the true Ultimate, utmost and Absolute Good is God. All other Ends are Ministering and Subordinate; 1he only is [Greek or Hebrew] & [Greek or Hebrew]. as Aristotle calls his Felicity, the Supreme & overruling End; the Fountain of all other Goods: from the remote participation of whose perfections all other receive that scantling of satisfaction & proportion, which they bear unto mans Will. And therefore some Philosophers have simply called him Bonum & Bonum Superessentiale the only Self. Sustaining, and Self. Depending Good, that is only able throughly to satiate and replenish the unlimited Desires of the Soul of man.