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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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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.
Sundry Ends there are, which may bee desired upon particular and conditionall occasions: but the true Vltimate, utmost and Absolute Good is God. All other Ends are Ministring and Subordinate; 1he only is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 & 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. as Aristotle cals his Felicity, the Supreame & overruling End; the Fountaine of all other Goods: from the remote participation of whose perfections all other receive that soantling of satisfaction & proportion, which they beare unto mans Will. And therefore some Philosophers have simply called him Bonum & Bonum Superessentiale the only Self. Sustaining, and Selfe. Depending Good, that is onely able throughly to satiate and replenish the unlimited Desires of the Soul of man.
- 1Ethic. l. 1. c. 2.
The Corruptions of the Desires fastened on him, are the two Extremes of Excess and Defect. The Extremes of Excess are Supers•itlon and Idolatry; a worshipping of false gods, or a false worshipping of the True. Both proceeds from the confused mixture of Original Blindness, with the relics of natural Knowledge. This latter gives us a sight in the Thesis and General, that a God there is to be desired: but touching the Hypothesis, who that God is, with the Circumstances and manner of his Worship, Nature leaveth the Soul by occasion of the latter in a maze of of Darkness and unavoidable Doubting and Uncertainty. So that Nature gives light enough to discover the Necessity of a Duty; but not to clear the Means of Execution. Light enough to enjoin a walking; but the way being a narrow