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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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For the two former, Passion is then said commendable, when it is direct and natural. And the Corruption is, when it is carried to an undue Object, or proceedeth from an indirect Cause: but these are more observable in the particulars, and therefore thither I refer their distinct handling.
For the two former, Passion is then sayd commendable, when it is direct and naturall. And the Corruption is, when it is carryed to an undue Object, or proceedeth from an indirect Cause: but these are more observable in the particulars, and therefore thither I referre their distinct handling.
For the third, the Dignity of Passion chiefly consists in a Consonancy and Obedience to the Prescription of Reason: for there is in mans Faculties a natural subordination, whereby the actions of the inferior receive their motion and direction from the influence of the higher. Now Appetite was in Beasts only made to be governed by a sensitive ⟨p. 44⟩Knowledge: But in Man, Sense ought not t• have any commanding or moving Power, but only Instrumental, Ministerial, and Conveying, in respect of the Object. The Action of Sense, was no• from the first Institution, ordained to touch the Affection, but to present it self primarily to the Understanding; upon whose determination and conduct, the Passions were to depend, to submit all1 their inclinations thereunto, and to be its Ministers, in the execution of all such Duties, as it should deem any way expedient for the benefit of Mans Nature: so that herein consists a great part of Mans infelicity, by the Fall; that albeit his Understanding it self be blinded, and therefore not able to reach forth any perfect Good to the inferior parts; yet that small portion of Light, which it yet retaineth for the government of our Actions, is become uneffectuall, as being able only to convince, but not to reform.