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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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Many more things might be here added touching this Faculty, which I will but name. As first for the manner of its Operations. In some cases it worketh Naturally and Necessarily, as in its Inclination unto Good in the whole latitude, and general ⟨p. 549⟩apprehension thereof. For it cannot will any thing under the general and formal notion of Evil In others Voluntarily, from it self, and with1 a distinct view and knowledge of an End whereunto it worketh. In others freely, with a Liberty to one thing or another, with a power to elicit, or to suspend and suppress its own Operation. In all Spontaneously, without violence or compulsion. For though in some respects the Will be not free from Necessity, yet it is in all free from Coacl•on. And therefore though Ignorance & Eeare may take away the complete […] of an Action proceeding from the Will (because without such Fear or Ignorance it would not have been done. A• when a man casteth his goods into the Sea to escape a shipwreck. And when Oedipus slew Laius his Father, nor knowing him so to be) yet they can never force the Will to do that out of violence, which is not represented under some notion of Good thereunto.
Many more things might be here added touching this Faculty, which I wil but name. As first for the manner of its Operations. In some cases it worketh Naturally and Necessarily, as in its Inclination unto Good in the whole latitude, and generall ⟨p. 549⟩apprehension thereof. For it cannot will any thing under the gener•ll and formall notion of Evill In others Voluntarily, from it selfe, and with1 a distinct view and knowledge of an End whe•unto it work•th. In others freely, with a Liberty to one thing or another, with a power to elicite, or to suspend and suppresse its owne Operation. In all Spontaneously, without violence or compulsion. For though in some respects the Will be not free from Necessity, yet it is in all free from Coaclon. And therfore though Ignorance & Eeare may take away the complete of an Action proceeding from the Will (because without such Feate or Ignorance it would not have been done. A when a man casteth his goods into the Sea to escape a shpwracke. And when Oedipus slew Laius his Father, nor knowing him so to be) yet they can never force the Will to doe that out of violence, which is not represented under some notion of Good thereunto.