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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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3 Fortitude, enabling the Will firmly to persist in her virtuous purposes, according to the Instructions of Practical Prudence, notwithstanding the labour it must undergo, the delays it must sustain before it can obtain the End, and the difficulties, impediments, discouragements it shall meet withal.
3 Fortitude, enabling the Will firmely to persist in her vertuous purposes, according to the Instructions of Practicall Prudence, notwithstanding the labour it must undergoe, the delaies it must sustaine before it can obtaine the End, and the difficulties, impediments, discouragements it shall meet withall.
4 Temperance, suppressing and subduing those Sensual Appetites, which would stagger, inter rupt, divert us from these constant Resolutions.
4 Temperance, suppressing and subduing those Sensuall Appetites, which would stagger, inter rupt, divert us from these constant Resolutions.
Next, because all Habits, as I said, are directed to the facility and determining of Actions, we should thereby be led on to the consideration of Humane Actions, Fortuitous, Violent, Natural, Voluntary, Involuntary, Mixed. As also, to the grounds of the Goodness or Illness of Actions, taken first from the Rule of them unto which they are to conform. Secondly, from the Principles of them, from whence they are to proceed, to wit, Knowledge and Faith to see, Will to purpose, Love to do, ⟨image 257⟩subjection, to obey strength, to finish and fulfil what virtue leads us unto. Thirdly, from the manner and measure of their perfection. And lastly, from the ends unto which they should be directed.