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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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And in this consideration (so it be always Motion Natural, governed and dependant on right Reason) I find not any Corruption, though I find an Error and abuse; that I mean, which maketh Passion in general to be Aegritudo Animi, a Sickness1 and Perturbation, and would therefore reduce the Mind to a senseless Apathy, condemning all Life of Passion, as Waves, which serve only to toss and trouble Reason. An Opinion, which, while it goeth about to give unto Man an absolute government over himself, leaveth scarce any thing in him, which he may command and govern.
And in this consideration (so it be alwayes Motion Naturall, governed and dependant on right Reason) I find not any Corruption, though I find an Error and abuse; that I meane, which maketh Passion in generall to be Aegritudo Animi, a Sicknesse1 and Perturbation, and would therefore reduce the Mind to a senselesse Apathie, condemning all Life of Passion, as Waves, which serve onely to tosse and trouble Reason. An Opinion, which, while it goeth about to give unto Man an absolute government over himselfe, leaveth scarce any thing in him, which he may command and governe.
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