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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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That Grief commonly is the most heavy, which hath fewest vents, by which to diffuse it self: which, I take it, will be one occasion of the heaviness of infernal torment; because there, Grief shall not be any whit transient, to work commiseration in any spectator, but altogether immanent and reflexive upon it self.
That Griefe commonly is the most heavie, which hath fewest vents, by which to diffuse it selfe: which, I take it, will be one occasion of the heavinesse of infernall torment; because there, Griefe shall not be any whit transient, to work commiseration in any spectator, but altogether immanent and reflexive upon it selfe.
Thus likewise we see (to instance in that other particular branch, of diffusing the Passions upon diverse objects) how the multitude of these, if they be Hererogeneall and unsubordinate, doth oftentimes remit a Passion: for example, in Love; I take it, that that man who hath a more general Love, hath a less vehement Love; and the spreading of Affection, is the weakening of it, (I mean still in things not absolute subordinate; for, a man may love a Wife more with Children, than without them, because they are the Seals and Pledges of that Love) as a River, when it is cut into many lesser streams, runs weaker & shallower. And this, I conceive, is the reason, why Solomon, when he ⟨p. 56⟩commendeth a strong Love, giveth it but a single object▪ There is a friend nearer than a Brother; one, in whom the rays of this affection, like the Sun-beams in a glass, being more united, might withal be the more fervent. I remember not, that I ever read of wonderful 1Love amongst men, which went beyond Couples; which also Aristotle and Plutarch have observed. And therefore we see, in that state there is or should be greater affection, wherein is the least community: Conjugal Love, as it is most single, so it is usually the strongest; and in the Issues and Blessings thereof, there is scarce any more powerful Epithet to win Love, than Unigenitus, an only Sonne.