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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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A PREFACE TO THE READER.
Having been moved to give way unto the Publication of this Philosophical Miscellany, the Fruit of my younger Studies, I conceive it needful to prevent one obvious prejudice under which I may labour. For it may haply seem undecent in me, having adventured to publish some few, though weak Discourses in Arguments Divine, that I should now suffer the Blossoms of my youth to look abroad and run the hard of Public Censure. Whereunto when I shall have •ven a short answer, I shall rest something the more confident of a Candid construction.
HAving beene moved to give way unto the Publication of this Phylosophicall Miscellany, the Fruit of my yonger Studies, I conceive it needfull to prevent one obvious prejudice under which I may labour. For it may haply seeme undecent in me, having adventured to publish some few, though weake Discourses in Arguments Divine, that I should now suffer the Blossomes of my youth to looke abroad and runne the ha•rd of Publike Censure. Whereunto when I shall have •ven a short answer, I shall rest something the more confident of a C•ndid construction.
And here I might first allege the •our which God himself hath been pleased to give. Unto Ins•ur, and Natural knowledge. In the first Creation when he gave unto man the Do•nion over other Creatures for his use, he gave him likewise the […], and knowledge of them, for his Makers Glory, and his own Delight. (For God brought them unto him to give them Names.) And as the Holy Scriptures are all over full of the Mysteries of Gods wisdom in Natural