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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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CHAP. VIII. Of the effects of Passions, how they sharpen Virtue: Of vicious Concupiscence; of their blinding, diverting, distracting, and precipitating of Reason, and of their distempering the Body.
CHAP. VIII. Of the effects of Passions, how they sharpen Vertue: Of vitious Concupiscence; of their blinding, diverting, distracting, and precipitating of Reason, and of their distempering the Body.
The last consideration of Passions, was according to the Consequents of their Act, which are the ends and effects thereof, both which I include in one; because the natural end of all operative qualities, is the effects which they are appointed by their own, or a superior Virtue to produce. ⟨p. 58⟩Now, though in the particulars there be several perfections conferred both on the operations o• the Will, and of the Understanding, from Passions; yet I cannot think on any other general effect which belongeth equally unto them all, but that only which Tully hath observed out of1 the Peripatetics of Anger, that they are the sharpeners (and to keep his phrase) the Whetstone• of Virtue, which make it more operative and fruitful: for Passion stirring up the Spirits, and quickening the Fancy, hath thereby a direct influence2 upon the Habits and Manners of the Mind; which being in this estate constrained to fetch all her Motions from Imagination, produceth them with the same clearness and vigour as they are there represented. And therefore Aristotle speaking of these two Elements and