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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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—quantum ipse feroc•1 Virtute exuper as, tanto me impensius •quum est Consulere, atque omnes me•uentem expendere casus. The more undaunted Courage doth you move, 'Tis fit my serious Fears show the more Love; In mature counsels, and in weighing all The various dangers and events may fall.
—quantum ipse feroc•1 Virtute exuper as, tanto me impensius •quum est Consulere, atque omnes me•uentem expendere casus. The more undaunted Courage doth you move, 'Tis fit my serious Feares shew the more Love; In mature counsels, and in weighing all The various dangers and events may fall.
- 1Aeneid. lib. 12.
Those imputations therefore which Tully and Seneca, and other Stoical Philosophers make against Passions, are but light and empty, when they call them diseases and perturbations of the Mind; which requireth in all its actions both ⟨p. 60⟩health and serenity, a strong and a clear judgement; both which properties, they say, are impaired by the distempers of Passion: For it is absurd to think, that all manner of rest is either healthful or clear; or on the other side, all motion diseased and troublesome: for what water more sweet than that of a Spring, or what more thick or loathsome, than that which standeth in a puddle, corrupting it self. As in the Wind o• Seas, (to which two, Passions are commonly compared) a middle temper between a quiet Calm and a violent Tempest, is most serviceable for the passage between Countries; so the agitations of Passion, as long as they serve only to drive forward, but not to drown Virtue; as long as they keep their dependence on Reason, and run only in that Channel wherewith they are thereby bounded, are of excellent service, in all the travail of mans life, and such as without which, the growth, success, and dispatch of Virtue would be much impaired.