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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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For the corrupt effects of Passion in general, they are many more, because there may be a multiplicity as well of Evil as of Error, when there is but a unity of Goodness or of Truth. And those effects may be either in respect to themselves, one amongst another, or in reference to the Understanding, Will, or Body. The effects of them amongst themselves, is in their mutual generating and nourishing of each other; as Fear is wrought by Love, and Anger by Grief, Dol• ⟨p. 61⟩excitat iras; as a Lyon when wounded, is most raging.
For the corrupt effects of Passion in generall, they are many more, because there may be a multiplicitie as well of Evill as of Error, when there is but a unitie of Goodnesse or of Truth. And those effects may be either in respect to themselves, one amongst another, or in reference to the Vnderstanding, Will, or Body. The effects of them amongst themselves, is in their mutuall generating and nourishing of each other; as Feare is wrought by Love, and Anger by Griefe, Dol• ⟨p. 61⟩excitat iras; as a Lyon when wounded, is most raging.
—fixumque latronis1 Impavidus frangit telum, & fremit ore cruento.
- 1Aeneid. lib. 12.
With bloody mouth, and an undaunted heart, Breaks & tears from his wound the fastened dart.