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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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Which effect of Passions, I have before touched upon; neither is it always a corrupt effect, but only then, when there is in the Passion generative some distemper. In which respect of the Understanding and Will, (both which I comprise under one Name of Reason) I conceive the corruption to be principally these four; Imposture, or seduction; Alienation, or withdrawing; Distraction, or confounding; and Precipitancy, or a headlong transporting of Reason.
Which effect of Passions, I have before toucht upon; neither is it alwayes a corrupt effect, but onely then, when there is in the Passion generative some distemper. In which respect of the Vnderstanding and Will, (both which I comprise under one Name of Reason) I conceive the corruption to be principally these foure; Imposture, or seduction; Alienation, or withdrawing; Distraction, or consounding; and Precipitancie, or a headlong transporting of Reason.
Now concerning these, we are first to remember, that there is in every man a native and original struggling between Appetite and Reason; which yet proceedeth from Corruption, and the Fall of Man, not from Nature entire, as the Papists contend; who affirm, That the strife and reluctancy between Sense and Understanding, ariseth from Physical and created constitution; and that therefore, that sweet harmony which was between all the Faculties of Man, Animal and Rational, in his Creation, proceeded from the government of a super-natural Grace added thereunto: because it being natural for Sense ⟨p. 62⟩to desire sensible, and Spirit spiritual good things, and things sensitive and spiritual being amongst themselves opposite; those desires which are carried unto them, must needs be opposite likewise.
Now concerning these, we are first to remember, that there is in every man a native and originall strugling betweene Apperite and Reason; which yet proceedeth from Corruption, and the Fall of Man, not from Nature entire, as the Papists contend; who affirme, That the strife and reluctancie betweene Sense and Vnderstanding, ariseth from Physicall and created constitution; and that therefore, that sweet harmonie which was betweene all the Faculties of Man, Animall and Rationall, in his Creation, proceeded from the government of a super-naturall Grace added thereunto: because it being naturall for Sense