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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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An Argument as weak, as the Opinion which it defends, is dangerous and prejudicial to the honour of Mans Creation; as tending to prove, that the first risings and rebellions of Appetite against Reason, and all inordinate desires of inferior Faculties, till they taint the Will, are not formally sins, as having been natural to Adam himself in Innocency, though by infused and supernatural Grace bridled and suspended. An Opinion, which retaineth that odious scandal which they fasten upon us, more justly and truly on their own heads, touching making God the Author of Sin; in that they affirm, that Concupiscence, whereby Sense is carried to its object inordinately, that is, without the government and assent of Reason, to have been natural to Adam; which yet Saint Paul hath so many1 times called by the express name of Sin, in one Chapter.
An Argument as weake, as the Opinion which it defends, is dangerous and prejudiciall to the honour of Mans Creation; as tending to prove, that the first risings and rebellions of Appetite against Reason, and all inordinate desires of inferior Faculties, till they taint the Will, are not formally sinnes, as having been naturall to Adam himselfe in Innocencie, though by infused and supernaturall Grace bridled and suspended. An Opinion, which retaineth that odious scandall which they fasten upon us, more justly and truly on their owne heads, touching making God the Author of Sinne; in that they affirme, that Concupiscence, whereby Sense is carried to its object inordinately, that is, without the government and assent of Reason, to have been naturall to Adam; which yet Saint Paul hath so many1 times called by the expresse name of Sinne, in one Chapter.
- 1Rom. 7.
And for the Argument which they bring, we answer, That naturally, and from the Law of Creation, there was no formal opposition, but a subordination between Spirit and Sense. And therefore, notwithstanding the operations of Appetite are common unto Men and Beasts; yet we may not grant, that they have the same manner of being educed and governed in both