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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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But to return, we are, as I said, to remember, that there is in Man, by reason of his general corruption, such a distemper wrought, as that ⟨p. 64⟩there is not only crookedness in, but dissension also, and fighting between his parts. And though the Light of our Reason be by Mans Fall much dimmed and decayed, yet the remainders thereof are so adverse to our unruly Appetite, as that it laboureth against us, as the Philistines against Samson, (or rather indeed as Delilah, for Samsons eyes were truly put out, before ever the Philistines were upon him) it laboureth, I say, to deprive us of those Relics of Sight, which we yet retain.
But to returne, we are, as I said, to remember, that there is in Man, by reason of his generall corruption, such a distemper wrought, as that ⟨p. 64⟩there is not onely crookednesse in, but dissention also, and fighting between his parts. And though the Light of our Reason be by Mans Fall much dimmed and decayed, yet the remainders thereof are so adverse to our unruly Appetite, as that it laboureth against us, as the Philistims against Samson, (or rather indeed as Dalilah, for Samsons eyes were truly put out, before ever the Philistims were upon him) it laboureth, I say, to deprive us of those Reliques of Sight, which we yet retaine.
And this is that first corrupt effect, which I1 call Imposture, or occaecation, whereby Passion2 reigning in the lower parts, and being impatient altogether of resistance or control, laboureth to mask Reason, and to obliterate those Principles and original Truths, whereby their unruliness might be restrained, or at least convinced. And hence it is, that every man, when he hath given place to the violence of Appetite, laboureth next to incline and prepare his Mind for assent, and to get Reason on the same side with Passion. Disobedience is ever cavilling, and contentious; and he who will not work the righteousness of God, will be sure to dispute against it, and to stumble at it. And therefore the Apostles tell us, that Repentance, and putting away of