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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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So likewise, the Understanding being once1 invaded by Passion, is brought to change into diverse shapes, and to judge of things, not according to their naked and natural truth, but according as it finds them bear in the Fancy those impressions of Pleasure, which are most agreeable to corrupted Nature.
So likewise, the Vnderstanding being once1 invaded by Passion, is brought to change into diverse shapes, and to judge of things, not according to their naked and naturall truth, but according as it finds them beare in the Fancie those impressions of Pleasure, which are most agreeable to corrupted Nature.
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And another Reason, why we seek to warrant and to maintain a Passion, when we have given way unto it, is the love of our Ease: For every man, though he can be content to delight in the pleasure of a Corrupt Passion; yet that part of it, which hath the sting in it, is unpleasant: and therefore there is required the hand of Reason, by Apologies, Pleadings, and Blandishments, either to mollify the Passion, that it shall not then pierce, or to harden and arm the subject, that it may not be sensible of it.