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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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The second manner of Corruption, which1 Passion useth on the Understanding and Will, was Alienating or withdrawing of Reason from the serious examination of those Pleasures, wherewith it desireth to possess the Mind, without control; that when it cannot so far prevail, as to blind and seduce Reason, getting the allowance and Affirmative Consent ⟨p. 68⟩thereof, it may yet at least so far inveigle it, as to with-hold it from any Negative Determination, and to keep off the Mind from a serious and impartial consideration of what Appetite desireth; for fear lest it should be convinced of sin, and so find the less sweetness in it.
The second manner of Corruption, which1 Passion useth on the Vnderstanding and Will, was Alienating or withdrawing of Reason from the serious examination of those Pleasures, wherewith it desireth to possesse the Mind, without controule; that when it cannot so farre prevaile, as to blind and seduce Reason, getting the allowance and Affirmative Consent ⟨p. 68⟩thereof, it may yet at least so farre inveagle it, as to with-hold it from any Negative Determination, and to keepe off the Mind from a serious and impartiall consideration of what Appetite desireth; for feare lest it should be convinced of sinne, and so finde the lesse sweetnesse in it.
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And this is the Reason of that affected and Voluntary Ignorance, which Saint Pet• 1speaks of; whereby Minds prepossessed with a love of inordinate courses, do with-hold and divert Reason, and forbear to examine that Truth, which indeed they know; as fearing, lest thereby they should be deterred from those Vices, which they resolve to follow. Which is the same, with that excellent Metaphor in Saint Paul; who saith That the wrath of God was revealed from Heaven, on all Ungodliness and Unrighteousness of Men, [Greek or Hebrew], which