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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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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 2hold or detain the Truth in Unrighteousness: that is, which imprison and keep in that [Greek or Hebrew], as the Apostle interpreteth himself, in the next Verse; all those Notions of Divine Truth, touching the Omnipotency and Justice of God, which were by the singer of Nature written within them, to debtor them from, or (if not) to make them inexcusable, in those unnatural pollutions wherein they wallowed. Thus Medea in the Poet:
And this is the Reason of that affected and Voluntarie Ignorance, which Saint Pet• 1speakes of; whereby Minds prepossessed with a love of inordinate courses, doe with-hold and divert Reason, and forbeare 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 Metaphore in Saint Paul; who sayth▪ That the wrath of God was revealed from Heaven, on all Vngodlinesse and Vnrighteousnesse of Men, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, whic• 2hold or detaine the Truth in Vnrighteousnesse: that is, which imprison and keepe in that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, as the Apostle interpreteth himselfe, in the next Verse; all those Notions of Divine Truth, touching the Omnipotencie and Iustice of God, which were by the singer of Nature written within them, to deterre them from, or (if not) to make them inexcusable, in those unnaturall pollutions wherein they wallowed. Thus Medea in the Poet: