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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 then, thirdly, if Reason will neither be1 deluded nor won over to the patronage of Evil, nor diverted from the knowledge and notice of Good; then doth Passion strive to confound and distract the Apprehensions thereof, that they may not with any firmness or efficacy of Discourse, interrupt the Current of such irregular and head-strong Motions. And this is a most inward and proper Effect of Passion: For, as things presented to the Mind, in the nakedness and simplicity of their own Truth, do gain a more firm Assent unto them, and a more fixed intuition on them; so, on the contrary side, those things which come mixed and troubled, dividing the intention of the Mind between Truth and Passion, cannot obtain any settled or satisfactory Resolution from the Discourses of Reason.
But then, thirdly, if Reason will neither be1 deluded nor won over to the patronage of Evill, nor diverted from the knowledge and notice of Good; then doth Passion strive to confound and distract the Apprehensions thereof, that they may not with any firmenesse or efficacie of Discourse, interrupt the Current of such irregular and head-strong Motions. And this is a most inward and proper Effect of Passion: For, as things presented to the Mind, in the nakednesse and simplicitie of their owne Truth, doe gaine a more firme Assent unto them, and a more fixed intuition on them; so, on the contrarie side, those things which come mixt and troubled, dividing the intention of the Mind between Truth and Passion, cannot obtaine any setled or satisfactorie Resolution from the Discourses of Reason.
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And this is the Cause of that Reluctancy between the Knowledge and Desires of Incontinent Men, and others of the like Nature: For, as Aristotle observes of them, they are1