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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 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 but [Greek or Hebrew], Half-Evil, as not sinning with that full and plenary Consent of Will, but Prat•r Electionem, as he speaks; so I may more truly say of them, that they have but an Half-Knowledge, not any distinct and applicative ⟨p. 71⟩Apprehension of Truth, but a confused and broken Conceit of things in their Generality: Not much unlike unto Nighttalkers, who cannot be said to be throughly asleep, nor perfectly awaked, but to be in a middle kind of inordinate temper between both; or (as Aristotle himself gives the similitude)2 it is like a Stage-Player, whose Knowledge is express and clear enough, but the things which it is conversant about, are not personal and particular to those men, but belonging unto others, whom they personate: So, the Principles of such men are in the general, Good and True; but they are never brought down so low, as if they did concern a mans own particular Weal or Woe, nor thoroughly weighed, with an assuming, applying, concluding Conscience; but, like the notion of a Drunken or sleeping man, are choked and smothered with the Mists of Passion.
And this is the Cause of that Reluctancie betweene the Knowledge and Desires of Incontinent Men, and others of the like Nature: For, as Aristotle observes of them, they are1 but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Halfe-Evill, as not sinning with that full and plenarie Consent of Will, but Prat•r Electionem, as he speakes; so I may more truly say of them, that they have but an Halfe-Knowledge, not any distinct and applicative ⟨p. 71⟩Apprehension of Truth, but a confused and broken Conceit of things in their Generalitie: Not much unlike unto Nighttalkers, who cannot be sayd to be throughly asleepe, nor perfectly awaked, but to be in a middle kind of inordinate temper betweene both; or (as Aristotle himselfe gives the similitude)