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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Thy face hath beauty in't, but in thy breast There doth no strength nor resolution rest.
Thy face hath beautie in't, but in thy brest There doth no strength nor resolution rest.
The last Effect (which I shall but name) is1 that which Aristotle calleth [Greek or Hebrew], Rashness or Precipitancy; which is the most Tyrannical Violence which Passion useth; when, in spite of all the Dictates of Reason, it furiously over-ruleth the Will, to determine and allow of any thing, which it pleaseth to put in practise; and like a Torrent, carrieth all before it; or, as the Prophet speaks, rusheth 2like an Horse into the Battle: So Lust and Anger are sometimes, in the Scripture, called Madness; because it transporteth the Soul beyond all bounds of Wisdom or Counsel, and by the Dictates of Reason takes occasion to become more outrageous, Ipsaque praesidia occupat, feeds like Wild-fire upon those Remedies, which should remove it: As she said in the Poet;