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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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Now, as it hath pleased the infinite Wisdom of God to guide and moderate, by his own immediate direction, the motions of necessary agents, after the manner declared to their particular, or to the general end, (which motion may therefore, as I before observed, be called the natural Passion of things) so hath it given unto Man a reasonable Soul, to be as it were his Vice-gerent in all the motions of Mans little World.
Now, as it hath pleased the infinite Wisdome of God to guide and moderate, by his owne immediate direction, the motions of necessarie agents, after the manner declared to their particular, or to the generall end, (which motion may therefore, as I before observed, be called the naturall Passion of things) so hath it given unto Man a reasonable Soule, to be as it were his Vice-gerent in all the motions of Mans little World.
To apply then these proportions in Nature to the affection of Love in Man, we shall find first a Secret, which I will call Natural; and next, a Manifest, which I call a Moral and more discursive attraction. The first of these, is that natural sympathy wrought between the affection and the object, in the first meeting of them, without any suspension of the person, •ll farther inquiry after the disposition of the object; which comes immediately from the outward, natural, and sensitive Virtues thereof, whether in shape, feature, beauty, motion, […], behaviour; all which coming under the sphere ⟨p. 78⟩of Sense, I include under the name of Judiciary Physiognomy: Which is not a bare delight in the outward qualities, but a farther presumption of the Judgement; concluding thence, a lovely disposition of that Soul, which animateth and quickeneth those outward Graces.
To apply then these proportions in Nature to the affection of Love in Man, we shall finde first a Secret, which I will call Naturall; and next, a Manifest, which I call a Morall and more discursive attraction. The first of these, is that naturall sympathie wrought betweene the affection and the objct, in the first meeting of them, without any suspension of the person, ll farther inquirie after the disposition of the object; which comes immediately from the outward, naturall, and sensitive Vertues thereof, whether in shape, feature, beautie, motion, , behaviour; all which comming under the spheare