A10663:179
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.
And indeed, if it be true which Aristotle in1 his Ethics tells us, That similitude is the ground of Love; and if there be no natural Love stronger than that which is between the Body and the Soul, we may well ground some good presumption of similitude in the qualities of the Soul with those lovely impressions of Nature which we find in the Body, and may by the same reason collect a mutual discovery, by which we acknowledge a mutual sympathy between them. And therefore it was no ill counsel (though not always to be heeded) Cave tibi ab iis quos natura signavit, to take heed of such, who like Cain have any mark of notorious deformity set upon them by Nature. And therefore Homer speaking of the garrulous, impudent, envious, and reviling qualities of Thersites, fits him with a Body answerable to such a Mind.
And indeed, if it be true which Aristotle in1 his Ethicks tels us, That similitude is the ground of Love; and if there be no naturall Love stronger than that which is betweene the Body and the Soule, we may well ground some good presumption of similitude in the qualities of the Soule with those lovely impressions of Nature which we find in the Body, and may by the same reason collect a mutuall discoverie, by which we acknowledge a mutuall sympathie betweene them. And therefore it was no ill counsell (though not alwayes to be heeded) Cave tibi ab iis quos natura signavit, to take heed of such, who like Cain have any marke of notorious deformitie set upon them by Nature. And therefore Homer speaking of the garrulous, impudent, envious, and reviling qualities of Thersites, fits him with a Body answerable to such a Mind.
- 1Ethic. li•. 8.
[Greek or Hebrew]1