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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
Chapter 10: Of the Rule of true Love: the Love of God and our selves: similitude to these, the caus…
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And it is the wonder of Love (as Saint Chrysostom 1speaketh) to collect and knit together in one, things fair separated from each other: Wherein stands the Mystery of the Communion of the Church on Earth, both with it self, in all the dispersed members of it, and with Christ the Head; and that other part of it, which triumpheth in Heaven. So that herein, Divine Love hath the same kind of Virtue with Divine Faith; that as this is the being and subsisting of things to come, and distant in Time; so that is the Union and knitting of things absent, and distant in place.
And it is the wonder of Love (as Saint Chrysostome 1speaketh) to collect and knit together in one, things faire separated from each other: Wherein stands the Mysterie of the Communion of the Church on Earth, both with it selfe, in all the dispersed members of it, and with Christ the Head; and that other part of it, which triumpheth in Heaven. So that herein, Divine Love hath the same kind of Vertue with Divine Faith; that as this is the being and subsisting of things to come, and distant in Time; so that is the Vnion and knitting of things absent, and distant in place.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew], in 1 Cor. 10. 30.〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in 1 Cor. 10. 30.
But then, much more doth Presence to the goodness of an object loved, increase and exercise our Love; because it gives us a more complete sight of it, and Union unto it. And therefore Saint John speaks of a Perfection, and Saint1