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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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CHAP. XI. Of the Effects of Love, Union to the Object, Stay and Immoration of the Mind upon it, Rest in it, Zeal, Strength, and Tenderness towards it, Condescension unto it, Liquefaction and Languishing for it.
CHAP. XI. Of the Effects of Love, Vnion to the Object, Stay and Immoration of the Mind upon it, Rest in it, Zeale, Strength, and Tendernesse towards it, Condescention unto it, Liquefaction and Languishing for it.
The first which I shall observe, is Union, occasioned both by the Love which we have to a thing, for it• own sake, and likewise, for the Love of our selves, that there may be a greater mutual interest each in other. Where-ever Love is, it stirreth up an endeavour, to carry the heart unto the thing which it loveth▪ Where the Treasure is, there the heart will ⟨p. 99⟩be. Hence, none are said to love God, but those that are some way united unto him. And therefore, as Gods first love to man, was in making man like himself; so his second great love, was in making himself like man. Hence, we read so often of that mystical inhabitation of Christ in his Church, of that more peculiar Union and presence with his people, of a Spiritual Implantation unto him by Faith, of those near relations of Filiation and Fraternity, of mutual interest each in other, I am my beloveds, and my beloved is mine; importing an inseparable Union of the Church to Christ. And this may be the reason of that order in Saint Pauls solemn Benediction, The Grace of Christ, the Love of God, and the Communion of the Spirit: for, as the Grace of Christ only taketh away that enmity which was between sinners and God, and is the only means of our reconciliation unto him; so the Love of God is the only Bond of that Communion, which we have with him and his holy Spirit.
THe first which I shall observe, is Vnion, occasioned both by the Love which we have to a thing, for it• owne sake, and likewise, for the Love of our selves, that there may be a greater mutuall interest each in other. Where-ever Love is, it stirreth up an endeavour, to carry the heart unto the thing which it loveth Where the Treasure is, there the heart wil