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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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From the union of love proceeds another secret effect, namely, a resting of the mind in the thing ⟨p. 102⟩loved. In which respect the Philosopher calleth knowledge the rest of the understanding. And this can only be total and perfect in the Union of the Soul with God, the chiefest good thereof. Whence some have made the threefold Appetite 1in man, Concupiscible, Rational and Irascible, to have their final perfection and quiet by a distinct union to the Three Persons in the Trinity: for the Concupiscible power is carried ad bonum to good, which they say is the Attribute of the holy Spirit; the Rational adverum, to that which is true, which is the Attribute of the Son; and the Irascible ad Ard•um, to Power, which is the Attribute of the Father. But to let that pass for a spiders web (curious, but thin) certain it is that God only is that end, who can fully accomplish the perfection and terminate the desires of those creatures, whom he made after a peculiar manner to know and enjoy him. But proportionably, there ariseth from the Union unto any other Object of Love, a satiating and quieting of the Faculty; which, in a word, is then only, in Objects of inferior order and goodness, regular, when the Object is natural, and the Action limited. Disproportion and Enormity are the two Corruptions in this particular.
From the union of love proceeds another secret effect, namely, a resting of the mind in the thing ⟨p. 102⟩loved. In which respect the Philosopher calleth knowledge the rest of the understanding. And this can onely be totall and perfect in the Vnion of the Soule with God, the chiefest good thereof. Whence some have made the threefold Appetite 1in man, Concupiscible, Rationall and Irascible, to have their finall perfection and quiet by a distinct union to the Three Persons in the Trinity: for the Concupiscible power is carried ad bonum to good, which they say is the Attribute of the holy Spirit; the Rationall adverum, to that which is true, which is the Attribute of the Sonne; and the Irascible ad Ard•um, to Power, which is the Attribute of the Father. But to let that passe for a spiders web (curious, but thin) certaine it is that God onely is that end, who can fully accomplish the perfection and terminate the desires of those creatures, whom hee made after a peculiar manner to know and enjoy him. But proportionably, there ariseth from the Vnion unto any other Object of Love, a satiating and quieting of the Facultie; which, in a word, is then onely, in Objects of inferiour order and goodnesse, regular, when the Object is naturall, and the Action limited. Disproportion and Enormitie are the two Corruptions in this particular.