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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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Thus, as Plutarch hath observed, the Images of things in the fancies of other men are like words written in water, which suddenly vanish; but the Impressions which love makes, ar• as it were, written with an hot iron, which leaveth fixed and abiding prints in the memory.
Love and Knowledge have mutual sharpening and causality each on other: for as Knowledge doth generate Love, so Love doth nourish and exercise! ⟨p. 104⟩Knowledge. The reason whereof is that unseparable union, which is in all things between the Truth and Good of them: for it being the property of Truth to unite and apply Goodness (nothing being apprehended as Good, unless that Goodness be apprehended as true) the more Appetite enjoyeth of this, the deeper inquiry doth it make, and the more complete union doth it seek with that: the Heart and the Treasure can seldom be severed; the Eagles will always resort to the body; Davids Love gave length and perpetuity to his meditation, even all the day.
Love and Knowledge have mutuall sharpening and causality each on other: for as Knowledge doth generate Love, so Love doth nourish and exercise! ⟨p. 104⟩Knowledge. The reason whereof is that unseparable union, which is in all things between the Truth and Good of them: for it being the property of Truth to unite and apply Goodnesse (nothing being apprehended as Good, unlesse that Goodnesse be apprehended as true) the more Appetite enjoyeth of this, the deeper inquiry doth it make, and the more compleat union doth it seeke with that: the Heart and the Treasure can seldome be severed; the Eagles will alwayes resort to the body; Davids Love gave length and perpetuity to his meditation, even all the day.