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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
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 there is first an Evil of Contrariety, such as is in the qualities of Water unto Fire, or a Wolfe unto a Sheep, occasioned by that Destructive Efficiency, which one hath upon the other.
And there is first an Evill of Contraricty, such as is in the qualities of Water unto Fire, or a Wolfe unto a Sheepe, occasioned by that Destructive Efficiency, which one hath upon the other.
Secondly, an Evil of Privation, which we hate formally and for it self, as implying nothing but a Defect and Absence of Good.
Secondly, an Evill of Privation, which we hate formally and for it selfe, as implying nothing but a Defect and Absence of Good.
Thirdly, an Evil of Contradiction in the not being of any creature, opposed to its being. For Being and Immortality is that which Aristotle makes one of the principle objects of Love; Annihilation then, or Not being is the chiefest Evil of things, and that which Nature most abhorreth.
Thirdly, an Evill of Contradiction in the not being of any creature, oppos'd to its being. For Being and Immortality is that which Aristotle makes one of the principle objects of Love; Annihilation then, or Not being is the chiefest Evill of things, and that which Nature most abhorreth.