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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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Of which that we may be the more sure, we may observe it in him, who as he was wholly like us in nature, and therefore had the same natural inclinations and aversations with us; so was he of the same infinite essence with his Father, and therefore did will the same things with him, yet even in him we may observe (in regard of that, which the Scripture saith, was by the hand and Counsel of God before determined) a seeming Reluctancy and withdrawing from the Divine Decree. He knew it was not his Fathers Will; and yet, Father, if thou be willing, l•t this cup pass from me: he was not ignorant that he was to suffer, and that there was an Oporte•, a necessity upon it, and yet a second and a third time again, Father, if it be possible, let this Cup pass from me. Consider it as the Destruction of his Temple, and Anguish of nature, which he could not (being in all things like unto us) but love; and then Transeat, Let it pass: but consider it as the necessary means of procuring precious blessings for mankind, and of fulfilling the eternal Decree of his Fathers Love, and then, Not as I, but as thou wilt.
Of which that we may be the more sure, wee may observe it in him, who as hee was wholly like us in nature, and therefore had the same naturall inclinations and aversations with us; so was hee of the same infinite essence with his Father, and therefore did will the same things with him, yet even in him we may observe (in regard of that, which the Scripture saith, was by the hand and Counsell of God before determined) a seeming Reluctancy and withdrawing from the Divine Decree. He knew it was not his Fathers Will; and yet, Father, if thou bee willing, l•t this cup passe from me: he was not ignorant that he was to suffer, and that there was an Oporte•, a necessity upon it, and yet a second and a third time againe, Father, if it be possible, let this Cup passe from me. Consider it as the Destruction of his Temple, and Anguish of nature, which hee could not (being in all things like unto us) but love; and then Transeat, Let it passe: but consider it as the necessary meanes of procuring pretious blessings for mankind, and of fulfilling the eternall Decree of his Fathers Love, and then, Not as I, but as thou wilt.