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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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Secondly, Again as no evil altogether so unchangeable as Sin, so is there nothing so much to be opposed with a Multiplicity and Reiteration of our hatred in regard of its importunity and insinuation, that as there is an impudence in the assault, so there may be a proportionable resolution in the withstanding of it: Some Evils there may be, which require only a present and not a customary exercise of this passion. Present I say when the Object is offensive and not customary; because as the Object, so the Passion likewise may be unusual. Sin only is of all other evils the most urging and active, furnished with an infinite number of stratagems and plausible impostures to insinuate into natures (though best armed against such assaults; and therefore here only are necessary such reiterated acts, as may keep us ever on our guard, that we be not unprepared for a surprise.
Secondly, Againe as no evill altogether so unchangeable as Sinne, so is there nothing so much to be opposed with a Multiplicity and Reiteration of our hatred in regard of its importunity and insinuation, that as there is an impudence in the assault, so there may be a proportionable resolution in the withstanding of it: Some Evils there may be, which require onely a present and not a customary exercise of this passion. Present I say when the Object is offensive and not customary; because as the Object, so the Passion likewise may be unusuall. Sinne onely is of all other evils the most urging and active, furnished with an infinite number of st•atagems and plausible impostures to insinuate into natures (though best armed against such assaults; and therefore here onely are necessary such reiterated acts, as may keepe us ever on our guard, that we be not unprepared for a surprize.
Thirdly, Then for the Quantity of an Evil, because that is not in any thing so intense as in Sin whither we consider it in its own Nature, as a Rebellion against the highest good, or in its effects; either in regard of the diffusion of it, it being an overspreading pollution, or of the vastness of it, both in Guilt and Punishment: In ⟨p. 134⟩