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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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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⟩these respects our Hatred of it cannot be too deep or rooted: whereas other evils are not so intense in their nature, nor so diffusive in their Extension, nor so Destructive in their Consequents; and therefore do not require an unlimited Passion, but one governed according to the Exigence of Circumstances.
Thirdly, Then for the Quantity of an Evill, because that is not in any thing so intense as in Sinne whither wee consider it in its owne 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 vastnesse of it, both in Guilt and Punishment: In ⟨p. 134⟩these respects our Hatred of it cannot be too deep or rooted: whereas other evils are not so intense in their nature, nor so diffusive in their Extension, nor so Destructive in their Consequents; and therefore do not require an unlimited Passion, but one governed according to the Exigence of Circumstances.
And here I shall take notice of one or two particulars touching the manner of corruption in this particular. As first when a man shall apply his Hatred of Prosecution, or ill willing against that Evil, which is the proper object only of Aversation: for some things there are only of conditional evils, which hurt not by their own absolute being, but by their particular use or presence, which being offensive only in their application requires a particular forbearance, not any further violence to their natures.
And here I shall take notice of one or two particulars touching the manner of corruption in this particular. As first when a man shal apply his Hatred of Prosequution, or ill willing against that Evill, which is the proper object onely of Aversation: for some things there are onely of conditionall evills, which hurt not by their own absolute being, but by their particular use or presence, which being offensive onely in their application requires a particular forbearance, not any further violence to their natures.