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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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Fourthly, it hath a good effect in regard of the evil hated in reasonable Creatures, namely the Reformation of the person, in whom that evil was. For as countenance and encouragement is the fosterer; so Hatred and contempt serveth sometimes as Physic to purge out an evil. And the reason is because a great part of that goodness, which is apprehended to be in sin, by those that pursue it, is other mens approbation. Opinion puts value upon many uncurrent Coins, which pass rather because they are received, than because they are warrantable. And therefore if a man naturally desirous of credit see his courses generally disliked, he can hardly so unnature himself, as still to to feed on those vanities, which he seeth do provoke others unto loathing, though I confess, ⟨p. 142⟩it is not a persuasions of mens, but of Gods hatred of sin, which doth work a genuine and through Reformation.
Fourthly, it hath a good effect in regard of the evill hated in reasonable Creatures, namely the Reformation of the person, in whom that evill was. For as countenance and incouragement is the fosterer; so Hatred and contempt serveth sometimes as Phisick to purge out an evill. And the reason is because a great part of that goodnesse, which is apprehended to be in sinne, by those that pursue it, is other mens approbation. Opinion puts valew upon many uncurrent Coynes, which passe rather because they are receiued, than because they are warrantable. And therefore if a man naturally desirous of credit see his courses generally disliked, he can hardly so unnature himselfe, as still to to feed on those vanities, which hee seeth doe prouoke others unto loathing, though I confesse, ⟨p. 142⟩it is not a perswasions of mens, but of Gods hatred of sinne, which doth worke a genuine and thorow Resormation.
I now proceed to observe those Effects, which are corrupt and hurtful: and here we may observe,
I now proceed to observe those Effects, which are corrupt and hurtfull: and here wee may observe,