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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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It is not the material and blind performance of some good work, or a servile and constrained obedience to the more bright and convicting parts of the Law, that can any more argue, either our true love to the Precept, or our hatred to the Sin, than a voluntary patience under the hand of a Chirurgeon can prove, either that we delight in our own pain, o• Abhor our own flesh. It is not Gods Witness within us, but his Word without us; not the Tyranny of Conscience, but the goodness of the Law that doth kindly and ⟨p. 144⟩genuinely restrain the violence, and stop the Eruptions of our defiled nature. Or though perhaps Fear may prevent the exercise and sproutings, nothing but Love can pluck up the root of sin. A Lacedaemonian endeavouring to make a1 dead carcass stand upright as formerly it had done while it was alive, and not effecting it, concluded that outward means would avail little except there were something Within to support it. It is certainly so in actions as it is in bodies. Fear as an outward prop may help a while to keep them up, but Love is the inward form and life of them, without which they will quickly faint and fall again.
It is not the materiall and blind performance of some good worke, or a servile and constrained obedience to the more bright and convicting parts of the Law, that can any more argue, either our true love to the Precept, or our hatred to the Sinne, than a voluntary patience under the hand of a Chirurgion can prove, either that we delight in our owne paine, o• Abhorre our owne flesh. It is not Gods Witnesse within us, but his Word without us; not the Tyrannie of Conscience, but the goodnesse of the Law that doth kindly and ⟨p. 144⟩genuinely restraine the violence, and stop the Eruptions of our defiled nature. Or though perhaps Feare may prevent the exercise and sproutings, nothing but Love can pluck up the root of sinne. A Lacedemonian endeavouring to make a1 dead carcasse stand upright as formerly it had done while it was alive, and not effecting it, concluded that outward meanes would availe little except there were something Within to support it. It is certainely so in actions as it is in bodies. Feare as an outward prop may helpe a while to keepe them up, but Love is the inward forme and life of them, without which they will quickly faint and fall againe.