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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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CHAP. XVI. Of the Affection of Desire. What it is. The several kinds of it, Natural, Rational, Spiritual. Intemperate, Unnatural, Morbid Desires. The Object of them Good, pleasant, as possible, as absent either in whole, or in degrees of perfection or continuance. The most General Internal cause Vacuity, Indigence. Other Causes, Admiration, Greatness of mind, Curiosity.
CHAP. XVI. Of the Affection of Desire. What it is. The severall kindes of it, Naturall, Rationall, Spirituall. Intemperate, Vnnaturall, Morbid Desires. The Object of them Good, pleasant, as possible, as absent either in whole, or in degrees of perfection or continūance. The most Generall Internall cause Vacuity, Indigence. Other Causes, Admiration, Greatnesse of minde, Curiosity.
The next Passions in order of Nature to these two are Desire and Abomination, which because they differ not much otherwise from Love and hatred, than the Act from the Habit, or then a man sitting from himself walking, Desire being but the motion, and exercise, as delight is the Quiet and Repose of our Love, I shall therefore the more briefly pass it over. Desire is the wing of the soul whereby it moveth, and is carried to the thing which it loveth, as the Eagle to the Car•ise 1in the Scripture proves, to feed it self upon it, and to be satisfied with it. For as the Appetite of the Eagle is attended with sharpness of fight to discover its prey, with swiftness of wing to hasten unto it, and with strength to seize upon ⟨p. 162⟩it: So according to the proportion of the Soule love unto its object doth it command and call together both the Wisdom and Powers of the whole man to direct unto, and to promote the procuring of it. And the very best characters and truest lineaments which can be drawn of the minds of men, are to be taken from their Desires,