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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Spiritual Desires respect [Greek or Hebrew] 1Heavenly, and spiritual things, the things of God, Things which are above, The knowledge whereof we have not by Philosophical, but by Apostolical discovery, by the Spirit of God who •ely searcheth the deep things of God.
Spirituall Desires respect 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 1Heavenly, and spirituall things, the things of God, Things which are above, The knowledge whereof we have not by Philosophicall, but by Apostolicall discovery, by the Spirit of God who •ely searcheth the deepe things of God.
- 1Heb. 9. •3. 1. Cor. 3. 13. Col. 3. 1.
The Corrupt Desires contrary unto these are either Vicious or Morbid. Vicious are again of two sorts: First, Intemperate and incontinent Desires, which err not in the substance or nature of the thing desired; but only [Greek or Hebrew], as the Philosopher speaks in the measure and manner of desiring1 them. It is lawful to drink Wine, and a Man may err (as Timothy did) in an over *rigorous severity to Nature, when health or needful refreshment requireth it: For our flesh is to be subdued to reason, not to infirmities, that it may be a servant to the Soul, but not a burden. But if we let Wine be [Greek or Hebrew], as the Heathen called it, to take a freedom against us, like Ham to mock us, and discover our nakedness, and make us servants unto it. If we do not only eat Honey, but surfeit on it; If we must have meat like Israel in the Wilderness, not only for our Need, but for our Lust; If we eat and drink so long that we are good for nothing, but either to lye down and sleep, or to rise up and play, to live to day and to dye tomorrow If we make our belly the grave of our Soul, and the dungeon of our Reason, and let our Intestina as