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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.
Secondly there are brutish and unnatural Desires, which the Philosopher calleth [Greek or Hebrew], ferine1 and inhumane, instancing in those barbarous Countries, where they use to eat mens flesh and raw meat; and in the Woman who •ipped up Women with child that she might eat their young ones: Unto which head I refer those which the Apostle calls [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew] ▪ 2vile and dishonourable, Affections and Passions of Lust wherein forsaking the guidance of Nature, they dishonoured their bodies amongst themselves, and gave themselves over, as S. Jude speaketh unto strange flesh; also incestuous and promiscuous Lusts, going with naked and painted Bodies, as the ancient Britons offering of men and children in sacrifices, eating of the bodies of Friends that dyed, burning of the living with the dead, and other like savage and barbarous practices,3 wherein we find how far natural corruption improved with ignorance and want of Education or Religion, can embrace the Manners of Men.
Secondly there are brutish and unnaturall Desires, which the Philosopher calleth 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, ferine1 and inhumane, instancing in those barbarous Countries, where they use to eat mens flesh and raw meat; and in the Woman who •ipped up Women with childe that shee might eat their young ones: Vnto which head I refer those which the Apostle cals 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 ▪ 2vile and dishonorable, Affections and Passions of Lust wherein forsaking the guidance of Nature, they dishonored their bodies amongst themselves, and gave themselves over, as S. Iude speaketh unto strange flesh; also incestuous and promiscuous Lusts, going with naked and painted Bodies, as the antient Britaines offering of men and children in sacrifices, eating of the bodies of Friends that dyed, burning of the living with the dead, and other like savage and barbarous practices,