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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. XVII. Of other causes of Desire, Infirmity, Temerity, Mutability of Mind, Knowledge, Repentance, Hope. Of the effects of it in General, Labour, Languor. In special, of Rational Desires, Bounty, Grief, Weariness, Indignation against that which withstands it. Of Vicious Desires, Deception, Ingratitude, Envy, Greediness, Baseness of Resolution.
CHAP. XVII. Of other causes of Desire, Infirmity, Temerity, Mutability of Minde, Knowledge, Repentance, Hope. Of the effects of it in Generall, Labour, Languor. In speciall, of Rationall Desires, Bounty, Griefe, Wearinesse, Indignation against that which withstands it. Of Vitious Desires, Deception, Ingratitude, Envy, Greedinesse, Basenesse of Resolution.
Other causes of Desires are Infirmity, Rashness, and Mutability of Mind, Which three1 I put in one, as having a near Relation and dependence within themselves. For commonly impotent Appetitions as those of Children, of sick, of incontinent Persons, are both Temerarious in precipitating the Mind, and anticipating the dictates of Reason which should regulate or re•raine them: as also mutable and wandering like •e Be from one Flour unto another; Infirmity […] suffering a man to hold fast his Decrees, and •rity not suffering him to resolve on any; and •stly▪ Mutability making him weary of those •ings which weakness and rashness had unadvisedly