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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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I might here insist on other more obvious causes of desire: As,
1 Knowledge and experience of the goodness of that which we desire: as the Apostle also •elleth us, That Experience worketh Hope: And •e use to say, Ignoti n•lla Cupido. A man cannot desire that of which he hath no Apprehension. knowledge is Appetites Taster.
1 Knowledge and experience of the goodnesse of that which wee desire: as the Apostle also •elleth us, That Experience worketh Hope: And •e use to say, Ignoti n•lla Cupido. A man cannot •esire that of which he hath no Apprehension. •nowledge is Appetites Taster.
2 […] and Repentance for the Evils we1 feel, the contrary whereunto we are the more induced to desire. We never desire Health so eagerly as when Sickness teacheth us to value2 it: For as in Colours, so in Actions or Affections, contraries do set forth and sharpe• one another. And as Labour Natural makes a Man earnestly desire the Shadow, as Job speak• so Sorrow which is Labour Mental, doth make a Man earnestly. thirst after that which can remove the thing which […] that sorrow. The Apostle telleth us, That Desire and Zeal are the