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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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2 In regard of Reasonable and Spiritual Desires. The effects of this affection are:
2 In regard of Reasonable and Spirituall Desires. The effects of this affection are:
1 Large. heartednesse and Liberality. That which a man earnestly desireth he will give much for,1 and bestow much upon. As when Christ became the desire of all Nations, they did dedicate all their desirable things unto him, as the [Greek or Hebrew] and trophies of his merciful triumph over them. One man adorns the Gospel with his power, another with his wit, another with his wealth, another with his wisdom.
1 Large. heartednesse and Liberality. That which a man earnestly desireth he will give much for,1 and bestow much upon. As when Christ became the desire of all Nations, they did dedicate all their desirable things unto him, as the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and trophies of his mercifull triumph over them. One man adornes the Gospell with his power, another with his wit, another with his wealth, another with his wisedome.
- 1Pb•l. 3. 8. 9. 10. Matth. 13. 45. Mag. 2. 6. 7. Matth. 2. 11. Isa. 60. 5. 17. Psal. 68. 29.