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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. XVIII. Rules touching our Desires. Desires of lower Objects must not be either hasty, or unbounded; such are unnatural, turbid, unfruitful, unthankful: Desires of heavenly Objects fixed, permanent, industrious: Connection of virtues, sluggish Desires.
CHAP. XVIII. Rules touching our Desires. Desires of lower Objects must not be either hastie, or unbounded; such are unnaturall, turbid, unfruitfull, unthankfull: Desires of heavenly Objects fixed, permanent, industrious: Connexion of vertues, sluggish Desires.
Unto the things already delivered touching this affection, I shall here add two or three Rules pertaining to the moral use, and managing of it. And they are, First, concerning Objects of an Inferior and Transitory nature, that our Desires be neither Hasty and precipitate, nor Vast, and unlimited. And in matters more High and Noble, that they be not either wavering and interrupted Desires, or Lazy and negligent Desires.
VNto the things already delivered touching this affection, I shall here add two or three Rules pertaining to the morall use, and managing of it. And they are, First, concerning Objects of an Inferiour and Transitory nature, that our Desires be neither Hastie and precipitate, nor Vaste, and unlimited. And in matters more High and Noble, that they be not either wavering and interrupted Desires, or Lazie and negligent Desires.
1 For the first of these, we have a rule in Solomon, concerning Riches, which will hold in all other Objects of an immoderate desire: He that 1maketh haste to be rich, shall not be without sin; I may add, Not without cares neither: for we know the nature of all Earthly things, they have something of the Serpent in them, to Deceive. The way of riches and profit, is a thorny way; the