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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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The next Passions in order belonging to the Concupiscible Faculty, are those two, which are wrought by the Presence of, and Union to an Object; and that is, when either we by our desires have reached the Object, which worketh Joy and Delight: or when in our flight the Object hath overtaken1 us, which worketh Grief and Sorrow. And these two do bear the most inward relation unto and influence upon all our actions. Whereupon Aristotle in his Ethics hath made them the foundation of our virtues, and rules of our working. And the reason is natural, because the end of our motion is to attain rest, and avoid perturbation.2 Now Delight is nothing else but the Sabbath of our thoughts, and that sweet tranquility of mind, which we receive from the Presence and Fruition of that good, whereunto our Desires have carried us. And therefore the Philosopher ⟨p. 198⟩in one place call it a motion of the Soul with a sensible and felt instauration of Nature, yet elsewhere he as truly telleth us that it standeth rather in *rest than motion; as on the other side Grief is the straitening and anguish of our minds wrought out of the sense and burden of some present Evil oppressing our Nature. Now4 these Passions are diverse, according to the diversity of the Objects: which are either Sensitive and Bodily; and then Delight is called Voluptas 5Pleasure, being a medicine and supply against bodily indigence and defects: or Intellectual and Divine, and then it is called Gaudium Joy, being a sweet and delightful tranquillity of mind, resting in the fruition and possession of a good. So also is the other Passion of Sadness considered; which in respect of the Body is called a Sense of Paine; in respect of the Soul, a Sense of Grief.
THe next Passions in order belonging to the Concupiscible Faculty, are those two, which are wrought by the Presence of, and Vnion to an Object; and that is, when either wee by our desires have reached the Object, which worketh Ioy and Delight: or when in our flight the Object hath overtaken