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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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But here we must take heed of a deep Corruption: For though I incline not to that opinion which denieth Hope, all assuaging and mitigating source, in respect of evils, or any power to settle a floating Mind; yet to have an ungrounded Confidence, and either out of Presumption or Security to resolve upon uncertain and casual events, ⟨p. 207⟩there-hence to deduce Arguments of Comfort' works but an empty and imaginary Delight, like his in the Poet:
But here we must take heed of a deep Corruption: For though I encline not to that opinion which denyeth Hope, all asswaging and mitigating sorce, in respect of evils, or any power to settle a floating Mind; yet to have an ungrounded Confisidence, and either out of Presumption or Security to resolve upon uncertaine and casuall events, ⟨p. 207⟩there-hence to deduce Arguments of Comfort' works but an empty and imaginary Delight, like his in the Poet: