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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Who dreaming that he was a Guest At his Imaginary Feast, Did vainly glut upon a Thought, Tiring each Jaw and Tooth for naught: And when he fancied dainty meat, Had nothing but a Dream to eat:
Who dreaming that he was a Guest At his Imaginary Feast, Did vainely glut upon a Thought, Tyring each Iaw and Tooth for naught: And when he fanci'd dainty meat, Had nothing but a Dreame to eat:
Or like the Musician in Plutarch, who having1 pleased Dionysius with a little vanishing Music, was rewarded with a short and deceived Hope of a great Reward. A presumptuous Delight though it seem for the time to minister as good content as that which is raised on a sounder bottom; yet in the end will work such inconveniences as shall altogether countervail and overweigh the deipt of its former Joys . For the Mind being mollified and puffed up with a windy and unnourishing comfort, is quite disabled to bear the […] of some sudden evil, as having its forces scattered by Security, which caution and eare would have collected. For we know in Bodies, Union strengtheneth natural motion, and weakeneth violent; and in the Mind the collecting and uniting of it doth both enable it for prosecution of its own ends, and for resisting all opposite force.