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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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Now three things there are which belong unto1 a perfect fruition of a good thing: First, Propriety unto it, for a sick man doth not feel the joy of a sound mans health, nor a poor man of a rich mans money. Propriety is that which makes all the emulation and contention amongst men, one man being aggrieved to see another to have that which he either claimeth or coveteth. Secondly, Possession: For a man can reap little comfort from that which is his own, if it be any way detained and withheld from him, which was the cause of that great contention between Agamemnon & Achilles, 2& between the Greeks & Trojans, because the one took away and detained that which was the others. Thirdly, Accommodation, to the end for which a thing was appointed▪ For a man may have any thing in his custody, and yet receive no comfort nor real delight from it, except he apply it unto those purposes for which it was instituted. It is not then the having of a good but the using of it which makes it beneficial.
Now three things there are which belong unto1 a perfect fruition of a good thing: First, Propriety unto it, for a sicke man doth not feele the joy of a sound mans health, nor a poore man of a rich mans money. Propriety is that which makes all the emulation and contention amongst men, one man being agreeved to see another to have that which he either claimeth or coveteth. Secondly, Possession: For a man can reap little comfort from that which is his owne, if it be any way detained and withheld from him, which was the cause of that great contention between Agamemnon & Achilles, 2& between the Greeks & Trojans, because the one tooke away and detained that which was the others. Thirdly, Accommodation, to the end for which a thing was appointed▪ For a man may have any thing in his custody, and yet receive no comfort nor reall delight from it, except he apply it unto those purposes for which it was instituted. It is not then the having of a good but the using of it which makes it beneficiall.