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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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A second effect of Joy is Opening and Dil• tion of the heart and countenance, expressing the serenity of the mind, whence it hath the name […] Latitia, as it were a broad and spreading Passion ▪ 1Now the reason of▪ this motion occasioned […] Joy, is the natural desire, which man hath to […] united to the thing wherein he delights to make way and passage for its entrance into him. And hence we find in this Passion an exultation and ⟨p. 218⟩egress of the spirits, discovering a kind of looseness of Nature in her security, doing many things not out of resolution, but instinct and power transporting both mind and body to sudden and unpremeditated expressions of its own content: For of all Passions, Joy can be the least dissembled or suppressed, nam ga•dio Cogendi vis inest, 2saith Pliny▪ it exerciseth a kind of welcome violence and tyranny upon a man, as we see in Davids dancing before the Ark▪ and the lame Mans walking, and leaping, and praising God, after he had been cured of his lameness. And this diffusion of the spirits showeth both the haste and forwardness of Nature, in striving as it were to meet her Object, and make large room for its entertainment, as also to dispel and scatter all adverse humours that would hinder the ingress of it, and lastly to send forth news as it were through the whole province of nature, that all the parts might bear a share in the common Comfort.
A second effect of Ioy is Opening and Dil• tion of the heart and countenance, expressing the serenity of the mind, whence it hath the name 〈…〉 Latitia, as it were a broad and spreading Passio• ▪ 1