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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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CHAP. XXII. Of the Affection of Sorrow, the Object of it evil, sensitive, Intellectual, as present in it s•lfe, or to the mind, by memory, or suspicion, particular causes, effects of it. Fear, Care, Experience, Erudition▪ Irresolution, Despair, Execration, Distempers of Body.
CHAP. XXII. Of the Affection of Sorrow, the Object of it evill, sensitive, Intellectuall, as present in it s•lfe, or to the mind, by memory, or suspition, particular causes, effects of it. Feare, Care, Experience, Erudition▪ Irresolution, Despaire, Execration, Distempers of Body.
The opposite Passion to this of Delight, is Grief and Sorrow, which is nothing but a perturbation and nnquietnesse wrought by the pressure of some present •vill, which the mind in vain struggleth with, as finding it self alone too impotent for the conflict. ⟨p. 222⟩Evil I say either formally, as in sin, or pain, present, or feared: or privatively, such as is any good thing which we have lost, or whereof we do despair, or have been disappointed. And this is in respect of its object as the former Passion, either Sensitive or Intellectual. Sensitive is that anguish and distress of Nature which lieth upon the body. A Passion in this sense little conducing to the advancement of Nature, being always joined with some measure of its decay, but only as it serves sometimes for the better fortifying it against the same or greater evils, it being the condition as of corporeal delights, by custom to grow burdensome and distasteful, so of pains to become easy and familiar.
THe opposite Passion to this of Delight, is Griefe and Sorrow, which is nothing but a perturbation and nnquietnesse wrought by the pr•ssure of some present vill, which the mind in vaine strugleth with, as finding it selfe alone too impotent for the conflict.