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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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The next Condition in respect of the Object, is, that it be Present, which may fall out either by Memory, and then our Grief is called Repentance: or Fancy and Suspicion, and so it may be called Anx• of Mind: or by Sense and present union, which is the principal kind, and so I call it Anguish.
The next Condition in respect of the Object, is, that it be Present, which may fall out either by Memory, and then our Griefe is called Repentance: or Fancy and Suspition, and so it may be called Anx• of Mind: or by Sense and present union, which is the principall kind, and so I call it Anguish.
For the first, nothing can properly and truly work Grief, by ministry of Memory, when the Object or Evil is long since past; but those things which do withal stain our Nature, and work impressions of permanent deformity. For as it falleth out, that many things in their exercise pleasant, prove after in their operations offensive and burden some: so on the other side many things ⟨p. 222⟩which for the time of their continuance are irksome and heavy, prove yet after occasions of greater1 Joy. Whether they be means used for the procuring of further good.
For the first, nothing can properly and truly worke Griefe, by ministry of Memory, when the Object or Evill is long since past; but those things which doe withall staine our Nature, and worke impressions of permanent deformity. For as it falleth out, that many things in their exercise pleasant, prove after in their operations offensive and burden some: so on the other side many things ⟨p. 222⟩which for the time of their continuance are irkesome and heavy, prove yet after occasions of greater