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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.
TO HER HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH, PRINCESS PALATINE OF THE RHINE, DUCHESS OF BAVARIA, &c. AND ELDEST Daughter to Her Majesty the Queen of BOHEMIA.
TO HER HIGHNESSE THE PRINCESSE ELIZABETH, PRINCESSE PALATINE OF THE RHINE, DVTCHES OF BAVARIA, &c. AND ELDEST Daughter to Her Majestie the Queen of BOHEMIA.
May it please your Highness;
May it please your Highnesse;
What the Great Philosopher1 hath observed of Mens Bodies, is, upon so much stronger Reasons, true of their Minds, by how much our Intellectual Maturity is more lingering, and sluggish than our Natural, That the too Early Conceptions and Issues of them do usually ⟨image 3⟩prove but weak and unuseful. And we shall seldom find, but that those venturous Blossoms, whose over-hasty obedience to the Early Spring doth anticipate their proper season, and put forth too soon, do afterwards for their former boldness suffer from the injury of severer weather, except at least some happy shelter, or more benign influence redeem them from danger. The like Infelicity I find my self obnoxious unto at this time. For I know not out of what disposition of mind, whether out of love of Learning (for