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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.
When we are arrived at ease, Remembrance of a storm doth please.
When we are arrived at ease, Remembrance of a strome doth please.
The Objects then of Repentance are not our passive, but our active Evils: not the Evils of suffering, but the Evils of doing▪ for the memory of afflictions past, represent• unto us Nature loosed and delivered, and should so much the more increase our Joy, by how much redemption is for the most part a more felt blessing than Immunity▪ but the memory of sins past represents Nature obliged, guilty, and imprisoned. And so leaves a double ground for Grief, •he stain or pollution, and the guilt or malediction a deformity to the Law, and a curse from it. It would be improper ⟨p. 223⟩here to wander into a digression touching Repentance, only in a word it is then a Godly Sorrow, when it proceeds from the memory of Evil; not so much in respect of the punishment as of the stain. When we grieve more because our sin hath made us unholy, then because it hath made us unhappy; and not only because we are run into the danger of the Law, but because we are run out of the way of the Law. When it teacheth us to cry, not only with Pharaoh, take away this Plague; but with Israel in the Prophet, take away Iniquity.
The Objects then of Repentance are not our passive, but our active Evils: not the Evils of suffering, but the Evils of doing▪ for the memory of afflictions past, represent• unto us Nature loosed and delivered, and should so much the more increase our Ioy, by how much redemption is for the most part a more felt blessing than Immunity▪ but the memory of sinnes past represents Nature obliged, guilty, and imprisoned. And so leaves a double ground for Griefe, he staine or pollution, and the guilt or malediction a deformity to the Law, and a curse from it. It would be improper