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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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Concerning Grief of Preoccupation, arising out of a suspicious Fear and expectation of Evil, I know not what worth it can have in it, unless haply thus, that by fore-accustoming the Mind1 to Evil, it is the better strengthened to stand under it: For Evils by premeditation, are either prevented or mitigated, the Mind gathering strength and wisdom together to meet it. And therefore it is prudent advise of Plutarch, that we should2 have a prepared Mind, which when any Evil falleth out, might not be surprised by it. To say as Anaxagoras did when he heard of the death of his Son, sciome genuisse mortalem, I know that I be▪ gat a mortal Sonne. I know that my riches had wings, and that my comforts were mutable. Preparedness composeth the Mind to patience. Ulysses wept when he saw his Dog, which he did not when he saw his Wife: he came prepared for the one, but was surprised by the other.
Concerning Griefe of Preoccupation, arising out of a suspitious Feare and expectation of Evill, I know not what worth it can have in it, unlesse haply thus, that by fore-accustoming the Mind1 to Evill, it is the better strengthned to stand under it: For Evils by praemeditation, are either prevented or mitigated, the Mind gathering strength and wisedome together to meet it. And therefore it is prudent advise of Plutarch, that wee should2 have a prepared Minde, which when any Evill falleth out, might not be surprised by it. To say as Anaxagoras did when he heard of the death of his Sonne, sciome genuisse mortalem, I know that I be▪ gat a mortall Sonne. I know that my riches had wings, and that my comforts were mutable. Preparednesse composeth the Minde to patience. Vlysses wept when he saw his Dogge, which he did not when he saw his Wife: he came prepared for the one, but was surprised by the other.
- 1Pracogliati m•li mllis ictus. […] Epist. 77. Uid. Cic. Tusc. qu. l. 3.