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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.
The last presence of Grief was Real, when some ponderous evil either of Affliction or of Sin, the loss of some good wherein we delighted, the disappointment of some hope whereon we relied meeting with impotency in our selves, to remove what we suffer, to recover what we lose, to supply what we want, doth bruise and lie with a heavy weight upon the tenderest part of Man, his Soul and Spirit. And in this I cannot find considered merely in it self any worth at all (it being nothing else but the violation and wounding of Nature) but in order to the effects which it produceth, it may have sundry denominations, either of a serviceable, or of a corrupt affection. I shall but briefly name them, and pass over to the next.
The last presence of Grief was Reall, when some ponderous evill either of Affliction or of Sinne, the losse of some good wherein we delighted, the disappointment of some hope whereon we relyed meeting with impotency in our selves, to remove what we suffer, to recover what wee lose, to supply what we want, doth bruise and lie with a heavy weight upon the tenderest part of Man, his Soule and Spirit. And in this I cannot find considered meerly in it selfe any worth at all (it being nothing else but the violation and wounding of Nature) but in order to the effects which it produceth, it may have sundry denominations, either of a serviceable, or of a corrupt affection. I shall but briefly name them, and passe over to the next.
The profitable effects are principally these: First, as it is an instrument of public administration & discipline. It is as it were both a Schoolmaster1 and a Physician, to teach and to cure: so the Philosopher telleth us, that by pleasure and pain,2 Children are trained up unto Arts and Sciences, the Rod being unto the Mind, as a Rudder unto a Ship: so the Prophet David putteth chastisement and instruction together: Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, and teacheth out of thy law, and again, •t is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy Commandments. Therefore God