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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 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 ⟨p. 226⟩the Law in the Wilderness, where the people were3 in want and under discipline: to note that Grief is a good instrument unto learning; for after in their prosperity they would not hear.
The profitable effects are principally these: First, as it is an instrument of publique administration & discipline. It is as it were both a Schoolmaster1 and a Phisitian, 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 learne thy Commandements. Therefore God ⟨p. 226⟩the Law in the Wildernesse, where the people were3 in want and under discipline: to note that Griefe is a good instrument unto learning; for after in their prosperity they would not heare.