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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.
Sirs, w' are not now to learn what sorrows are, Having felt so many; and this now by far Comes short of that which we endured then, When the proud Cyclops shut us in his den: Yet that we scaped, he of his prey did miss, Hereafter we shall joy to think of this.
Sirs, w' are not now to learne what sorrowes are, Having felt so many; and this now by farre Comes short of that which we endured then, When the proud Cyclops shut us in his den: Yet that we scap't, he of his prey did misse, Hereafter we shall joy to think of this.
*Thus as Iron which hath passed through the fire, being quenched, is harder than it was before: so the Mind having passed through troubles, is the more hardened to endure them again. And therefore it is wise advice which learned Men give, to let Griefs have a time to breath, and not to endeavour the stopping of them, while they are in Impetu, and in their first rising. As Physicians suffer humours to ripen, and gather to some head, before they apply medicines unto them. When time hath a little concocted Grief, and experience hardened and instructed Nature to