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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.
*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 ⟨p. 228⟩under it. It doth then willingly admit of those remedies, which being unseasonably applied it rejecteth and resisteth.2
*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 againe. And therefore it is wise advice which learned Men give, to let Griefes have a time to breath, and not to endeavour the stopping of them, while they are in Impetu, and in their first rising. As Phisitians suffer humours to ripen, and gather to some head, before they apply medicines unto them. When time hath a little concoted Griefe, and experience hardened and instructed Nature to ⟨p. 228⟩under it. It doth then willingly admit of those remedies, which being unseasonably applyed it rejecteth and resisteth.2
- *Plut. de Ad. & A•ic. & de Sa•it. […]. V• Crudum adhuc vul•s medentium manu• reformidat, deinde patitur, a• que ultro requirit. Sic Recens animi Dolour Consolatione rejici atque refugit, mox […] & clementer admoti acquiescit. Plin. Ep. l 5 c. 16. Vid Plut. Cons. ad Apoll.