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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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So patience and wisdom in the bearing of one sorrow, doth keep the mind in a stable condition against any other. A man doth never overgrieve,1 that keeps his […] open to counsel, and his reason to judgement above his Passion.
So patience and wisedome in the bearing of one sorrow, doth keep the mind in a stable condition against any other. A man doth never overgrieve,1 that keeps his 〈…〉 open to counsell, and his reason to judgement above his Passion.
- 1Iliud • 65.
The evil effects of grief commonly follows1 the excess of it, and they respect the Reason, the Will, and the Body, in the Reason, it worketh distractions, irresolution, and weakness […] by drawing the main strain of it, rather to a fearful contemplation of it's own misery, then to a fruitful Discourse how to avoid it, for as the motions of a wounded Body, so the Discourses of a wounded Mind are faint, uncertain and tottering.
The evill effects of griefe commonly followes1 the excesse of it, and they respect the Reason, the Will, and the Body, in the Reason, it worketh distractions, irresolution, and weaknesse 〈…〉 by drawing the maine straine of it, rather to a fearefull contemplation of it's owne misery, then to a fruitfull Discourse how to avoide it, for as the motions of a wounded Body, so the Discourses of a wounded Minde are faint, uncertaine and tottering.