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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 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.
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Secondly, in the Will, it wo•keth first Despair, for it being the property of grief to condensate and as it were on all sides besiege the Mind, the more violent the Passion is, the less apparent are the Passages out of it. So that in an extremity ⟨p. 230⟩of anguish where the Passages are in themselves narrow, and the reason also blind and weak to find them out, the Mind is const• ned having no Object but it's own paie to reflect upon, to fall into a dark and fearful contemplation of it's own sad estate, and marvellous high and pathetical aggravations of it, as if it were the greatest which any man felt. Not considering that it feels it's own sorrow, but knows not the weight of other mens. Whereas if all the calamities of mortal men were heaped into one Storehouse, and from thence every man were to take an equal portion. Socrates was wont to say that each man would rather choose to go away with his own pain.