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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
Chapter 23: Of the affection of Hope, the Object of it, Good Future, Possible, Difficult, of Regula…
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CHAP. XXIII. Of the affection of Hope, the Object of it, Good Future, Possible, Difficult, of Regular and Inordinate Despair.
CHAP. XXIII. Of the affection of Hope, the Object of it, Good Future, Possible, Difficult, of Regular and Inordinate Despaire.
The next Ranks and Series, is of Irascible Passions, namely those which respect their Object, as annexed unto some degree of Difficulty, in the obtaining, o• avoiding of it, the first of which is Hope, whereby I understand an earnest and strong inclination ⟨p. 254⟩and expectation of some great good apprehended as possible to be obtained, though not by our own strength, nor without some intervenient Difficulties. I shall not collect those1 praises which are commonly bestowed upon it, nor examine the contrary extremes of those who declaim against it, making it a means either of augmenting an unexpected evil, before not sufficiently prevented, or of deflowering a future good too hastily pre-occupated, but shall only touch that dignity and corruption which I shall observe to arise from it, with reference to it's Objects, Causes, and Effects.
THe next Ranks and Series, is of Irascible Passions, namely those which respect their Object, as annexed unto some degree of Difficulty, in the obtaining, o• avoiding of it, the first of which is Hope, whereby I understand an earnest and strong inclination ⟨p. 254⟩and expectation of some great good apprehended as possible to be obtained, though not by our owne strength, nor without some intervenient Difficulties. I shall not collect those1