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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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The next condition in the Object of our Hope is possibility, for though the will sometimes being inordinate may be tickled with a desire of impossibilities, under an implicit• condition, if they were not so, yet no hope whither regular or corrupt can respect it's object under that apprehension. It worketh two passions most repugnant to this, hatred and despair, the one being a proud opposition, the other a dreadful flight, from that good, in which the mind perceiveth an impossibility of attaining it. Now the apprehension of possibility is nothing else but a conceit of the convenience and proportion, between the true means unto an end hoped, and the strength of those powers which are to work or bestow them; or if they be such ends as are wrought without any such means, by the bare and immediate hand of the worker', it is an apprehension of convenience, betwixt the will and power of him that bestoweth it.
The next condition in the Object of our Hope is possibility, for though the will sometimes being inordinate may be tickled with a desire of impossibilities, under an implicit• condition, if they were not so, yet no hope whither regular or corrupt can respect it's object under that apprehension. It worketh two passions most repugnant to this, hatred and despaire, the one being a proud opposition, the other a dreadfull flight, from that good, in which the mind perceiveth an impossibility of attaining it. Now the apprehension of possibility is nothing else but a conceit of the convenience and proportion, betweene the true meanes unto an end hoped, and the strength of those powers which are to worke or bestow them; or if they be such ends as are wrought without any such meanes, by the bare and immediate hand of the worker', it is an apprehension of convenience, betwixt the will and power of him that bestoweth it.
Here then because I find not any arguments of large discourse in the opposite passion, (unless we would pass sró natural or moral unto Theological handling thereof) we may observe what manner of despair is only regular & allowable, I mean that wch in matters of importance drives us ⟨p. 237⟩