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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 last condition in the object of Hope, was Difficulty, I mean in respect of our own abilities, ⟨p. 238⟩for the procuring of the Good we hope for; and therefore Hope hath not only an eye to Bonus, 1the good desired; but to Auxilium too, the help which confers it. No man waiteth for that which is absolutely in his own power to bestow upon himselfe; Omnis expectati• est ab extrinseco, all Hope is an attendant Passion, and doth ever rely upon the Will and Power of some superior causes, by dependence whereupon it hath some good warrant to attain its desires.
The last condition in the object of Hope, was Difficulty, I mean in respect of our own abilities, ⟨p. 238⟩for the procuring of the Good we hope for; and therefore Hope hath not only an eye to Bonu•, 1the good desired; but to Auxilium too, the help which conferres it. No man waiteth for that which is absolutely in his own power to bestow upon himselfe; Omnis expectati• est ab extrinseco, all Hope is an attendant Passion, and doth ever rely upon the Will and Power of some superiour causes, by dependance whereupon it hath some good warrant to attaine its desires.
- 1Spe▪ […], si vi•es, pecu•, con•lum, see entiá, apparatió. Cic. de Invent. ad H•an.Spe▪ 〈…〉, si vi•es, pecu•, conlum, se entiá, apparatió. Cic. de Invent. ad Han.