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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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That Experience from others, which may enliven and perfect our Hope, in the applying their examples and successes to our own encouragements. For since the nature of most men is like that of flocks, to tread in one another's steps (Precedents having the same precedence to reason in vulgar judgements, which a living and accompanying guide hath to a Mercuries finger in a Travellers conceit; the one only pointing too, but the other leading in the way. And as I find it observed, that running metal will sooner melt other of its own kind, than fire alone: So the examples of virtue will sooner allure and prevail with the minds of men, to frame them to the like resolutions, than a naked and empty speculation of Precepts. It hath pleased Nature to make man, not only a moral, but a sociable creature, that ⟨p. 246⟩so when his Hopes towards good should languish and grow slack by any conceived prejudices against the reason of Precepts, they may again be strengthened by the common and more obvious and common sense of examples.
That Experience from others, which may enliven and perfect our Hope, in the applying their examples and successes to our owne encouragements. For since the nature of most men is like that of flocks, to tread in one anothers steps (Precidents having the same precedence to reason in vulgar judgements, which a living and accompanying guide hath to a Mercuryes finger in a Travellers conceipt; the one only pointing too, but the other leading in the way. And as I finde it observed, that running mettall will sooner melt other of its owne kind, than fire alone: So the examples of vertue will sooner allure and prevaile with the minds of men, to frame them to the like resolutions, than a naked and empty speculation of Precepts. It hath pleased Nature to make man, not onely a morall, but a sociable creature, that ⟨p. 246⟩so when his Hopes towards good should languish and grow slacke by any conceived prejudices against the reason of Precepts, they may againe be strengthened by the common and more obvious and common sense of examples.