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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And according as these means, which we rely upon, have more or less power or certainty in them; they are foundations of a more Regular o• Corrupt Hope such are wealth▪ friends, wit, policy, power, or the like. All which can be causes only of a hope of probability, but not of certainty; because they are all means which are subject to […] age, and are also subject to the Providence of God, who only can establish and give final security to our hopes, as being such an Assistant, in whom there is neither weakness nor mutability, which should move him to disappoint us.
And according as these means, which wee rely upon, have more or lesse power or certainty in them; they are foundations of a more Regular o• Corrupt Hope such are wealth▪ friends, wit, policy, power, or the like. All which can be causes onely of a hope of probability, but not of certainty; because they are all means which are sub•ect to 〈…〉 age, and are also subject to the Providence of God, who only can establish and give finall security to our hopes, as being such an Assistant, in whom there is neither weaknesse nor mutability, which should move him to disappoint us.
All other aids have two ill qualities in them; they have wings, and therefore can easily forsake us▪ and they have thorns, and therefore if we lean1 too hard on them, they may chance in stead of helping, to hurt us. The best promises which ⟨p. 249⟩earthly Aides can make, are bounded by a double condition.
All other ayds have two ill qualities in them; they have wings, and therefore can easily forsake us and they have thornes, and therefore if we leane