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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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Now from this facility of Nature proceeds a further cause of Hope; to wit, Faith and Credulity, in relying on the promises which are made for the furtherance thereof: For promises are obligations, and men use to reckon their obligations in the Inventory of their estate: so that the promises of an able friend, I esteem as part of my substance. And this is an immediate Antecedent of Hope, which according as the Authority whereon it relies, is more or less sufficient and constant, is likewise more or less evident and certain.
Now from this facility of Nature proceeds a further cause of Hope; to wit, Faith and Credulity, in relying on the promises which are made for the furtherance thereof: For promises are obligations, and men use to reckon their obligations in the Inventory of their estate: so that the promises of an able friend, I esteem as part of my substance. And this is an immediate Antecedent of Hope, which according as the Authority whereon it relles, is more or lesse sufficient and constant, is likewise more or lesse evident and certaine.
And in these two, the Corruption chiefly is not to let Judgement come between them and our Hopes.
And in these two, the Corruption chiefly is not to let Iudgement come betweene them and our Hopes.
For as he said of Lovers, we may of Hopes too, that oftentimes sibi somnia fing•nt, they build more upon Imagination than Reality. And then if what Tacitus speaks in another sense, fingunt, creduntque if our facility feign assistances, and our credulity rely upon them, there will issue no other than Ixious Hope, a Cloud for Inno. And therefore1