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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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CHAP. XXV. Of the Effects of Hope: Stability of Mind: Weariness, arising not out of Weakness, Impatience, Suspicion, Curiosity; but out of Want, Contention, and forth-putting of the Mind. Patience under the Want, Distance, and Difficulty of Good desires, Waiting upon Aid expected.
CHAP. XXV. Of the Effects of Hope: Stability of Mind: Wearinesse, arising not out of Weaknesse, Impatience, Suspition, Curiosity; but out of Want, Contention, and forth-putting of the Mind. Patience under the Want, Distance, and Difficulty of Good desires, Waiting upon Ayde expected.
The Effects of Hope follow, which I will but name: The first is to free the Mind from all such Anxieties as arise out of the Floating, Instability, and Fearfulness thereof: For as the Philosopher telleth us,1 Fearful men are [Greek or Hebrew], hard of Hope: and in this property, Hope is well compared unto an Anchor; because it keeps the Mind in a firm and constant temper, without tottering and instability: for though there be but one Hope joined with Certainty as depending upon an immutable promise all other having ground of Fear in them; yet this should be only a Fear of Caution, not of Jealousy and Distrust; because where there is Distrust in the means, there is for the most part Weakness in the use of them; and he who suspects the Aid which he relies on, gives it just ⟨p. 255⟩reason to fail and to neglect him. And therefore Aristotle hath set Hope and Confidence together, as was before noted, [Greek or Hebrew], a Good Hope is grounded on a Belief, and always worketh some measure of Affiance in the means unto it.
THe Effects of Hope follow, which I will but name: The first is to free the Mind from all such Anxieties as arise out of the Floating, Instability, and Fearefulnesse thereof: For as the Philosopher telleth us,