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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.
Another Cause of Boldness in attempts may1 be Religion, and a Confidence of Divine Direction unto what we do. Jehu his pretence unto zeal, was that which caused him to walk furiously. And in this case as the Historian speaks,2 Melius vatibus quam Ducibus parent. Men are ap•er to be led by their Prophets then by their Captains. And we find when God would encourage his People in their wars, he gave them signs and assurances for their faith to rely upon above their fears that where Reason saw cause of Doubting, Faith might see all Defects supplied in God, so to Gideon▪ to Ahaz, to Hezekiah, and others, and the Church complains of the want of them in their times of Calamity. We see not our signs, neither is there amongst us any Prophet, or any one that knoweth how long. When Joshua did fight, Moses did pray, and Israel was more encouraged by the intercession of the one, then by the valour of the other. And the Philistines were never more affrighted, then when Israel brought forth the Ark of God against them, for as Ajax said in the Poet,
Another Cause of Boldnesse in attempts may1 be Religion, and a Confidence of Divine Direction unto what we doe. Ithu his pretence unto zeale, was that which caused him to walke furiously. And in this case as the Historian speakes,2 Melius vatibus quam Ducibus parent. Men are ap•er to be led by their Prophets then by their Captaines. And we finde when God would encourage his People in their warres, he gave them signes and assurances for their faith to relie upon above their feares that where Reason saw cause of Doubting, Faith might see all Defects supplied in God, so to Gideon▪ to Ahaz, to Hezekiah, and others, and the Church complaines of the want of them in their times of Calamity. We see not our signes, neither is there amongst us any Prophet, or any one that knoweth how long. When I•suah did fight, Moses did pray, and Israel was more encouraged by the intercession of the one, then by the valour of the other. And the Philistines were never more affrighted, then when Israel brought forth the Arke of God against them, for as Ajax said in the Poet,