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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. XXI. Of the Passion of Fear: the Causes of it; Impotency, Obnoxiousness, Suddenness, Nearness, Newness, Conscience, Ignorance of an Evil.
CHAP. XXI. Of the Passion of Feare: the Causes of it; Impotency, Obnoxiousnesse, Suddennesse, Neerenesse, Newnesse, Conscience, Ignorance of an Evill.
The opposite Passion to this of1 of Hope is Fear: which being an Equivocal Passion, and admitting of many different kinds, can scarce have any whole and simple definition to explain it. There is a Virtuous Fear; a Fear of Sin and Shame; an Intellectual Fear of Admiration, when the excellency of the Object dazzleth our Eye; a Fear of Reverence; an Astonishing Fear, by reason of the Newness; and an Oppressing Fear, by reason of the Nearness and Inavoydablenesse of the Evil sea red. It is a Grief, Trouble, Flight, Aversation of some approaching Evil apprehended, either as destructive, or as burdensome to our nature, and not easily resistable by our strength: For the qualification of the Object thereof, because it is in all circumstances like that of Hope (save in the Evil of it) I shall therefore forbear to touch it, and shall only in brief consider the Dignities and Defects thereof in its Causes and Effects.
THe opposite Passion to this of1 of Hope is Feare: which being an Equivocall Passion, and admitting of many different kinds, can sca•se have any whole and simple definition to explaine it. There is a Vertuous Feare; a Feare of Sinne and Shame; an Intellectuall Feare of Admiration, when the excellency of the Object dazleth our Eye; a Feare of Reverence; an Astonishing Feare, by reason of the Newnesse; and an Oppressing Feare, by reason of the Neerenesse and Inavoydablenesse of the Evill sea red. It is a Griefe, Trouble, Flight, Aversation of some approaching Evill apprehended, either as destructive, or as burthensome to our nature, and not easily resistable by our strength: For the qualification of the Object thereof, because it is in all circumstances like that of Hope (save in the Evill of it) I shall therefore forbeare to touch it, and shall onely in briefe consider the Dignities and Defects thereof in its Causes and Effects.