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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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And yet there are Evils too, which on the other side more affright with their long expectation and train, than if they were more contracted ⟨p. 280⟩and speedy. Some set upon us by stealth, affrighting us like lightning with a sudden blaze others1 with a train and pomp like a Comet, which is ushered in with a stream of fire, and like Thunder, which hurts not only with its danger, but with its noise: and therefore Aristotle reckoneth [Greek or Hebrew]. the signs of an approaching evil amongst the Objects of Fear.
And yet there are Evils too, which on the other side more affright with their long expectation and traine, than if they were more contracted ⟨p. 280⟩and speedy. Som• set upon us by sleath, affrighting us like lightning with a sudden blaze others1 with a train and pomp like a Comet, which is ushered in with a streame of fire, and like Thunder, which hurts not only with its danger, but with its noise: and therefore Aristotle reckoneth 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. the signes of an approaching evill amongst the Objects of Feare.
- 1S•n. Ep. 14.
Another cause of Fear may be the Nearness of an Evil, when we perceive it to be within the reach of us, and now ready to set upon us: For a• it is with Objects of Sense in a distance of place▪ so it is with the Objects of Passion, in a Distance of Time; Remotion in either, the greater it is, the less present it makes the Object; and by consequence, the weaker is the impression there-from upon the faculty: and this reason Aristotle gives why Death, which else where he makes the most terrible evil unto Nature, doth not yet with the conceit thereof, by reason that it is apprehended at an indefinite and remote distance, work such terror and amazement: nor so stiff Reason and the Spirits, as Objects far less in themselves injurious to Nature; but yet presented with a determined Nearness. And the reason is plain, because no Evil hts us by a simple apprehension of its Nature, but of its Union: and all Propinquity is a degree of Union. For although Futurition be a necessary condition required in the Object, which must infer Fear; yet all Evil, the less it hath d Future, the more it hath de Terribili: which is the reason, why that Carnal Security,