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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 lastly, such is the inbred cautelousnesse of Nature in declining all noxious things, and such is the common suspicion of the Mind, whereby out of a tendering of it's own safety, it is willing to know every thing before it make ex periment of any, and thereby it is made naturally fearful even of harmless and inoffensive thing• (Omniatutatimens, much more then of those which bring with them the noise and face of evil.
And lastly, such is the imbred cautelousnesse of Nature in declining all noxious things, and such is the common suspition of the Minde, whereby out of a tendering of it's own safety, it is willing to know every thing before it make ex periment of any, and thereby it is made naturally fearfull even of harmlesse and inoffenssive thing• (Omniatutatimens, much more then of those which bring with them the noyse and face of evill.
Now the corruption of this passion herein i•, when it falleth too soon upon the Object, and snatcheth it from the understanding before that it hath duly weighed the nature of it; when •s Aristotle speaks of Anger) that it runs away from reason with an half message, so the Object shall be plucked away from the understanding with an half judgemen•. For when a man hath but an half and broken sight, like him in the Gospel, he will be easily apt to judge men as big as trees, and to pass a false sentence upon any thing which he fears.
Now the coruption of this passion herein i•, when it falleth too soone upon the Object, and snatcheth it from the understanding before that it hath duely weighed the nature of it; when •s Aristotle speakes of Anger) that it runs away from reason with an halfe message, so the Object shall be pluckt away from the understanding with an halfe judgemen•. For when a man hath but an halfe and broken sight, like him in the Gospel, he will be easily apt to judge men as big as trees, and to passe a false sentence upon any thing which he feares.