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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. XXVIII. Of the Effects of Fear, suspicion, Circumspection, Superstition, 'Betraying the succours of Reason, Fear Generative, Reflecting, Inward, weakening the faculties of the Mind, Base Suspicion, wise Caution.
CHAP. XXVIII. Of the Effects of Feare, suspition, Circumspection, Superstition, 'Betraying the succours of Reason, Feare Generative, Reflecting, Inward, weakning the faculties of the Minde, Base Supition, wise Caution.
I Proceed to consider some of the Effects of this Passion, whereof the first may be Suspicion and Credulity, which either other mens rumours, or our own working Imagination frameth unto it self. Which effect of Fear the Historian hath wisely observed, Retineri comeatus 1dumb Timet, Credit, what he feared that he believed. And in another place speaking of the strange relations, which had been made of Monsters, his Judgement on the report is, Visa, sive ex metu credita. 2It was uncertain whether they had been ⟨p. 211⟩really seen or believed out of Fear. For as timorous men are by their own suspicion ready to frame unto themselves new terrors, and to fear where no fear is, which the Poet hath observed.
I Proced to consider some of the Effects of this Passion, whereof the first may be Suspition and Credulity, which either other mens rumors, or our owne working Imagination frameth untoit self. Which effect of Feare the Historian hath wisely observed, Retineri comeatus