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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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Neither are we to conceive this impossible when we see as admirable effects in another kind1 wrought by the same faculty, and, as is probable, by the same means; I mean, the impression o• likeliness of an Infant in the Womb, unto the Parents, or some other, who shall work a stronger conceit in the Fancy: Or if this be not ascribed2 unto the working of this power, but rather to a secret real virtue intrinsical unto the Seed of the Parents (as many do affirm) yet that other effect of stamping on the Body the Images and Colours of some things, which had made any strong and violent immutation on the Fancy, must needs be hereunto ascribed, As we see cometh often to pass, in the longing of Women; and in her, who having the picture of an Ethiopian in her Chamber, brought forth a black3 Child; and in the course which Jacob took, […] putting speckled Rods before the Cattle, when they were to conceive, that the fancy of them might make their Lambs to be ring-straked and speckled.
Neither are wee to conceive this impossible when we see as admirable effects in another kind1 wrought by the same facultie, and, as is probable, by the same meanes; I meane, the impression o• likelinesse of an Infant in the Wombe, unto the Parents, or some other, who shall worke a stronger conceit in the Fancie: Or if this be not ascribed2 unto the working of this power, but rather to a secret reall vertue intrinsecall unto the Seed of the Parents (as many doe affirme) yet that other effect of stamping on the Body the Images and Colours of some things, which had made any strong and violent immutation on the Fancie, must needs be hereunto ascribed, As wee see commeth often to passe, in the longing of Women; and in her, who having the picture of an Ethioplan in her Chamber, brought forth a black3 Child; and in the course which Iacob tooke, putting speckled Rods before the Cattell, when they were to conceive, that the sancie of them might make their Lambes to be ring-straked and speckled.