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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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A second Reason may be, because in fear the mind of man is drawn to a nearer sense of it's weakness, and to a more prejudicate apprehension of the adverse power: and therefore it is a true observation, cProna ad Religionem p•rculsa semel merits, &c. Minds once possessed with fearful conceits, are most forward in sacrifices, and Religious Ceremonies, to avert the evils, which they expect. So that as Tacitus on another occasion speaks, Inclinatis ad credendum. So I may say, Inclinatis ad timendum animis loco omnium, etiam Fortuna, When the mind is once drooping, things which before passed away as matters of course and casualty, are now drawn within the compass of presages and Emphatical evils.
A second Reason may be, because in feare the minde of man is drawne to a neerer sense of it's weaknesse, and to a more prejudicate apprehension of the adverse power: and therefore it is a true observation, cProna ad Religionem p•rculsa semel mentes, &c. Mindes once possessed with fearefull conceits, are most forward in sacrifices, and Religious Ceremonies, to avert the evils, which they expect. So that as Tacitus on another occasion speakes, Inclinatis ad credendum. So I may say, Inclinatis ad timendum animis loco omnium, etiam Fortuna, When the minde is once drooping, things which before passed away as matters of course and casualty, are now drawne within the compasse of presages and Emphaticall evils.
- cTacit. Annal. lib. •. Vid. Plutarch. de superstitione Et lib. contra Epicur. Max. Tyrius […]. 4. Clem. Alex. Strom. lib. 7. p. 51•. Nist. lib. 2.Tacit. Annal. lib. •. Vid. Plutarch. de superstitione Et lib. contra Epicur. Max. Tyrius 〈…〉. 4. Clem. Alex. Strom. lib. 7. p. 51•. Nist. lib. 2.