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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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The Errors which are in the Fancy, are usually1 of the same nature with those that are wrought by it: Such was the Error of that man, which would not be persuaded, but that he had on his head a great pair of Horns, and for that reason would not move forth nor uncover his face to any. And the causes of these Errors are2 by Francis Mirandula ascribed first to the variety of tempers in the Body, with the predominancy of those humours which give complexion thereunto: ⟨p. 27⟩secondly, to the imposture of the Senses: thirdly, to the government of the Will, (though that, as is granted, hath least power over this Faculty) and lastly, to the ministry of evil Angels, who can easily cast into the Fancy strange and false species, with such subtlety, as shall easily gain them plausible credit and admittance. And of this, we find an express example (as I conceive) in that evil spirit▪ who promised to be a lying spirit in the mouth of Ahab's Prophets. For the vision: of such men being for the most part imaginary, the impression of that lying and deceitful persuasion was, in all probability, made upon the Imagination. For, notwithstanding I confess, that Prophets had events by divers means revealed unto them, as by true Voices, by real access of Angels, and by immediate illapse of Truth into the Understanding; yet because those two ways, by Visions and by3 Dreams, were (for ought can be observed) the most usual means of Revelation; it is not unlikely, that the Devil (who in such things strives, for the better advancement of his own ends, to imitate Gods manner of working) did by this manner of imposture on the Imagination, seek to possess the false Prophets, and to delude the King.
The Errors which are in the Fancie, are usually1 of the same nature with those that are wrought by it: Such was the Error of that man, which would not be perswaded, but that he had on his head a great paire of Hornes, and for that reason would not moove sorth nor uncover his face to any. And the causes of these Errors are