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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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Illad. • •62.
Fear had the other Trojans all oppressed; Yea Hectors heart panted within his breast.
Feare had the other Trojans all opprest; Yea Hectors heart panted within his breast.
A third Effect may be a Weakness of the Faculties of the Mind, and the Spirits in the Body; whereby the one is made unfit for Search or Counsel; the other for Service or Execution. And hence (as Plutarch noteth) it imports in the1 Greek, a Binding or Shutting up, and so withdrawing and indisposing the Soul for Action. ⟨p. 296⟩And such Actions, as Fear forceth a man upon, are presumed to be so weak and unnatural, that it is a Maxim in the Law, Per metumgesta, pr• non ratis habentur: Those things which we do in Fear, are void and invalid to bind, when the Fear which forceth them is removed. And as it is in the Civill State, so it is in the Moral Common-wealth of the Soul, there are three principal ways to infer Weakness, Foreign Incursions, Intestine Tumults, and an Emptying of the Parts, all which are to be seen in an Extremity of Fear. Where first two things are to be granted, one concerning the Body, and the other the Mind. The first is, that the Spirits being of the most strong, subtle, and quick motion, are the principal Instruments of Intercourse, either in Negotiation to, or Service from Reason: the other, that the Mind being of a Spiritual and Elevating Nature, retains then the perfectest power of Operation, when it least of all suffers the Incursion of grosser Passions, which yet I understand not of all manner of Ministry and Admixtion of Appetite, with Reason (as if the Regular motions of inferior powers did not serve to sharpen the Counsels of the higher) but only of Invasion and Tyranny.