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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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Passions are nothing else, but those natural, perfective, and unstrained motions of the Creatures unto that advancement of their Natures, which they are by the Wisdom, Power, and Providence of their Creator, in their own several Spheres, and according to the proportion of their Capacities, ordained to receive, by a regular inclination to those objects, whose goodness ⟨p. 32⟩beareth a natural convenience or vertu• of satisfaction unto them; or by an antipathy and aversation from those, which bearing a contrariety to the good they desire, must needs be noxious and destructive, and by consequent, odious to their natures. This being the property of all unconstrained self▪ motions, it followeth, that the root and ground of all Passions, is principally the good; and secondarily, or by consequent, the evil of things: as one beareth with it rationem convenientiae, a quieting and satisfactory; the other, rationem disconvenienti•, a disturbing and destroying nature.
Passions are nothing else, but those naturall, perfective, and unstrained motions of the Creatures unto that advancement of their Natures, which they are by the Wisdome, Power, and Providence of their Creator, in their owne severall Spheares, and according to the proportion of their Capacities, ordained to receive, by a regular inclination to those objects, whose goodnesse ⟨p. 32⟩beareth a naturall conveniencie or vertu• of satisfaction unto them; or by an antipathie and aversation from those, which bearing a contrarietie to the good they desire, must needs be noxious and destructive, and by consequent, odious to their natures. This being the prop•rtie of all unconstrained selfe▪ motions, it followeth, that the root and ground of all Passions, is principally the good; and secondarily, or by consequent, the evill of things: as one beareth with it rationem convenientiae, a quieting and satisfacto rie; the other, rationem disconvenienti•, a disturbing and destroying nature.