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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
Chapter 31: Of other Causes of Anger: first in regard of him that suffers wrong: Excellency, Weakne…
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Thirdly, those things which we Impudently do, we do willingly likewise. And therefore we shall observe in the Scripture how reigning sins that is, those which are done with greediness of the appetite, and full consent of the will, are set forth by the names of Stubbornness, Rebellion, whorish Fore-head, Brass, and Iron. Now nothing doth more aggravate a wrong then this, that it proceeded from the will of man. And the reasons are,
Thirdly, those things which we Impudently do, we do willingly likewise. And therefore wee shall observe in the Scripture how reigning sins that is, those which are done with greedine•se of the appetite, and full consent of the will, are set forth by the names of Stubbornnesse, Rebellion, whorish Fore-head, Brasse, and Yron. Now nothing doth more aggravate a wrong then this, that it proceeded from the will of man. And the reasons are,
First, because a mans Power is in his Will▪ but ⟨p. 310⟩Passions and other blind Agents, when they work ungoverned, are our Imperfections, and not our Power; and therefore the easier borne withal.
First, because a mans Power is in his Will▪ but ⟨p. 310⟩Passions and other blind Agents, when they work ungoverned, are our Imperfections, and not our Power; and therefore the easier borne withall.
Secondly, to a Plenary, Spontaneous Action, (such as I take most of Impudence to be) there are required Antecedenter, Deliberation, Approbation, and Assent and Consequenter Resolution, Perseverance, and Constancy. All which, as they take away the two principal conditions required unto Lenity; Confession and Repentance: so likewise do they add much to the weight of an injury, because an action which is thus exercised, is a work of the whole Man, and employs a perfect consent thereunto: so a perfect and complete enmity toward the person offendeth thereby. Whereas others are but the wrongs of some part, such as are of those of the will, led by an ignorant; or those of Passion, led by a traduced Understanding; and they too not of a part regular, but of an Unjointed and Paralytic part, which follows not the motion of a stayed reason; and therefore as they proceed from more disorder in our selves, so do they work less in the party offended.