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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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But, as I said, those irregularities and deviations before spoken of, are seen principally in inferior things. The Earth, being the principal Creature that did bear the Curse of Man• Fall, which made (if we will believe that relation, though I rather suppose it to be fictitious) the Heathen Philosopher, upon observation o• that wonderful Eclipse of the Sun at the Passion of our Saviour, to cry out, Aut Deus Natur• patitur, aut Mundi machina dissolvetur; either the God of Nature suffereth, or the Frame of Nature dissolveth: Either something hindereth that universal Power, which sustaineth and animateth all the Creatures, or he doth at least willingly detain that virtue and the vigour of that Law; without execution whereof, there cannot but follow a laxation of the whole Frame: which particular I have the rather observed, to note, that the more raised and heavenly a Nature is, the more stable and constant likewise it is, to every Divine Law imposed on it.
But, as I said, those irregularities and deviations before spoken of, are seene principally in inferiour things. The Earth, being the principall Creature that did beare the Curse of Man• Fall, which made (if wee will beleeve that relation, though I rather suppose it to be fictitious) the Heathen Philosopher, upon observation o• that wonderfull Eclipse of the Sunne at the Passion of our Saviour, to crie out, Aut Deus Natur• patitur, aut Mundi machina dissolvetur; either the God of Nature suffereth, or the Frame of Nature dissolveth: Either something hindereth that universall Power, which sustaineth and animateth all the Creatures, or he doth at least willingly detaine that vertue and the vigour of that Law; without execution whereof, there cannot but follow a laxation of the whole Frame: which particular I have the rather observ'd, to note, that the more raysed and heavenly a Nature is, the more stable and constant likewise it is, to every Divine Law imposed on it.