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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now, this natural Passion which I speak of, is called by sundry Names amongst Philosophers, the Law, the Equity, the Weight, the Instinct, the Bond, the Love, the Covenant and League of natural things in order, to the conservation of themselves, propagation of their kind, perfection, and order of the Universe, service of Man, and glory of the Creator; which are the alone ends of all natural Agents.
Now, this naturall Passion which I speake of, is called by sundry Names amongst Philosophers, the Law, the Equitie, the Weight, the Instinct, the Bond, the Love, the Covenant and League of naturall things in order, to the conservation of themselves, propagation of their kind, perfection, and order of the Vniverse, service of Man, and glory of the Creator; which are the alone ends of all naturall Agents.
By all which we are given to understand, that when at any time the ordinary course of Nature is intermitted, when any creature forsakes its native motion, and falleth into confusion and disorder, there is then admitted a breach of a Law; or, as Aristotle calls it, [Greek or Hebrew], an error, (which Saint James telleth us, is [Greek or Hebrew], an iniquity of Nature) also a certain levity, unusefulness, and emptiness of true worth, which I call in Saint Pauls phrase, the vanity of the Creature: thirdly, looseness, decay, and dissolution; and thereupon, discord and unserviceablenesse towards the other parts, with which it should jointly conspire for the glory of the whole.
By all which we are given to understand, that when at any time the ordinarie course of Nature is intermitted, when any creature forsakes its native motion, and falleth into confusion and disorder, there is then admitted a breach of a Law; or, as Aristotle calls it, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, an error, (which Saint Iames telleth us, is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, an iniquitie of Nature) also a certaine levitie, unusefulnesse, and emptinesse of true worth, which I call in Saint Pauls phrase, the vanitie of the Creature: thirdly, loosenesse, decay, and dissolution; and thereupon, discord and unserviceablenesse towards the other parts, with which it should jointly conspire for the glory of the whole.