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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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For all the tracts of Earth, of Sea, and Sky, Are filled with divine immensity.
The whole world is a great *book, wherein we read the praise, glory, power, and infiniteness of him that made it, but man is after a more peculiar manner called [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew] the image and glory of God; the greater world is only Gods workmanship, wherein is represented the wisdom and power of God, as in a building the Art and cunning of the workman; but man (in the original purity of nature) is besides that, as wax, wherein was more notably impressed by that divine spirit (whose work it is to seal) a spiritual resemblance of his own goodness and sanctity. Again, the greater world was never other than an Orator to set forth the power and praises of God; but he made the soul of man, in the beginning as it were his Oracle, wherein he fastened a perfect knowledge of his law and will, from the very glimpses and corrupted Relics of which Knowledge of his Law, some have been bold to call men [Greek or Hebrew] ▪ the kindred of God, And Senec. Liber Animus & Diis cognatus; which is the same with that of Aratus cited by S. Paul [Greek or Hebrew], for we are his off-spring, yea Euripides (as Tully in his * Tusculans observes,) was bold to call the soul of man, by the name of God; and Seneca will venture so farre too. Quid ⟨p. 402⟩aliud vocas animum quàm deum in humano corpore 2hospitantem. But to forbear such boldness, as (it may be) one of the Originals of heathen Idolatry: Certain it is, that there are (as Tully many times divinely observes) sundry similitudes between God and the mind of man. There are indeed some Attributes of God, not only incommunicable, but absolutely inimitable, and unshadowable by any excellency in mans soul, as immensity, infiniteness, omnipotency, omniscience, immutability, impassibility, and the like; but whatsoever spiritual, and Rational perfections the power & bounty of God, conferred upon the soul in its first Creation, are all of them so many shadows and representations