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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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Another Knowledge from whence the Passions of this Faculty are raised in Man, is that light of Natural Principles, which the Schools call1 Synteresis; unto which, the custody of all practical Truths being committed, they there-hence work in the Conscience motions of Joy, Love, Peace, Fear, Horror, Despair, and the like spiritual Passions, according as the Soul, out of those general Principles, shall gather unto its own particulars, any either delightful or disquieting Conclusions.
Another Knowledge from whence the Passions of this Facultie are raysed in Man, is that light of Naturall Principles, which the Schooles call1 Synteresis; unto which, the custodie of all practicall Truths being committed, they there-hence worke in the Conscience motions of Ioy, Love, Peace, Feare, Horror, Despaire, and the like spirituall Passions, according as the Soule, out of those generall Principles, shall gather unto its owne particulars, any either delightfull or disquieting Conclusions.
- 1Aquin. part. 1. qu. •9. art. 12.
Sensitive Passions, are those motions of prosecution1 or flight, which are grounded on the Fancy, Memory, and Apprehensions of the common Sense: which we see in brute beasts; as, in the fear of Hares or Sheep, the fierceness of Wolves, the anger or flattery of Dogs, and the like: So Homer describeth the joy of Ulysses his ⟨p. 38⟩Dog, which after his so long absence, remembered him at his return.
Sensitive Passions, are those motions of prosecution