A10663:864
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.
Therefore they exercised are with pain, And punishments of former crimes sustain.
Therefore they exercised are with paine, And punishments of former crimes sustaine.
For in this life it is many times in all places seen, that those which have given themselves most liberty in contempt of Gods Laws, and have suffered themselves to be carried by the swing of their own rebellious Passions, unto all injurious, ambitious, unruly Practises, have commonly raised themselves and their fortunes more than others, who out of tenderness and fear have followed no courses but those which are allowed them. And yet these men who suffer so many indignities out of regard to Religion, do still observe their duties, and in the midst of all contempt and reproach, fly into the bosom of their God: And as Lucretius himself that Arch-Atheist confesseth of them:
For in this life it is many times in all places seene, that those which have given themselves most liberty in contempt of Gods Lawes, and have suffered themselves to be carried by the swinge of their owne rebellious Passions, unto all injurious, ambitious, unruly Practises, have commonly raised themselves and their fortunes more than others, who out of tendernesse and feare have followed no courses but those which are allowed them. And yet these men who suffer so many indignities out of regard to Religion, doe still observe their duties, and in the midst of all contempt and reproach, fly into the bosome of their God: And as Lucretius himselfe that Arch-Atheist confesseth of them:
—Multò in rebus acerbis Acri•s advertunt animos ad religionem.