A10663:878
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.
Hoc est quòd palles? cur quis non prandeat hoc est?
Is this the fruit, for which we fast? And by pale studies sooner waste?
Do we toil and sweat, and even melt our selves away for that which we sooner forsake than find? Do we deny our selves the contentments and satisfactions most agreeable to our corporeal condition, being without hope of accomplishing our wishes in another estate? It is natural for gaining of Knowledge to hasten unto that whereby we loose both it and our selves? and to labour for such a purchase, which like lightning is at once begun and ended, yea indeed sooner lost than gotten? Certainly were man not conscious of his own immortality, there ⟨p. 417⟩could be no stronger inducement to sottishness, luxury, riot, sensuality, and all other unbridled practises. It is registered for the impiety of Atheists; Let us eat and drink, for to morrow we shall dye.
Do we toyle and sweat, and even melt our selves away for that which wee sooner forsake than finde? Doe wee deny our selves the contentments and satisfactions most agreeable to our corporeall condition, being without hope of accomplishing our wishes in another estate? It is naturall for gaining of Knowledge to hasten unto that whereby we loose both it and our selves? and to labour for such a purchase, which like lightning is at once begun and ended, yea indeed sooner lost than gotten? Certainly were man not conscious of his owne immortality, there ⟨p. 417⟩could be no stronger inducement to sottishnesse, luxury, riot, sensuality, and all other unbridled practises. It is registred for the impiety of Atheists; Let us eat and drink, for to morrow wee shall dye.