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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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The second Resemblance, is between the Manner and Progress of their Works: for as the Method of nature is to proceed, ab imperfectioribus ad Perfectiora, and per determinata Media ad […] Finem; So Art likewise as is plain in those which are Manual) by certain fixed rules, which alter not, proceeds to the producing of a more perfect effect, from more tough and unformed beginnings, by the help of Instruments, appropriated to particular services. But this, because •t limits Mans dignity, as well as commends it, I for bear to speak of. Though even herein also we do seem to imitate God, who in his great work of Creation did proceed both by successi• of Time, and degrees of Perfection; only it is Necessity in us which was in him his Will.
The second Resemblance, is betweene the Manner and Progresse of their Workes: for as the Method of nature is to proceed, ab imperfectioribus ad Perfectiora, and per determinata Media ad 〈…〉 Finem; So Art likewise as is plaine in those which are Manuall) by certain fixed rules, which alter not, proceeds to the producing of a more perfect effect, from more tough and unformed beginnings, by the help of Instruments, appropriated to particular services. But this, because •t limits Mans dignity, as well as commends it, I for beare to speake of. Though even herein also we doe seeme to imitate God, who in his great worke of Creation did proceed both by successi• of Time, and degrees of Perfection; only it is Necessity in us which was in him his Will.
To come therefore nearer, it is observable, that in the first Act of Gods power, in the Making and Framing of the World, there was No thing here below created properly, immediately, and totally, but the Chaos and Mass, or the ⟨p. 432⟩Earth without form, and void, out of the Obedience whereof, his Power did farther educe and extract those Wonderful, Various, and Beauti full Forms, which do evidently set forth unto the Soul of Man, the Glory and Majesty of him that made them. By a small Resemblance of this manner of Working, Man also in those Works of Art, peculiar to him from other Creatures, doth ex Potentia Obedientiall (as the Schools call it) out of the Obedience and Subjection