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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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CHAP. XXXVII. Of the Faculty of Understanding. Its operations outward upon the Object, Inward upon the Will. Of Knowledge, What it is. The natural Desire and Love of it. Apprehension, Judgement, Retention requisite unto right Knowledge. Several kinds of Knowledge. The Original Knowledge given unto Man in his Creation. The Benefits of Knowledge. Of Ignorance Natural, Voluntary, Penal. Of Curiosity. Of Opinion; the Causes of it, Disproportion between the Object and the Faculty, and an Acute Versatilousnesse of Conceits. The benefit of Modest Hesitancy.
CHAP. XXXVII. Of the Faculty of Vnderstanding. Its operations outward upon the Object, Inward upon the Will. Of Knowledge, What it is. The naturall Desire and Love of it. Apprehension, Iudgement, Retention requisite unto right Knowledge. Severall kindes of Knowledge. The Originall Knowledge given unto Man in his Creation. The Benefits of Knowledge. Of Ignorance Naturall, Voluntary, Penall. Of Curiosity. Of Opinion; the Causes of it, Disproportion betweene the Object and the Faculty, and an Acute Versatilousnesse of Conceits. The benefit of Modest Hesitancie.
Now it follows to speak of the parts or principal powers of the Soul, which are the Understanding, and the Will. Concerning the Understanding, the Dignity thereof, though it may partly be perceived in the Latitude and excellent Variety of its Objects, being the whole world of things (for Ens & Intelligibile are reciprocall,1 & omnia intelligit, saith Aristotle of ⟨p. 445⟩the understanding) yet principally it proceeds from the Operations of it both Ad extra in respect of the Objects, and ad intra in respect of the Will. The one is a Contemplative, the other a more Practic office, whereby the speculations of the former are accommodated unto any either Moral or Civill Actions. Those which respect the Objects, are either Passive, or Active Operations. Passive I call those first Perceptions and apprehensions of the Soul, whereby it receiveth the simple species of some Object from immediate Impression thereof by the Ministry of the Soul; as when I understand one Object to be a Man, another a Tree, by Administration and Assistance of the Eye, which presents the Species of either.