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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 sort of Passive Operations (that is of such as are grounded on Impressions received from Objects) are mixed Operations of Compounding, Dividing, Collecting, Concluding, which we call Discourse. Of all which to speak according to their Logical Nature, would be impertinent. Their Excellency chiefly stands in the End whereunto they move and serve, which is Knowledge; of the which, I shall therefore here speak a few things.
Another sort of Passive Operations (that is of such as are grounded on Impressions received from Objects) are mixed Operations of Compounding, Dividing, Collecting, Concluding, which wee call Discourse. Of all which to speake according to their Logicall Nature, would be impertinent. Their Excellencie chiefly stands in the End whereunto they move and serve, which is Knowledge; of the which, I shall therefore here speak a few things.
Knowledge is the Assimilation of the Understanding1 unto the things which it understandeth, by those Intelligible Species which do Irradiate it, and put the power of it into Act. For as the beams of the Sun shining on a ⟨p. 446⟩glass, do there work the Image of the Sun: so the species and resemblances of things being conveyed on the Understanding, do there work their own Image. In which respect the2 Philosopher saith, That the Intellect becometh All things by being capable of proper impressions from them: As in a Painters Table, we call that a face, a hand, a foot, a tree, which is the lively Image and Representation of such things unto the eye.
Knowledge is the Assimilation of the Understanding1 unto the things which it understandeth, by those Intelligible Species which doe Irr•diate it, and put the power of it into Act. For as the beames of the Sunne shining on a