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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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And this love of Knowledge is seen evidently1 in this, that men had rather have sober Calamities, than mad pleasures, and more freely choose clear Intellectuals with misery, than disturbed with mirth. Many Men better content themselves with but a crazy body, for the fruition of their studies, than to purchase a better Health at so great a Price as the loss of Learning.
And this love of Knowledge is seene evidently1 in this, that men had rather have sober Calamities, than mad pleasures, and more freely choose cleare Intellectuals with miserie, than disturb'd with mirth. Many Men better content themselves with but a crazie body, for the fruition of their studies, than to purchase a better Health at so great a Price as the losse of Learning.
- 1[…] homines meant lamentari qu•m la•ari in Amentiâ. Aug. Civ. Dei. l 11. c. 27.〈…〉 homines mente lamentari qu•m la•ari in Amentiâ. Aug. Civ. Dei. l 11. c. 27.
But the Principal Excellency of Knowledge is this, That it guideth the Soul to God; and so doth all kind of Right Knowledge in divers respects. For first, there is scarce any Science properly so called, which hath not its Ar•ana to pose and amaze the Understanding, as well as its more easy Conclusions to satisfy it. Such as are in Philosophy, ⟨p. 449⟩those Occult Sympathies and Antipathies, of which natural Reason can render no Account at all: which overcoming the utmost Vigour of humane Disquisition, must needs enforce us to believe that there is an Admirable Wisdom that disposeth, and an infinite Knowledge that comprehendeth those secrets which we are not able to fathom.