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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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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.
But the Principall Excellencie of Knowledge is this, That it guideth the Soule to God; and so doth all kinde 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 easie Conclusions to satisfie it. Such as are in Philosophie, ⟨p. 449⟩those Occult Sympathies and Antipathies, of which naturall Reason can render no Account at all: which overcomming the utmost Vigour of humane Disquisition, must needs enforce us to beleeve that there is an Admirable Wisedome that disposeth, and an infinite Knowledge that comprehendeth those secrets which we are not able to fathome.
Again, since the Knowledge of Things is either of their Beings, or of their Properties and Operations: And Nature abhorreth the Motion of proceeding aIn Infinitum: in either of these, necessary it is, that the Mind of man btracing the footsteps of natural things, must by the Act of Logical Resolution at last arise to him who is the fountain of all Being, the First of all Causes, the Supreme over all Movers, in whom all the rest have their Beings and Motions founded. And this the Lord in the Prophet hath delivered unto us