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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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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 usc. I will hear the Heavens, and the Heavens shall •eare the Earth, and the Earth the Corn and Wine, and they Jezreel. Jezreel cannot subsist without Corn and Wine, she cries to them to help it. These cannot help without the Earth to produce them, they cry to that to be fruitful. The Earth can bring forth nothing of it self without Influence, benignity, and comfortable showers from the Heavens, it cries to them for aid. dThe Heavens cannot give Rain nor Warmth of themselves, ⟨p. 450⟩without him who is the Father of Rain, and the Fountain of Motion. So that here are three notable Things to be observed, The Connection and Concatenation of All second Causes to one another; The Cooperation of them together for the good of the Church; and the Subordination of them all to God, unto whom at length the more accurate Inquiry into them doth manuduct us. And this Subordination standeth in four things: 1. All things are Subordinate unto God in aBeing. He only hath Being per Essentiam, By Absolute, and Original Essence; all other things per participationem, by derivation and dependence on him. 2. bIn Conservation. For God doth not make his Creatures as a Carpenter doth his House, which can after stand by it self alone: but having our very Being from him, that Being cannot Be or Continue without His supportance, as light in the house dependeth both in Being and in Continuance upon the Sun. 3. In regard