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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 we find that all other Creatures ⟨p. 451⟩have, answerable to the Instincts and Appetitions which Nature hath Grafted in them, proportionable Objects of equal Latitude in goodness to the Faculties which are carried unto them; It must needs be reasonable that that be not wanting to the Excellentest of Creatures, which all the rest do enjoy. Since then the supreme Appetite of the Reasonable Soul is Knowledge, and amongst all the Creatures there never was yet any found able to fill and satisfy this Desire; But that still there is both room for more Knowledge and Inquiry after it: And besides, all the Knowledge of them is accompanied with Unquietness, and labour (as the Beast first stirs the mud in the water with his feet before he drink it with his Mouth) from hence it infallibly followeth that from these lesser Objects, the Soul be carried at the last to God, The Adequate and *Ultimate End and Object of all our Desires, as Noah's Dove was carried back to the Ark, when she found no place for the sole of her foot to rest on.
Againe, since wee finde that all other Creatures ⟨p. 451⟩have, answerable to the Instincts and Appetitions which Nature hath Grafted in them, proportionable Objects of equall Latitude in goodnesse to the Faculties which are carried unto them; It must needs be reasonable that that be not wanting to the Excellentest of Creatures, which all the rest doe enjoy. Since then the supreame Appetite of the Reasonable Soule is Knowledge, and amongst all the Creatures there never was yet any found able to fill and satisfie this Desire; But that still there is both roome for more Knowledge and Inquirie after it: And besides, all the Knowledge of them is accompanied with Vnquietnesse, and labour (as the Beast first stirres the mudd in the water with his feet before hee drink it with his Mouth) from hence it infallibly followeth that from these lesser Objects, the Soule be carried at the last to God, The Adequate and *Vltimate End and Object of all our Desires, as Noahs Dove was carried back to the Ark, when shee found no place for the sole of her foot to rest on.