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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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This Knowledge is corrupted four manner of ways. First, By the Contempt of it in Ignorance. Secondly, By the Luxuriousness and Wantonness of it in Curiosity. Thirdly, By the Defect and uncertainty of it in Opinion. Fourthly, By Contradiction and Opposition unto it in Error.
This Knowledge is corrupted foure manner of wayes. First, By the Contempt of it in Ignorance. Secondly, By the Luxuriousnesse and Wantonnesse of it in Curiosity. Thirdly, By the Defect and uncertainty of it in Opinion. Fourthly, By Contradiction and Opposition unto it in Error.
There is a three-fold Ignorance wherewith the Minds of men may be blinded and defaced. The one is a Natural Ignorance, which of Divine1 Things, so far forth as those things are Spiritual, is in all men by Nature; for the Natural Man neither Receiveth with Acceptation, nor with Demonstration discerneth the things of the ⟨p. 461⟩Spirit of God; And the Reason the Apostle gives, because they are spiritually discerned. For as the Eye is fitted to discern light by the Innate property of light and Cognation which it hath thereunto, without which the Eye could no more perceive Objects of light than it can of sounds: so the Mind cannot otherwise receive spiritual Objects, than as it hath a similitude to those Objects in a spiritual disposition it self; whence that Expression of St. John, We shall be like unto him, for we shall see him as he is. Spiritual Things do exceed the weakness of Reason, because they are above it, and so cannot be discerned; And they do oppose the corruption of Reason, because they are against it, and so cannot be Received.
There is a three-fold Ignorance wherewith the Minds of men may be blinded and defaced. The one is a Naturall Ignorance, which of Divine1 Things, so farre forth as those things are Spirituall, is in all men by Nature; for the Naturall Man neither Receiveth with Acceptation, nor with Demonstration discerneth the things of the