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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, there is a Voluntary Ignorance (of which we have before spoken) whereby Men do wilfully close their Eyes against Knowledge, and refuse it; and of this there may be a double ground, The one Guile, in Knowledge ⟨p. 462⟩that pertaineth to the Conscience, when a man chooseth rather not to know his duty, than by the Knowledge of it, to have his Conscience disquieted with Exprobrations of contemning it. The other out of Sluggishness and Apprehensions of Difficulty in the Obtaining of Knowledge. When of two Evils, Undergoing of labour, or forfeiting of Learning, a man esteemeth this the lesser.
Againe, there is a Voluntary Ignorance (of which wee have before spoken) whereby Men doe wilfully close their Eyes against Knowledge, and refuse it; and of this there may be a double ground, The one Guile, in Knowledge ⟨p. 462⟩that pertaineth to the Conscience, when a man chooseth rather not to know his duty, than by the Knowledge of it, to have his Conscience disquieted with Exprobrations of contemning it. The other out of Sluggishnesse and Apprehensions of Difficulty in the Obtaining of Knowledge. When of two Evils, Undergoing of labour, or forfeiting of Learning, a man esteemeth this the lesser.
Thirdly, there is a *Penal Ignorance of which I shall not speak, because it differeth not from the Voluntary Ignorance of Spiritual things, save only in the relation that it hath to the Justice of God thereby provoked, who sometimes leaveth such men to their Blindness, that the thing which with respect to their own choice of it, is a pleasure, with respect unto Gods Justice, may be a plague, and punishment unto them. Thus the Intellectual Faculty is corrupted in many men by Ignorance.
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