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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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The other main Corruption of Knowledge was Error, whereby I understand a peremptory and habitual assent, firmly and without wavering fixed upon some falsehood under the show of truth. It is Aristotle's assertion in his Ethics, that one man may conceive himself as certain of his Error, as another man of his Knowledge: and this indeed is so much the more dangerous Aberration from Knowledge, by how much it seems most yearly to resemble it.
THe other maine Corruption of Knowledge was Errour, whereby I understand a peremptory and habituall assent, firmly and without wavering fixed upon some falshood under the shew of truth. It is Aristotles assertion in his Ethicks, that one man may conceive himselfe as certaine of his Errour, as another man of his Knowledge: and this indeed is so much the more dangerous Aberration from Knowledge, by how much it seemes most •erly to resemble it.
If we enquire after the prime Fundamental Cause, the Gate by which Error came first into the World. Syracides will tell us in a word, that Error and Darkness had their beginning together with Sinners: And the reason is, because sin ⟨p. 484⟩being a partition-wall, and a separation of man from God, who is P•ter Luminum, the Father and Fountain of all Knowledge; and whose perfections man did at first one principal way by Knowledge resemble, cannot choose but bring with it darkness and confusion into the Soul. But I shall enquire rather after the more Immediate and Secondary Causes; some whereof, amongst sundry others, I take to be these:
If wee enquire after the prime Fundamentall Cause, the Gate by which Errour came first into the World. Syracides will tell us in a word, that Errour and Darknesse had their beginning together with Sinners: And the reason is, because sinne ⟨p. 484⟩being a partition-wall, and a separation of man from God, who is Pter Luminum, the Father and Fountaine of all Knowledge; and whose perfections man did at first one principall way by Knowledge resemble, cannot chuse but bring with it darknesse and confusion into the Soule. But I shall enquire rather after the more Immediate and Secondary Causes; some whereof, amongst sundry others, I take to be these: