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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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What were the ends of this man, whither an Ambitious hope of fastening an Opinion of his own Divineness in the midst of the people, or an happy and politic imposture, the better to press those people (always more inclinable to the persuasions ⟨p. 487⟩of Superstitions than Reason) to a free Execution of his designs, it is not here necessary to enquire. Sure I am▪ even in matters of greatest consequence, there have never been wanting the like Impostors, who boldly pretend unto Truth, when they cunningly oppose it: as Jacob in Esa•'s Clothes, robbed Esau of the Blessing: or as the Ivy, which when it embraceth the Oak, doth withal weaken and consume it. And this is a very preposterous and perverse method, first to entertain Corrupt Conceits, and then to *wrest and hale Principles to the countenancing and protecting of them. It being in the errors of the mind, as in the distempers of the palate usual with men to find their own relish in every thing they read.
What were the ends of this man, whither an Ambitious hope of fastning an Opinion of his owne Divinenesse in the midst of the people, or an happy and politicke imposture, the better to presse those people (alwaies more inclinable to the perswasions ⟨p. 487⟩of Superstitions than Reason) to a free Execution of his designes, it is not here necessary to enquire. Sure I am▪ even in matters of greatest consequence, there have never been wanting the like Impostors, who boldly pretend unto Truth, when they cunningly oppose it: as Iacob in Esa•'s Cloathes, robbed Esau of the Blessing: or as the Ivy, which when it embraceth the Oake, doth withall weaken and consume it. And this is a very preposterous and perverse method, first to entertaine Corrupt Conceits, and then to *wrest and hale Principles to the countenancing and protecting of them. It being in the errors of the mind, as in the distempers of the palate usuall with men to find their owne rellish in every thing they read.