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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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Concerning the other Abuse, it is an often observation of Aristotle, that Principles and Con clusions must be within the Sphere of the same Science; and that a man of Learning ought all ways to be faithful unto his own Subject, and make no Excursions from it into another Science. And therefore he saith that it is an equal absurdity for a Mathematician (whose conclusions ought to be peremptory, and grounded on principles of infallible evidence) only to ground them on Rhetorical probabilities, as it were for a Rhe•oritian, whose Arguments should be more plausible and insinuative, to leave all unsaid that might reasonably be spoken, except it may be proved by demonstrative principles. This leaping a Genere ad Genus, and confounding the dependencies ⟨p. 487⟩of Truth, by transferring Principles unto1 Sciences, which they belong not unto, hath been ever prejudicial to Knowledge; and Error hath easily thereby crept upon the weakest apprehensions, while men have examined the conclusions of one Science by the Principles of another. As when Religion which should subdue and captivate, is made to stoop & bow to Reason▪ and when those Assents which should be grounded upon Faith, and not on mere humane disquisition, shall be admitted according to the conformity which they have with †Nature, and no farther. And hence it is that so many of the Philosophers denied those two main Doctrines, of the Creation and Resurrection (* although in some of them the very sight of Nature reacheth to the acknowledgement of the former of those) because they repugned those main Principles of Nature (which are indeed naturally true, and no farther) that ex nihilo nihil fit; Nothing can be made of nothing. And a privatione ad habitum non datur regressus; That there is no regress from a Total Privation to the Habit l•st. And this reason was evidently implied in that answer, which was given by him, who knew the Root of all Error, unto the obstinate Opposers of the Resurrection: Erratis nescientes Scripturas, neque Potentiam Dei. Where are intimated two main Principles of that Mystery of the Resurrection; the Word, and the Power of God. This later commanding our Assent that it May be: that other, our Assurance, that it Will be.