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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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NOW Passions may be the subject of a three-fold discourse; Natural, Moral, and Civill. In their Natural consideration, we should observe in them, their essential Properties, their Ebbs and Flows, their Springings and Decays, the manner of their several Impressions, the Physical Effects which are wrought by them, and the like.
NOW Passions may be the subject of a three-fold discourse; Naturall, Morall, and Civill. In their Naturall consideration, we should observe in them, their essentiall Properties, their Ebbes and Flowes, their Springings and Decayes, the manner of their severall Impressions, the Physicall Effects which are wrought by them, and the like.
In their Moral consideration, we might likewise search, how the indifferency of them is altered into Good or Evil, by virtue of the Dominion of right Reason, or of the violence of their own motions; what their Ministry is in Virtuous, and what their Power and Independence in Irregular actions; how they are raised, suppressed, slackened, and governed, according to the particular nature of those things, which require their motion.
In their Morall consideration, we might likewise search, how the indifferencie of them is altered into Good or Evill, by vertue of the Dominion of right Reason, or of the violence of their owne motions; what their Ministry is in Vertuous, and what their Power and Independance in Irregular actions; how they are raysed, suppressed, slackned, and govern'd, according to the particular nature of those things, which require their motion.
In their Civill respects, we should also observe how they may be severally wrought upon and ⟨p. 42⟩impressed; and how, and on what occasions, it is fit to gather and fortify, or to slack and remit them; how to discover, or suppress, or nourish, o alter, or mix them, as may be most advantageous; what use may be made of each mans particular Age, Nature, Popension; how to advance and promote our just ends, upon the observation of the Character and dispositions of these, whom we are to deal withal.